Sometimes you’ll miss (keep showing up anyway)
mail.google.com
Sometimes you’ll miss (keep showing up anyway)
Fine
“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert
“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert
This aspect of working at a natural pace is hard to get right, and you will be disappointed from time to time. But the humane response to this reality is obvious: Forgive yourself. Then ask, “What’s next?” The key to meaningful work is in the decision to keep returning to the efforts you find important. Not in getting everything right every time.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Doing your best work will thus require you to constantly be on the verge of failing.
Charlie Gilkey • Start Finishing: How to Go from Idea to Done
We fail to see, or refuse to accept, that any attempt to bring our ideas into concrete reality must inevitably fall short of our dreams, no matter how brilliantly we succeed in carrying things off—because reality, unlike fantasy, is a realm in which we don’t have limitless control, and can’t possibly hope to meet our perfectionist standards. Someth... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control – when the flood of emails has been contained; when your to-do lists have stopped getting longer; when you’re meeting all your obligations at work and in your home life; when nobody’s angry with you for missing a deadline or dropping the ball; and when the fully optimised pers
... See more