I wanted to water the plants in the back yard.
Suddenly I remembered making
a phone call and thought will do it after the call.
Call over.
Then I sat down on the
balcony to write the script for the video series. As I was writing, I happened
to glance at the plants in the back yard.
Hey! I have not watered the
plants. Next few minutes, the mind was oscillating between whether to water the
plants or continue the writing.
I also remembered to check the google calendar!
Chaos!
Does it sound familiar?
Why does this dithering in taking
decisions happen?
Though we plan everything to
the T, something comes up and the entire schedule goes for a toss!
Doesn’t it play out
similarly in all our life also; both in personal as well as professional front?
Suddenly all the time
management techniques seem ineffective.
And we feel jittery, get
annoyed and stressed.
Why does it happen this way
always?
The clue is hidden in the
situation narrated above.
The thought, by its default
nature, oscillates between past and future.
This will prevent us from
focusing on the job in the present!
It is a known fact that
thought is the driving force behind the action, however, not all thoughts are
actionable!
According to a study, anywhere
between 60 thousand to 90 thousand thoughts bombard us in a day!
So in order to avoid
dithering, we need to focus only on actionable thoughts and drop all
non-actionable thoughts!
And that is possible by
practicing to be in meditation every now and then!
This enables us to focus and
accomplish the task on hand, be it at home front or work front.
Now on whenever you tend to
dither taking a decision, just step back from thinking mind for a while and you
proceed to take appropriate action!
1 comment:
Lovely. Thanks for sharing this @subramani sarode
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