I find myself often distracted from these tasks, finding something clear and fairly easy and obvious to do instead. I think the reason is fairly obvious, the goals and plans and tasks are slightly intimidating, I worry about not being able to reach them, some of the tasks are too big and i need to break them down, some of the plans are too complex.

I had a thought today that something I plan to do with a big project at work could help me with these plans and projects as well.  Basically instead of trying to plan out every little bit of work and activity and research I need to do to get where I want to I’m going to think broadly about the end goal and specifically about only what i need to do next, once finished i’ll think specifically about the next thing and so on.

So… here goes.

The duality comes in the other concept or phrase I often motivate myself with Just Keep Going, that as long as you are going as long as you haven’t stopped, haven’t given up you are ok.

In this way I don’t think of surrender as giving in, and certainly not as giving up. More an acceptance, a realization of what I can change and what I can’t and deciding what matters.  I don’t want to change the direction or strength of the river, I want to get to the other side.