I am busy and not busy and I’m trying to do good.
Just miss traveling, miss being alive.
So found a lot of weird quotes about busy on BrainyQuote.
Live should be lived, not survived.
Busy or not busy, good or not good
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Tag Archives: The Other and I
Leadership
Well, I’ve read a lot about leadership recently. I guess I want to be one and I guess I can be one, but it seems to come at a price and I’m not sure if I’m willing to pay the price. Also it seems my social skills may need a lot of improvement to become a leader. And while writing this I know I want to be a leader, I know I can be a leader, so maybe still go for it.
Ah, yes, indecision and doubt. Not really working indeed.
And as we didn’t really create this page yet, you may want to check another site with a great post on Ten Great Leadership Lessons.
Bread and circuses
In my quest to business success and our quest to inspire people I am asking myself more and more what people really want and whether I or we have the right or duty to interfere with that.
Last night I happened to spend some time in the cheapest type of karaoke bar in The Philippines where people were just having fun drinking, smoking and singing together. And nearby where I live there is also a very small and simple karaoke place where mostly the owner and his family just sing and drink. And do nothing else mostly.
And living in The Philippines for quite a while my opinion in general is that Filipinos are very happy people. They are or seem to focus on happiness and togetherness, not on ‘success’ in a more western type of view, like career and money. I know there is more to this, as this type of Filipino happiness might also be some kind of way of dealing with poverty, real poverty, like nothing to eat.
And comparing myself I also often ask myself if I shouldn’t just ‘stop’ with my ambitions in career and finance and stuff as my work seems to have not been of any use to anyone, at least most people seem to have not been really happy with the work I have been doing, either as a customer, a boss, or an employee. As I am very persistent (or stubborn) I have basically always stood up again after business defeat: find a new job after losing the old, starting a business, finding new customers after losing old customers, finding new employees after old employees left.
And besides how you could look at my career through the Principles of Success, I often ask myself whether I should not just stop with my business ventures, sell the house and just buy a hut on the beach or something and just do what many, especially poor, people do here: basically nothing, except smoking and chatting and drinking a bit. And what’s wrong with that anyhow? It’s a bit a similar issue as in the story about the Mexican fisherman (just search in Google for that).
So yes, should we inspire people to do more, be more, achieve more, dream more? Or not?
Looking forward to your comments.
Doing what you like
I was searching for the daily quote and found this one:
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. – Wayne Dyer
And I can’t connect to it, I don’t recognize it. I have always done the things I love to do and until now it just didn’t work out. Me doing the things I love doesn’t seem to be experienced well by other people. And it didn’t bring me abundance, at least not in a relaxed way, so no, it didn’t.
And yes, I believe in the statement, that people should do what they love and that that would automatically convert into happiness, not only for the person himself, but also for others. But why doesn’t it seem to work for me?
So what about you, do you believe in the same thing? That everybody should do what he or she likes? And that that would make the world a better place? Or does it work for you? Or doesn’t it?
Please share below, I, and I guess many other people, are really interested in what you think or feel about it.
Understanding
The more I think about it, the more I realize how difficult it is, or how easy it is, understanding others, understanding other people, understanding you. We’re all the same and we’re all different. And we all probably have some kind of feeling of what’s the same and what’s different. And we’re probably all scared about the part we are different from others. And show that part. And we’re probably all scared about the part others are different from us.
So you must be scared of the part of you that’s different from me and I must be scared of the part of me that’s different from you. And vice versa.
So maybe just get excited about the differences. Maybe that’s a better way than being scared.
I guess excitement is probably a much better way to understanding than fear, so yes, let’s be excited about our differences.
And also don’t forget in the end we’re all the same.