Slight not what ’s near through aiming at what ’s far.

Ambition has a way of making everything close at hand look like a waiting room. The current job is the one before the real job, the town you live in is where you are until you move. Meanwhile the near things are the actual contents of your life, and treating them as a corridor means spending years walking through your own days.

Choose something near that you have been half-attending to, a person, a room, a piece of ordinary work, and give it your full attention for a week. The distant thing will not suffer, and you may find the near one was more than a step on the way.