A couple weeks since my last #ThoughtfulDailyPost! so let's unwind and get thoughtful! @Wesphilbin waves the flag for us and runs @thoughtfulposts as the curation account that rewards thoughtful posts. Please join us in sharing your positive vibes on the blockchain and consider delegating.
Here are this week's bits of internet wisdom that caught my eye, loosely paired with meticulously curated music at my fancy.
Ask Yourself
This is another one of those good ones I have found on a few web2 platforms where people often don't bother to quote the source. A couple reposters shilling for donations, some "influencers" tryin to influence, and some groups of people gathering digitally for someone else's centralized profit. The closest I can come to the source after some sleuthing is Yung Pueblo
I love the way this one starts as I believe constantly checking yourself, asking yourself often, the questions that are not always easy to ask is a good way to stop telling ourselves lies and getting stuck with old mindsets. Assuming you have it right and echoing the results of predisposed assumptions without even the acknowledgement that things change certainly can lead to blind spots. The title alone would nave been valuable to me if it reminded me to ask myself often.
Am I observing the situation correctly? Our perspective on the world is the only one we have so of course it is correct. Does our interpretation of any situation guarantee us we have it right, or are we guaranteed to have the optimal perspective to truly see what is happening? Absolutely not. Just knowing this can give us the super power of being aware of this and freely moving to get different perspectives to better triangulate the actual situation.
Am I projecting how I feel? Now that is a powerful question! If you don't know what projection is in terms of psychology and behavior, or could use a refresher, Psychology Today has a good start. I paused to think of a couple of the challenging situations I have faced over the last few days and decided that I might have been projecting a little. I can't second guess my sum of experiences every time but I should definitely spend a little more effort in seeing clearly than I do proving my assumptions right. Might make for clearer paths to the results I want!
Do You Feel Like We Do? 14 minutes of live 70s feeling from Frampton to go along with this one.
START!
I looked up Alec Zamora on Twitter, where you would expect to find it, and he has a total of 23 followers. Seeing as I have 290 and all I use it for is to promote #hive, either I should be printed on billboards, or Alec should come find a home on the blockchain
Bad. What a bad word for someone who doesn't want to be bad! That is almost everyone! Knowing that any first try will be bad kinda feels like attracting bees with vinegar. Nobody wants to fail and only those who know that failure is the pathway to success will boldly take that first step knowing it is most likely going to fail. What is bad though? Maybe taking that fist step, expecting it to go swimmingly and then not taking the second step when it doesn't.
When consulting for small business, we end up helping people navigate through many firsts as entrepreneurship and business ownership is rife with them. Progress, not perfection is a good one to set the expectations right, commit to act and learn for progress, and checking that ego in the spirit of growth.
With anything I have done to any level of competency, I look back and unfailingly see that the path was never what I pictured it when I started. Business ownership. Martial arts. Live music performance. Sailing. Crypto! Non has gone completely to plan but all of them make up a happy, productive and challenging life. None of those things or anything of substance have come without that first awkward step leading to the second, and the development of enjoyment in being bad at something at the outset. The more steps you take, the less competition there is, and the closer you are to succeeding on your terms. Stow that ego and start because that is how ALL people achieved what you would like to achieve. A black belt is a white belt who never quit and we can all be black belts when we start and keep going.
If you are going through hell, keep going or you will never get out of hell!
LET'S GO!
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