One variable at a time

The last couple of days I took some time off to do some mid-week skiing. This was partially meant to be a celebration of the fact that I've built my business to the point where I have the flexibility to do this once in a while. I also thought it would be a great time to reflect on my business and do some deep thinking about the direction I was taking things.

On the second point, I couldn't have done any less. I brought a notebook with me, where I had grandiose plans of sketching out notes and thoughts on my business's strategy. This notebook never left my backpack. After a long day of traveling and skiing right after, I felt my brain was made of mush and not capable of much other than staring into space and winding down for bed.

And in hindsight, I'm perfectly happy with that. It turns out that I had planned way too much in my head. I should have realized that taking my first road-trip in Greece on my own which was a 3-hour drive, skiing for the first time in 25 years at a pretty decent level and then arranging the hotel, going out to eat, renting skis etc., all in my newly adopted, non-native language (Greek) was a sizable mission in and of itself.

Looking back, I'm really satisfied with what I accomplished over a couple of days by pushing myself to do something new while also reviving a skill that I acquired as a child but haven't used recently. Trying to tack a bit of work onto that seems pretty insignificant in the end, so I'm not concerned at all that I didn't make it happen. Turns out that I had enough new variables to focus on and my mind didn't have room for one more - and that's perfectly fine.