Please, stop saying these words…
“Be bound to your word, and speak it profoundly.”
Shoulda / coulda / woulda - knock it off with using these words? Will ya?
It should… wait… It will never be the case that something doesn’t get done, simply because you thought you should or could or would, but then still chose not to. Right?
Alas, as demonstrated above, how easy it is to fall into that trap?
I’ve talked about this before, but of course you won’t be perfect at this, and sometimes the opportunity to correct a shoulda/woulda/coulda will have passed.
But every time you think “I should [insert thing you think you should to]”, just go do the thing. Prioritize it, as your intuition suggests.
A small way to practice this every day is to respond as quickly as possible to everyone that reaches out to you - whether it’s a colleague or an old friend or even someone you don’t like. Whether it’s an email or a text or a call. Pick up. Respond. Be available. This is better than thinking in your head (for hours, sometimes days) that you should get back to that person.
This practice applies to tasks as small as cleaning your room, to goals as large as changing your career. It’s obvious, but still bears repeating that if you practice this on the small things, you will become better at WILLING yourself forward through the big things.
Hope that helps. Now, I shall get back to storyboarding this next project…
Love to all -
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From Fire & Earth: A ThoughPose Poetry Collection | 6/10/2019
I’ve got a dull edge
And a broken hand
Where the handle used to be
You’ve got bad vision,
Holding a sign that sort of
Looks like a bullseye from here
We’ve got a decent shot
Shoddy means,
But an end in sight, it seems
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