The problem about decisions is that they need a lot of your energy and attention.
Especially when it’s a decision about something unknown.
Something you’ve never done before.
There are no big problems.
There are only small problems that turn into big problems over time.
All problems that are now big were once small.
When you feel stuck and don’t know what to do next, when you can’t seem to see a light at the end of the tunnel, then all you can really do is to just keep walking. To not stand still. Because even if you don’t know where you’re going, you might end up meeting someone or something along the way that might…
Don’t really matter that much when you’re just getting started.
At the end of the day they’re mostly just distracting you from showing up and doing your work.
The thing that matters a lot more than metrics is that you keep showing up and don’t give up.
And it probably never will be.
Simply because we tend to be our biggest critics.
And see things that other people will probably never even pay attention to.
Thinking about how your book cover is going to look like before you’ve even started writing that book is a waste of time.
Just like it’s a waste of time to spend days and days trying to find that perfect theme for your website when you don’t even know what exactly it…
“You always say that you’re going to do it.
But never end up doing it.”
“Always” is a trap…
The problem is that we mostly remember the times when we got disappointed.
The problem about urgent work is that it’s urgent.
That it needs to get done.
Right now.
As fast as possible.
And the even bigger problem is that almost everything these days is urgent.
It’s very tempting to try to swim with all those big fish in the same tank.
After all, the big fish get to eat the most.
But the probability that you’re going to survive as a baby fish in a tank full of big fish is close to zero.
“I didn’t have enough time” is a widely used (and accepted) phrase.
“I had too much time” isn’t.
Even though “I had too much time” is a lot more common than we’d like to admit.