This is not about drugs. It's just the title of the song by Dido I'm listening to at the moment.
There is a good deal of surprising, unexpected things falling into my life from nowhere at the moment. Both good and bad. Either on personal, professional, or relationships aspects. It's hard to keep track and remember where I'm headed in the middle of the storm.
What has not changed is that I keep reflecting a lot on value-driven leadership and personal direction.
10 days ago I attended an Aiesec conference in Clermont (thanks Martine for having your LC organize it all!!). Peak experience.A close friend and source of personal inspiration, David Pires, facilitated a session for the students who were finishing their term, being discharged of the responsibility of running their local chapter.
As a delegate in this session, I realized (or rather, remembered what I had forgotten) that this step is just as important as the introduction to responsibility.
Letting go of a role you had and knowing what to do with yourself after that... well, I think we don't think about that too much, usually.
And I found one point which is currently hindering me: Aiesec was a "peak experience". It is so hard to leave Aiesec, we always feel drawn back to it, because of the intensity of the experience.
As a "retired", an alumnus, what you need to do in order to move on, is to find your next peak experience. As long as you don't, you feel bored. You don't know what to do with your life. You feel "stoned", maybe.
So, I'm trying to do that at work. Mostly by taking on a loooot of things to do, at the same time.
Also personnally, I'm trying. Trying to connect more, to have more meaningful moments with my friends, my flatmates. Incidentally, I got "Rock Band" on Wii last week, that game is awesome, and it feels great to be creating a hit music with your friends, even on plastic instruments in front of a tiny TV set :D
I'll try to upload some pictures...
Last Wednesday was a parisian concert of La Grande Sophie: perfect evening with the perfect person
Tonight I managed to pick up going to the gym again.
overall it's not so bad, i'm just lacking the general bearing, the direction....
There is a good deal of surprising, unexpected things falling into my life from nowhere at the moment. Both good and bad. Either on personal, professional, or relationships aspects. It's hard to keep track and remember where I'm headed in the middle of the storm.
What has not changed is that I keep reflecting a lot on value-driven leadership and personal direction.
10 days ago I attended an Aiesec conference in Clermont (thanks Martine for having your LC organize it all!!). Peak experience.A close friend and source of personal inspiration, David Pires, facilitated a session for the students who were finishing their term, being discharged of the responsibility of running their local chapter.
As a delegate in this session, I realized (or rather, remembered what I had forgotten) that this step is just as important as the introduction to responsibility.
Letting go of a role you had and knowing what to do with yourself after that... well, I think we don't think about that too much, usually.
And I found one point which is currently hindering me: Aiesec was a "peak experience". It is so hard to leave Aiesec, we always feel drawn back to it, because of the intensity of the experience.
As a "retired", an alumnus, what you need to do in order to move on, is to find your next peak experience. As long as you don't, you feel bored. You don't know what to do with your life. You feel "stoned", maybe.
So, I'm trying to do that at work. Mostly by taking on a loooot of things to do, at the same time.
Also personnally, I'm trying. Trying to connect more, to have more meaningful moments with my friends, my flatmates. Incidentally, I got "Rock Band" on Wii last week, that game is awesome, and it feels great to be creating a hit music with your friends, even on plastic instruments in front of a tiny TV set :D
I'll try to upload some pictures...
Last Wednesday was a parisian concert of La Grande Sophie: perfect evening with the perfect person
Tonight I managed to pick up going to the gym again.
overall it's not so bad, i'm just lacking the general bearing, the direction....
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