Learning to Create Value
The last few months have been eye opening for me. I have gone through unemployment, a breakup, a move to another city, scrapping by on almost nothing and struggling to get out of bed every day and look around me and say “thank you”. Yet here I am, still kicking… in the last few months I have also learned the most about myself, people I surround myself with, the world, writing, investing and inner peace.
I have started writing a lot in the last month or so, mostly to escape my mind and to get my thoughts onto “paper”. This has helped a lot with my mental health and with being able to take a step back and look at what I am going through and reflect on it. Learning to let go of control has been hard, but a good lesson to learn for me. I have never been someone who was really good at writing growing up, or one who thought they could be, but I have always had a story to tell. I have always believed that I could do something if I set my mind to it, and I know I may not be great at it to start, but that doesn’t mean I can’t become good at it. This is what I aim to do, I aim to become good at writing, and telling my story through writing regularly. I know it won’t be particularly good to start with, but I know I will improve, and in doing so, I hope I can provide value to others.
For me, one of the key forces behind me creating content, is to leave behind a legacy of growth. Something future generations can look back at and perhaps get some value from it. We all seek to leave behind some legacy one way or another, and for me, as I don’t desire to have children, this is a way for me to leave something behind that hopefully creates an impression on the world for generations to come. If in the next 500 years, someone finds my writing and learns or becomes better through it, my writing has truly succeeded.
I am a people person by trade, a connoisseur of emotional connection. I enjoy making people feel valued, helping them see their worth, their connection to others and the world around them. How might you ask? One, I write; I am working to write in a way that creates emotional connection with not just the words, but with me. Second I am a professional barista; I love creating coffee that is art, coffee that makes you smile, and while doing that, create a connection with the individual who I am making that drink for and showing them that I care not just for the coffee I am making, but also for them, the person who’s day I can make just a little brighter.
I also am representing many others in my creation of the coffee drink; the farmer who grew the plants, the worker who picked the bean, sorted it, dried it. The individuals who packed it, shipped it, who handled it in its transition often across the ocean, the people who inspect it, the Roaster who roasts it, and finally me, the barista who crafts that bean so lovingly, creating for you the drinker of the coffee, a drink that has not just come from me, but from all of the individuals working to provide you a drink you so lovingly hold and caress.
You my dear reader are precious to me, I create these articles thinking about you, how I can create value for your daily life, much like a coffee. You are my inspiration to create warm, inviting articles that make you smile, bring to life a warmth inside that makes your day hopefully, just a little bit brighter.
You are loved in so many ways. This I hope you never forget.
