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I'm gonna try to keep this entry short. There's not actually much progress on the business or creative front right now. It's been mostly a lot of planning and a bit of a waiting game as well. Been working on a business plan as well as saving up for the start-up costs. I had a special date in mind this month for launching the t-shirt line but I may have to push it back to later this year. Been working A LOT. Doing some 6 day work weeks and trying to be "austere" in my spending although I haven't let that stop me from going out every now and then. Besides that, I haven't had a lot of time to be creative. My energy has been stretched kind of thin lately and when I do have some time off I've just been recharging or spending leisure time with friends or family.
I love crab <3
I did have some philosophical/psychological thoughts I wanted to get out though. In my reading and listening I've come across the idea of depth; or favoring intensiveness over extensiveness.
“Value intensiveness more than extensiveness. Perfection consists in quality, not quantity. Everything very good has always been brief and scarce; abundance is discreditable. Even among people, giants are usually the true dwarves. Some value books for their sheer size, as if they were written to exercise our arms not our wits. Extension alone can never rise above mediocrity, and the misfortune of all-embracing individuals is that, wanting to deal with everything, they deal with nothing. Intensity leads to distinction, and to heroic distinction if the matter is sublime”
Snapped this picture to show one of my clients. Now it's filler for my blog :p
A youtube guru named Tai Lopez touches on the subject and calls it the Law of 18%. Roughly speaking that you should focus your investment on the 18% of things or people that generate the greatest return.
And I've been thinking about that and how in terms of social life that in the past I made in effort to not fall in too deep with any one group so that I could "get along" with the wider range of people. I even mentioned it in an earlier blog. After what I've been exposing myself to recently I thought maybe I was being counterproductive all this time and that I should be more focused on deepening the relationships that count and ignoring or putting less into the ones that haven't been much help at all.
So putting it into practice, I've been getting in touch with childhood friends and talking to them more. Spending time with them because those are the bonds I have that run deepest. And I've found that even though in a lot of cases our interests or personalities have diverged quite a bit, the bond remains strong because of all the things we've lived through together.
With the people I've met more recently, I've also been trying to focus more on the people who give back and less on the people that don't. By focusing on the people who really support me and want to get together, I've been feeling a lot happier. The 82% of people that don't care about me aren't worth investing in or thinking about. But hey, if they want to come around and be real sometime they will find the door open :) I think this quote sums it up nicely-- though I'm not sure who it's attributed to:
"Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind."
That idea also extends into my goals and activities. There's so much I want to do but I have to narrow things down and knock it out one at a time. Focus on the more important things first. I've been thinking about all I want to participate in and accomplish, but it's been making me scatterbrained (especially with all the working, commuting, and business planning I've been doing). For example, I really want to do some traveling but for now it's best if I save up and get the goals that matter most out of the way first. Like getting a better job/career and starting my business.
Another example is that I've been wanting to learn to play an instrument and take up a new hobby. But I have to get everything else in order so that I have time and energy (and money) to put into all that.
So I think this is a good point to wrap things up. There's a lot to do~!