Doodle

 

Rebuild your belief system.
信念を再構築しよう。

 

What belief systems do you have? And to which belief systems do you give power?

It’s not about religion, although religious belief is an essential part of his or her belief systems for some people.

It’s more about how you live as a human being. For example, there are thousands (if not millions) of beliefs about money, but most of us choose and live with only a few among them.

Your world will change when you change your belief system. Or when you just give more power to the belief system that you didn’t value before. It’s not always easy to do so, but it’s much better than living a life of frustration and complaint.

 

 

See things differently.
違った見方をしよう。

 

I’ve decided to self-publish my book. I don’t need to write from scratch—because I have about 380 Doodle Cards with a short essay. I just have to pick up better ones and compile them into one book. Or maybe more.

Someone might say, “English is not your first language, and your writing is not good enough.” I know. So I am going to use Grammarly app to check my past writings so that I can remove grammatical errors from them.

Someone might say, “Well, your drawings look like the ones drawn by kids.” I take that as a compliment. As Pablo Picasso once put it, “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”

We don’t have to have permission to do a thing. We just have to choose ourselves, do what we decide to do, learn from the outcome, and move forward. Until the very last day of our life.

 

 

Don’t be a fake.
偽者にならない。

 

‘Trying to be’ is way different from ‘being.’

Someone may say to you, “Be yourself.” It implies that you are not yourself, at least from his or her point of view. So you try to be yourself, and sometimes feel like you succeed to be yourself. Sometimes don’t.

But we have to be aware that we are always ourselves. It doesn’t matter if others can see it, or how they recognize it. It doesn’t matter what other people say about us either.

You are always you. No matter what happens or how you feel about it. Don’t try to be something or someone else.

 

 

Give leeway.
自由裁量を与えよう。

 

Hiring a professional is always a better idea than hiring an amateur. You have to pay more, but in the end, it’ll cost less than dealing with crappy work of an amateur.

It doesn’t mean that all professionals do great work. Some of them are good, and the rest of them are mediocre. But, even if they are mediocre, they usually know more than you do and are more capable than you are in a particular area.

The problem is that, if you treat a professional as if he or she were an amateur, you won’t be able to make the most of their work—or, most of the time, you will deteriorate their professional work.

The key is to give more discretion to a hired professional so that he or she can pursue own creative pursuit to make their jobs better. If you don’t want to do so or can’t do so, hire an amateur or do it yourself.

 

 

Detect an illusion.
幻想を見抜こう。

 

Who are you trying to be?

Someone who fits into someone else’s belief and expectation?

Someone who is admired by people around you?

Someone who has a lot of money?

No matter who you want to be, you might as well double check if that aligns with your true self. If there is a gap, something is wrong; probably you are trying to pursue the illusion that someone created as an ideal life.