'Adulting' Rightly - Finding Peace, Gaining Motivation and Other Musings

Wow! It's so exciting to write again. My fingers are literally jumping up for joy at the prospect of striking the keyboard. It's been over 4 weeks I wrote a blog post save for SteemMag and it's nice to be back again. Hopefully, for good.

I find it difficult to write about personal issues, so you will find nearly all of my posts talking about tech themes I find interesting to explore. I remember those early days of Steemit where @stellabelle would drop by and encourage me to write more deeply. Ah! Those Golden Days.

Finding Inner Peace - Going Back Home

The past 2-3 months has been a rollercoaster of emotions for me. Sadness, Excitement et al. Above all, it's the search for peace that has been my most important task and in a way, I've been able to achieve that.

Introverts are constantly searching for solitary silence in a noisy world. Finding this is so important to performing functionally well in the society. And in my own case, it prevents me from getting unnecessarily irritated.

Looking Up At The Stars

When I was at the university, finding inner peace was as simple as connecting to nature more. I merely needed to take a walk down the main university street and stare endlessly at the lagoon that separates the university with the Atlantic Ocean. If that didn't work, I simply wait until nightfall where I can lay at my place of worship and stare into the skies.

It was a surreal experience. One I never got tired of. Lying on a mat staring at the sky makes you feel so small you can literally feel the crushing of your worries and flow of peace into your mind.

The Return

After college, I returned home in preparation for the compulsory national service for university graduates. And being an introvert, I stayed indoors for months recycling the little connection I had with nature from my time in School. When I exhausted that, I started getting irritated easily and all it took for me to flare up was a snarky comment from others.

So a couple of weeks back I decided to visit the popular natural park a few miles from where I served. It was so surreal and I've never felt at peace like that in months. It was such an amazing experience.

Gaining Motivation

It's so easy to get motivated in school when you've got deadlines and tons of assignment to catch up with. Despite hating the traditional organized educational system (I did graduate with great results, though), I respect the motivation to get things done plus the competition I had all around me.

Since I have a goal of building my own business and perhaps launching my own startup soon, I've been trying to coax myself to get things done as at when needed.

In addition to building my own freelance writing business, I've been learning how to become a front-end developer.

So far, what has helped me is what a mentor told me when I complained to him:

Do it anyway. Sadly, if we wait for motivation - we could be waiting a long time. It's what running a business is all about.

In addition, I've been reading a couple of books by some top authors (I don’t believe in many productivity mumbo-jumbo books, though), honing my self-discipline and forming new habits.

By the way, I would like to hear from you how you get things done and what motivates you and all.

Producing More

Being an infovore means I consume lots of information every day - I sometimes go through hundreds of articles and a couple of books every week. I, however, take pride in churning out good stuff too on the web.

Recently, that has been hard due to my lack of motivation. SteemMag has always been a constant reminder to write at least 2ce a week but I want to get more done.

It inspires me when I see writers like @kevinwong, @kaylinart and @knozaki2015 consistently pushing out amazing contents every day …

Going forward, I want to cultivate the habit of writing every day. This will help me massively if I'm able to pull it off. Not only will it boost my freelance writing business, it will greatly help improve my writing skills.

I also plan on having a workable knowledge of JS before the end of the month. Got a side project I wanna build :)

Hopefully, I can make this as fun as possible for everyone by adding new features to my daily goals.

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Over to you…..

How do you motivate yourself to get things done? And what’s a piece of advice you will give to a younger you?

I would love to hear from you….

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