Day 057

 Dear dreamer,

Finding Peace II

Finding peace is not synonymous to working less. If anything at all, it's a way to work harder at the important things, being efficient over being effective so you can have profound results. I like to describe it as getting into the flow- the right flow. I previously said a couple of things about not fighting the person you are - that's important. What's more important is the people and things you surround yourself with. It's very easy to adapt to being a mirror, in fact it's what we are naturally. We become what we relate to every time. So, imagine being in the wrong company. 

When you move with a capitalist, you will see how they view the world. They see every thing as another money making adventure for them. They think in term of value and are very quick to offer value in return for value. When you also exchange with a writer, you observe that everything to them is another story. I used this two examples because this are two things I study from time to time so I have moved with this actors on different occasions, directly and indirectly too. That's the effect of what you surround yourself with. It affects how you see the world and this is something you should align for your use. Surround yourself with your trade and you will realise that the way you see everything changes with time. You naturally become good at something you spend so much time with. 

People grow on you and you grow on people. I understand that more than anything. You need to find your flow, the right set of people you hang with. This is trade wise and principle wise. Move with impatient people and you learn to move on quickly without paying closer attention even if it's what you will do normally. You need to hang around the right set of people because their principles become yours with time. The way they approach things will teach you a trick or two every now and then. I always insist that it's better to not hang with the wrong people because you get affected in more than one ways. If you don't find the right one, take your chances alone. I spent few hours of a particular day with a business man, an experience I will never forget. It was like seeing the difference between black and white, a very jarring difference. I like to believe that I am a good judge of character and I tried to predict his interest and reaction, I was wrong every time. There is no way you would not learn and change after hanging with someone like him.  Beautiful thing about him is that all of it seemed so natural. 

Don't forget by the way that this is your one chance to live those dreams. That feeling hits different on different days.

                            ~A Penniless Dreamer