What Are the Red Threads That Bring You Joy?
Do more of what you like, and less of what you loathe. These things you like are the red threads that keep you powerful.
Balance.
This one word has created so many issues for each of us. This one word has been the source of guilt, shame, failure, self-judgment, and just a general sense of messing-it-up-ness for most of my adult life. It’s made me at times feel like a failure as a father and a husband on one hand, and a failure as an employee, co-worker, and producer on another.
Forget balance.
Balance is rooted in the idea that work is bad and life is good and we have to offset the demands of the bad by living the life of the good. But that doesn’t always apply. Sometimes life sucks ass, and sometimes work is the source of great energy and reward.
And that’s the key. To pursue that which gives us energy and reward.