Nathan Howe tweeted this really great story about a broken window in his house that he neglected to fix for far too long. But the story is really a parable about people with ADHD, anxiety, or depression. Many of us live with broken windows of one type or another for years. The moral of the story here is – you don’t have to fix it all now. Just start by starting.
Source: Nathan Howe
Thank you for expressing some of my thought processes…. I thought it was just procrastinating but I now see it was me making things more difficult, maybe I will deal with the molehill before it becomes a mountain.
This was most appreciated. I have just fixed a “Broken Window” of my own, and the feeling is great!
Most appreciated. I’ve just fixed a “Broken Window” of my own, and the feeling is great!
I am about to graduate from a PhD program, in some ways a lot of “broken windows” that have haunted me for the last 7 years will be dealt with one way or another when I graduate. I will have a chance to start afresh, within certain aspects of my life, and with all fixed windows. Now I know that I need to fix my windows as they break rather than letting them rust and create general anxiety for my life.
this.
just
this.
*clap*
truth.
One of the best motivational posters I’ve ever owned was a picture of a toddler at the bottom of a long set of stairs with the caption, “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” (attributed to Arthur Ashe)