To new beginnings and feeling the waves

Once again I’ve fallen back on the updates here, and as mentioned last time; I’m back and I’m busy.

New beginnings in life can be both exciting and scary, and that is exactly how I am feeling; excited and a little scared while fully enthused about exploring the boundless opportunities life has to offer.

Six months ago I embarked on my new career with one of the largest retailers in Canada.  The program that I am part of allows me to experience different areas of the business while having me learn and deliver on new projects every three months.  This keeps the job very interesting; at the same time, it gives me a steep hurdle to overcome – a new learning curve.

The one thing that motivates me in life is a challenge; and many new things in life, like this job, is a challenge, and so I am motivated.  Motivated to learn, motivated to meet new people, motivated to prove my knowledge, and motivated to deliver on challenges that change how people work.  However this motivation brings out a side of me that I don’t like to admit but know it exists – the workaholic me.  I would go at lengths to meet head-on with these challenges; to deliver results, and if it means working twelve hours a day, I do it.  Does this affect other areas of my life? Sure it does; and so today I learn new ways of balancing.

We have all balanced in life before; between tough deadlines at school or work, accommodating friends and family, to time for ourselves.  I have done this before too.   However, with new beginnings, there also needs to be new balancing methods; some tweaks to your past method to balancing that would make you enjoy do whatever that is you do.  And I am in that zone; the zone of finding the right method that will help me take full advantage of the new opportunities while enjoying myself and my friends and family – the things I cherish most in life.

Frank Herbert once said,

“There is no secret to balance; you just have to feel the waves”;

…And I shall not give up and keep on feeling the waves till I get it right.

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