it’s hard to maintain five or more missions without the feeling you’re drowning in unavoidable work. This might sound like a lot of objectives to take on, but it’s easier than you might imagine to allow your commitment count to grow over time. My friend Jenny Blake, for example, writes in her 2022 book, Free Time, about how her small consulting and training business kept expanding until, one day, exhausted by the demands of work, she looked up and realized she was supporting more than ten different sources of income, which she described as “legacies from years of experimenting.” No amount of
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