What if everything went right?
Oh, hi friends!
What’s the absolute best outcome?
It’s easy to forget this question at the beginning.
Instead it’s easier — maybe more comfortable — to focus on what is going to be difficult, and all the ways something can go wrong.
Reporting this story will take forever.
No one will like this book/play/song/show/proposal.
It will be impossible to get anything done today.
Am I getting sick? I’m definitely getting sick. It’s probably fatal.
That’s how quickly our brain can seek out the negative. It’s probably how it prepares itself: shoot for the worst and maybe you’ll be pleasantly surprised when things aren’t terrible?
It’s comforting to temper expectations. No one likes feeling disappointed.
But oh, the stress, the pre-anxiety!
Setting the narrative before it’s even begun will often make that narrative stick.
Reporting that story probably will take forever, because you assume it will.
No one will appreciate your new book, because you probably won’t finish writing it…because you think no one will like it.
And so on.
So for today at least, I want to ask:
What’s the absolute best outcome?
What if everything went right?
Answer that question — because that’s what you deserve.
"The blog and book and podcast that will change your life the most is the one you create.
Go make something.”
Simple as that, from Seth Godin.
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An Amazing Google Drive Shortcut
Thanks to this tweet, I learned that typing doc.new into your browser opens a new blank Google Doc. GAME-CHANGER. I’ve already used this dozens of times and hope it’s useful to you, too!
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara