Did you hear about the 23 year-old Italian woman who was mistakenly given six doses of the Pfizer vaccine at once by a distracted nurse?

Sounds like the patient may have been distracted as well as she sat there for the six jabs – six!

Healthcare workers may be forgiven considering the stress that they have been under but this illustrates the stressful world we’re living in – it’s not just the person in the car ahead of you texting when the light turns green.

You can’t just stop distractions because our minds live in a distracted state 24/7 – multi-tasking is working by distractions and it’s considered normal.

Rest is the key to better focusing – the mind can only take so much and then it needs a break.  Changing activities, refreshing your mind and putting the brakes on a life that is aroused by interruption.

An average 41.5 texts sent or received every day.

Over 120 new emails a day with most people responding to only 25% of them.

Over 560 billion texts sent every month globally.

Focus does not require concentration — it begs for fewer distractions.

Phil Mickelson who won the PGA Championship this year one month before his 51^st birthday is the same person who fought bad luck, trouble of his own creation and adversity in his career.

A lefty who was never supposed to win a major just keeps on winning through physical problems, the cancer of his wife, Amy, some classic meltdowns, a few unfortunate comments from his own mouth and his age.

Even non-golfers were taken with his PGA victory recently – some because they wanted the “old guy” to win at the younger person’s game and others because of the pure theater when he was rushed by fans as he approached the final green.

Comebacks happen when you expect them not because they surprise you.

The person who underestimates the potential of others overestimates their own ability.

Some of the most accomplished, famous and successful people in the world were marginalized by those who for one reason or another were not able to accurately gauge

the strong will of another to succeed.

A person who can recognize the good in others guarantees to raise their own ability simultaneously.

The brain tires out at about two hours.

This explains why it is so difficult to focus.

And we spend 80% of our day in the default mode of tired brain at which point we make more mistakes, become less efficient and turn to stimulants.

So, today’s DayStarters suggests that we live like an air traffic controller.

Work two hours on and then 45 minutes off to rest, rewind and refocus.

We can have 1.5 at the most intimate friends (it’s an average).

5 close friends.

15 best friends.

50 good friends.

150 generic friends.

500 possible acquaintances.

1,500 known names.

5,000 known faces.

A new report in The Atlantic says there are different kinds of friends and that we can have between 100 and 250 with 150 being the average total.

Not all friendships are equal.

The question is: are we spending the appropriate amount of time on the intimate, best and closest friends where the value is greatest or dissipating our efforts over all types of friends even though they may not be as personally rewarding?

Live like there is no tomorrow but savor each day along the way.

All we have is now – the past is useless, the future not assured.

Live life like there is no tomorrow does not mean live recklessly.

It means live today like it is your last day.

Not to get it all in but to eat it all up.

Amazingly the most common regret for people at the end of life is not that they don’t have more time but the time they previously wasted.

Sometimes you’re ready for a restart.

Products often relaunch to freshen them.  Homes get redecorated.  We change jobs.

Restart also works for personal.

First hit delete – careful to eliminate the things that you want to improve, get away from or prevent from happening again.  In other words, delete before adding to your personal life.

Then protect the things that you don’t want to change.

I know people who have survived serious surgeries that want to live their future life in a different way.

People who want to change what they do for a living who have made sacrifices to find something that reinvigorates them.

Even people in relationships who want to improve them or cancel them before the rest of their life slips away.

Restart is a second, third or fourth chance and worth it if gets you to happiness.

A new study out of Germany indicates that people who claim to feel younger are healthier, less stressed and live longer than those who bemoan their age.

People who may otherwise be healthy but feel old lose cognitive abilities, have more life threatening inflammation and feel the ravages of stress.

Stress is killing all of us – this is a fast world we live in and there are lots of pharmaceutical solutions, online counseling and physical solutions that people have been turning to.

For free – no fees or cost of entry – a youthful attitude is a proven life extender and answer to the stresses of our digital world that are not going away.

Providing that Henry David Thoreau was right when he said none are so old as those who have outlived their zest for enthusiasm.

Perhaps you heard about the dog who flunked out of service school – part golden and part lab.

Sheldon was trained as a service dog but the gregarious dog has been certified in State Farm’s arson dog program and can detect a Molotov cocktail in about 30 seconds.

He made a better arson dog than a service dog.

Same concept is true for the two-legged species – never give up, keep trying because success isn’t always about being able to predict what we will be successful at as much as what is our special thing.

I’m saving the story of Sheldon for the next time I feel discouraged by barking up the wrong tree.  Read about Sheldon here.

When we talk too fast, we make it easy for others to ignore our message.

When we are not deliberate when talking about things that are important, we missed an opportunity to communicate.

When asked “what do you think?”, try responding slowly and adding “what do YOU think?”

As counterintuitive as it may sound in our fast paced world, slow and steady still wins the race in communication in spite of the noise, connectivity and self-centeredness.