Undeniable Value-Action Gap that I learned 🤐
Taking a moment to reflect on what I want to strive for, this one is not gone as I planned. 🧐
It has been a month since I moved to Indonesia’s capital city, coming to a platform I’ve chosen and working on my ambition. Yes, it is not what I planned in the first place, but here I am now.
From 📍Pontianak, Indonesia to 📍Jakarta, Indonesia
I will always be the one who valued the things I believe is important for my life, and it is always driving me on every action I took. Well, it remains the same tho. 🤍
Well, that is not easy for me. I live in an environment where I have conservative parents and siblings. Some of my friends also find it hard to understand every principle that I have. As I live for about 22 years until now, I always am the one who is different from my siblings; I always have my own mindset, system, and standard of living in my life. Instead of finding the best version of myself, I create it. That is why I put purpose, value, and ambition as the things that drive me at the very first place on everything. 📚
Talking about value… I think value itself is the thing that drives your action. Like what Simon Sinek says, “What you do simply prove what you believe.”
Before I decided to move to another job in Jakarta, I work in a company where it gave me a chance to learn things in a corporation. But something that I concern at that time, there is no single day where I feel fulfilled as a person. Even though I love my team there, I never actually valued the things I believe while doing the jobdesc back then. I work on something good, but I just feel that is not representing my value, which leads me to a “Value-Action Gap” condition. 🤯
“This is a condition where there is a difference between what people say and what people do. Simply, you are not doing the things you believe or even forced to do the things you did not believe yet.”
Read more about Value-Action Gap on Blake, J. (1999) “Overcoming the ‘value-action gap’ in environmental policy: Tensions between national policy and local experience”
Interesting right? 😏 When we (young people) talk about a job, we are not talking about how much salary we can get, or how big the company is (well, this one sometimes is an exception). It is because I am no longer forms opinions of a company solely based on the quality of their products/services but now on their ethics, practices, and social impact.✌️
I choose ✨independence✨ over freedom because I believe to have freedom means you are free to be anything but to have independence, you are free to be the best version of yourself.
I choose ✨excellence✨ over goals-oriented because I believe that as a human, the fulfillment that we strive for not only comes from the goals that we achieve but also how far we can go beyond the goals.
I choose to be that one kind of person who valued my principle; I will not doing something without knowing why I should do that. I choose to be here because I believe each of us has a different way to translate our values into action. This is my action, my why drives me here; I am waiting for fulfillment every day.
I am now working on something that significantly correlates with my values, and I am happy to emphasize every challenge I face every day here.🦾💪
I am very grateful to have a chance to understand myself more and understand the things that matter to live my life at a very young age, it might be working or fails in the end, but no one knows. One thing for sure, I am confident that this is the right thing to do from all of the right choices now.
Cheers to my second quarter of 2021, excited to see how it goes at the end of the year or even many years from now…🙌
One thing for sure is what will happen next is, I will give some of my resources to focus on giving thoughts through writing on a blog. Well, I like to give an opinion as well as fact. But I have very significant issues on differentiating the credibility between opinion and fact because nothing is actually right or wrong in this world; it will always depend on the context we talked about. So, instead of just joining my fellow friends who already get in this writing game for so long, I want to use this space to broaden up my knowledge and network towards the things that I concern.
Excited!
