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"Sine" Me Up...The Life Sine Curve Philosophy

In high school I was never very good at math. I always wondered how certain things would pertain to my life. Well, this summer I found a very applicable place for the Sine Curve. For those of you who are like me and hated math, the Sine Curve is the wavy line that goes up and down...sound familiar?

I'm willing to bet that if you could give the events in your life a quantitative value and begin plotting these on a grid, your life would create a Sine Curve. Take a random year, think about it. Did that year have some pretty amazing times? How about some times where it just seemed like everyday was the same? Or our favorite, the times when life seemed to hit an all time new low. I really believe that it doesn't matter what year in your life you reflect on, there will always be one constant and that's the fact that life will go up and life will go down.

I have been very excited to begin to really start to understand and believe in this philosophy. I have to give a shout out to my friend and co-worker Kimi who taught the people on my sales team and myself this! It's really put life into perspective and has helped me keep a good emotional range. Knowing that life is a continuing sine curve, when things go really well I still get excited but I also acknowledge that I'm on top of my sine. I don't expect to come down, but I'm forced to stay a bit more humble. On the flip side when it seems like everything is going wrong, looking at the sine curve reminds me that eventually if I just keep at it, I am going to climb up and I'll have my day.

So take a look at where you are in life. Perhaps things are going great! That's awesome, congrats for you, but stay focused and keep moving forward trying to improve and really enjoy what's going on around you. But perhaps things just aren't falling into place for you. Keep your head up, there's only on way to go when your at the bottom of the sine cure...and that's up! Good luck!!!

PS
Thanks again Kimi! You're awesome!!!

Comments

Kim Helton said…
No problem :) The sine curve can suck when you're at the bottom...but hope lies in knowing that the curve will always go back up :)
March 24, 2011 at 9:41 PM
Kevin Black said…
This post really helped me with a big problem in my life. I was on the low end of the sine curve but knowing that things could only get better i went for it :D
August 4, 2011 at 11:18 PM
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