Peak

[Nadine]

Sorry, but I just wonder why there are some folks out there who always need a peak to feel satisfied? Do you sometimes need a peak in your daily life and I don't mean something special you are working towards...?Do we all need such peaks but often don't know, because it's nothing extraordinary? What after reaching the peak, does it make more hunger on bigger peaks? Don't know how to express well....With martial arts, is it one point to try to keep the emotions to one special level and to make them controllable?

[Nina]

Sorry, but I just wonder why there are some folks out there who always need a peak to feel satisfied? Do you sometimes need a peak in your daily life and I don't mean something special you are working towards...?Do we all need such peaks but often don't know, because it's nothing extraordinary? What after reaching the peak, does it make more hunger on bigger peaks? Don't know how to express well....With martial arts, is it one point to try to keep the emotions to one special level and to make them controllable?
To abolish desires? I guess that you should have dreams, and that you should live your dreams more than you should try to dream your life, stupid saying, isn`t it? But if you reach what you wanted, what comes next?

[Musubi Dojo]

Didn't we just have a thread very similar to this? Can't remember the name of it...

[Jonathan Randall]

Didn't we just have a thread very similar to this? Can't remember the name of it...


Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120032/

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[Musubi Dojo]

Who invented "post it notes" again? :D

[Jeff C.]

The trick is to have more than one long-term goal. Always give yourself goals to attain.

I don't think people need them to "feel satisfied." They need them for motivation, to keep them moving forward in a positive direction.

Jeff Cook

[Nina]

Didn't we just have a thread very similar to this? Can't remember the name of it...
A peak doesn`t have to be the limit...:rolleyes:
(if you meant this thread...)

[Musubi Dojo]

A peak doesn`t have to be the limit...:rolleyes:
(if you meant this thread...)

But it's a hard landing when you fall back to earth.....;)

[wingchundo.girl]

What do you need to achieve satisfaction? I'm not sure what you mean by a peak, but here is my interpretation. The peak of my day can come in many different forms. It can be achieving a big goal or even accomplishing something mundane that I wanted to get out of the way. It can mean finally having that free hour to take a long bath or read a book. A student seeking me out to talk or to help them with a technique. Being able to take my 3k run. I find peaks throughout my day and throughout the week.

Now if you are talking about thrills with the adrenalin rush, or being emotionally in control, or being manic with large ups and downs, those things happen sometimes whether you don't want them or not.

Satisfaction for me is keeping balance in my life because it allows me to be efficient, disciplined, and lets me do everything I want to get done. It helps minimize unproductive or negative thinking.

Before I was working so hard on my business that I didn't have time for much else. Even though the business was doing well, I was totally dissatisfied. There was only one peak, business. I realized I was missing a lot.

A book I read, can't remember the author, recommended that you make a weekly planner that incorporated all your roles. My list was, Office Manager, Program Director, Financial Officer, Marketing Mgr, Daughter, Sister, Mother, Wife, and Individual.

Every week I make sure I do something that fulfills each category. Sometimes that means just making contact with family to say Hi, or buying flowers for my mom, making sure I did one thing artistic for myself, plus the dozen other things for work. You may not think you can fit everything in a week, but you can. You can't sacrifice one role for another. No guilt, just pure satisfaction.

[Nadine]

I didn't mean to have goals to keep everything in a continous flow, but if people can't be happy or satisfied when they do something and relax...,but to think what will be the next peak, even if they didn't complete the actual things....

[Nina]

I didn't mean to have goals to keep everything in a continous flow, but if people can't be happy or satisfied when they do something and relax...,but to think what will be the next peak, even if they didn't complete the actual things....
...that`s sad...

[Nadine]

...that`s sad...
yes, and????

[Nina]

yes, and????
For those people a peak is nothing more then a waste of time. They neither can`t be happy with simple things nore with peak-experiences, so I guess they are in some kind of a steady-state-down...

[dao]

A book I read, can't remember the author, recommended that you make a weekly planner that incorporated all your roles. My list was, Office Manager, Program Director, Financial Officer, Marketing Mgr, Daughter, Sister, Mother, Wife, and Individual.

Every week I make sure I do something that fulfills each category. Sometimes that means just making contact with family to say Hi, or buying flowers for my mom, making sure I did one thing artistic for myself, plus the dozen other things for work. You may not think you can fit everything in a week, but you can. You can't sacrifice one role for another. No guilt, just pure satisfaction.

About three years ago I realized work had pretty much taken over my life and the rest was a series rapid of highs and lows (with lows becoming incresing low). While highs (ie peaks) are fun but, lows suck. So, I am much more interested in how to lead a basically happy all-around life these days, instead of a great peaks. There are still things I look forward to like a week in the White Mountains with a close friend of mine this Autumn but, I enjoy my entire life more this way.

This technique is from Steven Covey's "7 Habits..." book. so I set a goal of becoming more balenced and I do a slight variation of weekly Role List too! I have 5 categories: Mind, Body, Spirit, Work and Home and One Big Goal (Currently Weight Loss) and then choose four concrete things per week to complete for each category. For example, under Home this week I have organize bathroom closet, shampoo bedroom carpet, donate extra clothes to Goodwill (a continuation of the organize clothes closet priority last week) and rinse out trash bin. It feels so good to check off the priorites each week :). And for any skeptics out there, I have managed to lose 25 lbs. since Sept. which is the steadiest and probably healthiest weight loss I've ever managed to obtain.