Charlotte and I made a big mistake on the Weekly Challengers this week. It’s mostly my fault: I sent her the unfinished first draft of the WC instead of the completed one, and she didn’t catch it. So only the first two sentences of the full WC went out. Here’s what it was supposed to be:

Passion, by it’s very nature, is necessarily messy.

I wrote that about eight years ago, and it’s one of those “Truths” that has stood the test of time. When you’re passionate about something, you generally make a mess. Unfortunately, we tend to think of messes as “bad.” But they’re not. Nor are messes particularly good. They just are.

What matters, I think, is how those messes came about, and what you’re going to do about them. Where they called by passion or carelessness, by excitement or procrastination? And if (or rather, when) you make a mess, who’s going to clean it up?

So notice where things are getting messy this week. Is there passion involved, or just carelessness? And what are  you going to do about it?

How ironic that we made a mess of the WC dealing with making messes!

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