What are we supposed to do when life insists on calling all the shots?
Especially now that I am getting too old to make any decisions, I wouldn’t recognise a good idea if it came gift-wrapped.
The only thing I know for sure, and I am very grateful for this, is that my life is far too complicated. The trouble is I seem incapable of choosing the right way forward. I am secretly happy to be drifting along, going with the current.
I realise now that my life has always been like this, but with piles of determination and hard work, I have always managed well enough. These days, I find myself unable to cope anymore.
I wish I could talk to another career person who has it all and has done it all. Who has managed to reduce the number of irons in the fire to a manageable level?
Left to my own devices, I am keeping myself occupied trying to arrange a book launch.
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I watched the final stages of a tennis match yesterday, and it must have been a difficult match. Both players looked wrung out; one was noticeably drained and upset, barely holding back the tears.
It was painful to watch these final moments, and the poor loser walking away. That was when I recognised how they must be feeling…
I always used to think that the secret to successful marketing, or anything really, was doing one thing well at a time.
But I was so wrong. You need to work on several related things at the same time, and this is getting so hard these days…
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