In general I am not a big shopper but around this time of the year it is just hard to escape the build-up of the internet shopping festivals.
At least this year I shop with a purpose: fueling future Life-Sparring rounds with some freaky experiments.
Let's Fight (our) Mediocrity, One Round at a Time!
In general I am not a big shopper but around this time of the year it is just hard to escape the build-up of the internet shopping festivals.
At least this year I shop with a purpose: fueling future Life-Sparring rounds with some freaky experiments.
It had been very long ago since I had been as emotionally touched by a martial arts event as I have been with UFC 193. The unexpected KO victory of Holly Holm against larger-than-life athlete, Ronda Rousey had really been pumping my fists in front of my television.
Holly Holm’s KO victory was not just an absolute awesome display of intelligent fight preparation, discipline, striking technique and sportsmanship; it was in my eyes most of all a triumph of focus, a triumph of mindfulness. Watching the fight provided a lot of motivation to intensify the search for my own inner Holly Holm.
While I do not see a chance to outsource parts of my management job to a helping hand in India, and don’t plan to do so myself, I was nevertheless intrigued by the idea of delegating tasks I am completely incapable of doing myself. So when I was starting with the preparations for Life-Sparring, I had my first stabs at outsourcing 2.0, primarily using a web service called Fiverr.
I never have been a particularly brave person. I guess in some aspects I was even a fairly fearful child. Only in university did I slowly start to break free from many of my fears. As it seems, being able to confront my fears is at least one positive side effect of aging.
How about you? What are you afraid of? How do you deal with your fears?