So much seems to be happening on the surface of my existence. Some of them good. Some not so good, at least according to conventional wisdom.
As much as I don't like putting aspects of my life into a box, it's only through putting them into categories that I can really grasp the basics on how everything can connect into everything else.
I tend to view it as puzzle. There has to be pieces that make up the puzzle. Putting the pieces together can be a long journey of trail and error.
Is there a perfect puzzle?
I don't know, haven't experienced it yet. Not sure if it exists too. But the next best thing I do know is there's definitely a sense of a right or wrong puzzle.
Just to not oversimplify, I think the issue with a wrong puzzle could sometimes be more of the person solving the puzzle than the puzzle itself.
Three-Venture Ceiling
For example, in my professional life, whenever I try to dabble into more than three ventures at the same time, I'm dragged towards mediocrity and scattered focus, and this indirectly creates a ripple effect across my personal relationships.
There's nothing wrong with these newer ventures I'm trying to explore. The issue is with myself not having a clear understanding of my own capacity and limitations.
Of course, trying to adopt this attitude that everything is your fault, no matter how empowering it may seem, is just another avenue for self-sabotage and unnecessary guilt.
Life happens and you're definitely not at the center of every outcome.
Don't take the easier route to blame-land, pivot into conscious responsibility without drowning in it.
When there are many boxes in a room with different sizes, how do you arrange them or do you just leave them scattered?
I think this question itself could reveal a lot about a person's organizational skills and how their mental structure operates, generally.
For me, the first layer of my organizational skills in this situation will have me creating a pattern (any pattern) for these boxes as soon as possible.
I'm giving them structure first, so that chaos doesn't overwhelm the process.
The second layer would then be making the pattern functional or rather purposeful and sustainable.
In some ways, this is basically also the two sides of the brain we all have. The first layer is the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere is evidently the second layer.
Depending on the size of the room, I think space may be compromised for aesthetic arrangement in favor of practical utility.
In more simpler terms, the boxes are different aspects of our life, in terms of commitments, projects, and relationships, etc.
Now, what would the room and also the space mentioned above be in this analogy?
Could it be our mental capacity for handling complexity without losing our center?
Rookie Mistake That Rules Us All
I think the room best represents the finite nature of our existence - the boundaries within which we must operate.
The space within that room could be our available energy, attention, and time.
Logically, if we try to fit too many boxes into too small a space, we create cramped conditions where nothing can breathe or function optimally.
But there's a twist.
The room can expand.
Not in its physical dimensions of course. But more so in how efficiently we utilize it.
I think a rookie mistake that many of us have already made is believing the room is smaller than it actually is via creating artificial limitations before we've even tested our true boundaries.
So much of a blindspot for creatures who view themselves as self-aware!
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