Doing too much.
It’s easy enough to fail on doing one thing. Do too much and you risk catastrophe.
Don’t drink and drive goes much further than alcohol. It applies to coffee, juice, and other beverages too. Although it hasn’t happened to me, I can easily imagine somebody getting into a car crash while sipping on their diet soda.
Why do we say “Yes” so often?
I don’t want to be a “Yes” man. The guy for everything.
I want to do one thing, and I want to do it extremely well. I want to be the best in one particular thing. I want it to be extremely difficult to be replaced.
However, I don’t know what this thing is, for now.
Therefore, it’s a matter of learning and experiencing a variety of activities, which further fuels the cycle of taking too many things at once.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
As long as I can depend on myself to do the things that I should do, I will never have to worry about not having enough time.
Simply sitting down and investing time in my work is a chore most of the time. I don’t like that, and I’m giving it all to change one of my most foundational habits.
Do it the easy way.
It’s been far too long that I’ve been doing whatever is easiest. I take the minimum amount of steps to my destination. Spend the fewest amount of minutes on writing, and keep everything lean and fast.
Just so I have more time to do the things that I want to do, which often are not the things that I should do.
I’ve fallen in love with my work over time. It’s been four years that I am a freelance writer, and many of these habits have been morphed and changed to help me do work.
But, there are remnants in effect, and it’s my job to find and change them.
It starts with becoming more focused. Saying “No” more, both to jobs that are not aligned with my vision, and activities that are not aligned with my goals.
I must find a way to spend my time more wisely and be happier as a result.
Whenever I have momentum and I’m knocking down tasks left and right, I go to sleep happy, free from the worries of failed expectations and the potential for a bad reputation.
Thinking about it, maybe it’s about my relationship with disappointment.
I don’t want to disappoint my clients, because I care.
So far, I’ve managed to minimize my failures, and I’ve regularly delivered on my promises. But I’m definitely pushing the boundaries of what is respectable and I don’t like it.
