Maybe you're better than me, more disciplined, less curious about everything, less likely to sign up for every newsletter, webinar, masterclass, and tool you might want to explore if time was infinite.
Or maybe, like me, your inbox is a graveyard of good intentions and unbounded curiosities. A reminder that there are more options than hours. More noise than capacity. There's a whole river of water and I can only drink 2L a day.
That is where the saving grace of my hand-written goal list for this month, and my checklist for what makes a good day become very obvious. Like a compass in a content storm.
I routinely ask myself, looking at it,
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Who do I want to become in 3–5 years?
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What do I want to build?
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What projects are moving me toward that?
The rest?
It can wait.
Maybe forever.
At some point, I created a simple internal test,
Will I be okay if I never do this?
If the answer is yes, I delete, unsubscribe, decline. Sometimes joyfully. Sometimes with a little FOMO. But I move on.
Because in a world of infinite choices, most of them good (really good), the challenge isn’t choosing between what you want and what you don’t.
It’s choosing between what you want… and what you want most.
That’s not easy. Not for a curious, ambitious, full-of-ideas, afraid to lose and miss out human.
But it’s necessary.
So what’s YOUR filter to sift through the stream?
So that you end up with the right stuff, not just a bunch of stuff.
