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Some realizations I made (and make) in my everyday life…
Read some great xianxia in the morning… always great reading that, helps me stretch my imagination in regards to storybuilding and even teaches me much about being persistent, the power of willpower/mindset, and when to use strategy vs ‘brute strength’.
Sometimes you just have to meet a foe 10 times stronger and bigger than you with a fist of your own. Give it your all and then some, even if you dont actually push them back.. just busting their knuckles will give them pause.
~ Lessons from Er Gen’s Meng Hao and his unyielding Dao of Freedom in I Shall Seal the Heavens (Check it out on WuxiaWorld.com!)
Concurrently, just being an avid reader and lurker on WuxiaWorld gets me excited about the influx of eastern fiction and the webfiction culture into the western world. Things are changing drastically in the literary world… and it will be an absolutely fascinating revolution that I have been a witness of almost since the beginning.
I then went to work. Its all remote… so its just me sitting in front of my laptop downstairs (on a really uncomfortable bar chair). I have been creating a comprehensive guide to our Business Development process; segmented into Lead Generation and Social Media Marketing. I finished most of it, checked in with the new interns on the Biz Dev team, and figured out a followup message to send to some leads that I was too nervous to send.
It was so great getting responses! Well.. not really great, because all of them were just people telling me they ‘werent interested’… but at least two out of like 10 of them had some empathetic, ‘warm’ responses (ie took the time to tell me why they were not interested rather than just one or two word rejections). So despite all 80 or so of those emails not returning any positive leads, those few warm responses really helped raise my spirits!
After that, I had to go help my dad with some hard yard labor… an oddjob helping this lady secure her fence so that her big ole Italian Mastiff wont escape through it… as well as put a trampoline together (after we had to take apart and assemble correctly).
I realized much during these back-aching activities… quick cement is a damn pain in need of some real disruption despite how seemingly innovative it is. Perhaps something like a material that can ‘root’ itself in the ground and attach itself to the desired location via semi-autonomous spindles and micro-glue. The semi-autonomy should allow it to scan the material and the ground to determine how to best become that foundation.
The other thing was in regards to trampolines… the method of putting them together is freaking rediculous. And most people, I'm sure, dont even know there is a specific way to do it (ie the base, then alternate the springs opposite each other instead of going around counter/clockwise, finally the net, if there is one)! Trampolines need to instead be able to fold-out… either robotically or via a series of (hydraulic) cranks.
Idk if those are ‘practical’ solutions… but something is needed there… gah…
Oh… and heh… dont tell my girl… but that mastiff is sweet… even if she is ugly with her scrotum-like wrinkles and pug-like face… I can see the appeal in these smart, gentle giants. (She’s going to have a field-day with this…)
After I got home, I ate some foods, finished following up on those email responses, took way longer than I wished creating a social media post, and catching up on news and vlogs on youtube.
During this ‘leisure time’ I realized how awesome it would be if I had something watching over me and keeping me accountable from getting (too) distracted with pointless sht…
How much more work would I get done if I didnt feel the urge to watch all of this stuff… Granted, I dont watch nearly that much, nor do I do so passively. Im always thinking of things that I can/will do with my own channel. I write down ideas, I make engaging comments to attract potential ‘networking’ opportunities when theres a chance… like on GaryVee vids. But yeah… I could do a lot better.
The rest of my night is writing this, walking, and realizing that I didnt take my afternoon nap and am thus duper tired… haha.
But yeah… good day… learned a lot… about myself… had a good amount of realizations and ideas and behavioural resets…
