I have had a few queries about what Confusion Management is about. Comments such as “I don’t get it” have lead me to think that there is some benefit in explaining my motivation behind starting this blog.
I hope that the following explanation will add some Clarity to the Confusion (Yes that’s right a catchphrase!) and highlight what a reader should look for and take from it.
Basically this blog covers what I am thinking and pondering at the particular time. Confusion Management started out as an outlet for frustration, frustration in my work, frustration in the path my life is taking, just general frustration.
I turned to the Internet to find out if anyone else was talking about similar frustrations, well there was plenty of commentary, however it is not all in one place. I started Confusion Management to pool these ideas in a one stop shop.
My goal is to produce 3 posts a week.
The general categories that I plan to cover are; The Quarter Life Crisis, Change, Strategies for dealing with Work and Life, Financial Planning and anything else that I discover and think that might help you as a reader!
I have already started to tackle the Quarter Life Crisis in this post, I will continue to add to this category as I look into it more.
The Change and Strategy categories are another avenue to my ranting!
I am very interested in strategies that make managing information for business’s and especially individuals lives easier, to use a Web 2.0 term “Life hacking“. These two categories are intertwined, dealing with change is probably the hardest skill to develop as a human. Once you become comfortable, it is very hard to challenge yourself to become better.
Change will challenge your comfort levels, this can cause both internal and external conflict. Conflict will impede change, conflict will then kill any progress that an individual or company will have made and ultimately destroy all involved.
The Strategy posts will hopefully provide some tools for dealing with change and others challenges that are faced in today’s fast paced world.
If you are reading this it is because you either know me or have stumbled across Confusion Management while surfing the Internet. The easy access of information amazes me no end. Everything these days happens so fast.
Think about when you send an email, especially if you are in front of a computer all day, you expect a reply if not straight away, at least within the hour. It was not long ago when a similar letter would have been posted and a reply would not have been received for a few days! Business and life went on while that letter was on its way back to you, whatever you needed that information for could wait until you received the reply. The Internet has sped this process up, the strategy category will explore some ways to slow the pace down.
I am studying a Diploma in Finance majoring in Financial Planning, another aim for Confusion Management is to provide some insight into what I am learning to add some value to your financial well being. There are plenty of offerings when it comes to getting financial advice on the Internet, and the advice is pretty generic, the advice that Confusion Management will offer will hopefully add a little spice to a pretty boring topic.
What should you take from reading this blog? Hopefully we are able spark some conversation between readers under the relative anonymity of the Internet. Please leave some comments, you don’t even need to register your real name (although it would be cool if you did!).
Eventually I would like to welcome some of you on board to add you own posts around what interests you in life, come on write something, I dare you!
If you wish to lurk, that’s fantastic as well. Apart from sparking conversations hopefully it will help expand your thinking outside of your cubicle or car or whereever you spend the majority of your day! At the very least I hope that Confusion Management will offer you some interesting reading while you have your morning coffee.
Please remember the more visits to the site the greater the motivation for me. Please pass this word around!
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Luke
I really like the way you have taken a problem, that seems to confront many of us at one time or another, and put your thoughts out there for us to ponder consider and make a decision on. Im hooked!!
Im going to take you up on your dare to write something and add a few more of my thoughts for discussion….
What do you think of our current society?, and the general pressures and expectations that have been formed over the years in between the generations? you touched on the new technologies avaliable to help us manage lives, but I think that these very things that help us manage our lives are a contributing factor to why we feel the need to manage our lives.
We seem as a society more intent on pushing ourselves further and further trying to cram more into what can already seem to be a very busy life.
Our work lifes all seem to be the same work hard lots of people I know work late nights they work on the weekend and I too will put my hand up to say I have done it as well but where does it get you? society in general seems to always be tired or exhausted but people want more money so they work harder to gain the recognition and the possible pay rises need more money to enjoy life… which I think the old saying that money doesnt buy hapiness rings true. I have always said that I work to live rather than living to work.
Personally when I have sat down and looked at the many questions that enter our daily lives I dont want to conform and be like society wants. Could that be an approach more poeple take? be individuals in all aspects of life.
We all wear differnet clothes to set us apart yet when we speak of our lives and our jobs it all seems to be goverened by what we earn or what we have? Sure I would like more money for what I do, sure Ill happily drive an expensive car but for me personally Im happy with where im at and Im happy doing what I do so do we feel incomplete personally or do we incomplete as per societies view?
So I guess im saying that in someway I think the generations have moved into a completly different mindset and can we contribute that towards society or is it just the way that the world works?
Possible theory is that its just the way it is but why should It be?… for example: I look at my father and he is a very laid back go with the flow kind of guy and althought things do occasionally bother him he never seems to have the weight of the world on his shoulders not even when he was sick, and althought people say im exactly like my father when it comes down to the low times in life, Im exactly the opposite and I take the weight so in my mind set I feel like im not getting somewhere and im not acheiving all that I could be.
But yet im reminded of what I have and I look at what I have and who I have to share it with and feel content and happy and I think happiness outweighs anything.
So can that be contributed to society and the pressure to confrom or is it a generational issue we have created? who will ever really know.
Food for thought I guess
Simon
I like the thoughts that have been sparked in Simon’s mind.
What works best for everyone is always going to be different, some very similar yet somehow different too. For myself, I’ve reverted back to simplification. Trying not to analyze everything. Accepting that sometimes, things just are the way they are meant to be. For what reason? I believe for the lessons we are meant to learn. Be it learning to take things in our stride, learning patience or learning to be less analytical!! Simplification, it works for me.