The things you want to do swirl in your mind—maybe your desire to start a successful YouTube channel, or your intention to get a better job.
But with all the desire and intention, it is often the case that, when presented with a request for the last time effort and attention were tended to the things you say you'll do, the result is often a vague sense of something ungraspable.
To become aware of this sense is to come upon the answer to your ask—why have I been failing to do what I say I'll do.
The answer is:
The things you say you will do have not been re-visited with sufficient effort and attention to deliver a measure of progress.
An implication of continuity is a stop. So, you might find it helpful to keep these three things in mind:
- A stop will happen to happenings.
- Some of those happenings can stay stopped.
- Some of those stopped happenings need restarts or revisits to deliver usefulness and/or satisfaction.
It could be that there was a time you were quite active about your 'goal' to get a better job. You brushed up your CV and sent it to different companies and did so for a whole week. Then you had other things to do, like showing up for the actual job you now hold, and woke up one morning, weeks after your initial burst of delivering your CVs, with a gnawing dissatisfaction and a sense of failing at something.
One might say one day you were active at pursuing your goal and the next day you you were not. One day, active pursuit was happening and the next day a stop of the happening happened.
Think for a moment of the things you would like to do as seeds of a plant. Once planted, they flourish when tended and watered with effort and attention. To re-visit the plants again and again to tend and to water and to nourish—particularly at its early stages—is to watch the plant grow.
During the early stages of the things you want to do, the only things that matter are the time, effort and attention you give. But because interruptions are inevitable—you will get tired or bored or overwhelmed or confused or distracted by something else—the way to give effort and attention is to visit and revisit the things you want to do over and over gain.
You are to maintain continuity.
Maintain continuity might come across as 'do what you were doing'. But what is meant by continuity here is to bring effort and an attention to the things you want to do over and over again.
What you'll often find as you do so, the thing that brings a stop to effort and attention, is a problem or problems. You will get tired or bored or overwhelmed or confused or distracted by something else. And it is a dark twist of reality that it is the very thing that is needed for growth and progress—effort and attention—that gets chopped by the problem(s).
It is the reason effort and attention is the very thing you are to be quite intentional about when it comes to doing the things you say you'll do, so that when the problems arise, as they most certainly will, the response will not be to look away, but to look again... again and again.
Notes:
- For addressing dissatisfaction, check out this piece: Turning Dissatisfaction Into Actionable Change
- Problem solving as you you deploy the principle of continuity will be the focus of the next post.
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