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There are just too many things that we can do right now. It is up to us to decide which things need our immediate attention, and how we can discard everything else from our attention. At least for the time being, as it is just more productive and better for our own sanity. It is physically impossible for us to be on New York and in Singapore at the same time. We all know and full-heartedly admit that. Still, when it comes to our goals, and the things that we want in life, we simply tend to forget exactly that, or at least are not aware that we are even doing that.
We want to do the X and Y and Z at the same time, where each of these are not even remotely connected to one another. I believe this comes to our tendency to get attracted to many things, and believe that we can and need to do all of them. We may want to become great data scientists, and at the same time, we want to build an awesome productivity app with React Native that gets 3 million downloads, and still try to master blockchain and be the best developer out there. Although, all of these may seem as noble attempts, and that you may want to become beneficial for the society by pouring your heart into something valuable and mastering multiple skills at the same time, it is something really difficult to be achieved. You may already notice the decline of the quality in all of those areas. You are even not content with your results, nor with the degradation that your life has experienced as a result of you being spread-out. You can notice the slow progress, and your growth in those different areas does not seem to pass the nasty threshold.
The truth is, we may be just dabbling. We are afraid to go and master something that is really important and that we see as a once-in-a lifetime opportunity, which we really like and believe that could be a great way for us to be beneficial to others. We are scared that when we have hit a hard failure towards our progress in that pursuit, we are going to look bad in front of others, vulnerable, and incapable of reaching a level of mastery. This way, we tend to excuse our lack of courage to overcome that barrier, and that we have not been able to reach a certain milestone towards our goals, simply by saying that we are already spread-out in many projects, in many different areas, and it is okay for us to not be able to show any type of valuable results, and do not even try to improve that. We then start new things, that even remotely attract us. Things that are shining at the surface, and that we have not even considered scratching the surface and noticing whether we are going after something useful.
I am not saying that we must absolutely commit to one path, or one goal and forget everything else. There may be cases when you may need to some experimentation and see what’s important and something that you would love to master and use it as a way of being helpful to others, or simply considering it as a way of mastery, but once you have already set your mind up, do not let the shiny objects distract your attention. Pour your whole heart and efforts into your most important priority and do not settle for mediocrity, simply because you have hit a hard wall. We forget that the real mastery and accomplishments that amaze us are things that have taken a long time and people who reached them have gone through a lot of pain and a lot of efforts.
I believe that a lot of the opportunities that we currently have are likely to be available to us in the next 6-12 months. Just knowing that can be a great relief, as we may be afraid that this opportunity may never come in the future.
I believe, we need to do less, and not spread in 10 projects, but improve the quality of our work and get really good at the things that we do. We need to remind ourselves that we do not need to master everything at once. There will most likely be time for us to go back to those hobbies or things that sparked our interest in the past. However, we have something else that we need to focus on right now. Things that are really important to us.
We need to set our priorities straight, and move past our temptation of trying to do everything at once. Our life is a summation of the decisions that we have already made up to this point in time. It is up to us to improve the decisions that we take if we are really interested in improving the quality of our lives.
