“What’s the one thing you could do that would help you?”
I had been trying to express to my wife my frustration with the plethora of ideas I was having earlier today. This New Year’s Day. When we are all supposed to be making a fresh start into the bright new shiny 2018.
I had so many things I wanted to do: God stuff, family stuff, home improvements, education, music, video, gaming, gardening, brewing, writing… I knew I wanted to do all of them.
But I also knew that if I started out trying to do all of them I would fail because there are just too many things on the list to keep in my head. Failure would then bring demoralisation and I would end up doing nothing.
This stilted thought process had then brought about frustration – I knew I wanted to do stuff but couldn’t work out how to do it all – it was just a big mush of ideas in my head.
And so my wife asked me this one simple question.
There is only one thing I can do at a time. I needed to do one thing that would contain all my ideas and dreams.
What would it be? A plan? A list? A mindmap? A three month sabbatical in Tibet?
I don’t know yet. But I’ll do it tomorrow.