Good evening steemians,
I hope you guys would like to gather around, have a cup of coffee and reflect with me.
I hope everyone is doing well. Holding on to new years resolutions, working towards your goals, striving towards your dreams to make them into a reality. Making time to be with your loved ones and most importantly having a good time. And perhaps embarking on new adventures.
...I personally have been having a hard time moving forward working towards my goals. Always busy grinding away, stressing out, but rarely being productive in some meaningful way and not making significant leaps. Sometimes feeling like your efforts are not making a difference. Just spinning your wheels in the snow. It wears on you and feels defeating. It's so hard to turn around and appreciate the great strides that have been taken thus far. It's sometimes reassuring when someone admires the steps you took to get to where you are now. Your journey might even inspire them to start their own ambitions.
Working away with grand milestones in mind like gaining new certifications to enhance your career, getting a better job in your ideal profession, getting your first house, pursuing a master's degree. These are grand milestones and thinking about them all can be overwhelming. Even taking on one of them will demand so much commitment! It'll test your patience, your frustration, pull at your tears, cloud your mind with doubts. Doing your day job and conjuring the strength to do more is challenging. So many times I come home from work and I need a pot of fresh coffee just to even look ahead of me to take on the next thing.
I really don't know what I have to do to get motivated. To work towards my goals, feel fulfillment and most importantly be happy. Maybe it could be as simple as going to the gym after work. However, time is the enemy and there is only so much one can do in a day. If I'm not studying for my own certifications I feel like I'm wasting time and my work experience. Coffee and grinding away isn't the answer. Balancing what I'm doing isn't the only equation. Balancing against time is the real problem everyone has to face. Solving this equation could make you successful, determine your happiness or can break you and perhaps your relationship with your loved ones. What's the point of accomplishing so much if you're standing alone… And you only have memories of what could have been…?
Every little effort you make towards your goal is making a difference. You may not see it now as its quite little, but a lot of these 'little differences' will make a mighty ocean in your life.
Thank you for visiting my post @paigegirl. I would like to imagine my efforts being a little pebble being tossed into a flowing stream. Maybe after enough pebbles it'll redirect the river. ^~^ Perhaps that river will water the crops of the future and give comfort and security.
I really like the analogy of pebble being tossed into a flowing stream, every little effort counts. :D
This is so real. I couldn’t have said it better myself. These past several months have been so challenging for me. I feel like nothing is in my control and I’m just letting life take me where it wants instead of taking my life where I wanna go. Something as simple as cooking dinner every night feels like an overwhelming task and I hardly follow through on the things I plan to do when I get home from work because by the time I’m done with my 9-5pm all I want to do is nothing. Balancing time and energy is extremely hard but it’s so necessary to live a fulfilling, happy life.
Thank you for visiting my post @introspector -hugs- I hope we find our bearings soon and stop this relentless tumbling. (Why are we in a laundry drier?)
I try to stay organized and keep notes in my wallet, on my Google calendar but sometimes it's hard to remember what they were all for with all the chaos moving to and fro as we wade through our day. I can't wait for the day when our smartphones have enhanced intelligence and can be our emotional support and companion while being a cute personal assistant as they guide us like our parents did before. I totally understand life feels out of our control and overwhelming when the house of cards tumble when you try your best. It's hard to pick up the pieces and start again the next day. Especially seeing the aftermath. Hopefully the answer isn't quitting a 9 to 5 just to work on our ambitions... But really, I just don't know. You have my prayers and I hope you can make it over your hurdles. I hope time will allow you to conquer one little hurdle at a time
So relatable on so many level. The sense of "time is running out" is a big factor in feeling unproductive or unmotivated. If only coffee slows down time like you joked about in one of your older comments. Then there would be time for everything. :D
Indeed, coffee can certainly push you to continue working throughout the night but maintaining a day job and having to perform well the next day. You'll become a liability or get sick. It's just not worth pulling all nighters anymore. Time management is soo critical the more complex your web of ambitions becomes.
One day at a time, one upvote at a time too.
Cheers to you good sir @spozone
Nothing like a good cup of coffee to do a little reflecting over. I must admit, my New Years resolutions didn't make it to the end of January. But only 10.5 months and I can try it again. Maybe next years resolution will last a little longer.
No need to give up your New year's resolution, Its just a setback. Pick it back up and strive for it once again. ^~^ Perhaps it'll be worth doing, provide some satisfaction and you'll be happier finishing it (or at least saying you got so far). If you don't finish your resolution this year it'll be less to do for next year ^~^
I have found that when I get stuck like that there is usually a reson, either my goals were not set for the right reasons or my path was supposed to go another way and I was ignoring it. Maybe you are not moving as slow as you think maybe the universe is trying to tell you somthing ...
That's an interesting way to put it @tygertyger you might have a point there. I wonder what the universe is trying to say. Certainly taking a moment to relax and enjoy the simple pleasures would help. Just so hard to do so without feeling guilty.