Clarity will ruin you

I was sure I was going to quit.

For the 974th time in my short career.

I just wasn't sure I was on the right path.

My direction was fuzzy. And I knew for certain that I needed more direction in my life.

I didn't know it at the time, but I was trying to cosy up to the girl who was about to lure me off a cliff.

Her name was Clarity.

She's dangerous because she makes me think I need something I will never get.

It becomes a cycle of overthinking and over-planning because Clarity hasn't arrived, and therefore, I need to overthink more.

Have you ever had that? That need for clarity, but you just feel more stuck?

Clarity never arrives. She just waves at you from across a foggy canyon.

You may think you have 'clarity,' all nicely typed up in a file.

But then your direction will change in a week. Something will change, and new information will enter the picture, throwing everything off a few degrees.

You will never see, feel or think with full certainty about anything you do.

Realise this, and your whole life opens up to you.

So instead of obsessing over clarity, I made a change.

I committed to Consistency instead.

She's much more pleasant, if a little dour, but when you finally win her over, her smile is magnificent.

Consistency means doing the right things daily, even if they aren't always all that exciting.

The certainty you were looking for will then reveal itself to you in little moments, like an evasive smile cracking.

This was all I needed to do.

I stayed consistent even if I didn't have all the clarity.

That's when the real results came.

My latest book, The Never-Retired Writer, shows you the secrets to consistent writing that helped me reach over 200k readers and build a remote writing business that freed me from any one location.

It's on Amazon right now, and you can grab your copy here.

Alex

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