{"id":137113,"date":"2019-04-02T15:58:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=137113"},"modified":"2019-04-02T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T23:00:43","slug":"genuine-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/genuine-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Genuine Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Focus progressing in your own life according to your own ideals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Make genuine progress in life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Genuine progress\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making progress on something which is personally meaningful to you. You judge your own actions and your own progress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Genuine growth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Becoming stronger in the domain you desire to get stronger in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153genuine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Too often we track our progress in life according to value-measure-metrics of society. We judge our worthiness based on metrics of money, social status, or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153productivity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (in the vulgar email-efficiency \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcinbox zero\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 mentality).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe in life we should only ever measure and track ourselves according to our own personal measures of success. This may be a quantitative thing we track (numerical metrics), or perhaps it can be a more qualitative thing we can track by following our own gut and judging ourselves of our own progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is genuine to you won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t apply to others, nor should it. To be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153genuine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d means to be \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcgenus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (specific to only you).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do I know whether I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m making genuine progress or not?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To me it is simple \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you feel more powerful today than you did yesterday?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I like the idea of treating every day like a mini lifetime. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like to track or measure my personal growth over weeks, months, or years. I like the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153day-over-day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mentality, as I also have a poor memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To me, to see \u00e2\u20ac\u0153progress\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is to see an increased quantum of strength, focus, or creative productivity from yesterday to today. For myself, if I can judge my own profess as 3-5% more everyday, that is awesome and great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I strive to progress in<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. Physical strength<\/li>
  2. Mental focus<\/li>
  3. Bodily and mental vigor and energy<\/li>
  4. Invention of new ideas<\/li>
  5. Writing (blogging) output<\/li>
  6. Photographic output (making more images)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    It is difficult to judge \u00e2\u20ac\u0153quality\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, so I generally just follow my own gut, my own intuition, and my own self-judgement of myself. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ask others, because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not trying to impress them \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m striving to only impress myself. And the more I impress myself, the more I inevitably end up impressing others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Stay genuine, stay grounded, and stay you \u00e2\u20ac\u201d there isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t anyone else for you to emulate but you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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