think small and insignificant
Quitting smoking has taught me something (I can officially call it quitting now that I’m 3 weeks into the cold turkey). I’ve realized that we can measure a lot of things by how small objects in our life’s rearview mirror actually appear.
2 years ago I struggled with a negative thought. I was harping on myself for starting lots of ideas in motion but never seeing them through to fruition. Now, after taking an idea all the way through to execution, the thought that once consumed me is no more.
12 years ago I started smoking. Now 3 weeks removed from a cigarette, the concept of addiction seems a lot like a drawn out practical joke I was playing on myself.
Everyday we get up and push ahead in our routines. Everyday we are more efficient at the tasks we perform regularly. We find the best shortcuts on the way to work. We order our coffee with more assurance and knowing just how many pennies to pull from our pockets. We plug away with numbers, reports and emails with increasingly less calculations, pages and words. It is not everyday that we get to the really tough problems.
Ever sat down to write something (anything), with no idea about where to begin? Ever finished that same piece and looked back at how easy it was after the first paragraph?
I think my new metric for personal and professional development will involve how many tough problems I can convert into small and insignificant acts. Surely I’ll take these acts for granted once they’ve been reduced to nothing, but all the same, I’ll make a point to look back on the day when they were mountains when I need to feel like progress is happening.
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Good move and eye-opening observations - congrats bud.
Now to get to that first paragraph of my philosophy essay…