Take your time. Go slowly.
Good advice or bad?
It looks like bad advice before the fact.
But when it’s how we make progress within an idea we’ve begun to pursue, or a journey we have intentionally set out on, then it potentially is dynamic advice – taking the long view, understanding there are many elements and stages and choices to be made.
To love everything is to love nothing, that is, to love it by knowing it deeply and fully.
As advice for the long haul, it believes that setting out a year for accomplishing something that hasn’t been engaged in before is more powerful than setting out aimlessly – like an expedition with out planning: it’s possible, but the odds are stacked against us.
It understands that reflection on progress is at least as important as the experiences, and that humility, gratitude and faithfulness provide powerful means to do this – that is, making deep reflection possible.
It has a feeling that at the end of the journey there’ll be the beginning of another – becoming part of something that is phenomenal.
Here’s one online dictionary’s attempt to describe a phenom:
To be “Phenomenal” at something, or to be a person of certain great qualities that just can’t be described. Not necessarily a prodigy, but certainly special. They posses a certain “it factor” about themselves, something that goes beyond the exterior but comes from their core and radiates out.
True phenoms exude qualities such as ambition, caring, respect, honor, integrity, and all around character. They are the people you look at and although others may not see it, you know that they are going to be big one day.
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