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I saw an Instagram friend of mine posting about artist’s block.
Here’s a little bit of analysis:
Firstly, even if you work in an analytical job having 9 to 5, you’re an artist. Because you have the creative freedom of the method you employ in your work.
Secondly, none of us ever has an eating block or phone scrolling block, then why this thing called artist’s block?
It’s all about digging out time and executing.
Nothing ever triumphs execution.
Not even an idea better than Apple’s design.
I saw an Instagram friend of mine posting about artist’s block.
Here’s a little bit of analysis:
Firstly, even if you work in an analytical job having 9 to 5, you’re an artist. Because you have the creative freedom of the method you employ in your work.
Secondly, none of us ever has an eating block or phone scrolling block, then why this thing called artist’s block?
It’s all about digging out time and executing.
Nothing ever triumphs execution.
Not even an idea better than Apple’s design.
When I had just entered tenth standard, I also exited something superimportant: playing badminton on the street with my neighbourhood friends.
Of course, it was justified back then. Board exams were coming up, I needed to focus on what was important. Playing wasn’t. (I don’t believe it now, back then I did.)
In a consequent events of getting plumper from 11th standard till first year of college, I finally started taking health and fitness seriously from second year onwards, and also achieved wonderful results post that.
Fast forward to yesterday, I was playing badminton with a bunch of friends, who otherwise, play the game daily.
And boy o boy, what a sad demise the team had which I was a part of.
I was leaner than them, had a stronger body with a lower fat percentage than them, can do a headstand and also do a plank effortlessly; over and above the strength from training in the gym.
Yet, here I was, flunked beautifully in the sport that had been a part of almost entire childhood of mine.
What I learnt from last night’s sport was this:
1. No matter what you can do, when someone else practices more, they become an expert at it. The same applies to business and life. Working more, creating more, and failing more, will lead to greater changes of success. Invariably.
2. Your future is designed by what you do in the present, not what you did in the past. This applies to all those who didn’t have a beautiful past, and also to those who had great habits in the past and now have left them.
Today is the past that will be created in the future. Take care of it, and if you want to experience some fun, make time for your metaphoric badminton.
Please.
What is needed for success, is work.
If you are working hard and creating beautiful work, you have done 20 per cent of work, which will give you 80 per cent results. Perfect.
To make that 20 per cent of work effective, you need to do 80 per cent efforts to reach the right audience.
Let yourself be seen. As did Edison, Shakespeare, Ratan Tata or Susan Cain.
The world is not changed by you keeping your gifts to yourself, the world is changed by sharing, because you care.
To get great work done, to be someone who achieves excellent success, to be someone who is loved by everyone, you need to take an important step.
Which is, to forget who they were yesterday.
If we keep on collecting baggage of someone else’s misdoings in our head, we may have to walk this earth alone, and in anger.
That’s not a very good way to live.
Yesterday I slept for 10 hours. Five in the noon and five at night.
Today morning, I looked tired as if not slept for 50 hours.
So here’s the conclusion with more:
1. More quantity of sleep makes you look like a 32 year old. Right quantity of sleep makes you look like a 20 year old. Less than right sleep makes you look like a 35 year old.
2. Talking more with your bff that you don’t do your work will not be good for you or your friendship. Chit chatting with random stuff you share is perfect. Not at all staying in contact is worst.
3. Telling your parents of ventures you intend to do is dangerous, they’ll be scared. Talking with them, is perfect. Having zero communication: no Bro, not at all.
4. Working too hard: you won’t be able to work at all. Working at an optimum level that challenges you: perfect. Not at all working leads to boredom.
Extremes are lethal. The middle route that challenges you, is the one that will sustain you.
No one knows you, other than you.
What you do in private, pops out loudly into your life.
What you don’t do, pops out louder.
It’s up to you to decide. If it’s worth your time, or you’d be happier not doing it.
Do you know why it’s so important to not give a damn to what others think?
So that you could actually impact them.
When you actually impact them through your own work, people will understand the negative beliefs they have been carrying for years.
When they change their beliefs by seeing you as an example, then they will cause another chain reaction. All because of you.
You exist not to listen to them.
You exist for them. To take them from “unaware about life” to “owning their life”.
Do think about what they say. Think for them and say nothing; do infinite things. That’s your North Star.
There will come a time when your righteousness will be tested. People will question your energy, your positivity and most importantly, your values.
That question won’t be direct. It will be in the form of allegation, bad words or perhaps even threat.
Now you’re left with two options:
Option I:
Justify yourself.
When you don’t have that authority, justify yourself in your head.
Option II:
Understand. Questioning you may be because of only two reasons:
a) They are not too fond of you. Perhaps your high vibes make them want to try more. When they can’t, the easiest way is to bring you down.
In this situation, simply stop. Even if they are totally wrong, what they need is to be “right”. Work on yourself to calmly respond and put your point forward. Then don’t get attached to they accepting it. Bless them, and keep working within.
b) They said something that really needs to change in you, their method was however not right.
In this situation, determine to work on yourself. And for the adage “be respectful”, you start at your end by respecting the person who disrespected you. Your respect to them (from within) will be the best gift to them.
You have the self respect not to be sensitive to someone else’s way of being. That way, you empower the world.
Today. Be.
Product means nothing, if process is flawed.
If process is powerful, end product really doesn’t matter (so much).
If people wait for weekend without working really hard on weekdays, they aren’t really going to enjoy the weekends.
It would be rather slogging.
If people do great work on weekdays then weekends won’t matter much, because they will be fulfilled from within.
Within.
Process versus product.
The best is the best.
The best became the best through a lot of hard work.
The best went through many hardships to reach there.
Now there is only one cliché: no one knows the best.
Do you know why?
Because the Best did not invest any efforts, time and maybe a little bit of money in promoting themselves and creating their brand.
A lot of people do know “the average”.
Do you know why?
Because the average engaged with their audience and built a brand through promotion and giving incredible value always.
Well, there is another cliché:
The best can still be the best known by others, if they start now.
If they start Now, not next Monday or birthday.
Now.
Everyone wants to win.
Not everyone wants to work.
Everyone wants the Law of Attraction to work.
Not everyone wants to work.
Everyone wants more clients.
Not everyone wants to go cold emailing and forming relationships on LinkedIn and Instagram.
Everyone wants to be famous.
Not everyone wants to be kind and hardworking to get there.
Be the one, who is “not” that everyone.
Love for the work is blind.
When you fall in love with that kind of work, you just cannot live without executing it.
And unless you’ve found that kind of work, “keep looking, and don’t settle,” said the legendary Steve Jobs.
You will definitely find that kind of love when you do work superhard and know what you are made up of, and made for.
Who does not want to leave a legacy? Everyone wants to.
Who does not want to work? A lot of people.
That’s the correlation we need to draw.
No one likes accidents. So an accident of fate should also not like you. The fate and the fortune should be something you should deserve, either by being born in a royal family (happens rarely) or by starting from zero and creating it all the way up.
Work is the secret to legacy. Go work people, and see how enjoyment happens amazingly.
Workers clean the road.
Teachers teach.
Critics make fun of you.
Kids spill the food while eating it.
Digital marketers promote themselves through creating valuable content.
(Emotionally) hungry people eat a lot.
What do you do? Is the title that you attach to yourself relevant to your daily actions?
If yes, congratulations, there is just a matter of time. If no, probably you know what and where to start.
If you are doing a lot of stuff, it would make great sense to do it really different.
Monotony (in job as well as business) is the real symptom, you really need to shake up things.