The Woolgatherer’s Handbook — Selected Thoughts
Thank you for reading. This series contains excerpts from my writings spanning back 2 years or more. They represent what I consider the most useful thoughts I’ve written down and published.
My sincere hope is that you find value in these
For more stuff like this (and not just links to my articles) please subscribe to Woolgathering — my weekly newsletter.
Just because you can do anything, doesn’t mean you should.
Be judicious in what you choose to take on; if it doesn’t fit in the outline of your goals, you probably shouldn’t do it. You’ll end up with a lot of things you just aren’t doing, but now, you can feel good about not doing them.
from “Outline Your Life”
You define what it means to succeed.
This is unequivocally true because success is by definition to achieve some goal. A goal is something that is set or accepted by you. Therefore, you decide what it means to succeed.
If you have set impossibly high goals, fail to achieve them, and are a miserable as a result, consider adjusting your goal, at least for now. If the goal was set externally by someone else, and your failure to achieve it keeps you up at night, you’re not off the hook — you accepted and internalized that goal. You can just as easily renegotiate that goal — if you are willing to work at that.
Read “The Woolgatherer’s Handbook — Selected Thoughts” on a larger screen, or in the Medium app!
