Many years ago, Jay Bell, my good friend from “Bradenton Fun-in-the-Sun-Baby, Florida,” taught me a new word: accomplishable. It sounds like a made-up word, doesn’t it? But Merriam Webster calls it the adjective form of accomplish. Still, it’s a mouthful, and other words convey the same idea without the additional mouth gymnastics. “Productive” probably gets the closest to what he means. Accomplishable is harder to say, which means it’s a less productive word than productive is. But it has the benefit of being a Jay Bell word. He usually doesn’t use it unless he’s proud of himself about something. “I...

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