Life update: Yesterday I was fully involved and invested in FEEL by GoodMind.app. Was tired AF when returned and slept like a log.
My 17th blog was "The introvert with a purpose". Basically it was about how an introvert can feel comfortable talking to a strangers.
One thing I've become more aware of from them till now is that more important than the people you surrender yourself with is your internal environment.
Now, what I mean by "internal environment" are stuff like your feelings, mood, and attitude. We experience all kinds of feelings. We aquire certain moods based on what feelings lasts longer and eventually adopt a positive or negative attitude.
Most people think a persons' attitude, positive or negative, is all a person has inside them. They think a person with a negative attitude can never feel positive emotions and a person with a positive attitude never experiences negative emotions. The reason I don't see attitude as the internal environment is because I believe attitude is not set in stone. If a person is able to feel positive emotions for a longer period of time. Dwell over pleasent events as one would over painful incidents.
If we're able to do this any person can improve their relationships with people and most importantly themselves.
The challenge here is finding a clever combination of diversity, focus & caution.
Diversity in work, focus on the good and caution towards the dangers.
What I do is, I work on multiple projects simultaneously and use the positive energy I get from one thing that goes right to fuel myself for fixing things that went wrong elsewhere and the energy keeps circulating across projects. It might sound impractical or lame but, the catch here is the other people working with you on each project. The positive energy from the project working is one thing but the positive reinforcement you get from the people working with you is something else entirely.
If you can (learn to) manage your energy, keep the frustration of something going wrong in one project within that team, and, only allow the positive energy produced in each project to help you with making things work in other places, you'll become less prone to burnouts and further frustration. Just like positive energy multiplies, if you allow negetive energy to flow through projects and teams, it will breed more negetive energy and bring down everything—potentially even you.
You could argue that doing so many things parallelly can lead to more things going wrong than right and one should focus on one thing and give it their 100% but, I live by my teachers advice of “life is too short to do one thing at a time.”
In no way am I suggesting you should do what I'm doing but, if what you're doing isn't working, this is something you can try. If you are working on one project that you most deeply care about than no amount of “things going wrong” will lead you to dropping it. Maybe a pause here and there but a full stop, never.
Last week, a lot of things went wrong, and I mean A LOT! The trick is being unphased by things going wrong instead of becoming unaffected. What I mean by that is, things going wrong shouldn't break your will, but instead, make you aware of the risks involved and mentally prepared for challenges ahead.
Stay Positive.
Stay Alive.
Stay Sharp.