Posts Tagged ‘Self improvement’

Improve your life and then the world

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Wanna change the world? A good way to start would be to change yourself to the better first. There are a couple of great links on Digg.com right now that make a very nice pair to what I linked to before on this blog. To get to the point, here are the excellent general steps to making yourself and your life better and then as such helping make the world a better place – something a lot of people may, without perhaps realizing so yet, be aspiring to.

When faced with many wrongs in the world people sometimes say “what can I do” assuming the answer to be close to “nothing”. It may be liberating to learn that by just striving to improve yourself and your own life in a real way (not just things like “having more money”) you’re refitting yourself into a potential world-changer. Once your life is in order and you are happy with it, helping change a world is just a matter of deciding to do so – execution wont be too hard.

That said, who am I to give advice? Well I’m not.. I’m just picking up what others have said and connected the dots.. which are quite easy to connect. I convert it into a suggestion because it makes a lot of sense to me and I believe it may help others too. As you may have seen I am impulsive and sometimes probably too emotional, making some of my blog posts and attitudes often, although temporarily, negative. But.. I’m in a process. Nothing is fluid. All this can change to the better.

All things can be better, no matter how bad they may seem or be today.

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Finding what you love to do

Monday, December 24th, 2007

It’s interesting how significant the right search term on a search engine can be. I searched for “what do you love” and on the first page I found a number of simply excellent articles on this topic that really help me find what I am looking for. And I am looking for more enthusiasm about what I do.. so that I can do it better, because “to do something well you have to like it”. This is such a crucial thing to grasp and research on a way towards success in life and happiness in general.

And I am glad to share the links to articles I’ve found and read here:

An interesting thing about this is when I observe the state in which I currently am with how these writers tend to characterize the state in which most people commonly are. It appears that I am lucky enough to already be a step or two ahead than many people, but I don’t want to claim this as a statement of superiority or anything like that, but rather something I should probably be grateful about (mostly to my parents, their friends and also in some significant part to the Libervis Network community).

I already do a lot of what I at least think is quite close to what I love to do. By being essentially self-employed on the web I can allow myself great freedom of exploration. And Libervis Network is one that has been set up in such a way to allow for great variety in what projects I can do as part of it, because whichever the more clear answer to the question of “what I love doing most” will be it probably wont contradict the fundamental values for which Libervis Network stands for.

And that is just plain awesome! :)

However, I have to admit that while I may be some steps ahead in that sense, I am some steps behind in another, that being my social life. Working on the web and therefore on the computer, this wonderful window to the world and universe at large, I pretty much “forgot” or “neglected” to live in the real world with real people more than I really have to. I am actually increasingly aware of this though and will be attempting to change this situation though. Oh yes I also realize that I failed at fullfilling one, to this related, part of my 2007 new year’s resolution: to find a girlfriend. :D I guess, there’s always next year! 2008 Ftw!

But it will be tricky. Among what motivates me to pursue the answer to this crucial question about myself is that I am finding the financial sustainability of Libervis Network (and hence myself) to still be quite shaky and unstable (all eggs in one basket sort of thing), but to just blindly go gold digging doesn’t seem to me like the best possible way. Among the best ways I am considering to differentiate my funding sources is to start new projects, and I don’t want to start projects which I will quickly lose enthusiasm about – hence the question: What do I really love to do? What will I succeed with the most?

Of course, another big motivation for this pursuit is the realization that I am, well, 23 years old and I can’t forever be just talking about how successful I will or should be in life and riding the waves I somehow created with Libervis so far (and then went struggling to keep myself motivated). I basically need a new wave, perhaps the most profound of all I managed to create so far! I need to rediscover myself again – before years pass by and I end up sitting alone in my room realizing that all this “exploration” I’ve done was actually just drifting… and that all what I’ve supposedly achieved was just luck (or momentary seizures of opportunities combined with crazy (perhaps even lazy) stubborness)..

So.. I will be taking some time soon to really complete the steps from the third article and think this stuff through. I will certainly blog about my discoveries. :)

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year!

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