Some of us believe deep down that people really can change. These growth oriented assume that it’s possible, for example to get smarter if you are given right opportunities and support and if you try hard enough and if you believe you can do it. Conversely, some people think that you can learn skills, but your capacity to learn skills – your talent – can’t be trained. The problem with holding the latter fixed mindset view – and many people who consider themselves talented do – is that no road is without bumps. Eventually you’re going to hit one. At that point having a fixed mindset becomes tremendous liability. With a fixed mindset you’re likely to interpret these setbacks as evidence that, after all, you don’t have the “right stuff” – you’re not good enough. With a growth mindset you belive you can learn to do better.
– Angela Duckworth
Labels
We need reasons
Reasons for everything
Not just a reason,
We like to label
When I am scared to speak in public
I label myself as introvert
I don’t try to see whether it’s my extreme fear or just a feeling everyone goes through
When I label myself
I repeat
I am an introvert.. I am an introvert..
So I try to behave like one
That day I thought of saying what I felt in class
In front of everyone
But,
“Introverts don’t speak in public, they don’t like attention”
Thus I killed my desire numerous times,
To fit into the category
I gave myself
One day I was forced to enter in elocution competition
I closed my eyes and told myself
I am not afraid of speaking in public
It’s not that bad
I didn’t get a round of applause
But my teacher beamed at me
“Yes, you spoke!”
© Vrunda Chauk
Note to self – 4 (letting go)
There are times when you realise you can’t carry on anymore with someone.
There are times when you realise your paths are now different. You want something else from life and they want something else.
There are times when you realise it’s hard to continue with them.
It’s the time when you need to ask yourself –
Am I holding on to something I need to let go of?
Dear me,
I know how much you want him. I know how much time you’ve spent planning future with him.
I understand the pain you are going through while ending this.
But you can’t stay like this forever. He isn’t treating you well, you need to choose what is right for yourself.
He may or may not change, but you can’t let yourself suffer until he decides to treat you the way you deserve to be treated.
You need to stand up for yourself. It’s time. It’s better to let go than to hold on.
You owe it to yourself. While loving him, don’t forget you deserve your love first.
Don’t be scared that you might be alone. Yes you might be lonely for a while, but this too shall pass. You will feel free and in due course of time… Happy..
Sometimes it’s better to forgive and let go and move on with your life…..
With love and care,
Me
Writing a diary…
I’ve started writing a diary since the start of this month.
I always wondered, why do people keep diaries? Why to write you day in it? It won’t be of any use in future…
Recently, I came across a very beautiful article written on WordPress by a girl who kept writing a dairy since she was 7/8 years old. The way she told her experience and the beautiful way in which she conveyed the importance and need of writing a diary touched my heart.
Therefore I decided to write a diary and see what happens.
Also when I started, I was having emotional imbalance. I read it somewhere that writing about your emotions helps.
So that’s what pushed me to try this new ritual.
I’ve been writing for a month now and I realised that everything that girl mentioned in her blog was so true! And there are many other benefits as well.
I’d like to share them with you.
Here are few ways in which keeping a dairy helped me –
1. Improved my writing.
I feel it much easier to express my emotions through words now.
As I write about my daily life and what happened and how I felt, it also kinda improves my storytelling. Every day when you write a diary, you eventually try different and interesting ways to tell the incident.
It’s fun!
2. Reduced my overthinking.
When you are writing about something, you tend to analyse it. You cannot write the same stuff again and again. At some point (usually after 3-5 mins) you run out of negative thoughts to write.
That’s helpful. It helps you gain clarity on your thoughts. When your thoughts are on paper, it’s easy to analyse them and rule out the ones that really don’t make any sense.
But when these same thoughts continue to stay in your head, you get into downward spiral of overthinking.
3. I can enjoy good memories, any time! 🙂
Yes! When you’re writing about your good emotions, note the details of the situation and express yourself.
When you go through it the next week you will feel as if you’re living the experience once again.
You will feel grateful for those beautiful moments you had in your life.
4. I realised every day is new.
Now this might sound pretty obvious. But when you write diary you truly feel it. Every single day is unique, no matter how same your tedious chores are. There are many different things that happen every day.
I used to think how boring my life is, doing the same repetitive tasks again and again. But now I understand, there are many small, new elements you can include in your daily life to make it more interesting.
This might also remind you that every day is a fresh start and you have the ability to make it more beautiful.
5. Reduces stress –
When you are stressed or overwhelmed and there are so many thoughts in your mind that you find hard to control, writing them down can be helpful.
Once they are on paper, they do not bother you that much.
6. Makes it easy to reflect on yourself –
It gives you time and opportunity to think about yourself. About your feelings, about your growth, about your problems and about your happiness.
Life is short. It goes by quick. Between out hectic schedules it’s easy to miss out the little moments of happiness and growth. You need to hold on to those little moments and reflect on them. Pay attention to them. Live them.
