It’s no use drifting through life.
I remembered replying to comment a friend had made on a tweet (with the title of this post) and I’ve been storing it away to reflect on at the right time.
I am really starting to let my thoughts and feelings to percolate. It’s, in fact, a form of setting boundaries for myself. I have relentlessly given absolutely everything away not allowing any time or space to really process and breath in the wisdom I’m learning.
Flood, flood, flood!
No peace
No gentility
Throw it all away!
Good Lord, I have been so desperate.
Of course, no one could accuse me of being ungenerous. The work that I do and put out is genuinely offered in the hope you can live a better life, sincerely. It is my calling and I am establishing the best way(s) I can deliver it.
Today, as an example, rather than spread myself too thinly, I took all the sheet music on my piano and put it away in my piano stool, leaving only the piece I have wanted to learn for a long time on the stand.
Set up your life so you dive deep into what you’re doing was my thinking. It feels decisive, honest – SIMPLE! Distractions are the enemy (and there are many). It feels a little scary to me to cut out the other options of pieces to play yet immensely exciting to face the piece I have wanted to learn for so long and determinedly signal to myself, this is the piece I will learn until it’s done.
Focusing on this one piece will give me peace. I know it. And prove to myself I can complete things.
Presence + Persistence = Progress.
Focus = Fortune.