Friday, April 12, 2013

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You Can't Do It All


I was recently working through a book called "Storyline" by Donald Miller. The book is about living a better story, so that at the end of your life you can look back and see that your life had a purpose.

In this book he asks you to layout your roles and goals. So that you can decide where to focus your energy for maximum impact. This means basically defining what hats you wear and what you wish accomplish wearing that hat. He suggests limiting the choices to five since you probably you won't be able to do more than that without driving yourself crazy. Just 5? Are you serious? I'm so much bigger than that!


I decided to print out a schedule that had the whole day in 15 minute increments. I then tried to work all those roles into my day to day routine. Unfortunately... there were not enough lines. So I printed off seven more copies and tried to rework it every different way imaginable.
The unavoidable fact was I couldn't do everything that I felt I needed to do.

Something had to go.



I have never lost a loved one... But I felt a deep sorrow in giving up my dream of becoming a rock star that day. Despite how many ways I tried to rationalize how this was important; Storyline and common sense told me that it wasn't. It's hard to give up on a dream, but it's easier to give up on a small dream to go for a bigger dream. Ironically, after letting go of my belief that I should have an UN-INTERRUPTED practice time of 30 minutes everyday. I have found my actual life became more interesting. Everything else was not just something that I needed to do so that I could have enough time to practice guitar. I went from avoidance of daily activities to embracing them. Funny thing is that it happened almost immediately.

I still want to be a rock star. I'm just trying to be a rock star at real life now.

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