The Work Must Be Known

You cannot work without knowing what to work on.

Without knowing, there can only be the appearance of work. Without knowing, there can only be the appearance of busyness. Without knowing, you can sit at a desk and put in the time but be no further along than when you started.

To do actual, meaningful work, the work must be known.

The problem is that figuring out what the work should be doesn’t look like work. It looks like laziness. It looks like you’re not trying. It looks like you’re not doing anything. It looks like you’re not busy. And if you don’t look busy you can’t be doing anything worthwhile. It’s what others might tell you. It’s what you might tell yourself.

Put up with the discomfort. The work must be known.

Time Creation

Many of us want to create, to make, to do.

But we don’t have the time. Our lives are so packed, so busy, that we have no extra time available. It feels like there is no way we could possibly do anything else in our day.

It’s not true though. The one way all of us on this earth are equal is that we all get exactly the same amount of time in a day. 24 hours. 1,440 minutes. 86,400 seconds. Not a one of us gets more than that.

From those hours, those minutes, those seconds, we must create the time we need. We must remove useless things from our time and use the time we reclaim more wisely.

It may be simple things like watching less tv, or spending less time on our phones. It may be changing how we commute, train instead of car, so we can do something while we travel. Whatever it is we do we must use it to create time for the thing we want to do.

If we wish to create we must first create time.