two jobs diverged in a yellow wood

both sucked

When you’re facing a big decision have you ever thought to yourself:

Hey self!

When am I going to be able to just jump up to my roof to fix my solar panels?

When will I be able to fly all on my own and get to Toronto in seventeen minutes?

When am I going to be in two places at the same time so I can make the ‘right’ decision?

That’s the kicker right there isn’t it?

That’s where we get spectacularly stuck.

Oh sure stuck frequently looks like a lump attached to an ex box¹ but if you try to pry that lump from its natural habitat, the basement, that lump will perform contortions and acrobatics such that they’d cause ole’ P.T. Barnum to blush.

You can’t be in two places at once. There is no ‘right decision’. Know who you are. Make the best decision that you can.

Oh and one more thing.

When you make a decision, you are the one who is making. You are creating. Each choice or decision or change you make is an act of creativity.

The more you do it, the easier it gets and better it feels.

You’re an arti…