Just begin. Start that thing even though you’re nowhere close to ready. Trust that you’ll figure it out as you go along.
Appreciate your cosmic insignificance, heck, celebrate it. In the long horizon, none of this matters. Thank this wisdom for freeing you from the eternal demands of imagined perfectionism.
Let yourself fully absorb the joy of everything you’ve already done. If it’s not enough now, it’ll never be enough.
Rather than being bitter about “the stakeholders”, find alignment where you can. Life is a constant negotiation, a play, an infinite game that should aim to be fun for all parties involved.
Build a system around you that allows you to be less vigilant. Ease and relaxation aren’t marks of laziness, they are cues that you have succeeded in rediscovering how life is meant to be lived.
Protect your boundaries at all costs. Separate red work from blue work… “on” time from “off” time. Let work-time feel more like play-time, and let your play-time feel more like it works for you (e.g. to nurture you and not to leave you to passively doom scroll).
Allow yourself to contradict yourself, and miss the mark about half the time. It’s not a testament to your failure, but the raw material that fuels your growth. Just write down the lesson learned afterwards. I keep a running list in my notes app for this.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.
This is your sign to just go do it.
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