março 12th, 2012
Hoje recebi um email de um colaborador, coisa de trabalho mesmo:
Neve. Derretendo.
Fiquei deveras pensativo.
Entenda: Sou um ser da Floresta, e dificilmente consigo perceber mudanças de estação. Nestas horas, imaginei Horácio: Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt.
Aqueles que transpõem os mares mudam de céus, mas não de alma. É difícil ficar com a cabeça aonde realmente estamos. Pensar no Agora, sabe? Some-se a isso alguma ansiedade, e vi que valia a pena responder o email do meu lado:
Aleksey,
I liked your email, so I’m sticking to a more personal note. If you
want to get just the work facts, there will be a section to cut from
this email.
I’m in Rio. Autumn is coming. I’ve came from a City where seasons are
mostly unnoticed, so the weather gets more gentle, and it looks a good
thing. This stage in my personal life is actually part III of the
so-called "Joselito Project", a small-scale experiment in my own life
since my divorce: I’m sticking to get outside my confort zone and
build experiences on my own.
Part I was nicknamed "No reasonable offer will be refused", where I
let my customers bring me and deal with their problems directly, and
brought me interesting insights for the next parts.
Part II was the moving itself. It involved some planning, lots of
delegation, and mostly some tough love. In particular, recucing my
scope of concern.
What is the logic behind that?
Thanks for asking. Now thats an interesting thing. I’ve been reading
Covey’s "The 7 Habits of Intelligent People", mostly between flights
and on my Kindle. It does a very interesting definition of
Proactivity, from a Geometrical Standpoint:
Pick a huge, gray circle. We call it your "Circle of Concern". The
gray area – and picture yourself at the center of its radius – means
everything which directly affects you. Could be your community,
family, friends, personal relationships, environment, anything which
you need to consider when you place your life into a landscape.
Now, within your gray circle, picture a smaller, black one. Its the
"Circle of Influence". Its those aspects which concern you, but you
can directly intervene.
Most people want to get and expand on the Circle of Influence. Me, I
just opted to reduce my circle of concern. So far, its working.
OTOH, there are huge things happening in Part III. I wish to
anticipate, but I’m awaiting some feedback to something which fits
nicely in the plan, although *NOT* originally anticipated.
But thats the beauty in life. Truth is: There is no such thing as
luck. There are always opportunities to leverage and new opportunities
to create. Lucky persons just manage this way.
As for me? My joke is that my family motto will be something like I
often say: "I do force on my own luck". But we never know how lucky we
are in a given moment, so there is actually no concern in abusing it
;)
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