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First caveat, I'm writing at the end of a boozy night so hope this isn't all rambling. I think there is a confusion with working and relaxation in today's worl
by Gustomaximus 5y ago
First caveat, I'm writing at the end of a boozy night so hope this isn't all rambling.
I think there is a confusion with working and relaxation in today's world.
We look at the world as work as the necessity and relaxing as the goal.
I think the Jordon Peterson line of 'purpose' is key.
'Work' is doing for someone else for a living. Purpose is doing for self. And building Saas infrastructure sounds like helping someone's else company, but that shed is for you.
For me I moved to a small farm a few years back and working from home. I'm always busy, like non-stop something to do between work and farm. I've had one proper holiday in 5 years as the farm consumes life outside work but the farm work is my purpose. While it's not 'relaxing' it's fulfilling and the moments I pause and take in the view while sweating away it completes you.
Now this next opinion I'm less confident in, but I think this ties in to above and there are certain personality types that need to do stuff vs relax. For me I don't do nothing well. It seems the dream but whenever I've tried it doesnt suit me. I need projects to be fulfilled. Sometimes when tired and stressed I wonder why I keep adding tasks to my life, but I'm more happy that way than going the other.
Anyway I feel I'm starting to ramble a little but I think it boils down to is adding work is not a negative, and more work is a positive within reasonable bounds and something you can feel achievement. The task is balancing between work for others purpose and your own is what matters.
- p0d 5y agoI resonate with what you are saying. May I add that people like us can acquire too many projects. I am in a season of cutting back and having fewer projects. Not necessarily less time spent but maybe more focus. Your life sounds very interesting by the way. Hard work but purposeful as you say.
- ehnto 5y agoI am guilty of this, and I recognized it happening this Christmas break so I tuned in to one project more passionately, by trying to do it well I gave myself more to think about and so it was a bit more encompassing. But I think another part of the solution was a certain level of mediation. Aspiring to a project is a kind of indulgence in itself, and deciding to relax my aspirations a bit gave me room enough to actually complete one of those projects.