So after writing this CRUCIAL first blog about 3 times, I totally give up trying to make it all epic and monumental. I think the way I am going to try to do this is to pick one topic that was relevant to me that day, and blog about it.
Today that topic is progress.
If there is one thing that is always in the center of my thoughts, it's that word. I am constantly trying to better myself and improve the person that I currently am. Changing yourself isn't something I think you should be constantly doing, but rather improving who you currently are. If you have any arguments against that, save it. If you never learned to walk and sat in your piss pants all day every day your whole life, then maybe I'll listen to your advice, but for the rest of world, progress should be a focal point.
In life, you'll never get anything you want without the desire to move forward even if you're the luckiest, sexiest, most cunning human being this planet has ever had the pleasure of hosting. I'd like to think that I'm always making an effort to move forward from where I currently am. But lately, I've been thinking really hard about it.
Where do I want to be in 5 years? 10 years? What are my goals? These are questions I've been trying to answer since I was a kid. For example, I've been in this state of flux for almost two years trying to figure out what it is that I am going to go back to school for. I have been in the work force since I was 15, but for the first time I am only working and let me tell you, I can't WAIT to go back to school hahaha. Yet all this time has passed, and I don't feel one inch closer than where I was when I left. In fact, I might even be MORE confused than I was before.
That brings up my next point. Planning... EW! What an ugly word for some of us! I am one of those lucky people who has experienced both sides, both loving and hating planning. But we'll talk about that more in depth on another blog. But how much planning is too much? At what point does planning lose is practicality and become almost obsessive? I think that there comes a point in time where too much planning-AKA OVERPLANNING- can prevent you from experiencing the bliss that is life. I sometimes think that if I think hard enough, I can make this master plan, like something out of a robbery movie. Have you ever seen the show Prison Break? If you haven't, JUST GOOGLE IT. But I get that obsessive about it sometimes! I want to plan every detail and I think that somehow magically I'm going to discover this big secret to becoming successful.
Earlier today I had a conversation with a co-worker - it's actually what gave me the idea to start this blog tonight. Super positive guy, extremely well-liked, except by me sometimes because I think I'm so jealous of his ability to appear so positive and do his job in such a graceful way. Watching him work is like watching a rockstar ask a 14 year old girl to take her pants off. Back to topic. The thing that he said that really stuck out to me was this little comment he made about a blog called "1000 awesome things." As he was talking about it, I was reminded of my growing obsession over the past two years with going back to being a child. More on that in yet another blog. When you're a kid though, you pay attention to everything so closely because everything is new and still interesting to you. Every day is appreciated and you don't even realize that you're doing it. I think that's why time moves so fast when you're older, because you spend so much time looking ahead that you just float through the present like a ghost. All the while, you don't even realize what you're missing. The whole point of this story is that when you spend too much time looking ahead, you can miss the present and sometimes miss opportunities that could have a bigger effect than all the planning in the world. I mean, you could plan all day every day for 5 years, but then get hit by a bus.
So the question for me is, how can you balance all of this planning, and time management, and partner it with your desire to move forward in the most effective way? I think that the missing piece of the puzzle for me is just the courage to take the first step. I think we all know the quote, "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." So here is one of mine. And hopefully one of many.
So that's all I've got today! So what's a first step that you've taken? Feel free to leave comments, or snide remarks.
Love and peace to all.
I said before that life is bliss. It really is. check out http://1000awesomethings.com/ and maybe you'll remember.
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