Values
I’ve had this blog set up for a long time.
At the time I felt the need to focus on my web ‘career’ to build a personal brand around my own name (how original) and ultimately find identity by achieving something notable in the scope of the web industry. And then I’d be a winner, obviously.
Having realized my self a bit more recently, I am at a point of questioning almost everything that I value. I was reading earlier about self-actualization – how appropriate for my current state of mind. In less pretentious terms, I’m trying to find out how to be the best me I can be, because that seems like the most quality thing I can do right now.
Money is useful, essential, and generally great, but I don’t value it enough in the context of a quality-driven life to warrant spending all of my breathing hours chasing it. Not that I really do right now, but money can easily become a life goal. There are masses of opportunities when it comes to the web, but do I care? I thought I did, I’ve had plenty of awesome ideas and opportunities, but my actions actually lead me to believe otherwise.
Have you ever thought of time like money? I use terms like ‘spend my time‘ often, but am only now drawing comparisons to time as a (limited) currency. You have x amount of measurable time for each month, what are you doing with it? Is it what you need to be doing to fulfil yourself? In a bigger context, we have only so much time to live, so are you doing what you need to right now, to be the best you? Or is existing good enough?
I suspect a negative vibe may be given off by this post, but I am actually very excited by the propsects of the future at the moment. You can do absolutely anything you want in your life, there are no real limits to your potential – I realise this more and more every day.
This blog is going to become more and more of a place for me to dump my thoughts. It’s kind of more to refine my own thinking, but perhaps other people would find some interest.