/Stand up and ignore the noise/
Many of us I think struggle to maintain our attention and avoid the noise that comes from the various distractions that assault us every day.
Personally, I find this to be a continuing problem, but I believe I have been more focused in the last month or so, especially the last two weeks have been revealing.
I'm still not perfect and a work in progress, but the tools and strategies I've been experimenting with have been quite beneficial.
I work full-time getting my start up the the next phase and handling over responsibilities while also attempting to create my personal and professional developments.
Recently, I've also had to factor in time to care for and assist my elderly dad, who has been at the age of almost 86 had some severe illness.
This funny enough made me finally close to my son.
I've noticed myself saying things like, 'I don't have time to do x, y, or z.'
When it comes down to it, I've realized that I DO have time; I just need to be as laser-focused as possible.
Balancing everything can be difficult, if not impossible, at times.
I've frequently felt overwhelmed.
Despite all of the diversions and overwhelm, I've managed to create a way fwd for the exited startup I am running and made some bold decisions in life.
Today I finally got out under a stone of guilt and sadness for something private also. I guess this process made me learn an awful lots and proud of myself.
Persistence, growth and standing up for your beliefs. If you think you have made mistakes then own them .
I love ted talks as you might now know, and there is a great ted talk about men becoming a men, and the relationship to woman.
Because when a men reaches out, tell our story, be vulnerable. A woman sometimes rather have me die on top of my white horse than watch me fall down. When we reach out and be vulnerable, we get the shit beat out of us. The women in my life are harder on me than anyone else. And thats ok. I was not ready for that.
If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment. If you put the same amount in a Petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
And so I'll leave you with this thought.
If we're going to find our way back to each other, vulnerability is going to be that path. And I know it's seductive to stand outside the arena, because I think I did it my whole life, and think to myself, I'm going to go in there and kick some ass when I'm bulletproof and when I'm perfect. I am not.. You will never.. The moments are never perfect..
So I did what I felt was perfect enough, business private, family and more.
Waiting for perfect that is seductive. But the truth is, that never happens. And even if I got as perfect as I could and as bulletproof as I could possibly muster when you got in there, that's not what we want to see.
I am not there but went from very deep to walking straight up again, and I repaired a few very valuable relationships, and are not afraid to be not perfect anymore. I am not it will take time but people can’t say.. you did worked it off failed, worked harder and showed moment.
I will get where I want to be by not focussing on the noise to much..
I admire that a lot in people, be bold out there and say what yo want follow that path.. no matter how noisy and tough it can be.
great inspirational video on tough here. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHoxFL4LtY0
To be continued in the l