Our lives are always in need of constant editing. Like any good paper we have to edit.
Life is very much the same way. It’s a puzzle of sorts. We have to figure out which pieces fit where and then reorganize and reshuffle along the way.
One really powerful thing I’ve learned that gives us a lot of liberation is this idea of being able to renegotiate our goals. They are not set in stone. It’s ok to revise, reorder, tweak, take out, add in and edit.
We are generally our own worst critic and life has a way of offering up challenges for our own highest good.
We don’t have to play hard ball with life cause inevitably it’s going to play hardball with us.
We can learn to just go easy and go with the stride.
So cut yourself some slack. Revise, slash out, redo, and edit, edit, edit.
John McPhee goes through multiple drafts, 4 precisely till he’s content with it.
If you’ve haven’t done so already and if you don’t subscribe then be sure to use up this month’s reading credit on this beauty by John McPhee Draft No. 4 in the New Yorker.
