It's not a bad thing...
We compromise something everyday. When we choose to do one thing, we compromise the others. We go for one way to do certain things and neglect the other.
We always do it...
Even the most pure vegan is eating very tiny organism while drinking a glass of water every morning.
Compromising is not a bad thing. The question is when and where do we compromise.
According to Buddhism, all suffering is originated from the attachment to something. Suffering arises from craving. They always insist that the person who craves something always suffer.
It's so true in today's world, as the rate of depression is increasing and the suicidal rate is elevating; the fundamental reason for this is not achieving the things they wish/plan for achieving. They are attached to their plan and work on it and when they don't meet, they suffer. And the most interesting part is even when they meet what they want they crave for more, leading always to suffer more.
The only way to fully liberate from suffering is to be fully liberated from craving and attachment. This can be attained by training our mind to experience the reality as it is.
These days we hear about goals and to achieve it we must plan our daily activities. Organizing and planning your daily activities didn't start in 20th or 21st century. It started way before that.
We often hear to write the daily affirmations and our end goals. This will help us get to our dream and make us successful both in mind, body, spirit and in surroundings.
I was going through the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin where I found that he, during his life time, was organizing his daily activities. He was allocating his time, by hours, on personal development, public and private business. He also had made prayer which he used to perform every morning to bring positivity in the day. It was though 18th century. He used his notebook to keep track of his short term goals and daily activities.
And we(most of us) are still following it. We don't exactly know when this started and when will it work. But the truth is it works.
This morning I read an article on CNBC about a 17-year-old who discovered a planet 6.9 times larger than Earth.
This story is pretty interesting as he discovered this on the third day of internship with NASA. Wolf Cukier got two month of internship on NASA during his junior year at high school. His first assignment was to examine the variation in star brightness.
Intellectual curiosity led to the discovery of new planet, named "TOI 1338 b".
According to NASA, TOI 1338 b is 6.9 times larger than Earth (in between the size of Neptune and Saturn) about 1,300 light-years away from Earth.
https://youtu.be/nfcTyuz8LWs
Sometimes a odd way is effective and productive way of performing our daily activities.
Here are the odd way of writing by the famous minds:
Maya Angelou used to rent a "tiny motel" to do her writing.
Beethoven counted exactly 60 coffee beans every morning and developed his composition while walking and bathing.
Francis Bacon preferred to do writing on hangovers.
What is you peculiar way...?
PS: I often write after meditation in the mornings or after a wine before the bed.
It depends on your work and your will.
Work is what you do professional by showing up on assigned time not necessarily because you like it. It's not your hobby. It might not be your passion. It's place where you put your effort for others (in most cases). It's a place where you wait for a break and a holiday.
Work is not free. You get paid at the specific time for the time you spent on the work.
Giving your ideas to someone, for free, who can spread it for positive influence worth it. It can be the platform to learn more and build connections. Writing a blog in Medium or Huffington Post for free might worth it.
The more generous you are with your ideas, and the more they spread, the more likely it is your perceived value goes up.
So keep going... But it's all up to you...
The best book that I read in 2019 are:-
Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Good to Great by Jim Collins
The New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
When you do your best you learn to accept yourself; you start to learn from your mistakes.
When you don't care for the rewards but you care about learning and growing then you do your best.
If you do your best, in search of personal freedom, in search of self-love, you will discover that it's just the matter of time before you find out what you're looking for.
The problem with this is we believe they are true. We believe they are real.
But it's not.
We make assumptions because we are afraid to ask questions for clarification. We believe we are right about the assumptions then we defend it and try to make someone else wrong.
This only creates suffering.
It's better to ask questions than to make assumptions because assumptions will make us suffer. But questioning it will give clarification so that we can end suffering.
They are not the same.
Hard work is hard because some tasks fail if you do not push with full effort. Long work is different. You do not conquer it in one burst. You stay with it. You keep going.
Solving an important problem is often long work. It still needs discipline, but not always in the same way hard work does. It asks more of your patience, persistence, and willingness to return.
The result in long work does not arrive the way it does in hard work. It forms more slowly. It asks for time.
Hard work wins certain moments. Long work builds bigger things.