Today’s
world, one of the greatest challenge-we face- is of having ‘too much’
of information but we don’t really know what to do about it.
Information
about anything & everything is
easily available in digital platform, that keep us engaged in mining more and
more on daily basis.
Have we ever thought why we are mining it religiously?
What goal we are trying to achieve out of it?
What are we loosing
or gaining in this mindless race of ‘knowing more’ and utlising rare few?
All we
have been able to figure out as response to above queries is sweet and classy
excuse: I am (very) busy these days!!
We don’t
realised about it until we introspect or we are reminded (of course by those who care about us)
So what
we can do about it!!
Let’s
try a simple exercise:-
Ingredients
that can make one happy-
Energy + Time + Money
We can
make ourselves happy by focusing energy & time towards what will make us
happy, including working (Money) but just in different way.
Start will happen
by clearing down our mind. It’s not easy but when you
put in prospective, it is possible.
Our
mind is occupied by points which can bring us joy!
More at the same time it also has few points which annoy us. But we end up doing those annoying
thing in social pressure or as mandatory norms of our routine.
Now
that the few points, which eats up our time
& energy and we are left with no time, hence an excuse “I am too busy”!!
We have
to make an effort to clear-up those ‘annoy’ to make room for joy and time for
yourself so that you can do-meet-chat
with those who care about you & vice-versa!
Honesty & Politeness can
help you to easily sail thorough NOT-SORRY Sea and tackle guilt.
1.
Make a list of both points at start of week/month
2.
Categories then as joy or annoy.
3.
Try to be honest & polite, when declining
annoy as well as well in advance.
4.
Remember 'not' to commit to annoy points and decline
at last moment, which is far worse, and you may be seen as
stupid/unreliable/add any common slang of your preference.
Sample
done for you!
|
Go to
work
|
joy
|
Do it
|
|
Mandatory
training & meeting
|
Kind
of annoy
|
Do it as job demand
|
|
Session/Charity of
your co-worker, you don’t care about
|
annoy
|
Decline in advance
|
|
Doing
your actual job
|
joy
|
Do it
|
|
Attending
a going away lunch party of someone whom you don’t even like.
|
annoy
|
Never commit but decline in
advance
|
You have already saved time for
yourself to spend with people who cares about you and you are happy to be with
them.
Say - Good bye to “I am busy”, it’s not cool anymore!
Research have stated that people
who are always with “I am busy” tagline are ‘unpleasant person’ and are more
likely to be suffering from acute depression and future loneliness.
On
lighter note:-
Hey any link about the research
you are referring to?
Sorry guys, I just made it up!!
But if you continue with tagline, do pass me your details in comments -- surely you can be the subject of case topic.
Thank you!
Satender Kumar Mall
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