You cannot choose every opportunity and still choose a direction.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Taking everything available guarantees you go nowhere in particular, since a direction is made of refusals as much as of choices. Every opportunity accepted dilutes the others, and after enough of them you are busy, capable, and not actually building anything.

Decline the next good opportunity that does not serve your direction, deliberately, as an exercise. Notice that the cost is smaller than it felt. Direction is purchased entirely with what you turn down.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What would you have to decline to move in one direction?

MORE IN CHOICE & CONSEQUENCE

Free, with nothing to buy inside it.