It would be…
uncomfortable.
4 quarters plus overtime.
easier to give up than to keep going.
inconvenient.
practice intensive.
up to you to win.
You can master something or you can dabble in it.
It’s one or the other.
This is the destiny defining choice that lingers over us daily.
If you’re bored it is probably due to a lack of opportunity to be creative or an overdose of routine in your life.
But I think to see today as a lack of opportunity and as routine is a choice.
Today can be new. Today can be different from yesterday…much different. But you have to choose “different.”
Today when you hold your pen, cell phone, mouse, notepad, and iPad think of them as paintbrushes and microphones.
See that? You just moved from worker/employee to artist/musician. Huge shift. Now there’s an abundance of opportunity and routine is gone.
If you see your job/role/career as a way to express yourself you can probably find some passion – which is typically the missing link on your road to fulfillment.
Economy of the soul lesson: As passion decreases, boredom increases.
Cheers.
Steve Jobs once said, “it’s easy to connect the dots looking backwards.”
In other words, on this side of success it’s easy to see the thousands of small things that got you to success.
But we don’t celebrate the small do we?
We should more often.
Today, may we celebrate taking a chance that no one saw.
Today, may we celebrate just one day without __________ (what’s holding you back).
Today, may we celebrate 10 pages of a book read.
Today, may we celebrate a walk around the block.
Today, may we celebrate one page written for your book.
All of these small dots, blips, and little/unnoticeable actions will get us where we long to go.
Fall in love with the dots. Rest assured, they will love you back. It just may take 10 years, a career, or a lifetime to notice.
Almost may be the place keeping from your goals and dreams.
You’ve almost completed the _____.
You’ve almost made all the calls.
You’ve almost checked everything off the list.
You’ve almost finished the proposal.
The problem with almost is that it allows you to boast with, “look how far I’ve come.”
Finish it.
Ashton.Gustafson 