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Focus on What You CAN Change
“Chunking down your time and demanding that you focus on one thing and one thing only creates urgency, maximizes your productivity, and frees up more time for you to do other things.”
– Jen Sincero, “You Are a Badass at Making Money”
If they handed out awards for repeatedly putting too much on one’s (metaphorical) plate and subsequently spreading one’s self too thin, I would be a contender.
How about you?
Due to what I now (not so affectionally) call “My Mexico Sickness,” in which I was pretty much out of commission for six weeks ☹ earlier this fall and therefore had far too much time to think, I finally had to throw up the white flag of surrender and admit to myself that my strategy of writing an hour or two a day on a large writing project, such as a screenplay, was no longer working.
Correction: it was working just fine — if I only intended to complete one screenplay within the next seven years. But at that rate, seeing as I’m already 54, I wouldn’t be pushing my walker across the stage at the Academy Awards to accept my Oscar for Best Original Screenplay until I was…um, 137. Because apparently, it usually takes oh, I don’t know…a few…
