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Are you trying to pursue many different directions at once?

Are you frustrated that the world wants you to pick one thing, because you want to do them all?

*The problem is thinking short term* — assuming that if you don’t do all the things now, they won’t happen. 

**The solution is to think long term**. 
Do just one thing for a few years, then another for a few years, then another. 

You may have heard this story: 
Buridan’s donkey is standing halfway between a pile of hay and a bucket of water. 
It keeps looking left and right, trying to decide between hay and water. 
Unable to decide, it eventually dies of hunger and thirst. 

A donkey can’t think of the future. 
If he could, he’d realize he could first drink the water, then go eat the hay. He’d live.

Don’t be a donkey. 
You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.  

Think ahead. Plan. Use the future.

Most people over-estimate what they can do in one year, and under-estimate what they can do in ten years. Think long-term. Use the future.