Kaulapi World

Another observation is that after another busy semester and getting hit on all sides, I really should be both mentally and physically drained by now, but surprisingly I’m holding steady and strong so far. My gut attributes it to the new diet that I started in August which I’ve been able to keep up on pretty well now 3 months and counting. Still no red meat, dairy, and not much meat at all, mostly vegetables and whole grains. I’ve kept off a solid 15lb even though I haven’t had time to hit the gym in about a month. I’m pretty sure that if I had been able to keep up with a regular exercise schedule I would be more like 25lb down.

The other part of the coin I think is that I’ve also been experiencing a benefit in overall mood and mental well-being. Working under a stressful schedule and environment can take its toll on the mind and perspective and I’ve observed a handful of instances that should’ve turned out very negative and somewhat self-destructive over the past few months, but instead I was able to turn them into very positive experiences in the end. I think a large part of this has to do again with the new diet and lifestyle change. All things considered, maybe eating more tofu, natto, wakame, brown rice, kim chee, hummus, saba and goya was a good idea after all. How you figgah?

Even newer assignments at work lately are giving me several examples of how many different styles of work styles, management and overall temperament goes into getting a job task done. In some ways I’m still refining my own style, being that I’ve rarely been in purely superior role, and even when I am, I almost never see it necessary to browbeat or to one-up a subordinate even when they made a mistake, I don’t see the point in beating on someone just for not following some official or unofficial policy or procedure. I tend to think that there are rules and then there are rules, and you pick your battles, save your energy for the real ones. Or maybe its because I simply don’t like telling other people what to do. I reserve that for life and death situations in which I have the solution to an imminent threat or danger, which just so happens to not have happened at work yet.