Are you proud of your overall journey, so far?
That is to say, if you look back at some crucial points in your timeline, do you have a narrative to bind them together in a way that makes you proud?
Forget about the latest missteps, the most recent failure, the bad period, the negative feedback, the missed goal. Keep your eyes, instead, on the overall journey.
Are you proud of it?
Streaks will eventually end. That’s inevitable.
And when that happens, instead of focusing on the small loss, turn the attention on the big win. It will be much easier to get back on track and go for an even longer streak.
Don’t get hang up on the tool, on the setting, on the company, on the system. Those are all important things to define at some point, but if you realise that’s what is keeping you from doing, don’t get hang up on them.
In the early stages, the most important thing is doing.
If you fall in love with an outcome, you will never notice that the world around you is moving, that the context is ever changing, and that the outcome, in the end, does not provide that sense of reward you had anticipated.
If instead you fall in love with the journey, you are in the present, here and now. You see the changes, you notice the details, you are awake and ready, you have a place to fall back to when the unexpected becomes reality.
The journey is just a superior companion.
A negative turn of events is not inherently bad. A positive turn of events is not inherently good.
You ought to be able to see the good in the bad as well as the bad in the good. Not to be detached from reality. Not to be problem child or the naïve dreamer. Not to stay away from grief and joy at all costs. But to be able to appreciate the power that you have to turn the narrative around.
You've got this 