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# 020 | Sometimes I worry I’m too focused on the peripherals
- URL: https://mitchellens.ink/monologue/sometimes-i-worry-im-too-focussed-on-the-peripherals/
- Published: 2021-01-20T10:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-04T15:38:36.000Z
- Author: Mitchel Lensink
- Tags: Monologue, #monologue-365

Sometimes I worry I’m too focussed on the peripherals and not enough on the goal. Then again, you can’t go anywhere without proper infrastructure. A good question to ask yourself[1](#fn1-22027 "see footnote") is:

Are you *doing the work* or are you just... working?

I’ve been so busy refining my website the past few weeks, that I forgot to take any photos. How can that be while the only reason the website exists in the first place is because I need a place for my photography. The website I itself does not serve a purpose at all. It’s a *peripheral* to my main goal: photography.

This is not a new perspective or idea[2](#fn2-22027 "see footnote"). These daily Monologues, for example, are not my greatest thinking or my most elevated thoughts. It’s probably nothing that you haven’t heard before. In my opinion it *is* still doing the work as I believe that actively going through the process is part of reaching the end goal. It’s okay to take a few wrong turns. Each step you take is still progress.

Hmmmm I might’ve gone too abstract with this. I tend to do that when I try to make a point. I’ll try to be more concrete next time.

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1. Myself [↩︎](#fnr1-22027 "return to article")
2. Most of mine aren’t. I’m trying to be more original with my thinking but I guess I still have a lot of generic thoughts to air out. [↩︎](#fnr2-22027 "return to article")