@edwinhooper
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Logos are the guiding things in life. The pandemic could be considered a logos. At first I was annoyed at the response to the pandemic. It was frustrating. Ultimately, I realized, there’s nothing I can do. I can continue to be angry and frustrated or I can go with the flow and make the best of it. I’ve been in a much better place.
@alesnesetril
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This is a sentiment I’ve tried to carry through work. Working in security has it’s chaotic days. It has it’s long days. Really it’s IT in general. At some point we’re going to logoff or check out from the work. I realized this early on coming up through IT. It was 3 a.m. in the morning and there was still work to be done. Yes, it was a long day. I comforted myself though that it has to end at some point. We have to find that resolution or get it to a point where there’s a workaround that is in place.
@joshrh19
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During this pandemic I was asked to do some threat intelligence for the company I work at. We’re a healthcare company so COVID fit into this. I would use Google News to sift through headlines and look for things that impacted the company. There wasn’t much and it often felt like trying to find a needle in a haystack. At one point I recognized the negative impact it was having on me. Looking at constant headlines of doom put me in a dark mood. I eventually stopped and things have gotten a lot brighter for me in life. I will check headlines every once and a while. Usually, I let the good or bad news come to me via the company or people around me.
I recently had to do reviews for people. Part of that was self-reviews people did. I had to rate one person lower than their expectations. I pushed this person this past year and they made strides. They just didn’t make strides to what I expected. That is on me. I didn’t provide them the right feedback or even timely feedback. I still need to improve as a manager and get them to the place they and I want them to be.
@mbuff
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With young children they say don’t compare them to others. Then when they’re into elementary school they start getting compared against a baseline. I’ve always found this annoying. We all grow and develop differently and at our own pace. It took me much longer to pull my life together than some of the people who knew what they wanted to do coming out of high school. That’s okay because after the college years age and success don’t matter as much. We can be successful early or later in life. It makes no difference. That’s what the stoic is getting at is that in the end we all meet our demise. Wasting energy on comparing ourselves against others is a fruitless exercise and cause more harm than good.
@maurogigliphoto
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Attachments are things outside of our reasoned choice. This can be status or an image we hold. As I’ve gotten better at golf I’ve started to hold onto the attachment of my good shots. I feel like I should play better than I am. This happened this past Saturday when I got off to a really bad start. I was frustrated and knew I needed to let that go. It was tough. I posted a 59 on the front nine. Once I got over my attachment to good shots I started playing better. I shot a 49 on the back nine.
I burrowed someone my backup batter pack to charge a device. The other night. They left without returning it to me. I have a friend who is trying to get it back. I’ve come to terms that it may be gone forever. It’s not the end of the world and not something worth fretting over. I can just buy a new one.
Struggles can often be the best thing that happen to us. I had a significant improvement in my life after a six month period of losing my girlfriend; having a roommate move out and cut off all communications; and getting in trouble at work. It got really bad. Then it got better because I wanted to avoid situations like that again so I started reading and listening to self-improvement content. On the opposite side once I got to a more financially stable place, I suddenly lost my purpose and where I wanted to go in life. That’s led to unhealthy habits that I have recently identified and started working on. There’s opportunity in every struggle whether self-induced or not.