You know those phases of life when you feel the need to stop, reset, and start again, and the question you keep asking yourself is: where do I start from?
And often you restart too early, from whatever seems most reasonable. Or you try to think it through, but even there you tend to overdo it. On one side we feel the pressure of time slipping away. On the other, the desperate search for more information that might help us make the right choice.
Information you have to learn how to look for, with time, with experience.
I use this blog as a checkpoint, and as a way to share my time and my experience. I think it can be a decent way for you to start again too.
Because somewhere, you have to start again.
And if today I had to pick the north star to follow, it would be this:
use this life to create value for other people, everything else is a consequence.So the question to keep in your head, always: what is valuable for other people?
If I had to pick two things to start from, I would pick time and information. On those two I would feel safe.
Each of us has limited time, and in a world full of noise, the quality of our thoughts comes from the quality of the inputs and information we let into our brain.
In everything you do, remember that other people's time matters. And to understand what else is valuable for other people, you have to work on yourself, until you can really put yourself in their shoes. And I repeat: everything else, satisfaction, freedom, fulfillment, the meaning of life, is a consequence.