Enough, Sufficient - Quantity, Quality, Cost, Convenience, Choice (Personal, Purposeful)

Enough, Sufficient - Quantity, Quality, Cost, Convenience, Choice (Personal, Purposeful)

Poh-Sun Goh, 1 June 2022, Wednesday, 0502am, Singapore Time

(Just) Enough

Sufficient (Enough)

Quantity and Quality

(Right) Cost (of Attention, Resources, Time)

(By) Choice, with full Awareness and Insight

Personalised and Purposeful

For Who(m), (understanding) Why, before What, When, Where and How

Within Capacity

Build Capacity and Capability

Through Personal and Professional Development, and Growth

On Regular, Cumulative basis

Skilling and Scaling up

With Education, Training, (Deliberate) Practice

Teaming up, Partnerships, Networks, Technology and Platforms

Managing and Marshalling, Allocating Individual and Collective Resources and Capabilities

Over Time, Place and Pacing

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2022/05/surface-vs-deep-thinking-and-reflection.html

Surface vs Deep Thinking and Reflection - Then Choice; Narrow vs Broad 'and' Deep Thinking; Tactics vs Strategy; Efficiency vs Effectiveness; Who and Why 'before' What, When, Where and How

Surface vs Deep Thinking and Reflection - Then Choice; Narrow vs Broad 'and' Deep Thinking; Tactics vs Strategy; Efficiency vs Effectiveness; Who and Why 'before' What, When, Where and How

Poh-Sun Goh, 1st June 2022, Wednesday, 0145am, Singapore Time

Reflect on 

'Doing the right thing, vs Doing the thing right'

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/doing-things-right-vs-anish-mayaramka#

https://www.sitepoint.com/doing-things-right-vs-doing-the-right-things/

Go beyond tactics and strategy, and examine deeper needs, and wants

To sustain your effort(s). To take the 2nd (and subsequent) step(s)

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2022/05/thesecondstep-the2ndstep-by-pohsungoh.html

Go beyond efficiency, to consider effectiveness. Including doing less, to do more

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2022/05/less-then-more-then.html

Get, and see, the whole picture

From multiple points of view, of all stakeholders (community and networks)

Narrow and Broad

Short and Long Term

Near and Far

Underlying principles, norms, laws, models, values, and what is (personally) valued

Less, then More ⬇ then ⬆

Less, then More - applying the 80/20 principle

⬇ then ⬆

Poh-Sun Goh, 30 May 2022, Monday, 0338am, Singapore Time

Do less, to do More

Focus on Essentials

Essential Needs and Wants

Individual and Personal

Internal and External

(of) Meaning and Meaningful

(of) Value, Valuable and Value-Add

Giving back, paying Forward

Here and Now

Ichi-go Ichi-e

Ikigai

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"To use an accounting and finance analogy 

Exercise financial discipline 

Keep tight control of costs and expenditure (of limited energy, time, attention resources)

To allow one to Invest and Allocate these to high value, high returns and … some … green field blue ocean exploratory projects."

- Poh-Sun Goh, 31 May 2022, Tuesday, 0726am, Singapore Time

#TheSecondStep [#The2ndStep] by #PohSunGoh

#TheSecondStep [#The2ndStep]

by Poh-Sun Goh

Taking the first step [#The1stStep] is relatively easy. Trying something out. Initiating action.

Follow up, and following through with #TheSecondStep [#The2ndStep], and subsequent steps, is harder. And arguably transformative.

Follow through, and cumulative small steps combines habitual regular micro-actions (including micro-learning, and micro-scholarship efforts) with compounding effects (or power-laws), leading to 'tipping points' and zone of exponential growth, especially, when combined with technology to scale, and platform as well as network effects.

#Happiness #LifeSatisfaction #DailyHabits

"Regularly indulging in small pleasures, getting absorbed in challenging activities, setting and meeting goals, maintaining close social ties, and finding purpose beyond oneself all increase life satisfaction." quoted from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/happiness

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/your-emotional-meter/201712/the-benefits-delaying-gratification

Read Chapter - The Seven Habits of Happiness in book The 80/20 Principle. The Secret of Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch. Slow reflective deep dive into underlying idea, and sections - Daily Happiness Habits 'and' Medium Term Stratagems for Happiness

https://ozanvarol.com/paradox-instant-gratification/

https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2018/04/running-to-stay-still-vice-of-delayed.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_gratification

Kim, S. J., Kim, H. J., & Kim, K. (2020). Time Perspectives and Delay of Gratification - The Role of Psychological Distance Toward the Future and Perceived Possibility of Getting a Future Reward. Psychology research and behavior management, 13, 653–663. https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S246443

