Free flowing

These days, in an effort to "find what I am looking for (and find what it is that I am searching for!)", I am into the self-help genre of books - and also into turning regular books in self-help books full of wisdom. My latest acquisitions are - The HBR series called "Managing Your Career" and "Life is What You Make It" by Peter Buffet (son of Warren Buffet).

The wisdom I have gathered so far (in a nutshell) is : Self help is what you make it, you have to move, think and act -- without that every intention is just a waste of mental space!

I did pick up a few tips - one of which is the importance of reviewing your life and allowing for a free flow of thoughts. So I have been doing that. Off late, I have been carrying around a small pocket sized notebook where I jot down random things like to-do lists, aspirations, what i want from my life, from my day etc. I realized that somewhere, i have become too operational. My list is filled with what I call idiotic, unimportant things like "make a shopping list" , "go shopping for groceries", "clean wardrobe" etc. And I stopped  to wonder how low I've stooped! Is this what my life has become? It cant be.

But then again, the reality is that this is life - beyond a point everything is operational. Your relationships become operational, your job becomes operational and hence, naturally, your to-do's will be operational.

But Ii think there is a solution. Its what I call "keeping the dream alive; for which you need to keep dreaming". While a lot of people say that for peace, "bigger, better, more" is not healthy, to me, it depends on what you want more of and as long as you are not harming people or even if harming them does not bother you (if thats the way you are) at least having a dream ensures that you have much more of a life (whatever that life is) as compared to one of an apathetic, operational existence.

As the R. Kelly Song goes -- "If I can see it, then I can be it, If I just believe it-- there's nothing to it"



Hum Of The Day
There is a dream to dream every time you close your eyes. There are thoughts to choose every-time you have the time to think. Free-falling works if you have mastered the direction. Until then, use a parachute to ensure that you steer your life the way you want to. For which, see the place, draw the map, and jump!