Patterns in our life

In Bhagvad Gita, an ancient text in India that millions of people use an an ultimate guide to become one with spirit, it is said that the seed of whatever happens is in our consciousness.Because of this we keep attracting the same types of events and people around us. This causes us to do action and then go through the results, on which we have no control.True, we have no control on the results, but I think we have control on identifying the seed of the consciousness by looking at the patterns in our life. For example, in my job, I am always put at some remote site away from my people. The good part is, I get time to meditate and stuff. The bad part if I miss having lunch and tea with my colleagues in the main campus. But the best part is, once I become aware of this pattern I can choose to change it (by telling my boss about changing my role to main campus) or enjoy it (by meditating).So I get more freedom on what I want to do.There are several other patterns in my life other than being left alone. I am very often faced with a situation where I am required to stand for myself. I have to believe in myself and fight the world (not in a violent way though). So the goal of our life is to identify these patterns and become free from them, I guess :-)

Something I have learnt today

All my life I have always thought to become a manager and have always unconsciously thought that managers need to get wok done. And to get the work done they need to have authority and also show that authority. But some events in the last couple of years have taught me that you do not need to display authority.I have learnt today about myself that I am not very good at giving orders to others. I was unnecessarily putting pressure on myself trying to be someone like that.All I can do well, is to ask them can you please do this, or point out to them like, I think it should be this way etc.It is good to realize who I am really am so that I do not get caught up in trying to be what I am not.And now I am on a journey where I am learning stuff about myself even more.