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7428406/

https://www.verywellmind.com/delayed-gratification-why-wait-for-what-you-want-2795429

https://medium.com/mind-cafe/delayed-gratification-the-science-of-making-hard-choices-easily-a896f7686e33

https://www.britannica.com/science/delay-of-gratification

#EpistolaryNovels #ExpositoryWriting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistolary_novel

https://www.nownovel.com/blog/exposition-examples-story-background/

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-an-epistolary-novel

https://www.writermag.com/improve-your-writing/fiction/epistolary-novels/

https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-epistolary-novel

http://www.electricka.com/ETAF/muses/literature/literary_forms/expository_prose_and_the_essay/expository_prose_and_the_essay_popups/more_about_expository_writing.htm

"I don’t think enough writers understand that a novel isn’t just a movie on paper." - western author Brad Dennison (quoted below)

https://www.helpingwritersbecomeauthors.com/write-not-write-expository-dialogue/

https://writingcooperative.com/five-things-to-remember-when-writing-epistolary-fiction-71f55a2b6ea7

https://www.writerswrite.co.za/what-is-an-epistolary-novel/

⬇

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/academic_writing/essay_writing/expository_essays.html

https://www.thoughtco.com/expository-writing-composition-1690624

https://www.scribbr.com/academic-essay/expository-essay/

https://www.masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-an-expository-essay

https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar-rules-and-tips/tips-on-writing-an-excellent-expository-essay.html

#FeelingGood #InHarmony #Rhythms. #IntentionalAwareness #Habits #Balance

#FeelingGood

by

#Being #InHarmony

with

#Life #Rhythms

with

#IntentionalAwareness

with

#Habits

of

#Balance(ing)

slow and fast

being and becoming

rest and action

consolidation and growth

empty and full

satisfaction and restlessness

consuming and producing

self care and caring for others

inner and outer

heart and head

individual and collective

narrow and wide

silence and sound-speech

yin and yang 

⬇

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/09/happiness-finding-dynamic-balance-point.html

“When you listen to someone, you should give up all your preconceived ideas and your subjective opinions; you should just listen to him, just observe what his way is. We put very little emphasis on right and wrong or good and bad. We just see things as they are with him, and accept them. This is how we communicate with each other. Usually when you listen to some statement, you hear it as a kind of echo of yourself. You are actually listening to your own opinion. If it agrees with your opinion you may accept it, but if it does not, you will reject it or you may not even really hear it.”

― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less. If you want to help him to correct his perception, you wait for another time. For now, you don't interrupt. You don't argue. If you do, he loses his chance. You just listen with compassion and help him to suffer less. One hour like that can bring transformation and healing. " - Thich Nhat Hanh

above quote from blog below (accessed 6 June 2021)

http://cultureofempathy.com/references/Experts/Thich-Nhat-Hanh.htm

"There is courage in pure listening. We practice listening with an open heart, and with the intention only to understand. We listen without defensiveness, and without the need to fix, instruct, or change the other person. We mindfully choose silence over speech, and resist saying the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.

above quote from blog below (accessed 6 June 2021)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/sg/blog/the-dance-connection/201004/living-courageously-heres-how

Jon Kabat-Zinn Defines Mindfulness (YouTube)

Jon Kabat-Zinn: Listening is an Act of Love (YouTube)

"Mindfulness Ιn Everyday Life" Jon Kabat Zinn with Oprah Winfrey (YouTube)

Body Language of Leaders - What You Can Learn From the Best (YouTube)

How to Start a Speech (YouTube)

“Unhappy is he who depends on success to be happy,” - Alex Dias Ribeiro, former Formula 1 driver. “For such a person, the end of a successful career is the end of the line. His destiny is to die of bitterness or to search for more success in other careers and to go on living from success to success until he falls dead. In this case, there will not be life after success.” quoted in article ‘Success Addicts’ Choose Being Special Over Being Happy: The pursuit of achievement distracts from the deeply ordinary activities and relationships that make life meaningful." by Arthur C. Brooks in The Atlantic, accessed on 16 September 2021, available on link below

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/07/why-success-wont-make-you-happy/614731/

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/09/sustainable-purposeful-living.html

"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Find the journey's end in every step." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T. S. Eliot

"The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started." - T. S. Eliot

". . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at the end of a journey, we should never stir from the place we were then in . . ." -  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”  - Kahlil Gibrán, Sand and Foam

“First lines did not define last pages in real life the way they did in books.” - Stephanie Butland, Lost For Words

"Life's all about choices. Everyone's destination is the same; only the paths are different." - Sushmita Sen

"Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it." - Greg Anderson

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination." - Carl Rogers

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." - Arthur Ashe

"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." - Henry Miller

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#TravelLight-to-#TravelFar. Poh-Sun Goh, 29 August 2021, 0400am, Singapore Time

