I've learned a lot like anyone else in 2015. I stuck with my one new years resolution: Trust my gut instinct and gained a lot of dividends. Now it's time to to look back as well as look ahead.
My main goals is to become better with scheduling and regaining my patience and learning when to be patient and when to make things happen.
As 2015 went on my schedule became more intense and I had to learn how to pace myself as well as scheduling things out to be more productive, something I'm still trying to learn now. I have lots of things I want to complete for this coming year and I know the best way to accomplish everything is proper planning. It's not just me, its my entire team working and we need to be on the same page. I cannot succeed without my team succeeding with me. All great teams that won a ring had great players playing together. Not just one person playing lights out.
I'm a visual person and bought a whiteboard to make a visual calendar for me to see everyday. I can make notes in my phone but whenever I write something physically I'm going to remember it better than just typing and putting it away, call me old fashioned.
My main focus is learning the switch from being patient and having to make things happen. I've gotten a tad antsy, and part of that is living in this microwave society. I want to do so much I have to catch myself and understand my process.
"If you rush too much you might not get where you're going" - Big Sean
"There's Beauty in the struggle" - J. Cole
There are times I need to slow down and be patient. Let things come to me, focus and that time to think and be patient actually helps me get what I wanted/needed. A good example is if I'm filming and trying to figure out the best lighting. If I'm rushing I'm not thinking clearly and whatever I shoot can end up wack. If I sit back and think whatever I film will be a masterpiece.
You can take this logic and apply it to anything really. If you're getting to know a girl and you aren't patient you might come off as annoying or too abrasive. Being patient allows you to be more inviting and clears your mind for whatever task is at hand.
The opposite side of that i knowing when to take charge. Being patient sometimes gets confused with being complacent. If you see your team dragging their ass it's time to flick the switch and make something happen. Back to the example of getting to know someone. If you are too patient you may become complacent and won't have a plan to take it a step forward.
For any dream or goals you have their will be a time where you must lead and take charge. I've learned a lot this past year and refuse to make the same mistakes. I've wasted a lot energy on people who won't reciprocate the same back. But it's a learning process. That good energy will come back somehow regardless. One of the best things I've learned this year is reading people. Their energies and responses. People's reactions will tell you more about them than anything in life. An optimistic person will find it hard to truly bash something they didn't like and a narcissist will find it hard to give compliments to things. People show you there hand fairly easy and it's a life long process to learn who's being genuine and who isn't.
The lightswitch from being patient and knowing to assert yourself is one of the single things that can make you great at what you do. It's like hopscotch, you have to know when to jump in and out.
Patience will come and go, it's something that you constantly have to work on to keep. Your hardest times come before you achieve your goal. A video games toughest enemies are at the end right before you win.
Drop a comment on what's something you're looking to focus on this coming year. Most new years resolutions can be wack but whether you complete them is entirely on you. Whatever you tell yourself constantly you'll end up making it a reality. We make our own reality on the daily.
This is a video I found myself coming back to throughout the year and I probably will continue to come back to it when needed. Major props to Eric Oleka for sending me this earlier in the year, helped more than you know.