You started off well, and the work flowed. Then, somehow, fatigue set in, and you slowed. The final few steps seem to take forever and two days. And this is where we have to hold on, keep fighting, keep fighting when it’s hard, because we were made for those moments.
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You prepare the ground, then you plant, and then you nurture the plant throughout it’s life. Eventually, if it’s a fruit tree, you’ll probably reap the rewards.
The start can be easy, although deciding what to plant can be challenging. But, once we’ve made the choice, we should try to invest in the choice, to create a conducive environment for our ideas to turn into solutions.
It might not be easy, and why must it be?
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You set your eyes on the goal, get the direction, and get to work. Bit by bit, day by day, you get lost in what you do. Occasionally you look up, and the journey still looks long, the road tiring. Then you look back, and you see the progress you have made since the start. And the further you go, the more the road opens up with multiple paths, some not known at the start.
Before long, longer than you initially thought, but shorter than you envisaged when you looked up, you are there, or halfway past your destination. Just like that, you have arrived. But, hopefully, along the way, you learnt that the journey is more than the destination.
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What makes live beautiful is its constraints. A break is valuable only because it’s contrasted with a period of effort.
Sometimes, especially when self-paced, a short break can become too long and affect your productive time.
We need triggers to help in those instances. Though we need breaks, breaks should be justified by work. That way, we can make progress toward our goals.
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Better to dedicate this minute to the one thing that you are doing. One thing, not two. The minute will be gone if your attention is split between two things, and you’ll be none the wiser.
Why repeat what you can do once. Commit, do it once, and move on to the second task.
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