“The struggle always comes from looking too far into the future, from placing emphasis on expectation, when all that matters is how well I’m doing the thing that I’m doing right now.”
One of my biggest struggles is always what I’m going to do next and what I will become in the future. I put a lot of pressure on myself to reach a place that I don’t even know exists which sounds super weird even as I write this.
I get so tied to a direction that I haven’t found a way to accept that the journey will lead to many paths. I mean if I could have decided my own path 10 years ago then I certainly wouldn’t be where I am now, so why do I put so much pressure on myself to pick where I will be in the next 10 years?
I have been re-reading my favourite book, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, and like always, the greatest takeaway is that the warrior lives in the here and now. The warrior lives completely and totally in the present moment. That’s definitely one of the greatest things that I love about writing, it forces me into the present and helps me to find a sense of calm.
The trick for me is to continue to carry this focus over to every other facet of life because in the end, it doesn’t matter what I do, only how well I do it. That’s the journey. The end point doesn’t matter, my only job is to give myself fully in each and every moment.
“It doesn’t matter what you do, only how well you do it.” Dan Milman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
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