After writing last week’s post about spiralling I had a thought about what it kinda meant to go through a positive spiral over a period of time. This post won’t be the longest but I want to talk about one main observation.

I’ve alluded to this before but I think like most ideas of self development they are worth repeating. We both understand that you can’t help someone else if you yourself are in disrepair. So, developing yourself is about first getting your affairs in order then from there you can start to lift up your friends and family. Next, it would be your immediate community that you raise up, and who know’s you if you keep going you might save the population.

The mechanism that pivots throughout that process is your focus, or you could call it you perception. At first, it is cast inwards towards the self, at this point a lot of what you do will be about making gains in your life. It might be a gain in the amount of money you make by getting a better job or gain better health and wellbeing by exercising more, there are endless examples.

However, you can only gain for so long before it all gets a little dull, take a look at someone like Jeff Bezos, all the money in the world but it can’t change the fact that no one actually likes him. Not even employees, whose jobs depend on his company care for him (I do know that is because of the horrible working conditions, ie no bathroom breaks). But that’s just a symptom of the perpetual individual gain mentality.

What needs to happen is the pivot towards giving instead of gaining. I’m not saying give away everything you own. It’s more like once you have a comfortable personal situation, your sense of fulfilment in life will only truly stay strong if you can find ways to ease the suffering of others. That aid can be monetary or it could be volunteering of your time.

But the key perceptional shift is that your interests, hobbies and projects will at that point start to revolve around others. You will still be involved of course, but the people that share in the bounty of your hard work and planning will ever increase as time goes along. I’ve noticed this in myself, goals and values I held for the longest time, or at least held in high regard. Now, don’t move me at all, and my own trajectory in life has completely changed away from what was planned.

It’s wild, I still feel like I am the same person but in saying that I also feel like I’m nothing like what I was before.

My Hedites, chase your own perception pivot, or maybe you’ve already had one in your life. If so, tell about it below, I would be very much interested to hear. Besides that, leave a like and follow.

Whoops I guess it wasn’t that short of a post. Anyways…