Sometimes it’s overwhelming to see things that need to be done.
Sometimes it’s overwhelming to see the complexity around us for living.
Sometimes it’s overwhelming to see the web of relationships around us.
Sometimes it’s overwhelming to see life getting so complex in this digital age.
But…
As long as its working,
As long as you are living,
As long as you are happy!
How does it matter…
The empty part of the drawer is what makes it useful tool.
The same goes for a filing cabinet, a toolbox, and a calendar.
Then why should we be overstuffed with things?
Being overstuffed is not useful in fact most of the time it is detrimental.
If it’s easy, it would have been already done.
If it’s easy, no one would pay you to do it.
If it’s easy, there won’t be any learning.
If it’s easy, there wouldn’t be any growth.
If it’s easy, there wouldn’t be any glory.
If it’s easy, you would have got bored.
If it’s easy, you are stuck in the same place.
So stop cribbing about not being easy and embrace toughness.
And comeback with flying colors on whatever you do!
In life, there is rarely anything that is in black & white. Most of it is in the spectrum, spread over various colors. Our mind oversimplifies it to black and white, or a positive or negative.
It’s a good thing that it is in the spectrum because we can bend the mind to decide whether it’s happy or sad, or glass is half full or half empty.
Look at any condition in life initially if it’s a happy condition there comes a point when that condition will start looking sad. Or it can be somewhere in the middle. Similarly, sometimes the initial impression of a person will be excellent but later it turned out to be a not-so-good person.
If you look deeper it’s all about our interpretation of the condition, the person, or the scenario, it is all in our mind, it’s in the spectrum.
In the end, it’s the mind that decides the side of the spectrum, good side or bad side, positive or negative.
Have you ever had a brilliant idea while taking a shower, or knitting, or working out? “Aha” moments tend to pop up when our minds are quiet and our consciousness is at rest.
You can nurture these moments by creating an environment of silence and solitude. No matter how busy you are, do your best to take breaks between meetings and find some alone time. Go to an empty conference room or, even better, leave the office and take a walk outside. Once you’ve reached a quiet spot, ignore what’s going on around you and focus on your inner thoughts. Put your phone on airplane mode to completely disconnect for a block of time.
This will allow your mind to truly wander, so your brain won’t miss the next lightbulb moment when it happens.
We glorify drama, conflict, and emergencies. And that’s what we get in media and that’s what sells.
But what we don’t watch or like seeing something being built, someone changing something for the better.
We’ll probably spend billions of dollars and millions of hours transfixed by media coverage of one disaster after another.
But what we don’t watch is an ordinary man building something or even helping in the true cause.
It’s easy to imagine that culture cannot be changed and we don’t have a choice in how things work.
But in fact, the culture keeps changing and if we pay attention to building rather than drama, the culture follows.
Work leads to happiness.
Work is consistent.
Work is progress.
Work helps distill fear.
Work creates power.
Work creates wealth.
Work creates serendipity.
Work is serenity.
Work is your soulmate.
Hence Work hard and Worship you work!
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Sometimes doing nothing can work wonders.
We all have limited mind space. But the beauty of the mind it is malleable and with practice, we can make it process better and faster in the same limited space.
Let me take an example:
While learning to drive a vehicle;
Initially, your mind will occupy most of the space while you are driving, how to handle the steering, how and when to apply break, when to accelerate, etc…so many things going on in your mind, it is fully occupied.
But with practice and time, once you have learned. You can drive a vehicle in less than 10% of mind space.
Our mind is so malleable and powerful. With practice and time, we can effectively increase our mind space and do manyfold workloads.
All it takes is practice, habit, and time to increase the mental space.
The Earth file system is full? What can we delete now?
The clue is humans use maximum hard disk with minimal productive data.
Can we delete and save /earth from crashing?
