Lessons Learned 2017: Valuable Insights Worth of Building Upon

Welcome to another episode of Halftime Talks. My name is Rahim Rasul, and you’re listening to the podcast that recognizes that in the military game of life, whether you’re up by 10 or down by 20, we all need halftime talks to uplift us, inspire us and challenge us to bring that level of performance it’s going to take to win the game.

Hear ye, hear ye. Come on. Come on. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of halftime talks, if you don’t know by now, the way we start this is by making sure our compass is pointing north, and that looks like appreciation today. Today, I want to appreciate the niches, the specialty areas, the specialty markets, the Specialty Products, where today we don’t have to have the general purpose products. Our interests and passions can be subdivided and divided along the divisions in a way that allows a marketplace to exist within our passion without necessarily needing the Walmart of things, we can have a provider who specializes in something we love in the communities that build around it are amazing.

I personally have a have a passion for journaling and the pens and the papers are what people are dedicated and passionate about creating, and that’s why I love niches and appreciate niches. Thanks for tuning in to today’s episode of halftime talks. We got a good one on our hands. I want to discuss with you some of the things that really impacted me this year, regardless of the events and how they played out individually. I want to share with you some of the lessons that I learned this year. What’s the point of journaling? What’s the point of being so observant? What’s the point of it all if we do not take what can be taken from these experiences, the information is there.

We’re capable, we’re intelligent, and I want to share with you in this episode some of the lessons that I took away from 2017 so as we prepare for this episode, I want you to get your mind right. Take a few deep breaths. Breathe in, breathe out, and here we go. At the beginning of any great pursuit, or the next chapter or segment of the pursuit, it’s kind of hard to move forward unless we’ve taken an assessment, an accounting of this last segment. What were the lessons learned? What were the areas that we can exploit? What are the ways that we can tune our machine so that in this next segment, some of the tripping and some of the stumbling blocks are not going to affect us?

So be it a vacation, be it a workout, be it a period, even a year, I like to take stock in a term that I affectionately call lessons learned. And so the year 2017 brought a myriad of things into my world. Brought a different level of understanding, and I want to share with you some of the highlights of those lessons learned. So here we go. I have mentees ranging from before college, during college, and now beginning that after college, transition a marked quality which is observable in each of their situations is this excessive amount of enthusiasm. It can be defined like thirst, and in thirst, we want to soak everything up, but that is tempered with an understanding that has come to my awareness this year, their cup size and their thirst are not equal.

The younger you are, the less experienced you have, the smaller your cup is. So I have to manage the quantity in which I pour into their cups, because too much information is excessive, and they don’t know what to do with it, and it can’t fit within the conceptual model that their cups can carry. As we get older, our cups evolve the the size of information that we can process and understand expands. Things begin to. Layer and layer upon themselves. So be mindful with the youth how much you pour into them at the risk of so much more than they’re asking for being capable of being absorbed and end result spilling over another 2017, lessons learned is and by the way, this is version 40.

I always seem to be learning another layer of this. The lesson goes, I accept people as they are and privately call them forward into their best state in the privacy and seclusion of my own mind. I can’t expect you to have the conclusions I’ve made without that similar life experience. Your journey is your journey, but yet and still, I can take the time to see where you want to evolve, where you said you want to get better, and I can call you forward from the privacy of my own experience. I don’t have to tell you criticize you complain about the contradiction of your own ambition and your own behaviors.

I could do that in the privacy of my mind, and not necessarily do that, but call you forward into your greatness. This is like version, like I said, number 40, and this year, it was like another refined level that came with this understanding. One of the biggest lessons that I learned this year, it had been bubbling for quite some time, but this year pushed it to the surface where I could see it clearly, and that is there is a cost of venturing into new terrain. That new terrain can be a project. It can be a skill and ability. It can be a new job. New has a cost, and you want to balance the new things that you take on, because when you venture into the new you’re solving challenges constantly.

You’re measuring every action between the standards and criteria that domain has set. You’re adapting old skills into this new format, and you’re negotiating the terrain. Often. Have you ever had that first job, the first day on the job, the first week on a job. You may not have been doing a lot, but you come home exhausted fatigue. That’s because, like, like computers, our body has its own CPU, and when your RAM gets exhausted, just like your computer, we slow down. And when you’re always solving things, and you haven’t had the ability to cache like you cache the website data. You can’t run super fast. You’re measuring, you’re computing, you’re analyzing, you’re comparing all these things, and not necessarily running at peak performance.

And when you’re not running at peak performance because you’ve taken too many new projects on it kind of affects your confidence. It kind of affects the way that you see yourself. You’re not getting the typical wins that you’re typically familiar with. So I’m not saying don’t do new things, but also be mindful of the cost of new you want to balance it. You want to reintroduce it slowly, and understand new within the context of the whole because new skills are necessary. But when you take too many things on too soon, it can give you a false perception of what you’re capable of. So that’s one of growing and to me, that’s one of the bigger, one of the larger, more significant lessons that I learned in 2017 and one of the last, but definitely not least lessons of 2017 that I learned wanted to share with you is that We have to be diligent in how we organize our life’s work, or the body of work that epitomizes who we are.

Toward the end of 2017 there was a few deaths on my radar be a public, publicly or privately, and it thrust into my mind that if something were to happen to me, all these podcasts, all my intellectual property, the journals, the photos, the video, the audio, is it organized in a way that whoever is the executive of. My estate will understand its value. I cannot make this process, which is sometimes incomprehensible to even myself, the life work of the executor of my estate. As we organize our work, we can conceive it better. We can leverage it better. It can even be passed down more understandably, do file systems and great naming structures, but I can’t expect somebody to be able to organize my life’s work more than me get it together.

And that man that’s that’s a few of the lessons that I learned this year. So I hope you enjoyed this. Miss Rahim, this is halftime talks pace. If you enjoyed this episode, check out episode number 116, our previous year’s Lessons Learned. Our entire library is available on our website, halftimetalks.net as well as the iTunes podcast library. While you’re on there, do us a favor, SUBSCRIBE and leave a review. Not only would we love it, but it would also make our podcast more findable, discoverable for other people like you who can gain benefit from the podcast. So until next time, go out there in the second half of the game and play to win peace. You.