Embracing the Minimum And Learning To NOT Go The Extra Mile

Cee R.
3 min readFeb 20, 2022

What if I don’t always aim for the maximum? What if, sometimes, I aim for the minimum instead?

Embracing the Minimum And Learning To NOT Go The Extra Mile
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I don’t half-a** things.

It’s not in my make-up. When I do something — work, writing, whatever — I put my everything into everything.

And that’s good. I like to think it shows in what I do.

But as part of my on-going attempts to learn that over-working is an unhealthy coping mechanism…

…and that I need to, y’know, not work myself to exhaustion, I’ve been trying to figure out what it means to put my all into things without all the negatives.

And I’ve realised something — I can do the minimum (or, at least, not the maximum,) without half-a**ing it.

See, where I’ve ‘failed’ to go the extra mile in the past, it’s always been because of a lack of time, or because of utter exhaustion.

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Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr