You can’t do it all. Time to choose one and let the other go.

Not all at once.

I’m going to share a poem with you today which you already know, but maybe haven’t thought about for a bit. It’s called “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. And my hope is that you will take the poem as a metephor for much of what holds you back.

Take a minute.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

Did you notice?

“Long I stood…” Don’t rush your decisions. And I know: often it feels like you’ve got to do something right now. But ask yourself: “Is that really true?” Because if it’s not, take a minute and think about it. There is a good form of procrastination, and this is it.

And then keep moving.

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

One isn’t necessarily better.

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Choose one.

The poet came to a Y in the road and took one of them. Which means he didn’t take the other. And notice what he says: “Yet knowing how way leads onto way, I doubted that I should ever come back.” And yes — there is a sigh. But there is also the freedom of the open road ahead.

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