A recap video of peaceful moments

Last day of Lunar 2018: love, calm, reflection

The last day of Lunar 2018 suddenly triggered me to make a recap video about the last January.

Respected School of Gumption team

I am not a high-tech person. I am not a professional designer. I have no expertise or “academic” training in terms of information technology. This used to leave great un-confidence in myself. I used to bother my close friends who are “real” IT-ers so much to help me through some technical problems no matter how easy or difficult they are. I did not have enough patience to look them up in the Internet by myself. This happens in the same way as I almost run out of patience when listening to my parents’ arguments or my sister ‘s childish behaviors.

After 1 week back home from School of Gumption, I have realized I have become more patient than ever! In a sense, I have turned into a calmer self which I have never felt before. I could spend hours reading super boring guidance of “fixing laptop errors” or making a video with times of failure. I could sit still and listen to my parents’ rambling on unreasonable things and transfer their anger into us. I could slowly talk to them though they do not listen to me, seriously. I could politely answer some repetitive social questions asked by adults and my relatives at Tet holiday that drove me crazy last year. I could take it easy to translate 47 English pages into Vietnamese during our biggest holiday, the time of enjoyment and relaxation. These acts have never been my cup of tea!

I think about the roadmap to cultivate values built by SoG that is through daily exposure to see others enacting the values, and overtime, we unconsciously think, act, and live the values that we grow up with. The embodiment of 6C values requires the conscious intention to embrace these values as a way of being. Learning new values requires the constant dance between our habitual self and our mindful self.

The changes in my behaviors and thoughts might be the result of both conscious intention and unconscious exposure to 6C values, specifically the Calm value.

Time is invaluable but should be spent on calm cultivation… whatever we do, think, or talk.

Take your time easy in a serious way to turn the value into the essence of your living.

#Grateful