A question
Oct. 28th, 2010 12:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dampscribbler"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--"
How do I know when (or if) I am "living up to my potential"?
I always feel like no matter what I am doing it is neither good enough nor just plain enough. Now I'm starting to feel like maybe I'm doing too much, and spreading myself too thin, and I can't figure out whether I'm supposed to stick it out and learn how to be "better" (do more, be more, achieve more) or whether I need to draw a line and say, in the immortal (?)* words of Popeye: "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam."
So, how do you decide?
Thanks.
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* It occurred to me as I typed this that Popeye cartoons aren't on anymore, and today's generation of kids may have never heard that amazing phrase. I feel a little sad to think about that.
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--"
How do I know when (or if) I am "living up to my potential"?
I always feel like no matter what I am doing it is neither good enough nor just plain enough. Now I'm starting to feel like maybe I'm doing too much, and spreading myself too thin, and I can't figure out whether I'm supposed to stick it out and learn how to be "better" (do more, be more, achieve more) or whether I need to draw a line and say, in the immortal (?)* words of Popeye: "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam."
So, how do you decide?
Thanks.
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* It occurred to me as I typed this that Popeye cartoons aren't on anymore, and today's generation of kids may have never heard that amazing phrase. I feel a little sad to think about that.
