Don't get too caught up in the numbers
game. You know what I mean: the $100,000 salary you're striving for,
walking 15,000 steps a day, reading 100 books a year. Goals are good, but
having too many of them can be fatal, especially if they are unrealistic.
When all these numbers are grabbing at you for attention, it adds to the stress
of everyday living, making them counterproductive to whatever it is you're
doing. Reaching a number, whether it has to do with income, exercise,
nutrition, etc., should always be secondary to the quality you put into
it.
Quality over
quantity is a time-worn piece of advice. If you write a thousand articles
that are short and with little substance, they will likely not be remembered
because you put so little heart and effort into each of them. Instead,
allow each project to consume you, speak to you; let it tell you what pieces
need to be added to it, or how much care should be given.
There's always more time. If
sacrificing too much of it means you can't reach your goals, so be it.
Trying to control your life by sloppily attaining many big goals means you
haven't lived a life of quality, only production. You become like a pig
being fattened up for the slaughter, butchered by your own false sense of
achievement. The emptiness that remains in your work gets flushed down a
toilet of fleeting thought. Meditate on your projects and favorite
things, find stillness in them. Don't rush through them, find that divine
state where creation itself becomes your muse.
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