7. It makes it super easy to track your progress –
You want to develop a habit. Or you want to read 500 pages of the novel this month.
All of these tasks need you to keep a track record of your progress.
How cool would it be to write that – You are following up on your habit or you are on your way to achieve your goal every day in your diary!
You’d feel proud and happy. Even when you are not able to keep up to your word, when you write about it, you feel the need to continue the behaviour in future.
So that’s how this “new” behaviour has now become my helpful habit.
You can try this out too guys!
What is your experience with writing a diary? Or starting a new habit?
Please share in the comments below!
I’d like to read! 🙂
Hope you all are having a fantastic week my friends!!
Want long term happiness in your career? This can help
Do you like Japan? Oh I love it! The culture of Japan sounds pretty awesome! Their food, their dresses, their anime, their traditions, their lifestyle… It fascinates me.
Okay so, this post is not about Japan. You might be wondering what long term happiness has to do with Japan?!
Oh well, there’s a reason I talked about Japan because the concept that I’m going to introduce to you, originally comes from Japan.
So what does it mean to be happy?
How can you achieve long term happiness?
Japanese people have this really interesting concept that I’m going to share with you all today, which many people have found to bring long term happiness in their lives.
It’s called ‘Ikigai’
What is Ikigai?
So Ikigai literally means a “reason for being”. The word Ikigai has been derived from ‘iki’ meaning life and ‘kai’ meaning realisation of hopes and expectations.
Its something you can do every single day which can make you happy in the long term.
“Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.”
– Victor Frankl
Many people think not having to do anything will make them happy. Seriously?!
You can spend a week without doing anything. But what next? You gotta do something in your life! You can to do something you like, something you’re good at and something that brings happiness and meaning in your life.
Now speaking of work, let me be clear. Don’t think that “If you love what you do, you won’t have to work a single day in your life”. I haven’t found that to be true.
I mean doing what you love is definitely interesting and cool but it still feels like work. You get tired and exhausted but you have to keep going.
But if you choose your work, based on the following guidelines, you will be happy with your work and achieve long term happiness and satisfaction in your life.
Now, tell me –
1. What is the activity that you love doing? Something you really like to do and can spend hours doing that.
Because if you want to be happy, you need to do something you like. Or you might not want to pursue it long term.
2. What is something you’re good at? I mean what’s your strength? What is something that you can do much better than others?
Oh you cannot do something you’re not good at and be happy! haha… I mean you need to have the necessary skills to keep going. Or you might get bored soon or even depressed.
3. What is something that you can get paid for? I mean how can you earn money by doing what you like?
Money matters! You need to get paid well to enjoy your life. Yeah, I know money can’t buy happiness. But if money is spent to get some kind of experience, it can make you happy! Because memories last longer than material things and you can cherish them and be happy.
4. Is what you like to do beneficial to the world in some way? How can you help others by what you do and bring a positive change in their lives? Or how can you ease their lives by solving a problem and make a difference?
You are happy when you help others. Many studies have proven this. When someone tells you you’ve made a positive impact in their life or helped them in some manner, how does that feel? You feel extremely happy right? You are also satisfied with your life and your work when you’re constantly seeing the positive impact you’re making.
There are four combinations that come from these 4 criterion.
If you do something you love and something you’re good at –
That’s your passion.
But having a passion is not enough.
You gotta find ways you can get paid for it and figure out how it can be helpful or beneficial to others.
If you do something you’re good at and something you can get paid for –
That’s your profession.
Many people have their profession, but according to Ikigai, to be more happy you need to figure out whether you really love what you’re doing and how can you change the world for the better by doing so.
If you something that you get paid for and you believe it makes the world a better place –
That’s a Vocation.
But that’s not enough either. You need to figure out how can you get better at this or how can you improve your service and whether or not you like the job you do.
If you do something the world needs and something you love –
That’s your Mission.
Now it’s great to have a mission! But you also need to figure out how can you get paid well for your services and how can you improve your work, how can you get better and better at what you do.
And if –
You have the all four…
Congratulations!
You are going to be happy and satisfied with your work in the long run.
So, keep doing what you’re doing!
I also want you to remember that this is not the only criteria to be happy.
Doing this may not be actually possible for some people and I totally get it! It’s okay. Life has many more chances to be happy.
But if you’re struggling with your job, work, profession, career, this can definitely help. This is something you can strive to achieve.
To be honest with you guys I have a Mission right now. I need to figure out a way to earn from it and how to get better at what I do.
Hopefully I’ll be able to achieve the balance soon.
What about you guys, what do you have? What do you need to work on?
Did you find this interesting and helpful?
Please let me know in the comments below!
Thank you so much for being here!❤️
Hope you have a happy and productive week!! 🙂
