At the end of my last newsletter, I wrote:
I need to have patience and not want to do everything at once (such a recurrent reminder!). Doing a lot of things is about accumulation over time, not at one time.
The last sentence stuck with me for the next days. It is very simple. Obvious, even. But for multipassionate creatives, it is so hard to follow that advice. We want to do a million things, we have many ideas and don't want to wait to execute them. So we feel like we have to choose between all of them, and in a way we do have to. But that doesn't mean we have to abandon things forever. We need the patience to be able to put things to the side for a bit. And once we're done with what's in front of us, we can pick the things we wanted to do back up. That's how we can end up doing a lot of things, just not all at once.
There are so many things I want to do, many projects I want to get to, and also within this garden, so many things I want to write about. So many that I feel paralysed by all the options. And I also feel guilty for not following up on the threads I started. I feel like I jump around from topic to topic, and never really stick with one thing until it feels "finished".
But isn't that life? We always have new questions to answer, new problems to solve. We'll never really be done and close all the loops. So why not allow ourselves to be comfortable with this?
Why not open things, let them marinate, and come back when we feel ready to continue or finish them?
I can focus on what's most present in my mind at the moment. What feels ready to be shared. And the rest, if important to me, will come back naturally, eventually. Important things have a way of circling back.
For me, doing many things also needs good organization (but not too much), I wrote about this some time ago, here:
