This week has felt long, as there have been quite a few things going on that have eaten my attention and, I have also been quite sick with an annoying flu. But, there have been some "highlights" to the week also - as I delivered my first full training since coming back form a stroke and, I interviewed for a new position within the company I already work for.
As I already have the written feedback from the training session, that went incredibly well from the customer side, but for me, it was still awkward and very tiring. The interview went well too I believe, which is always nice. I was thinking about it today - every job I have interviewed for (besides the very first one) I have gotten. With about 30 years of work experience behind me, that is not a bad track record. Oh, and the reason I didn't get the job for the first interview was, I was a month too young and I forgot my phone number. Granted, I had only moved into the city a week or two earlier and at that time, kids didn't have mobile phones.
I was asked in the interview today as to what my definition of success is for my job and whether it was the same as three years ago. It is, with that being, when I see that people are having those "aha moments" in the sessions I have with them. I am an enabler by trait and function, so helping people improve their experience and skills has to factor into my own metrics for success. However, what has changed from three years ago, is that I also have to feel that I am in alignment with my own goals.
Over the years, based on my own focus on enabling others, I have put so much emphasis on other people, that I have almost forgotten other factors that I enjoy in life. This is not that I don't enjoy what I do, but I sometimes wonder if I am ignoring aspects of my life that can improve my own experience. My experience isn't bad, but it isn't necessarily optimized.
This year has been strange for my in many ways, as well as for my family, as we have had quite a lot of unexpected negative, interspersed with some positives, like my wife finding a job she enjoys and is great at and the work I have been doing here for five years looking like it might start returning something for us. Life is a collection of conflicting experiences, the bitter and the sweet, and usually they are experienced concurrently, making life somewhat a rollercoaster.
I try to take the advice that I apply to the markets too,
When in doubt, zoom out.
Looking at life from a day to day experience, it can be very volatile, with daily dramas grabbing our attention, much like the spikes in the price. But, when we zoom out a little and look both backwards at history and project into the future, the line is far more stable. But, I am not sure if it is going up or down for me, weighing all the things together - maybe it is flat.
This is the challenge though, as unlike a price that is tracking a single token, life is far more complex, even though we try and simplify it. For example, if looking at the growth in my Hive account, someone can say I am doing well. However, if evaluated against having a stoke and a few other issues, does it balance? Probably not.
Life doesn't actually balance, it isn't fair - other than in the universe there is energy converted and it always equals zero. When we "generate value" what we are actually doing is converting some kind of energy into another kind of energy in some way, even if it is mental energy that builds conceptual value only. My perception of accomplishment maybe tied to various results in my experience, but the value it adds might only be in my head, and the heads of others.
But, this conceptual energy is a type of energy that can be converted into a practical movement, by using and converting physical energies to create something. In some way,* this is kind of like creating something from nothing, which should be impossible due to physical laws - yet even though the thoughts we have are carried by electrical impulses, the thoughts themselves are at least to us, "spooky" - meaning that we don't actually know how they are created in detail. We do know that we get inspiration and impulse and we can see the outcomes, but there is a lot that is invisible to us when considering what generates a specific thought - for all intents and purposes, it just "appears" out of thin air.
But regardless of whether we know why or not, we do know that we are able to use our thoughts to create physically in our world, much like an artist can use a paintbrush and paints to build a representation of what they are seeing in their mind's eye. And, we also know that we are able to influence the thinking of others and affect how they use their thoughts to create with the resources they have available too.
While thinking about this might not be everyone's cup of tea, for me it helps me understand why I do what I do, in the way that I do it. Essentially, I am hoping to influence people's thoughts so that they can crate a better world for themselves and I think this in part is because I haven't always been able to do this for myself, at least in some aspects of my life, including my own physical condition.
Obviously, I spend too much time thinking about these things, yet there is a funny thing about it. Because I spend so much time thinking about stuff like this, I am very effective at helping people identify their paths and realize their potential, making me more valuable to their experience than I may be to my own. I find that strange but at the same time, it seems natural.
