Paul W. Uduk
Finally, the reason I began writing this blog became crystal clear.
Prior to opening this blog, I had waited 3 years for the perfect idea to fall onto my lap so as to begin the most successful blog on the web. Whatever idea made it to my brain wasn’t perfect enough. It was tossed out of my brain faster than it came.
In reality, I didn’t know what to blog about. The advice which saturated the then infant blogging community was ‘just do it’. My thoughts always ran into what would follow after I did it –opened my blog. The contemplation went on for 3 years until finally –still without the perfect idea– a little nudge from my dear friend resulted in the birth of BasicPulse.
Yesterday, as I surfed through the web in search of great content that would quench my year long thirst for clarity. I stumbled upon this sentence: how to live a remarkable life. For some reason, it struck a chord.
Reduced to its essence, everything I have contributed to this blog has been in quest of finding a solution to how to live a remarkable life because I desire to live a remarkable life. And, I feel I am not alone in this. If you’ve been following this blog, you would agree that there was a certain lack in definitiveness. Well, not anymore.
Judging by how things have unfolded. I have come to accept the advice that waiting for the perfect moment/idea/inspiration is a waste of time. Instead, just doing what you can with what you have the best way you can is the way.
The greatest challenge I currently face is a feeling of obligation: an obligation to know exactly what I want to do with my life, an obligation to stay with what I spent 5 years+ studying in the university and an obligation to remain socially acceptable and conform to the norms that society has dictated should be followed.
I came across something profound on Ramit Sethi' s “I will teach you to be rich” blog. In an audio broadcast, he said:
This is somewhat unconventional, but it rings with so much wisdom. It re-sounds the need of staying useful in your quest for doing something you love rather than waiting and expecting a grand revelation.
Being an aspiring musical vocalist who loves to write and is a chemical engineer by training, I have long thought of possibilities of “merging” these fantastic inclinations into my life in a way that is balanced and productive. I have battled with the feeling of having to pick just one and forgo the rest. But, which do I pick and which do I sacrifice to be forever forgotten? Knowing that I am not obliged to pick one and dump the rest is very good news to me. But, another question pops up every time I celebrate this realization:
How do I juggle these three interests, remain relevant and thrive?
Perhaps, I am making a problem out of where a problem shouldn’t exist. Who knows?
I begin an exploration of finding a solution to this problem with hope that as I delve into these fields in a spirit of being useful; I will find that sweet spot that results in a life that is remarkable.
Finally, the reason I began writing this blog became crystal clear.
Prior to opening this blog, I had waited 3 years for the perfect idea to fall onto my lap so as to begin the most successful blog on the web. Whatever idea made it to my brain wasn’t perfect enough. It was tossed out of my brain faster than it came.
In reality, I didn’t know what to blog about. The advice which saturated the then infant blogging community was ‘just do it’. My thoughts always ran into what would follow after I did it –opened my blog. The contemplation went on for 3 years until finally –still without the perfect idea– a little nudge from my dear friend resulted in the birth of BasicPulse.
Yesterday, as I surfed through the web in search of great content that would quench my year long thirst for clarity. I stumbled upon this sentence: how to live a remarkable life. For some reason, it struck a chord.
Reduced to its essence, everything I have contributed to this blog has been in quest of finding a solution to how to live a remarkable life because I desire to live a remarkable life. And, I feel I am not alone in this. If you’ve been following this blog, you would agree that there was a certain lack in definitiveness. Well, not anymore.
Judging by how things have unfolded. I have come to accept the advice that waiting for the perfect moment/idea/inspiration is a waste of time. Instead, just doing what you can with what you have the best way you can is the way.
The greatest challenge I currently face is a feeling of obligation: an obligation to know exactly what I want to do with my life, an obligation to stay with what I spent 5 years+ studying in the university and an obligation to remain socially acceptable and conform to the norms that society has dictated should be followed.
I came across something profound on Ramit Sethi' s “I will teach you to be rich” blog. In an audio broadcast, he said:
“You shouldn’t feel that you should know what you want at age 21, 22, 23. Nobody should know that. You are not obligated to know that. But, my point is that, if you are an onion, you should be peeling that onion. Each step you take to get down to the core to figure out what you really love. And that’s the most common thing I hear which is: I don’t really know what I love. Fine! But you should be taking every step you can to find it”.
This is somewhat unconventional, but it rings with so much wisdom. It re-sounds the need of staying useful in your quest for doing something you love rather than waiting and expecting a grand revelation.
Being an aspiring musical vocalist who loves to write and is a chemical engineer by training, I have long thought of possibilities of “merging” these fantastic inclinations into my life in a way that is balanced and productive. I have battled with the feeling of having to pick just one and forgo the rest. But, which do I pick and which do I sacrifice to be forever forgotten? Knowing that I am not obliged to pick one and dump the rest is very good news to me. But, another question pops up every time I celebrate this realization:
How do I juggle these three interests, remain relevant and thrive?
Perhaps, I am making a problem out of where a problem shouldn’t exist. Who knows?
I begin an exploration of finding a solution to this problem with hope that as I delve into these fields in a spirit of being useful; I will find that sweet spot that results in a life that is remarkable.
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