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Abandon This Nasty Habit Unless You Love Feeling Anxious, Irritable, and Tired
Seriously though, it’s only holding you back.
Constantly analyzing and forecasting is a real problem because it creates issues where there are none.
My yesterday is a great example of this. The past few weeks I’ve been steadily and happily writing posts for this blog. Yesterday morning though, I wondered if I was on the right path all the sudden.
My thoughts carried on like this:
Maybe I should stop writing and take up music instead, since I’ve been a musician most of my life. That seems like the right choice… but then again, I enjoy writing. But hardly anyone reads my articles, so is it even worth it? I’ll probably never build this into anything anyway. Maybe I’ll have a better shot at building something with music? But I always abandon projects, so I should see this one through… but what if it fails and I wasted all that time?
I went back and forth between writing and playing music. I reviewed all the reasons I should and shouldn’t do either. This battle carried on all day, which ended with me exhausted. The only thing I accomplished was expertly sabotaging all my creativity at once.
