This morning’s insights
Posted by pat on Sep 8, 2009 in Life Tidbits | 3 comments
What I’ll write here are just little thought tidbits that flowed in this morning. Nothing profound or philosophical. Just little thoughts that I would want to more or less immortalize (or as long as the blogspot servers stay intact, hehe).
Its a Tuesday morning. And since it was a long weekend, its the first day of the week.
Me and my over active mind…
Grandpa, sales and Yoga.
When my grand parents’ driver, Benjo, is available, I ask him to drive me to work. Today is one of those days that I’m lucky he’s available. The sky is dark grey and its been raining the past few days. It would’ve been a real bitch to take public transportation… and trust me, from my place, taking public transport on a rainy is quite difficult.
Well, when the car arrived, I jumped in so I may be off to work. When I got in, my grandpa was inside as he was going to the bank. The trip was basically simple chit chat about work and what’s been going on with me. Being the sweet person that my grandpa is, he started giving advice on things he feels would help me. He’s always like that… always trying to help. Most of the time, its unsolicited and occasionally condescending (after all, I’m more street smart than he thinks I am) but I’m touched the fact that he’s always made it a point to try to impart some knowledge that he feels will help me.
Today it was about Sales and Yoga. Regarding sales, let’s just say I gained a trainer without me knowing I had one. haha! But its all good as his advice was very practical and true.
As for yoga, he insists thate despite the fact that no longer take Bikram yoga classes, I should continue the exercises. Come to think of it…. I should.
I’m lucky. Not eveyrone gets to meet his/her grandpa. Moreover, not everyone has one as caring as mine.
Opportunity rewards people who step outside their comfort zone
Now from my older brother from a different mother, Trent Ham. No, we’ve never met. Its just, I love reading his blog and the comments people leave after his posts. There’s always something new to learn, some insightful. If its not new, its something that I need reminding on.
Today, is about stepping out of my comfort zone. Its pretty timely as there is something that has been bugging me. Its been playing at the back of head the past two days. It involves at lot of what-if’s, a lot of “is-it-worth-it’s”, and a lot of “should-I-risk-it’s”. Yes, one moment, I’m confident about my decision, then next… I wonder if its worth going for. Well, I guess I got the answer this morning.
This is a situation very close to my heart and sometimes has the ability to impair my logical trail of thought. So, I’m trying to be as objective as I can with it.. whatever the case, I think I know the answer to my question….
Once more, I’m confident in my decision (I hope the person/s invovled are confident in it too). Yes, once the necessary things are in place, I’m stepping out of my comfort zone. And when I mean stepping out of my comfort zone, this means a lot of things. Is it worth it? I hope so. Am I strong enough to deal with the consequcnes that it may bring? I’ll have to be. What the hell, we live but one life.
Very true, we only have one life, and a short one at that. It's like the SAS motto "Who Dares Wins".
I added Trent Ham on Fbook a few years ago, when I had but just a few contacts :p
Huai Bin – true yeah. Btw, looking forward to project alpha this Friday!
Chiars – me too. I added him. He's like the kuya I've never had. lol