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The Forgotten Art of Perseverance
“Unfortunately, the uncertainty of ‘when’ kills more dreams than death.”
I’m learning that, strive as we may to direct our lives, we can’t possibly know what they will present to us in the long term. Even so, we have to continue pressing forward; putting our nose to the grindstone, so-to-speak. Somehow, through a continual effort of ‘aiming upward’ (as Jordan Peterson might say), we’ll find that life, while difficult and unpredictable, does improve, and with it, our desire to more faithfully negotiate it.
Inside the mind of a creative…
Lately, I’ve been wrecked with emotions about my own trajectory as a business owner, and as a human being who wants nothing more than to contribute honestly and meaningfully to our larger human experience.
There are days when I ask why I even pursue my path as a writer. There are others when I am certain that I am on the right track as a creative human being desirous of social impact and economic viability. The days in which I question my journey are difficult to negotiate.
On these days, while I go through the motions of exercising, eating well (mostly), studying and developing my craft, it is still easy to doubt my path, though I do so to a much lesser degree than if I forgo the…
