Tyson Gay is probably sitting in his house today smiling to himself for numerous reasons but the one achievement he has which no one on the planet can claim current fame to is ... Fastest Man Alive. It was only recently that he acquired this title and he beat the rest of the people in the race to reach the finish line.
The purpose behind today's blog is to talk about achievements and the drive one truly requires to reach that goal. As an individual living in society its very difficult for a person to have a unified focus on a singular goal that will help him/her achieve better results/long term satisfaction over their current situation when the current situation is offering them solutions to the problems that the current situation created. Confused? I was too until I finally realized what was truly required of me to make this situation disappear.
My current life/work situation has gone through some major changes in the last two weeks that have required re-focus on goals and the changes in my career that I have slowly been striving along towards over my time in India. I have listed the changes in small paragraphs to give a brief account of why I even started this blog.
My Career
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When I first joined IBM I was like a fat kid in a chocolate factory, everything looks good so why not taste it? But over a short span of time, I learned about my options and the choices I would eventually have to make in the long run to ensure that my career actually survives the mundane time it is currently in and moves to a higher level. Unfortunately, I have been running hard in the wrong direction as far as this goes and its been a hard battle between the other circles of my life to balance everything out. How is it going? Let's just say not too well but I am going to put my foot down and take the battering just so that I don't turn into that bitter old man who everyone knows could have done better.
My Social Life
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I used to be overly social (if there is such a phrase). Alas, over the past few years, I have strived to bring people together and build the kind of social life I used to have once upon a time. In the process, I have forgotten the golden rule of the social circle concept that I have learned over the years which has taught me that if two people don't like each other then you are not responsible for making sure that they understand that they are both your friends irrespective of how they treat each other and it is not your sole responsibility to make sure everyone is comfortable and playing well together. The final result, I have to either let things burn and pick up whats left of the ashes or get burnt myself and burn all the social circles I have. I would like to take advice on this and I have in the past, but its time to once again make firm decisions like I did in early 2002 and let the actual people with the problems decide what they want to do.
These are of course the bigger points and there are smaller problems within these but the focus has to be big to make it small and I only hope that I have a bigger self-controlled drive to fix the problems that have now come back up.
Mood when writing this blog - Rushed
Music Listened to when writing this blog - Eric Clapton - Change The World
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