‘You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.’ – Mark Twain
Lately my life was completely occupied by my job, my blog, my household, a couple of side projects and a business I was going to participate in. When I was thinking about this the last few weeks I came to the conclusion that I couldn’t go on like this.
First of all it wore me out, and because of that my productivity was less and less efficient. So I decided to do something about it and first I looked back at my goals as I had set them roughly a year ago. I looked at what I planned to do and what I was doing right now. Actually I already knew the results but… anyway what I found was that at some point I had allowed myself to wander off from the original path that I were following.
Thinking it all over made me realize I wanted to change this situation. I was not being truthful to myself. I was going to participate in and do things I did not really want to do. I was caught up by chitchat and what some people refer to as mental chatter. Before I did anything I thought it over for a day or so. During that time I came up with a decision. After some talk here at home and some spiritual advice I simply made some decisions, just like that.
I decided to stop working towards being a Law of Attraction coach. What I want is to focus my energy solely on the writing of blogs and I plan to start on a novel. I am going to try to let myself not be distracted by all sorts of opportunities that pass my eyes every day. Bit by bit I reclaimed my life back and with it some more breathing space. I’m already feeling much better now, and I plan to try hard to maintain my focus.
I want to close this off with a nice and appropriate quote from Ayn Rand that I came across today.
“In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man’s proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours.”"
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