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what's a good commitment?
If you do say yes to an idea, now it’s showtime. Now your job becomes both simple and difficult. You have officially entered into a contract with inspiration, and you must try to see it through, all the way to its impossible-to-predict outcome.
Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath reminds us that choosing a path means ignoring the rest, but not choosing means squandering them all:
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and child... See more
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and child... See more
James Clear • 3-2-1: On being yourself, how to say no, and using boredom as a filter
Another strategy, and a popular one, is to not commit to anything. To hold out for better options, wait until the last minute, move restlessly from one thing to the next, and never commit to anything that could trap you. It feels like freedom but is, in fact, just another cage. When you are surrounded with unlimited opportunities, inaction seems li
... See moreJeff Goins • The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do
So the only reasonable answer I can give to the question of “How can I do what you are doing?” is this: fully commit to the journey, challenges and all. Once you do, don’t give up. Keep going. Take the search for good work seriously.