How much of your serenity, tranquillity, ease, peace of mind, joy comes from work, family, friends, me-time, or something else?
It’s a difficult question that probably leads to even more challenging answers. But by understanding that, we could probably better allocate time, resources, concerns, stress, stakes.
One example. If family time is what gives you strength, why worrying so much about losing that particular job, to the point you are making family time less pleasant?
You need to train your capacity of letting go of ideas, projects, opinions.
Because when you get too attached to those, you risk getting your perspective on the world narrowed. And that’s when you stop learning and developing.
There’s no need to start with big things, but if you can open yourself to a different opinion, delegate a project to somebody you trust, abandon an idea that’s not taking you anywhere, and if you can do it over and over again, that is a great training for your future flexibility.
There’s an increasing amount of people that sells get-rich-quick schemes. They leverage weakness and dissatisfaction, and they abuse platforms that don’t care about quality, or well-being, or best interest. Their quid pro quo is usually something like “give me a few hundreds euros to enroll in this class and this person will teach you how to make thousands of euros every day”.
I know it sounds great. I know it’s appealing. I know it’s a difficult time, and it will probably get more difficult before it gets easier.
But those are scams.
The only way is the long, impervious, boring, frustrating way of doing.
So take the urgency of those fake gurus and channel it towards a practice. Start now.
A positioning statement is not for everybody.
It’s supposed to divide, in order to conquer. It’s supposed to draw a clear line between trite practices and a new way. It’s supposed to be met with opposition, disdain, surprise, resistance – first of all, from those who are supposed to approve and support it.
If a positioning statement does not do that, it’s not a positioning statement.
This IS a positioning statement.
Love it or hate it. That’s the whole point.
A great resolution for the new year, in case you are late and wonder how to jump on the bandwagon, is to give up on your phone.
Not completely, not immediately.
Start with one hour. Leave it off, in another room. Or even better, check your weekly usage report and start with those apps that you feel are wasting the most of your time. Get rid of them, hide them, lock them.
If you manage to do it consistently for a few days in a row, it will stick, I promise.
The reward is now.
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