Take five minutes, and think about the past 6 months. Revisit all of the projects, tasks, and endevours you took on. Now, imagine those events are pieces to an equation. They are not the result of the equation, but they are components that create a result.
How many of those activities, where ‘new attempts’ to achieve the result you are looking for?
It is true that some ideas and ventures simply aren’t the right fit, and need to be destroyed and forgotten. However, how many ‘failed attempts’ may have not failed. At one time the ‘failed attempt’ was an exciting ‘new attempt’. Are we too addicted to fresh and new? Are we so dependent on the energy high that comes with ‘the next thing’, that we habitually murder ‘the current thing’? What if the current thing is diligently and consistently taking us to where we want to go?
“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.” – Galatians 6:9
So pick something. Pick something that you feel semi-bored with. How you work. What you’re working for. What you’re working with. Who you’re working with. Put the neural engines that are calculating how to abort ‘the current thing’ and engage ‘the new thing’ on standby. Revisit the moment when ‘the current thing’ was ‘the next thing’. Take note of how far it is brought you.
Now, be persistent. Stick with it. Reboot it. Tweak it. Don’t bail on it. You’re making progress.
Don’t kill it.
