{"id":3950,"date":"2024-07-22T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2024-07-22T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:22:31","slug":"fun-mission-one-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/fun-mission-one-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Mission. One Mission."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-attachment-id=\"3951\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/fun-mission-one-mission\/blog-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/blog-1.jpg?fit=3024%2C1701&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3024,1701\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 13 Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.7&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;32&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016129032258065&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;blog&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"blog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/blog-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/blog-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3951\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/blog-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/blog-1.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/blog-1.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/blog-1.jpg?w=3000&amp;ssl=1 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We want to find that one thing. We can only do one thing at a time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Procrastination&#8221; &amp; distraction comes in when we have&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a million things we want to do<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a fear of boredom with our most important pursuit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>small goals \/ dreams \/ hopes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a loss of confidence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The big thing that can fix this is have a big mission that&#8217;s from our hearts. I put procrastination in quotes because I don&#8217;t believe in it. We&#8217;re always working on something&#8230; it&#8217;s a matter of choosing what to work on and being aware of how we&#8217;re spending our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the focus is on being comfortable right now, we will not move on anything big. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the focus is on saving a teenager a year from suicide, we may not want to doom scroll right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Take action : think big<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re feeling daunted by life right now, or there&#8217;s something that&#8217;s really stuck for you. Make the reward of your work something bigger and singularly focussed. Make it bigger and bigger until it magnetically pulls you toward it. It becomes more effort to resist it than to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to find that one thing. 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