Your friends are the best
Oh, hi friends!
Have you ever watched your friends achieve their dreams?
Boy oh boy, it is the BEST feeling.
I’m not talking about randomly scrolling by someone talking about their latest achievement or, in Twitter parlance, ~personal news~. That’s good, too!
But there’s a different kind of feeling when you see their success unfold over a longer period. I’m talking months, years. They work and they wait and they work some more. And usually, if they wait long enough or work long enough, something happens.
I’ve seen that transformation with a few friends this year. They’re bringing their musicals to life, getting book deals, starring in major TV shows and films.
And I’m reminded by watching each of them and remembering all of our conversations: None of this came quickly.
If I feel this incredible watching them, I can’t imagine how they feel.
Except, of course, now they might have new hurdles, new dreams, new goals.
Perhaps that’s why it’s good to say — maybe one time too many — how amazed you are by all they’ve accomplished.
It really is the best feeling.
Today’s fake-link is micro. You know I love a system, a method, a process. But now, when there mainly seems to be tiny pockets of time in a day, rather than large swaths, I’m focused on the micro. The smallest action steps for the biggest things.
I’ve often thought that if I don’t have enough time to do it right, I should wait. Wait to respond at length to that email, wait to plan that trip, wait until the project is perfect. That's a lot of waiting.
But lately, if I have six minutes on the subway, I’m going to write a few sentences of this newsletter. If I have a 12-minute walk to dinner, I’ll call my brother Eric to check in. If I have 8 minutes between meetings, I’ll break down a project’s deadlines in my tricked-out Airtable. And slowly, when you add all these up, they combine to something bigger than their parts.
Progress.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara