What Yesterday Taught Me
It's day 254 of documenting 2025.
As always, mid week vibes 😎
Tomorrow's a Friday, and the weekend of another week.
Man! I feel like this month is running fast....or is it just me?
Anyways, today's going well.
I was thinking of typing late night, but I just figured...why not do it where I am?
Where am I, right now?
At a friend's place and it's 6:11pm.
I may still pause typing and continue later in the night...
But let me start it first, yeah?
Alright, so I'll take off with today's highlights....and then anything else that comes to mind.
Sounds good? Let's go 🚀
365 Days With Self-discipline
📌 On Capitalizing on Your Talents
"Overcoming deficits is an essential part of the fabric of our culture.
Our books, movies, and folklore are
filled with stories of the underdog who beats one-in-a-million odds.
And this leads us to celebrate those who triumph over their lack of natural ability even more than we recognize those who capitalize on their innate talents.
As a result, millions of people see these heroes as being the epitome of the American Dream and set their sights on conquering major challenges. Unfortunately, this is taking the path of most resistance."
Quote by Tom Rath
Beware of applying your self-discipline where it’s least likely to make a positive impact.
If something is your weakness and it’s not a matter of life or death (like healthy nutritional habits or regular physical activity are), it might make more sense to give up than to try to conquer something in which ultimately you’ll never be good.
For example, I’m a natural introvert. I don’t use it as an excuse not to socialize or have poor communication skills, but I’ve accepted that I don’t recharge when I’m in a large group of people.
Consequently, I don’t strive to become the life of the party because it clashes with my personality.
Instead of forcing myself to socialize as much as it’s possible against my nature, I decided to focus on a different aspect of my communication skills: better communication in one-on-one conversations.
This way, I can still improve myself, but in a way that will bring better results than trying to triumph over something that isn’t (and never will be) my natural ability.
In the case of working on your strengths or weaknesses, taking the path of most resistance is the wrong choice.
Focus on your strengths, and become as good as you can in what naturally comes to you, as that’s where you’ll benefit most from increased self-discipline.
This time, I shared the whole note for today...because the author, Martin Meadows has done in common with me.
I'm an introvert as well....and honestly, I'm still learning how to communicate effectively.
I would pick a small group over a crowd anytime.
That doesn't mean I won't stand to speak in front of a crowd one day....so I will have to learn.
And I discovered early that I do better in one-on-one conversations, online or in person.
Alright, I'm pausing here.....
Okay I'm back! (8:43pm)
Just had dinner and I'm walking around so my food can digest the right way...
Anyways, I can't really think of what to type right now.
I was thinking we could look at a few excerpts from Meditations (by Marcus Aurelius), and then see the interpretations.
Nope! 😇
I'm going to type what comes to mind, like I earlier said I would.
Maybe I should give some more update about how my day went.
So, today was the first time I didn't feel shy to uncover my head, since the time I cut my hair.
I mean, my hair is a bit grown but very short...and my brother said I look like a boy. (Brothers...🙄)
Point is, I can uncover my head when I go out, as it's not so embarrassing like the time I was completely bald.
However, I don't plan to do that anytime soon...maybe when I finally travel to my hometown.
Reason is because a lot of people in my area don't still know that I cut my hair.
And since they've known me their whole lives as someone who made her hair, I want to spare them the trouble of asking why and me the stress of defending my reason.
It's a win-win! 😄
Besides that, covering my head gives me the opportunity to show off my crochet bucket hat.
And today, someone asked me if they could take a closer look at the hat, as she asked how I made the brim. I took it off for a few moments and put it back on.
It didn't feel weird, neither did it feel right....twas just neutral.
That aside, I also started working on some projects that I would "launch" later on.
Last night, I practically stayed up till 2am, writing down all the steps I needed to take.
And since it was in writing, I just had to follow it today, which I did.
Well, that's all about the updates for today.
I want to end with a Bible verse, one that I memorized yesterday, and basically lived out that same day.
It's Psalms 118:8 which says,
"It is better to trust in the Lord that to put confidence in man".
Sometimes, our expectations of certain people are what constitute the "confidence", we put in them.
And when they disappoint (sometimes unknowingly...), we develop a sort of cognitive distortion, that ruins the rest of our day or week, depending on how long we let them stay in our minds.
Yesterday taught me that my joy doesn't have to come from people or places...it is found in Jesus.
I admit, I'm still a work in progress (or WIP...as writers call it), but I believe I'm being prepared for something greater.
And as long as I abide, I will never lose my way 😌
On that note, we have come to the end of today's post.
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