Thinking about what fits. And what doesn’t.
Being a unique person who doesn’t quite fit in well can be a beautiful thing. But there’s another way to think about fit–what fits in your life and what doesn’t.
Being a unique person who doesn’t quite fit in well can be a beautiful thing. But there’s another way to think about fit–what fits in your life and what doesn’t.
The big lesson I gained from 2009? That my life has a capacity. It has finite volume. Only so many things will fit. I know this, because I hit my capacity last year. I may in fact have exceeded my life’s safe capacity last year.
Your relationship with your work can be like marriage. In the beginning, the chemisty is great. Over time, things can turn chilly. So what went wrong? Did you pick the wrong work or are you having the vocational equivalent of the seven-year-itch?
Plans are great. But plans aren’t fixed blueprints of how your life will go. They’re more like hypotheses of what direction your life could go in. If you find that a hypothesis doesn’t hold water, you need to be willing to let it go.