On being an apprentice

One of my friends whose been following me closely in the last few months as I take my first steps in blogging, writing, social media and all things related, sent me the following quote, which I happen to find quite appropriate.

“To apprentice is to accept the unfolding beauty of progression. To become at ease with where you are in the spectrum of expertise. I have a good friend who has killed the simple, visceral joy of cycling and climbing because he never believes he’s good enough. He sets his sights so high that his performance is always a disappointment to him. Being covetous of what you are not is corrosive. Enjoy the slow blossoming of your own expertise. This is the craft of developing a craft.”

—from “The Path of Apprenticeship,” by Mark Jenkins

As I sharpen my writing skills and I become more litterate in the art of blogging I find myself in a road of continuous improvement. I learn so many new things every day and that in itself is very rewarding.

In many ways this whole exercise has been very therapeutic as I find myself writing mostly for myself but also with the idea in mind that the stuff that I write will be of interest to some readers and will in some way also help them along there way towards whatever destination they have set out for themselves.

I myself have become to find that there are two main things that are absolutely necessary.

The first being that everything that I do must in some way be interconnected, the sum of each being much more than 1+1 = 2

Whatever I do has to have positive repercussions for either my own personal growth as a human being,for growing my mortgage brokerage business, or for the travel agency that I manage and I think that I have succeeded in bringing together some kind of cohesion that might be beginning to show now 3-4 months into this venture. Although I am the first to admit that my process is always and I really mean ALWAYS about a lot of trial and error. I try stuff and if it works great, if it doesn't well that's a lesson learned.

I greatly appreciate people such as my friend that have encouraged me along the way and have pushed me to become simply put better at all that I do.

Thank you ever so much for your input. Thank you for always pointing out all my typo's and all of the mistakes that I sometimes do along the way.

As often happens with me I digress, I stated that there were two main things that were absolutely necessary for this whole blogging business to be worthwhile. The second part, which is just as important as the first is that I have always loved to write and I think that I had forgotten about that with the passage of time. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to get back in touch with the art of writing which is in itself a very powerful tool. The power of the written word is second none, it can end wars, it can bring down walls. I firmly believe we as human beings don't communicate half as much as we should. We put these great barriers around one another and we are afraid to reach out and tell people how we really feel on an infinity of subjects, be it politics, finance, love and relationships, religions... there is just so much stuff that we need to be talking about, I would not even know where to start.


Here's to being an apprentice... and I'm proud to be one. To not be an apprentice would mean that I was standing by the sidelines not doing anything, not progressing, not going forward, it would the infamous status quo, which I have never been much of a fan of.