#DynamicBalance #FlameOn-but-don't-#BurnOut #JustEnough #OneStepAtATime #StepByStep #Cumulative #Stacking #ObserveRespectBiologicalCycles #DayNight #WorkRest #RestWork #RestToWork #DownTime-to-allow-#UpTime #OffSeason-to-support-#OnSeason #WeekEnd-to-support-#WeekBeginning #FlipTheScript #RestFirst-then-#Engage #(en)Joy! Poh-Sun Goh, 28 August 2021, 0523am, Singapore Time

#Less-Is-#More #TravelLight #JustEnough #CarryLess-to-travel-#Further-and-#Longer !  Poh-Sun Goh, 28 August 2021, 0536am,Singapore Time

#Build-#Slack-#Deliberately-#intoDay-#Week-#Month-#Year; #StayLoose-#ToFunction-Consistently-At-#Peak - Poh-Sun Goh, 28 August 2021, 0602am, Singapore Time

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/08/travellight-to-travelfar.html

#Thriving, #Meaning, #Purpose - #SkillUp and #Connect, through #Networks and #Technology

3 foundation pillars (health, $/captured energy/resources/will), time) support expression of 2 pillars (skills interplay with roles) - skills built up from education, training and with some coaching, amplified through networks and technology; producing a meaningful purpose driven satisfying life, the apex pillar. To thrive (not just survive). In our human evolution from hunting, gathering through farming, factories, workshops and design studios. Poh-Sun Goh, 5 September 2021, 0825am, Singapore time.

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/09/sustainable-purposeful-living.html

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/09/happiness-finding-dynamic-balance-point.html

#Accounting as one of life's #Meta-skills

#Accounting as one of life's #Meta-skills

Poh-Sun Goh, 9 May 2022, Monday, 0527am, Singapore Time

Choices

How we spend our Time

Where we allocate our Attention

Our Energy and Effort

Essentially what we Care About

Builds up our Life 'Balance Sheet': Assets = Liabilities + Equity

Manifests in our Life 'Income Statement': Sales (revenue) – cost of goods sold – selling, general, administrative expenses (SGA) – depreciation/ amortization = earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) – interest and tax expenses = profit/loss (profit & loss or p&l statement or statement of operations)

Our Life 'Cash Flow Statement': Cash Inflow - Cash Outflow + Opening Balance = Closing Balance

Examine How, Where, and Why you spend your Time, Attention, Energy and Effort.

On your Needs, and Wants

Sleep, Nutrition (Water and Food), Shelter, Safety, Social Activities, Work, Professional and Personal Development and Growth, Building up your 'Assets', 'Capacity' and 'Reserves', paying close attention to 'Costs', 'Liabilities' and 'Debts', minimising and eliminating these.

Ikigai, Ichi-go Ichi-e

https://pohsungoh.blogspot.com/2021/11/need-to-have-to-want-to-cycles-of.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_accounting#Statement_of_cash_flows_(cash_flow_statement)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_accounting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting#Financial_accounting

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/accounting-skills-principles-you-can-use-everyday-life-chomwa-shikati

https://www.devry.edu/blog/importance-of-accounting-in-our-daily-life.html

https://paymentcloudinc.com/blog/basic-accounting-principles/

Notice, Feel, Move

Notice, Feel, Move

by Poh-Sun Goh

8 May 2022, Sunday, 1230pm, Singapore Time

Take a moment

Notice 

Where you are

Feel your feet, or what you are sitting, or lying on

The sensation of gravity, on your skin

Straighten your spine, lengthen it

Breathe in, slowly, fill your lungs, from your belly

Slowly exhale

Look around

Your surroundings

What is there

Who you are with

What you are doing

Just notice

Observe what you are feeling

If tense, let go and relax, slow your breathing down

If relaxed, consider taking a deep breath now, and expand your physical being

At this point, decide consciously, intentionally, to smile, feel happiness, and gratitude

About something you have noticed

Feel

Express this inwardly

Outwardly 

Just Notice. Feel. Move.

(To) Change How You Feel ...

Poh-Sun Goh, 8 May 2022, Sunday, 0540pm, Singapore Time

Engage your senses

(What you) 

See, Hear, Touch, Taste, Smell

(which I guess is the role of strolling through nature, reading, engaging conversations, a meal [in a lovely setting], clothing, ornaments, bikes, cars, boats, planes [and rocket ships!], travelling, exploring, wandering in wonder)

Externally, and Internally

Through Observation, and Awareness

Your Environment

Your Engagement with this

Your Thinking

What you Read, Conversations and Connections you have

How you Move, Your Physiology, Energy and Emotional State

Your Mood

Dynamically balancing Action and Rest, Expending and Renewing, Light and Darkness, Sound and Silence, Excitement and Anticipation with Peace and Serenity

Yin and Yang

To Change How You Feel ... be Aware of, Observe, and then ... (if necessary) Change What you pay Attention to, How you Move (including Breathing and Posture), What you Think (and Say).

Connection requires Contact, to build Confidence, in Competence, beyond Credentials, delivering at lowest Cost (time, effort, energy and proxies of these)