Faced with Distraction, We Need Willpower
Lately I’ve been really overwhelmed.
Typical work stress aside, I’m overwhelmed in a good way: a very, very fortunate problem to have. I feel that the world is at my fingertips [!!] and there are so many things that I want to accomplish before I’m taken from it. In the present moment I’m grappling with a plethora of self-declared goals and just like when I was back in college with a multitude of papers waiting to be written, I’m struggling to come up with a good place to start.
I know the reality: if I don’t start chipping away, nothing will become of itself. My goals will stay neatly written down on my inspiration board and blah-blah-blah here I am six months later with hardly anything accomplished but one helluva collection of Pinterest boards. I tell you what – after two weeks of hectic/tiring/I-need-to-do-my-laundry-because-I’m-running-out-of-socks-nonstop travel, I have GOT to sit down and reevaluate my plans. That’s exactly what I’m going to do. This is important. This is urgent. This is my life. No one else is going to do it for me.
It’s a great thing that I ran into that HBR article [go back to the top and click if you haven't yet] this morning. It spoke to my heart and my thick head. I’ll be ordering the book, too. Let me know what you think of the article & it’d be nice to hear from you guys to see if you ever feel this way. I’m not the only one, am I??