“My calendar is more jammed than I want it to be,” Tom Brokaw tells Gail Shister. “Meredith [his wife] kept saying, ‘Breathe a little bit.’ I said, ‘I intend to.’ Suddenly, I found myself saying yes, yes, yes to everything.”
More: “I’m learning to not overschedule myself, which I failed at before. I was accustomed to running 120 miles per hour. I thought I’d have all this free time, since I don’t have to be someplace at 6:30 every night.”
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