Drowning in Directions
I do like to fill my days with things. I get something stuck in my head as a good way forward and then I think YES! I should make time to do this EVERY day! This is the core of who I am!
And then there are two things that happen - I don’t end up doing those things every day, because I have lots of them, and any one of them could be key and fundamental if I invested time in it daily, they are all valid, good things to be doing. And then I have new ideas. And some of those ideas sometimes seem even greater and more worth the daily input.
So today I had the revelation that
really, life should be about chasing down the new ideas. Whatever occurs to me on a given day should be enacted as far as possible on that day and that’s how you get miracles and exponential change throughout your life. If you pushed a new idea every day even for 30 minutes you’d end up with a whole lot of random possible directions over time. This would work for me, I feel sure of it.
that being said, there are some long-term changes that I’m committed to and want to continue with - they’re the meta-structure.
there has to be some trade-off between all that and the List of Things I Think I Should Be Doing Every Day. I need to realise that progress does not have to be daily and that I don’t want my life to feel like an endless checklist - these are all things I can push along with whatever energy I have.
I probably will eventually settle into some kind of balance of x amount of daily time for existing projects vs. y on the new ideas of the day but that might also change from day to day.
So there you go. Something approaching structure is beginning to emerge.