Finding the right balance

nomak

nomak

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I just can't get over this. I am never, never fully satisfied with what I do. I just can't be content. I'm struggling to find that perfect balance between work, health, knowledge and interpersonal skills.
Eg: If I work for 6 months 24/7 on a project and the money starts rolling in, I feel that during those 6 months the other aspects have degraded and I have this inner desire to nurture them and get them back up in the green zone. While I'm doing this, the work signal goes off and I now feel that I haven't paid enough attention to it. It never ends!

Did you go through this?
Can you have all of them at the same time?
 


I feel exactly the same. Still working on it. Been 3 years now.
If you have any luck or anyone out there has any words of wisdom, I am wide open.
 
nomak said:
I just can't get over this. I am never, never fully satisfied with what I do. I just can't be content. I'm struggling to find that perfect balance between work, health, knowledge and interpersonal skills.
Eg: If I work for 6 months 24/7 on a project and the money starts rolling in, I feel that during those 6 months the other aspects have degraded and I have this inner desire to nurture them and get them back up in the green zone. While I'm doing this, the work signal goes off and I now feel that I haven't paid enough attention to it. It never ends!

Did you go through this?
Can you have all of them at the same time?
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Work hard, earn money, spend that money on knowledge and interpersonal skills gained by spending lots of time in bars with hookers and doing lines of coke off of said hookers whilst travelling the world.
 
mituozo said:
Work hard, earn money, spend that money on knowledge and interpersonal skills gained by spending lots of time in bars with hookers and doing lines of coke off of said hookers whilst travelling the world.
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Right, only that the goose will stop laying golden eggs by that time and you'll be back on square 1, only more experienced.
 
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Who fucked you up so badly you think everything has to be perfect all the time, bro?

Relax... You gonna DIE some day, perfect or not.

Quit obsessing, and take more naps is my advice.
 
You cannot get any lasting satisfaction or happiness from impermanent things. It is a false belief that most of us hold and it has gotta go if you care about your well-being. Possessions, relationships, ideas, feelings, knowledge. All of that comes and goes, appears and disappears. Just treat it as impermanent and life becomes much easier. Most of us want to build something, some empire. While it is possible to build something that will last, it will not last forever. It will perish like everything else.

Mind just loves to be serious, making goals, setting deadlines, this and that, trying to accomplish some shit. I say fuck the mind and its mental prison.

The shit will never end. So just accept it as a fact of life. The divided attention causes our minds to feel drained. Just like cell phones waste a lot of energy when they constantly go from 3G to 4G to LTE searching for signal, our minds waste a lot of energy when we keep jumping from one thing to another.

Ability to step back and look at whatever BS you might be dealing with from a higher perspective can be quite useful. But if that doesn't work you can always try to meditate, drink some chamomile tea, smoke up, take a nap.
 
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