It's the Moopy and Mopey Show

One project at a time:

There is tremendous satisfaction in doing something well. And it is really difficult to do many things well all at once. I am not a great multi-tasker though I've learned to be better at it. In general my best performance comes when I'm focused on one major life project at a time. In recent years it has been all about my career. Mopey and I have been money-making machines. As we're reaching our financial goals, I have begun to look around for other things to concentrate on.

Life projects are major lifetime accomplishments: having children, homeownership, a career. In our modern era we can choose to do all of these things. I argue though that happiness doesn't come when you try to do all of these things at once. It's too difficult. People don't get enough sleep or quality time with a spouse or a chance to open their minds by reading for instance when they work full time and try to have children and buy a house that needs endless work done on it all at the same time.