I would call myself an average person, with sometimes exceptional ideas. Sounds kind of strange, I know. Understatement, uncertainty and high self-esteem in one sentence. Well, I guess that is quite a good characterization of myself, maybe I will find better ones along the way.
I´m aged 41 and got divorced nearly a year ago. This weekend is daddy´s-weekend and I just stopped doing the dishes. Was trying to get some room in my little kitchen, at least as much as to be able to start cooking for my girls. Althought I generally wish I had a dishwasher, i have this deeper inner feeling, that the fact that I had to do it myself will have helped me out of my average situation. Doing tasks like dishwashing, ironing and swiping are sometimes like meditation, or tend to bring your mind to an altered state. If that sounds too esoteric for you, just assume that I was thinking about this and that, and the fact that I hate to waste my time washing the dishes. Finally I came to the conclusion, that I had to do something to change the situation. For me it felt like there was something starting off at this moment. Still not sure what it was, as there are so many ideas in my head that I didn´t follow so far. Somthing drove me to start this blog and write what´s on my mind. As my time is limited right now, I will round-up and explain the title of this blog-entry and the blog itself.
About two weeks ago I attended a conference, about more than a year after having heard of it. I watched some of the very inspiring talks on their Website (namely TED.com) since then, but never attended one in person. It was just because paying a few hundred euros for a trip to a one day conference that didn´t seem to have any benefit to my professional life as an IT-Consultant, didn´t appear to be a good Investment. Luckily I won a ticket for the first TEDx conference in Salzburg/Austria, which is not to far from my hometown. It was a day filled with very inspiring talks by people who shared one very essential thing, ... the dedication to their vision. In the past I read and heard a lot about how WE create our reality, and I tried hard to follow the concepts and build something from my personal ideas and visions. But I got caught by my daily routine over and over again, just to find out some got picked up by others. It´s very essential from time to time that you leave any distractors behind and take the time to think and develop your visions or just let others inspire you to get that extra push. What I experienced that day was very essential for me. It was as if the close proximity to those visionary people ignited myself through subconscious perception.
As I said, not sure where this will lead me, but I will try to write down my thoughts and visions. I will document the progress I make while finding my dedication.
One of the goals will be holding a talk at TED myself, to inspire and help people getting in control of their lifes or even change those of others.
stay tuned
