Transcribed written notes that I did at the kitchen table this morning.
Aim: happiness/peace.
What am I aiming for? A feeling. That’s what we are all searching for, I think. It is a hard target to hit because it isn’t concrete like a money or fitness goal. It’s ephemeral. Here, then gone. Yet it’s repeatable, and you can increase its duration. But, it’s never permanent.
I have some concrete goals. Money. Fitness. But really what I want is a feeling. And the feeling of peace is it.
There is something about Quantic’s “Walking in the Rain” lyrics that touches on where I find myself right now. Maybe that’s why I like the song. (Guard the mind, though. Music can transmit feelings, beliefs. It can persuade in hidden ways.)
So. What shall I do? Because life is doing. Action.
Three things. Read every day. Write every day. And start by attacking the biggest source of misery first: work.
One of the guests on the JRE broke down weight loss elegantly. The same approach holds true for work.
- You need to be clear in your thinking. Words reflect thinking.
- You don’t want to lose weight. You want to lose fat.
- There are two ways to lose fat: have fewer fat cells, or have the same number of fat cells but they are smaller.
- To have fewer fat cells, use liposuction. But he says that’s not a permanent solution.
- To have smaller fat cells (but the same number) there is biochemistry involved. His metaphor was a room with two entrances and one exit. Hormones and exotic (to me) biochemistry control the entrances and exits. Your job is to let fewer people, metaphorically speaking, into the room.
That’s how I’m going to attack the work side. I’m letting too many people into the room. And they aren’t leaving fast enough. And that means making fewer commitments, and chunking the ones I make into smaller deliverables so they can be delivered faster.