If I can bring more value to the world by helping others than helping myself, doesn't it make sense to do so? But, it is a fine line to tread, because not spending enough on oneself means limiting the ability to help others too, so the value added starts to retract and potentially, even end up causing harm instead.
See? It has been a long week....
But, writing out our thoughts, even if they don't make complete sense to us, can help us defrag our minds a bit, get a little bit of clarity and perhaps even, have some of those "aha" moments I was talking about earlier.
My realization from all of this is, now my head is clear enough to sleep, it is time for bed and I can get back to work in the morning.
Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]
Glad to hear the training session went well. One thing you can do if you still feel you have doubts is compare the training session feed back to one before the stroke. If you find something missing or different, then that may be an area to concentrate on, if there is no significant difference then I would say you may not have lost as much as you feel. It would be best if the two sessions were of similar make up.
Also glad to hear the interview went well. Perhaps between the two of them next weekend or by Christmas you may have just a little bit more of your lost/temporarily misplaced confidence back, and can go into 2022 with not only an improved Crypto portfolio, but also an improved job confidence.
The feedback is similar, it is just the feelings that I have within myself that has changed. I am able to get through for the audience, but is greatly different from my perspective. The audiences I train don't actually know me and I usually only see them once or twice.
Might be an interesting 2022 at least - potentially a new role or even better - no need to work at all! ;D
It would have been nice to see Hive stay above two dollars, and I am sure it will be back above that any day now.
Yeah, but it didn't suffer too badly overall. The entire market was pretty much hammered equally.
Just waking up, and I did see the normal BitCoin crashed again type headline, did not look at the story, stock market also had a small crash another headline said, so basically looks like banks and financial moguls just trying another way to screw poor people type headlines.
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Thank you :)
Well hard work and team work I think is also a good way to success. Hope your health is fine now. Thanks.
I am not sure what "fine health2 is for me anymore, it is just different degrees of not great :D
Life isn't balance as you said sometimes what we've worked for in terms of financial aspect will definitely be consumed by what we didn't budget for that's why it's always good to plan for the future for other unexpected expenses that may come our ways.
A hybrid approach to all things - always have some backup, never spend all you have.
“Think on paper. Every minute you spend on planning will save you 10 minutes on your plan. “It is very helpful to write down your thoughts.
I don't really understand why more people don't spend their time thinking here, as it brings so much value to themselves and others.
We do know that we get inspiration and impulse and we can see the outcomes, but there is a lot that is invisible to us when considering what generates a specific thought - for all intents and purposes, it just "appears" out of thin air.I think it's also worth noticing the importance of how we relate to our thoughts. I believe most people associate thought with their being, meaning they don't see the distinction between the voice in their head and their identity. Looking at thoughts as external objects of our minds brings much more awareness and allows for calming down the inner voice, and thus shields us from becoming overwhelmed by extensive thinking.
This week has felt long, as there have been quite a few things going on that have eaten my attention and, I have also been quite sick with an annoying flu.Highly recommend getting familiar with the Wim Hof Method breathing, as it's been proven to dramatically reduce inflammation within a quarter of an hour, meaning you can quickly fend off flu or common cold :)
Yes. There is a difference between thinking a lot, and getting lost in thought. As with anything, attachment leads to suffering.
I haven't heard of the breathing technique, but thankfully, I rarely have a flu that bothers me. This one is pretty annoying though.
As with anything, attachment leads to suffering.Nicely put. Attaching our identity to things, prevents us from experiencing the true freedom.
In regard to the breathing method, there's other benefits too like for eg. improved focus and productivity. Lately I've been advocating the breathing and the cold therapy to most of the people I engage with, as the scientific research and the testimonials from practitioners clearly show the positive impact these techniques have on one's well-being :)
life is never balanced. But life needs a balance, both income and expenditure, that's what we manage. if we don't balance it. one day we will surely regret it (old days)