...for the past few years I've been focusing on something I think is Important(tm), and I've had some success, and some failure, though I don't think there's anyone that can say that I haven't been putting all of myself into it.
Anyway, there's Big Important, and Small Important, and I'm not really sure which you're referring to. Not too many folks with a lot of drive set themselves to Small Important things, because the rewards for small important things are more modest, and it takes a certain amount of ego to develop the drive to do important things in the first place.
So, a lot of folks shoot for Big Important, and there's two consequences of this. First, for every big important thing that gets done, a whole bunch of folks somewhere had to get the small important stuff out of the way. Second, big important just kills you.
Sometimes, literally.
Concentrating your efforts on something that's important is a fantastic thing that I'd never talk anybody out of. In fact, I wish a lot more people would do it. But, there's also something to be said for the importance of living a life you really enjoy, and you often have to sacrifice a lot of that to get the really important stuff done.
Me, I still struggle over which is more important.
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Anyway, there's Big Important, and Small Important, and I'm not really sure which you're referring to. Not too many folks with a lot of drive set themselves to Small Important things, because the rewards for small important things are more modest, and it takes a certain amount of ego to develop the drive to do important things in the first place.
So, a lot of folks shoot for Big Important, and there's two consequences of this. First, for every big important thing that gets done, a whole bunch of folks somewhere had to get the small important stuff out of the way. Second, big important just kills you.
Sometimes, literally.
Concentrating your efforts on something that's important is a fantastic thing that I'd never talk anybody out of. In fact, I wish a lot more people would do it. But, there's also something to be said for the importance of living a life you really enjoy, and you often have to sacrifice a lot of that to get the really important stuff done.
Me, I still struggle over which is more important.