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Oh, hi friends!
Are you working on the right things?
This can be hard to figure out in the micro sense:
Am I working on what's most important right now, right in this minute?
But it can also be a nagging feeling in the macro:
Am I working on what's important in...the grand scheme of my life?!
An email from Brass Ring reader Dominic yesterday gave me some clarity. Both of these modes of working can feel aimless if you don't know how you define success.
You can't keep working on things to make yourself "successful" if you've never visualized what success looks like for you.
So what does it look like?
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New thing I want to do: Read bigger, better books.
And also rescue this cat.
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"But before any of that could happen, I had to get my book out into the world."
My friend Andrea Bartz has released her debut thriller novel The Lost Night and people are OBSESSED. You know I love a deep dive into process, and her tick-tock of how she queried and found a literary agent is incredibly insightful and helpful.
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"I don't actively choose to do nothing. It feels like a passive thing that happens. Doing something feels like making a choice and doing nothing feels like not making one." Liked this one from John Green.
If I didn't decide to do lots of somethings and put them on my calendar, I would spend a lot of time on my couch doing nothing (and probably enjoying that, too). Being happy with your choosing, that's the thing, eh?
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara
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