don't be all over the place

Never though that by doing less is actually going out of comfort zone these days.

Perhaps you or someone close to you is feeling like this now? Your feelings are totally valid and you are not alone.

Focusing on one thing is so hard these days.

And it only gets harder.

There are so many things I would like to do.

Swim, run, bike, take long walks, sleep better, read five different books, write three blogs, develop spiritually, learn to play guitar, learn AI, build a business, socialize with new people and family, try new recipes, travel to new countries...

...leading eventually to little or no progress at all for all of these wishes.

Someone could say - this is obviously ADHD, but I highly doubt it.

It’s way easy nowadays to hide behind different illnesses and conditions to outsource the fact of where we’re as [western] society heading. Making deep dive into a pile of crap.

I see this phenomenon being the result of today's digital world making us ironically more connected than ever and, at the same time, more lonely than ever.

Before the Internet and Google, everything was simpler. We weren't constantly bombarded with [useless] information what is currently someone else doing on the other side of the planet?

I'm saying “useless” because looking at an Instagram post will tell you just 1 percent of the truth. That shiny BMW or 100k/mo freelance lifestyle is skewed reality.

And we fall into these social engineering traps - daily.

We see only success - no sacrifices.

And it makes our glass half-empty.

Disappointed at ourselves.

Leaving us feel like we're not enough.

Is this natural to human beings? I start to feel like this is the case.

The cure?

Cut off the noise. Have the courage not to care.

So easy to say.

And it's scary. I know because of the to-do wish list I've described at the start.

They say that to become good at something, you have to step out of your comfort zone.

Contrary to all, in my case, this means - doing less.

Wow... wow.

It feels counter-logical. To achieve more in my life, I need to do less.

Let's say I pick up only two things at a time: learning to play a guitar and instead of writing three blogs - writing just one...

...I'll become 50 % and 50 % better in those.

Because should I try to accomplish a whole to-do list - I would be:

1) at about 5 % better in each of things

2) practically couldn't even accomplish all of them because of the 24 hours in the day

3) burned out

Heck, sometimes I feel burned out from doing one thing like house chores.

Figuring this stuff out is a lifelong ongoing process but I feel like through my own mistakes and learnings, I became every day more aware of what is actually beneficial to me.

And I’m surprised every time: how little we need in our lives.

Just sitting doing nothing and analyzing our thoughts as they come and leave. And being so happy about it. Because you’re enough.