'Life Bar'

This whole is taking me to the next level. Just like how my friend perceives my so-called winning, work life has been like a game.

Remember that kick boxing game kids (and adults) play? The player's hands focus on the kicking and hitting and punching wildly all you can while the eyes are glued to that 'life bar'. One can never afford to have it empty. One should and must kick, hit and punch. 'Bite' if one has to.

Yep. I have my 'life bar' of my own. It's my energy level. It's my energy mentally and/ or physically. This bar has elements in there. Patience. Tactfulness. I find these two at work most of the time. Let's go through my day-to-day errands. Do decide which one needs patience and which one tactfulness, will you?

I listen to requests. Demands. Everybody wants to be treated special.
I listen to complaints. The mess .... THOSE are mine to clean up. One mess cleaned means one step ahead to give room to clean up another mess. Believe or not, I haven't found the end of this river of complaints yet.
I absorb. I watch. I get information. I have no mentor, professionally or socially. I self-learn.
I finish what I can finish as quickly as I could. I need all the time in the world for many others.
I split my concentration whenever and wherever I have to when I'm with whoever at work. That's efficiency.
I put my mind in boxes. They are arranged based on meeting, person, interest, project or even miscellaneous categories. I take one based on necessity consideration. Sometimes brain-capacity consideration.
I steal time to make decisions with my direct boss. An early morning briefing, a 3-minute talk, a walk from the 5th to the 6th floor. For me, decisions can take place anywhere. My boss doesn't seem to object at all. (notice the word 'seem')
I learn to shut down in the middle of the crowd. I learn to empty my mind. I know how to meditate in a crowded meeting now. I hope it de-fragments my mind and makes room for new stuff.

I know people are like the moon or the sun trying to pull me to their orbits. But the dynamics overwhelms me. It really doesn't matter how good I am as a teacher or a trainer, how good my proficiency tests were or how many skills I can learn. It's intelligence in its suspend mode. It's emotional intelligence mode now. And I am taking not the first or second level. Judging from the level of effort, it's the third or fourth level perhaps. I'll keep on kicking, punching and hitting while keeping my eyes on the 'life bar' for the next 345 days. I am hoping I won't drain up my 'life bar'.