I used to agonize over things. I always wanted to classify things, put them into easily differentiated bins so I knew what they were. When I realized I couldn’t classify the world, I was crushed. I stopped caring. That was when it hit me. The world didn’t stop moving whether or not I cared about it. Life goes on, with or without you. So are you going to be a part of it? If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. If you’re not making it better, you’re making it worse. Don’t like the way something works? Yo there’s 6 billion other people to take your place.
My conversations about improving at syarikat have been reaching dead ends because the things I want to address are directly related to the people that run the syarikat. Improve all you want, change all you want on the bottom end, but when it comes to the top, “welcome to corporate America.” Lol. I can now hear the snickers and chuckling back then when they asked me what I liked about the syarikat. I said “people here are really open to change.” Ahahahahahaha. Innocence personified. But the jaded cynic doesn’t change nor inspire the world. The practical idealist does.
Things have a way of sorting themselves out eventually, ie. change is inevitable. The only difference we can make is whether the process is a positive (happy) or negative (unhappy) one. There is no shortage of skill. There is however a shortage of the right attitude. Too many of us repeat the same steps, same actions over and over again and expect different results. Stop brainstorming and start trystorming. In other words, stop thinking and do. Easier said than done, but when it happens, boy does it happen. Adrenaline rush. It’s infectious when you actually start being the change you want to see in the world.
And then of course you start to crave that rush. Not getting it leads to a crash not unlike one from a low-quality energy drink. What can I do different? What can I do that’s new? What haven’t I tried before? The future is always going be out of reach. But the present is where all our actions shape that elusive future. Everything you do or don’t do now will have an effect later on. Unfortunately, it’s much easier to get into the habit of not doing, ie. curling up in our comfort zones. Eg. I should be jogging instead of writing this, but words are always aching to be poured out.
No time to think about weakness. Everyone has weaknesses. I prefer enhancing strengths instead of eliminating weaknesses. I don’t think it’s the same. I think weaknesses are chipped away at, because they are ingrained – this is a slow, arduous process. Building strengths is much more fun – there is no ceiling, no limit to what can be achieved with an open mind – and this can literally happen overnight. Do not allow anyone, not even yourself, to limit you. If you think you can/can’t, you’re right.
This then leads to being dissatisfied with everything because you always want better. Now what? Do we then start getting better at not getting better? Do we start being dissatisfied with dissatisfaction? So funny. The vicious cycle continues. But hey, there is no such thing as right or wrong. Thinking makes it so. Everyone has an opinion. Do some peoples’ matter more than others? Most certainly. But I have to say, it is our loss if we filter opinions through the people who say them. Loss of objectivity leads to emotion-based decision-making. This is an excellent way to make a decision that will be regretted later on.
We have standardized processes and procedures at work. But at the root of it is still a human need to make an emotion-based decision. It isn’t purely objective – there is still an element of holding back progress, if only to keep more people working. If my cellphone can do everything a computer does, I find it hard to believe that there isn’t a manufacturing plant out there that cannot run with just 5 or less people. Society as a whole needs to catch up. Time is moving along, but the improvement curve is getting steeper by the day. If we do not educate or more importantly, give people access to the tools they need to be educated, we are shooting ourselves in the foot. Management’s job is not to improve processes, but to create the conditions in which processes can be improved.
Suffer – I like. The more suffering, the more appreciation for life. If everything came easy, I’d be bored to death. Is it wrong to want more bad than good? Everything balances out eventually, and if you’re one of the unique individuals who experience more of one than the other, take pride in the fact that your life will be good teaching tool for others in the world. Hehe. Life is unfair, but why can’t it be unfair in my favor? 
Wish I could buy some people drinks and remind them that the world is actually quite a fun place. Persevere, everyone. We can do this. It’s all good.
