Dec
25
The other day I spent about four hours frantically writing an article about how an interview I had with my boss about raising my salary went. The result was well written, packed with lots of witty comments and analogies. Damn, was I proud of that little three-pages piece of text.
A bit later, I started feeling really bothered. I didn’t know what it was about, but it felt actually very depressing. I was having a weight on my chest and was terribly anxious. At first I blamed my direct surrounding (I’d had a 70 hours workweek and my parents-in-law were staying at our place for the week-end, which was a bit stressing) but quickly realized it was not quite it. I proceeded to go lay in bed and try to meditate a little. For the first ten minutes I found myself stuck and was not able to clear my mind. But after a while a thought suddenly occurred in my mind (it must have felt very lonely in there) : “Provide value”. I snapped my fingers. Eureka! In a matter of seconds, I was feeling great back again.
What happened? Of course I had written a nice little piece of blog, but what was the point? Most people could not have taken any value out of it. Some of them would have had a laugh or two. But few of them would have taken the time to translate my own selfishly explained experience into something they could use. That post could have been a piece of a novel for instance. Very distracting, but most probably of small value compared to advices clearly laid out for everyone. Actually, that piece of text was mostly serving the purpose of feeding my ego. I realized I’d written it in expectation for my supposedly existing writing skills to be shown to the world and confirmed.
But in actuality, I didn’t care about feeding my ego. And I’m not planning to be a novel writer either at the moment. The reason I wrote about my experience was because I want to help people succeed in various areas of life, those about which I can provide a bit of wisdom anyway.
I was feeling bad because as proud as I was about the form of that post, it was completely hollow.
Therefore, and as the title of the site suggests, I immediately took action by getting up, switching the computer back on, and writing the previous entry. Two hours and a half later, it was online.
My point is this : sometimes you may have an excellent idea, sustained by the best intention in the world (writing a good post in my case), but you’ll forget to think carefully enough about how you’re going to do it as to fit your minimum quality requirement for real satisfaction.
The way you accomplish every action may serve various spiritual or physical purposes. Generating income, boosting your ego, helping yourself finding answers, etc.
It’s of primal importance for your well being to do things for the right reasons. It will keep feelings such as guilt, anger or sense of unacomplishment away.
Thus, before doing something important, think carefully about what purpose your project is really serving. And use this information to allow youself doing what you really want to do, the way you want to do it.
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