I’ve just been juggling for the past hour or so and I had a hard time stopping myself. It’s an insignificant part of my life yet I cherish every new juggling trick I master. I wish it was the same with important aspects of life like for example, if I’d yearn to master cold-calling customers. Why isn’t it so? Lets talk motivation!
Plan down-hill to the smallest detail
7 Jul
I used to be the best strategist when it comes to plan long-term plans of execution. I had the best plans down to the smallest of details. You know what I’ve discovered? The best plan only fits the best reality. In life there’s plenty of uncertainty, I never get reality to agree with my precise plan as it unfolds. It looks like there’s a lesson at accepting uncertainty herein.
Looking for the Keys under a Street Light
10 Jun
I am at a social gathering and there’s a cute girl I am talking to. The atmosphere is great, there are good vibes and at a certain point in time, the interaction loses momentum and I eject.
Looking at it in retrospect, I analyze the situation. What did I do wrong? What did I say? How did I react?
While this situation happens again and again, deep inside I know I am analyzing the symptoms of the problem rather than the problem itself.
Lead (explanations) by Example
6 Jun
The other day I was pitching my startup Chatty to someone at a business convention. There I was all excited, giving explanations of trends, phenomenons and processes only to receive a confused “Hold on, so what exactly is it that you do?”. Made me reach back to reality accompanied with a mental facepalm. I gave a down-to-earth example of a use case for Chatty and it all made sense suddenly. Now messing up an explanation happens more times than I can tell, that alone is no reason to partake in mental facepalm action.
An Inspirational Controversialist
1 Jun
Recently I was going to the office and two of my friends were discussing health implications of dairy products, specifically whole milk vs skim milk. Arguments were going back and forth, researches were cited and principles were preached. My colleagues were relying unquestionably on a pile of researches, experts and trends much like two sumo wrestlers fighting in an arena atop a tower of fragile cards. A new research may come out at any time to shuffle the deck yet amidst the heated discussion, none of this mattered. Losing interest in the conversation itself, my mind wandered to my grandfather of all things.