If you’re coasting through life you’re going downhill…
— Mehrdad Mohjtahedi
Mehrdad is a good friend of mine. He said this one, I don’t remember the context. It hit me real good when he said it. I repeat now, with annoying regularity.
The struggle is fine. But is it?
I don’t know. At some point I have to figure out if I trust my lessons. Am I going downhill?
It feels like it. Maybe I’m being dramatic? In many ways I feel like I’ve improved. In other ways not so much.
It always comes down to this: Are you doing anything differently?
Where the answer is no I ask the question: Well, what will we do differently this time?
It’s helped a lot. The problem is that I don’t ask the question enough; it’s hard, and what comes after is hard—the work that comes with the answer to the question. Thinking about it gives me anxiety but it’s what needs doing.
If you don’t do enough of what needs doing, it adds weight to the sleigh dragging you down.