BITE INTO SOMETHING HARD
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Do you struggle with any of this scenario, of wondering, “w hat should I do?”
Should I widen my focus to include a broader understanding and get more customers, or should I narrow it and do a more concentrated job and get more customers?
These are questions with basic answers more than profound implications – should I use a magnifying glass or a telescope, is this up close bifocals time, or wide-angle inclusiveness?
All of those, it seems, permeate every hour, every day.
Sometimes self-doubt creeps in and squishes around, like mustard squirted between meat layers in a sandwich, squirting out the sides sometimes when we bite hard, or not hard enough.
But here is the thing, at the end of the day – why do we do anything?
If the reason is to get more customers, more readers, more likes, more re-tweets and every other means of connection points – sure, we can SEO our lives that way, but when we come back to earth and feel grounded in anything, it’s because we understand the why of things.
Why do I feel good?
What makes me feel bad, and why?
What is my purpose in life, and why am I not pursuing it 110% of the time?
Each time something new comes through the transom of my mind, or of the hundreds of daily prompts and temptations on social media connections, new-media, old-media, or assorted in-boxes – each time, I’m torn between “squirrel” and ignore, because each diversion or rabbit hole of thought demonstrates that an active mind is active, that interesting and troubling things get my attention and stimulate my impulses. Each time something new takes centre stage for more than a day, something has to fall off … that’s just human nature v. sleep-deprivation because I can only handle so many things on my mental clipboard at a time.
I’ve found that solving a problem or having a conflict – things we try to avoid, are often the stimulus for things we never imagined. Learnings in recent days among them, I’m flowing some fresh ground on some new issues and looking forward to where they take me …
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