Having recently started my first “big boy” job in the last few months, I have gotten into an obnoxious habit of complaining that I never have enough time for myself. I just got off the phone with my girlfriend, the amazing person who tolerates all of my complaining, and she was very excited for me that I had five whole hours on a Friday evening to myself. My initial, sack-of-potatoes-like response was, “Yea…but it will be over before I can get anything done.”
I do not know when I developed the mentality that a small piece of quality work could not be achieved in a short period of time, but it is definitely a great excuse for never starting things. Part of me had been interpreting the phrase, “Rome wasn’t built in a day” as, “I won’t be able to build Rome today, so why bother starting.”
For me, Rome represents developing software projects, building this blog, strengthening my body, and growing my relationships. I should realize that these ventures cannot all be achieved in a single day, and should instead seek to lay a single brick in the right place. Hell, any place would be good to start.
Even though there are a million obstacles between me and Rome, I am going to lay the brick anyway.