life-cycle

Is life merely a cycle, or is it something that we can breakthrough it. If it's a cycle, is it something predetermined? But believing it to be predetermined, would make us feel like to surrender - it makes us feel powerless, it makes us feel useless to be striving so hard everyday to become better, and it makes everything seems worthless.

So, what is this cycle about? It started when we are born, when we "join" in the world, and the only option to "leave" the cycle, is after our death. There's no guideline about it.

Life is so much simpler in olden days, less worry, less comparison, less knowledge, less stress. And with the world getting "bigger" now, not that it physically get bigger, just that with the accessibilities that we have now, we literally connected with the whole wide world, we get too much information whether we need to them or not. 

Is that the reason to make us lost focus on what we really need to do with our own life? We are all so lost in others' lives, that we spend more time tracking on others, rather than our own. We try following what others are doing, thinking it would make our lives different, too. 

If life is a cycle, would all cycles be the same, or is it an individual cycle after all? And is it the same cycle that we need to complete by ourselves? It's irony, when everyone seems to be "learning" from everyone, which now seems to make each individual cycle to  become one big cycle.

It seems to be a big question. Let's ponder for a moment.

change

Had a week long with people across different countries. Started with a vague idea and stress of how the week going to end, but ended with a light heart and some light towards end of the tunnel.

A week where we had to show our weaknesses yet protect our standpoint. A week of alignment and establishing a line that works for all. Not easy, yet not really hard, if all trashed out well.

Everyone may learned something different, but hope we all learnt that difference doesn't means indifferent. 

So, what have I learnt? 

I learnt that we don't have to be afraid of changes. It's not easy to change as we have been in comfort zone, or maybe we have been in delusion, for a long time. But without change, we definitely won't be aware of what we might gain (or lose). 

Human relationship is a complex thing. Comparing to talking on the blank screen with someone vs talking face to face and watching each other expression, is really different. Human touch. Work somehow move faster, surprisingly.

Let's hope that there'll be continuous improvements, where everyone's live will get easier after this.

management

Management - to manage or to be managed..

Recently I was shared on a video explaining why some people need to work for others while some don't have to. It's an interesting video and I have to say I can't agree more. Though I'd loved to be in the group that don't have to work for others, yet I understand I don't belong there. 

When we are working for others, our time is being managed. Which time is for which task, and our day and night are filled up with reasons for that. Though most of us would be fantasizing, how fun would it be, should our time not to be tied up. But, is it really so? 

If thinking further, for those that do not need to work for others, how do they really spend their time? You may find two contrast - either it's well spent, or it's well wasted. Those that can truly manage themselves, actually manage the time, and not to let the time to manage them. They are the manager of their own time.

So, which group do you belong to?

if you don't like your time to be managed, then learn to manage it. If you don't like to work for others, then learn to have others work for you. Either one, it's still a management skill. And it's truly a skill worth learning of.