Sometimes, once you look back to the week that has just passed by you realize that the week was much better than you would expect it to be. Great, unexpected progress is always welcome, especially after a series of tough weeks. I am happy that this is related to a New Year - this is always a nice boost to New Year's resolutions.
I guess most of us that watch any sports events or some commercials in the western world are familiar with one Heineken campaign - Drink responsibly. Although this combination of words does not sound perfect to me - the whole campaign is very important and needed nowadays. I have no idea if it has any measurable impact in practice but let me believe it has.
Last week I wrote about lack of focus that can slow me down. On the other side, this week I am writing about impatience that can also slow me down.
Today we have very small celebration - it's been a half of the year since I'm writing my weekly summaries 🎉🎉🎉 This is actually a good opportunity to repeat once more that stubborn pursuit of the goal is actually the best way to achieve it. It may not be the fastest and most efficient way, it may require lots of time, energy and patience but it gives the highest probability of reaching goals.
The best definition of very active time is the one when you write weekly summary on... next Wednesday 😎 Weeks like this happen - they are crazy, costing you lots of time & energy, however, retrospectively they are potentially the best thing that can happen to anyone. You know, craziness will end, you'll recharge batteries sooner or later but what's in memories stays in memories forever.
I feel that I'm kinda sorry for people that tend to have polymathic character but not enough talent & focus to become expect in being a polymath. You know, it's nothing wrong in being an expert in several areas, it's actually amazing thing. Problem starts when you want to be the expert in several areas but, for several reasons, you fail to become one. I am actually writing this from position of someone who has an eagerness to become polymath but fails to progress far enough so I really can feel how frustrating it can be.
Actually, I like learning. It may sound weird but I like to know a lot, even if just on the basic level. Still I feel that every topic has multiple layers, like an onion. You start with scratching the surface, but under it the complexity rises up to the very detail level. Some people spend whole live diving deeply into one topic, some people prefer just scratching the surface of many of them.
A big boy should find a balance between little boy' dreams and reality. Sometimes I feel that every week planing is not so optimistic and it shall be actually possible to reach most of, if not all the goals.
I am kinda workaholic. There is nothing to be proud of, although I feel that for some people being a workaholic is being someone better than alcoholic, constant smoker or drug addict. Spending too much time in work, no matter how you define it is also a problem. It's not even about taking overtime in your work, but expecting something more from yourself even after work. If week has 168 hours and you work only 40 hours a week it means that you could do something extra during remaining 128 hours. So much time - so much pressure.
Playing Blitz in chess is pretty exausting - you actually need to stay super focused through the whole game, otherwise it's super easy to make a mistake which usually means loosing a game. This week was perfect example of my attempts to play chess without preparing perfect environment for that - without any disturptions, with head free of other problems and considerations. Other that daily practices I tried several games and lost like 80% of them 😱 It sounds like my next checkpoint will be super difficult to achieve without serious practice.
Every week is different - what a cliché! But hey, what if this is actually true? 🤔
I tried to meditate in past. I actually had 2 or 3 approaches but sooner or later it always ended one day when I had no time or focus or both and never continued working on habit. That is why I decided to do it differently now and combine active micro meditiations with physical activity like running, walking or swimming. And, actually it's not what I decided - I simply noticed that my brain does it on it's own when doing activity. Once I realised that it made medications much simpler - my main task is to start physical activity and just let it go.
Sometimes I feel that we live in times, when things that were difficult before became simple, while, at the same time things that were simple in past are difficult right now.