Daily Stoic(s)

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Thursday - Think Before You Act

Habits can be a hard thing to break. Especially, bad ones. One of the things I’m working on is paying attention when I make decisions and trying to take a step back. It doesn’t always happen. It is becoming more frequent. Every once and a while it helps me avoid making a decision that I would normally make. Still it will take time, patience, and persistence. Rewiring the brain is a difficult thing.

Yesterday - Only Bad Dreams

Worrying about the future can bring out a lot of emotion. Especially, if it’s something new well into the future and the only way to learn more about it is to wait. That waiting can lead to some unnecessary stress. At the beginning of the year we went in with some friends on a risky investment. There was a lot of worry then. I identified the worry and tried to remember that there was nothing to control. It was still tough and will require more practice.

Today - Don’t Make Things Harder Than They Need To Be

We control how we react to things. This Key and Peele skit says it all for me.

The Purpose of Society

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The action point is to take someone unemployed or retired out to lunch. The idea is that society is non-existent without social functions. The pandemic has certainly highlighted this. With companies going remote I fear that the company I am at will start to see cracks in productivity because we lose a lot of social opportunities. It will be very interesting to watch how the year progresses. A lot of the people I talk to are burned out on the pandemic and ready to get out and enjoy social functions.

Pleasure Can Become Punishment

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Too much of a good thing can lead to feeling worse for experiencing it. I’ve felt this with drinking and video games. I’ll sometimes over indulge and regret it the next day. I am working on it and getting better about not over indulging. I still indulge though and just try to reign myself in.

Society of Performing Organizations

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The action point is a question on if the performance yardsticks are appropriate to you objectives. This is something we’ll be tackling this year. For security it’s risk. How do you measure that? We use a variety of tools. Some of them have risk scores others do not and it will be up to us to determine what we see as risk score. Then there’s weighting because one tools risk score may be higher or lower than another. This is something security hasn’t had a great answer.

Protect Your Peace of Mind

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I’ve become more mindful of my stressors at work, especially when they put me in an irritable or excitable state. Today was a good example. I had a big meeting come up to prepare for. There was a question on how serious I was taking the meeting. This triggered some emotions for me. I spend a lot of time trying to stay on top of things and preparing for big meetings. For me to be questioned on that really assaulted my ego. In the end it was ultimately on me for not doing something.

The meeting went well and I felt emotional at the end. I decided to take a moment for myself. That’s continued on into the meeting though. The ego feels vindicated and is giving me a high. The problem is that usually leads me to staying up late because I’m so amped up. The crash is the next day when I haven’t gotten enough sleep. I’m trying to be mindful of that and not rush into my normal things I’d run into to burn off energy. Instead I’m trying to find a place of tranquility or zen to refocus that energy for a later time.