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Spoke with a friend today about the differences between managing several projects or managing just one.
His last three were so different, they formed a triangle.
Which got me thinking about mine, which kinda looks like a Mr Squiggle.
I’m currently enjoying the diversity of three projects, while also knowing that it must be… simpler, having just the one single focus. I have another friend who is so hot for his single focus now it’s inspiring.
It’s so easy to generalize in a blog as I have only my experiences to draw on which are not symptomatic of everyone’s, but does the saying/song lyric -
The grass is always greener but it’s just as hard to mow mean anything to you?
I think perhaps it sums up one of life’s lessons – that work, like relationships, are hard. They ebb and they flow. Variety is good, but so is a sense of commitment.
So what about routine?
Is it routine painted on faces in a peak-hour city?
Is it routine unmasked on a Friday afternoon?
Or is it the choice of content?
I can’t say that doing routine in something you love would suck. Unless as humans we’re not geared for routine. And it’s balanced by the content right?
I’m in a segue right now between what was a 100% routine, and whatever I’m building.
The content, I’m loving. And there isn’t a routine to speak of. But whatever comes next I need it to pay well, and I need to have an overall, pervading feeling of freedom and passion ignited. Daily.
Cos I was riding home earlier today and flashed past the open back door of a hearse and I thought, that’s me one day. And suddenly, I wanted to be positive and happy about everything, cos that is the back of a fucking car that you’re going to be lying in one day.
And pretty much life can’t get any worse than that.
Which makes now = awesome and possible.
So regardless of routine and content, choose to be here now. And if either the routine or the content isn’t working for you, choose something else. Us humans are far too many, unpredictable and intelligent for it to be worse than it is now.
