Shaping Marbles of Life

Let’s imagine for each day is a piece of a puzzle, and what we do in that day forms the shape, and what we do is where we place the piece.

By the end of the week, how does your puzzle look like? How about by the end of the year? More importantly, how would you want your life puzzle to look like?

Intentional vs unintentional

In our daily lives, it can often get so busy that we go on autopilot because of how much is going on causing us to form, and place our pieces down unintentionally.

The opposite can also occur, where our lives ought to be minimalized to do fewer things, but in more quality leaving us to not be overwhelmed, and ultimately place our pieced own intentionally.

My list of actions used to be filled from the moment I took my head off the pillow to the moment I put my head back down to the pillow. There would be moments when I had some downtime, and I would watch a video or just put something on to use my 10 minutes for something.

Rarely did I ever just be idle or let myself rest for 10 minutes of doing nothing, I always had to do something. So the amount of things I did were in terms of quantity and not necessarily in quality.

• This reminds me of painting 10 different paintings as opposed to just doing 1. In between doing the 10 paintings, I have no idea what I'm painting or what I'm trying to convey. I just need to keep on painting, as long as I am painting it's what matters.

• The option then becomes, do more with less time or do less with more time?

  • Personally, for me, I’ve found to be more at ease with doing less with more time.

  • Now I mainly focus on, working, work, and passion
    

As opposed to before, I tried to do too many things all the time, and by the end of the day, i wouldn’t even remember what I did. There was simply just too much stuff on my plate that I have no idea what I even did.

• This reminds me of counting cars, suppose I counted only red cars or green cars i’d see in a day. It’d be much easier and I would have time to pay attention to each car I count, perhaps even remember all the cars I counted.
  

On the other hand, let’s say I counted ALLL the yellow, green, red, blue, and pink cars throughout the day, i’d lose my mind just going halfway way through, I wouldn't even be able to notice them all nor would I be able to remember or even recognize them.

A prime example of quantity vs quality.

What kind of picture would you want to create?

On the day I’d be on my deathbed, looking back into my life puzzle’d like to look back into a piece of a journey. Where a young boy started his life journey, learning as he went, and so he followed. All the lessons, struggles, joys, uprises, the battles, the losses, the victories. Encapsulating the essence of life, thus which is a journey.

Some could build a picture of a king sitting on a throne looking from far above to down below, A mother who cares and loves for their children’s success A father who readies his children for the next era A person who lives a subtle life in the forest among a dozen

The choice is ours to be made, what kind of picture would you want to create?

Podcast Episode 13

Dive deeper into the topic in this video, enjoy!