Or, maybe my favorite, using something that doesn't 100% work and scraping it together with hacks or tape or like pulling ladles of curry out of the crock pot so it wouldn't overflow because we have the smaller size.
I fall into the sunk cost fallacy a lot when it comes to time and energy invested too. I put a lot of thoughts into different projects and make the plans. Then when the time comes to do the work I'm not always into it.
I also talk a big game so there is the added potential embarrassment when I bump into someone who is like “whatever happened to that podcast you were going to start?”
Here's the beautiful thing though… I get to change my mind.
I get to pivot. Or abandon. Or go deeper.
We all do. Our desires change. Our values evolve.
My mind can't compute 5 year plans. I love dreaming up the possibilities but I choose not to map out a linear path. I follow my intuition and my interests and I decide that I never lose; I either win or I learn.
(Thank you Nelson Mandela for that last line)
I am in a chapter of self discovery. Of listening to myself. Of using my talents. Not from a “look what I can do” standpoint but from a why wouldn't I standpoint.
Why wouldn't I make it easy for myself? Why wouldn't I seek joy? Why wouldn't I desire big and beautiful things for my life?
Coming into the holiday season we will be surrounded by wishing and when I find myself wishing for something I no longer view it from the lens of lack (look what I don't have). Instead I say “look at all that I do have and I want more of what I already have!”
And that bigger crock pot will give me more hands-off but homemade meals to enjoy with my family.
