Hello Friends!
I hope you’re doing well in these strange but interesting times.
Here is my weekly dose of lessons that I’ve learned in the past week.
Use them, abuse them, like them, hate them, praise them.
How do these lessons affect you?
A few questions that kept me awake this week
Before you can come up with good answers, one must ask himself/herself the right questions. Inquire yourself by asking the right questions.
- Is it so that a full life is balanced by times of vast and deep emptiness?
- Which life is more valuable? A life in which you fight hard for what you have? Or does your life feel more valuable when things just come to you and life grants you what you wish for?
- How does one know what he/she should live for?
- How does one choose a destiny?
- Why do we value meaning so life so much? Why should we ask ourselves these difficult questions about the meaning of life?
- What thing, action, choice, behaviour can make my life easy and pleasant?
- Most important question:
What Would You Do if you knew You Would fail?
What would be worth Doing even though its not gonna work?
Think about the last one for a second. Can you think of anything? If so, why is it on that list?
Learn to love the process and to win will become your second nature.
I’ve caught a mental virus. It’s a viral thought that keeps bugging me.
It’s an obsession with process and how one can learn correct process.
With the process, I mean a mental framework that helps you achieve goals as frictionless as possible.
To clarify, I see the process as the overarching invisible veil that guides you while taking your steps towards a pre-defined goal.
When you have a strong process in place, it will help you to stay on course.
A strong process will catch you when you start to fall in the wrong direction. A strong process helps you navigate toward the right goals, and it will keep you on track.
It’s easy to define a large goal. It would be best if you had a pen and paper and some time to think and write.
It’s easy to take the first steps towards that large goal when you’re still high on enthusiasm in the first weeks.
But it’s tough to keep at it for 10 straight years without quitting or giving up or without seeing the result that you had in mind 10 years ago.
So how does one keep at it? How does one keep on pushing day in and day out? How does one stick to that goal after realising that real life isn’t like the overnight success stories they read in Forbes on Inc magazine?
It’s love. True love, love for the process. Once you learn to love the moment and once you learn to love every step of the way, you’ll be unstoppable.
But how does one achieve this ability to have joy in every step that they take?
One does this by:
- detaching their ego from the result
- focussing on what they learn instead of what external accolades they achieve
- understanding what the minimum exertion of output is to reach the maximum outcome
- by reflecting on the past and where you stood compared to where you are now
In the end, you win when the process feels like light weight.
When steps feel like lightweight, you’re able to make many of them quickly and without too much attachment to the result.
It’s a superpower. It will help you enjoy a crisis since you’ll understand that a good crisis is a moment in time that also brings many opportunities.
Your competitors could go out of business; It’s a good excuse to trim down some of the excess fat that your company or project has accumulated of the years. It’s an opportunity to learn most of all.
A crisis comes, and it goes. You will meet many of them in your lifetime. Once you learn to love them, you’ll become unstoppable.
I’m only scratching the surface when it comes to mastering the process. I’m still learning by doing and listening. No more can I ask of myself at this stage in life, and I feel good about that.
I hope these words give you some insight too.
Let’s meet at the next one and have a great day.
P.S.
In upcoming writing, I hope to go in depths on the following questions:
- How much could you achieve if you did love the process?
- How would one’s life look when that which you dread becomes that what you love the most?
Because if you can start loving those, You can become unstoppable.
- Which steps can I take to start loving the process?
- What does it mean to love the process?
- How can one learn to love the process?