The Hall of Awesomeness

One of the cool things about teaching technology related courses is that you often get to use language that makes you seem like a mystical twat.  This twattery, gives you access on a broader scale, to language of another community.  Load Balancing, sharing the load or passing things between devices to manage data better is a common practice.  When I thought about this concept, it was an apt description of our lives in two ways.  Firstly to manage your life you need the discipline to fit in the things you need to do and the things you should be doing.  I am the worst at this.  For example, I should do a lot more exercise.  I need to make time in my schedule to allow for this load.

Secondly, you need to manage what to put into your life and what to take out.  Hmm… this is harder and involves constant challenges to us because a lot of the time what is ‘best’ for us isn’t the course of action we are likely to take.  If you know in your heart that you want to be a fireman, you aren’t studying or even finding out about what it takes to put out fires you will, at some point, have to take something out of your load to make room.  There are some givens here: family (yes the cat counts), work and spare time.  You may have no spare time.  The thing is, if you want something bad enough, you have to find at least a small amount of time to create that load.  Before you can find a foothold in your fireman career for example, you need to create a reason for people to hire you.  That takes initiative, work and connections.  You can’t do it without these things.  How does this work?  That’s another post but for this one, know that part of load balancing your life means time devoted to giving time to your desires.

We often hear about ‘work-life’ balance but what we don’t hear is ‘gift-work’ balance.  How much time do you spend developing and stretching yourself?  Much time?  You don’t have time?  What’s it worth to you?  A few hours, a few days a few minutes?  Think about it.  Do you really want it… are you prepared to learn your craft and then spend the time mastering it, even when you don’t have time or can’t find a way?  If you are serious about this gift or talent or whatever, you will not find personal satisfaction until you spend this time developing it.  If I offered money-back guarantees… this would be the one thing I would stick my neck out for.  You can’t become brilliant until you first master the art of load balancing to make room for what you need and what you want.  It’s not about balance but about development time.  No development time, no mastering of craft, no matter how talented you may be.

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