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Welcome to day FIVE and the end of my 5 day post series dedicated to @Partiko! If you want to follow along feel free to check out the rest!
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Today is a small reflective piece on how blogging is effecting and possibly changing me for the better. 🤔
Today I woke up
Feeling like I was about to accomplish something, which isn't a common thing for me. Usually I wake up feeling anxious and caffeine deprived. Which probably 90% of the working world can relate to. As a side note - I kinda' worry about society's reliance on the glory that is coffee. I don't know about you guys, but the coffee to water ratio in my body tilted toward coffee years ago. Would we all turn into ferocious animals if there was ever a shortage? I try not to think about it. 🤨
Addiction aside, today was different.
My standard approach is waking up 3 hours before work to do chores, listen to a book or maybe play a few games. I guess you could think of it's as a sort of waking up ritual. I find that accomplishing things before I partake in my job mentally fortifies me. I find myself with greater control and I'm more assertive. I find I'm able to respond to challenges faster and my approach becomes pro-active rather than reactive. On these days I can actively see an increase in my performance.
Today was no exception to this pattern however I felt a change in how I was feeling. I felt an eagerness take hold of me. I was ready to take on the day straight out of the gate! I could of rolled out of bed and found myself in a lobby of screaming guests, I didn't care - I was ready. But even so I did my morning ritual anyway. I guess maybe I was trying to meditate on why I was wanting to clock in 2 hours before I was supposed to.
It didn't take long for me to figure it out.
Work Seemed Small
Barely a thing to be concerned with. I mean, I knew I still had to put effort in and I knew what was at stake - it just went by so quickly. I was training the new auditor like normal but all the while my mind kept trying to drift off. Auditing is a lot of repetitive work so it's easy to let muscle memory take over when it comes to things like... picking staples out of receipts and stapling them to pieces of paper.
The pace I was working at was astonishing even to me. It was like I was trying to fit 6 hours of work into a 3 hour period.
Before I knew it the report I was working on was done. My trainee was still hard at work while I had finished 2 hours early. When I had no more work to do it was as though a green light had signaled in my head. Suddenly my attention shifted toward planning my next blog and writing my opening sentences. In the couple of hours while my co-worker was toiling away I had written over 1500 words.
I realized that this is where I want to devote my energy. This is what I wanted to do the moment I had woken up. My job suddenly felt like a nuisance; some annoying inevitable task that I must quickly attend to before doing my REAL work.
Completing something feels good
Completing something you're passionate about feels doubly so. It offers its own reward that a regular job can't really offer. It's not that I don't get a sense of pride from my work, I do and I enjoy it - but it's not the same. Creating something involves bringing into existence something that wasn't there, and being in control of that is an empowering thing. Compare that against the dry objective reality of revenue and numbers and it's easy to understand what I enjoy more.
Work is a challenge I consent to overcoming each day where the challenges are chosen for me. A blog is a challenge that I set myself. For the former the rules are clear and there is a system, for the latter it is mostly made in the moment. Both contain their own problems and I guess their own rewards.
Writing has always been a strong hobby and interest for me - though I have never had the drive to commit to it like I am now. I have always poured myself into my passion projects, and now that I have an ongoing one like Steem, work's significance in my life is shrinking, and in a way I think that is making me happier.
If I don't check myself I might end up treating Steem like a second job, which is something I hope to never do. I want this to be a zone where I can enter and be spontaneous and passionate and above all - consistent!
Completing goals I set myself has been the most fulfilling thing I've done in a while.
What's next?
I'm looking at exploring some more Dapps and might even set myself a posting challenge for them as well.
I was looking at Esteem as they also have some pretty cool incentives to use them.
I'd like to continue making videos, including making some content focusing on my town. I'd really like to become more active in the @socalsteemit community. I'm going to go around recording footage today of the damage we had during the recent storms, and I'd like to talk about how it's effecting the town.
I have another cool hospitality story in mind to share as well - just formulating how to best do it. I'm glad the last one was so well received, I was a little nervous about it.
Now, enough of my self indulgent rambling.
Thank you all for reading!
Thank you to everyone who has followed along so far - I look forward to providing more content for you in the future!
To truly show my appreciation I'm going to be sending 0.1 SBD to the first 3 people who comment! (Bots are excluded)
Next upload will be for @dtube where I hope to show you my town!
Take care and bye for now!
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