Many people carry lengthy to-do or bucket lists in their heads, and while it’s good to have goals, letting some of them go can be a great source of relief. Here’s why.
Physical limitations are another issue. You can practically feel the
resolving itself as you swipe a pen through things that are either nigh-on impossible to do at your age, or would require such Herculean time and effort that you’d torpedo the things that stillLikewise, there may be things on your list that were put there for dubious reasons—like vanity or pride . So nixing them leaves you feeling better, not worse. It’s cheapThere’s nothing depressing or defeatist about this exercise. It’s not about letting your dreams die; it’s about sorting them.
“Shoot my age in golf.” Made that vow when I was in my twenties. I’d have to have put my 10,000 hours in by this point. Not gonna happen.“Learn to make Parisian-calibre croissants.” I’m not even sure you can find the right flour here. Anyway, half the family’s gluten-intolerant. So. “Get to ‘inbox zero'” I have 105,000 emails, 35,000 of them unread. Short of declaring email bankruptcy, a non-starter. I’m good with that. Not an inbox-zero kind of guy.The whole enterprise boils down to weeding out misgivings. “For me, success is not a public thing, it's a private thing,” the late Toni MorrisonThis one hurts. This private promise I’d made to the family, to the universe, was contingent on getting a big-enough book deal to pull it off.
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