Good shortcuts help you get distractions out of your way, so you can focus on your important work. Your mission. Your goal.
Bad shortcuts make you feel like you’re doing important work.
Important work results in meaningful change — beyond a quick fix. (A band-aid alone won’t heal a deep wound). It takes time, effort, and space to solve an interesting challenge worth tackling. Working through the hard stuff: that’s what’s valuable and important.
There’s no shortcut for that.
Since the beginning of the year, I’ve been doing a deep dive into the content of Seth Godin, an author I admire. The above are some of the things that have surfaced in my mind lately as it comes to understanding what ‘important work’ looks like.
