We are all familiar with the expression “to be successful, work hard and play hard.” And this is probably not a bad attitude to have in the beginning of a project, but it is a good idea to reflect a little bit on how you act and feel during the process. This may also help you with the mindset required for the project to succeed, or at least to have a little more success.
After reading the article “How to be a Successful Person”, one of the first things I noticed is that you can lose the joy in life if you don’t stop and take a step back. I had this same question myself when I first started doing business consulting.
I’m not a fan of the word “adventure” because it sounds like a new way of thinking. I prefer the word “challenge”, because it implies a change in your mindset. What I like about both words is that they are not just about achieving goals, but about changing the very way you think and act.
To be a successful person you have to get rid of the habitual way you are thinking and act. You have to learn that you should be doing one thing at a time and try to find something that feels right every time. In the business world this is called self-awareness.
In the business world, self-awareness is not some extra thing that you have to pay for. There is no extra charge to have a self-awareness, because you need to be self-aware for your life to be worth living.
The one thing that makes a person a successful person is the ability to recognize the difference between the self-awareness that comes from having a job and how self-awareness comes from having hobbies. People with jobs are self-aware and people with hobbies are not. In the beginning, both are needed, but once we become self-aware, we have the ability to choose which one we want to be.
If you want to be a person with a job, then self-awareness will come naturally, but if you want a hobby, you need to work at it. As you become aware of the difference, you will choose which one you want to be.
People with a job can usually get away with being lazy, but people with hobbies tend to get in trouble. People with jobs have an easy time getting away with it, because they are not as self-aware as people who are self-aware. There is a way to be self-aware, but it is not easy. In the old days, people would go around the world and study the different cultures that didn’t have a job.
The great thing about hobbyism is that it can be the best way to get out of the rut we are in. The problem is that as self-awareness increases, there is an increase in the need to spend time on activities you know you will not be able to finish. It is therefore important to not be too self-aware. You can be a self-aware person, or you can get stuck in a rut by being too self-aware.
It’s a tough balance, but I believe that you should spend a lot of time doing what you are good at, not what you hate doing. The same goes for you. If you are an introvert, it is often difficult to find time to take care of yourself as well as you might. If you are an extrovert, you can often make the best of your time by doing things that you know will bring you satisfaction.
