Life

But that’s OK.

Everyone in your life has come to expect a set of characteristics from you, they’re used to a certain identity of yours and certain actions; a set of beliefs about you. On the other hand, they also have a set of beliefs about themselves, life and how it should be lived.

When making any change to yourself — behaviour, principles, attitude; anything, really — no matter how big or small, those around you will not fully understand and agree with it because:

1. you’re diverging from what they’re used to about you;
2. you’re conflicting with their own set of beliefs.

I’ve read a lot of tweets and posts these days about people’s resolutions or opinions regarding resolutions for the new year. I’ve never really had any. I never planned for the new year. But a few years ago I realised the first thing I’d like to mention in this post: starting shouldn’t require a new year, a new month or a new week.

I think it’s only fair to have a short summary of myself, as to give credibility on what’s happening with my life and with what I post here.

I always relied on motivation. I always was a procrastinator. I always had my share of both super productive periods and super slacking periods. I worked at a company where I could slack all day, and that’s what I did; and I was OK with it, I played games all day long.

At a certain point I had enough, quit, learned to program and joined a company where the first 1–2 years were extremely productive, but the next 2–3 not so much; without much details, I knew I was plateauing myself, yet I didn’t leave until long after that.