intention
I going pau da ting I keep starting ova
@fiverivers Narrated by Lana Young 2:16 29 shots
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I stay past da part wea I always stop. Tonight I wen go furthah wit dis den I eva wen go befo, and um nevah was dramatic even little bit. Nevah had one breakthrough. Had one chair and fifteen pages. I going leave da marker wea um stay and do exactly da same ting tomorrow, and dass da only mechanism dat eva actually wen work fo me on anyting. Fifteen pages, dat not impressive. Fifteen pages I nevah going have fo read again, dass one completely different ting.
Da marker wen move. Get one small stack of read behind um now, and da unread part look plenny less like one wall den um wen look one week ago. Da spine starting fo give in da right place. Um beginning fo look like one book somebody own instead of one book somebody wen buy.
I wen start dis four times. Every restart wen cost me da ground I awready wen covah, and I wen call dat being thorough, which was generous of me. Wat um actually was, was one refusal fo accept one partial position. I wanted fo be somebody who wen read um propah instead of somebody who stay in da middle of reading um. Dat preference wen cost me four books worth of pages awready and wen leave me holding none of dem. Perfectionism no produce bettah work hea. Um produce no work at all, real slow, while feeling like rigor.
Progress no need momentum, um need one marker. Fifteen pages I keep worth mo den fifty I going read ovah again next spring, cuz keeping, dass wea all da compounding stay living. Going back to da beginning wen feel like rigor and wen function like one reset. Anyting dat reset my position, dat not one strategy, dass one real good disguised way of standing still while feeling extremely busy. I would way rathah be genuinely halfway tru someting den be at da start of um ovah and ovah.
So tonight, fifteen pages, and I going leave da marker exactly wea I stop. Tomorrow start dea, not at da beginning and not at da las chapter I feel confident about. No reading um ovah jus fo da sake of feeling caught up, cuz feeling caught up nevah was da goal and nevah going be. Forward only, from wea I actually stay instead of from wea I would rathah be.
Mo far along den yesterday. Dass all finishing eva was.