If you’re used to realizing your plans you start devising plans all the time. It was hard to get used to dealing with the first step and the last one, but after a while I learned it. I plan in advance what the first step, the second and the next and the next one will be on the road leading up to my aim. If the whole plan is ready I get down to realizing the first step with intense concentration. Fulfilling a new aim, even though you have some routine, is always like starting an entirely new big project. It’s quite hard to concentrate exclusively on what I’m doing that moment solely on that one thing, instead of daydreaming. However, it’s the key to efficiency, to be present at the moment and do your best 100% in it!
When All Seems Lost — and Even When It Doesn’t… As a writer, I read more than average. Not necessarily books that fall within my immediate interests, but rather those I can learn from, marvel at, analyze word by word, and sometimes even those that demand more effort from me than usual. That is how it is with Alice Munro. I bought my first book by her when she received the Nobel Prize. Then life happened, and the volume sat on my bookshelf—either I had no time for it, or it lingered somewhere at the bottom of my list of priorities. When I finally picked it up, I could hardly believe my eyes—or my reaction. First, I was utterly outraged; my blood pressure shot through the roof in an instant, and I almost started swearing in disbelief. I had barely skimmed the first few lines, yet that was enough to know: it was perfect. A true masterpiece. Excellence among the excellent. Every word reached the deepest layers of my soul. I was touched by its purity, its delicacy, the noblest simpli...
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