Your Sorting Hat: On the habit of Yes, overcoming boredom and facing disappointment
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Feb 20, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Say - "Yes" - at work to the next invitation you receive. Then continue to say - "Yes" for a week to every offer for action and participation in your life.
A colleague requesting support, a manager asking for a volunteer, a friend checking availability for dinner, or a child asking you to play - say "Yes".
Observe how you feel. What feelings do you have to overcome to say - Yes? Tiredness, distaste for an activity, plain habit, dislike for change, fear of discomfort? What happened after you finished the activity? Did it feel better, or worse?
The week may stretch you, or push your boundaries and uncover your limiting beliefs - daily hidden beliefs that stop you from a richer life.
Repeat often to grow beyond your current limits.”
II.
"Keep waiting for luck to strike you - for the lottery to say your name.
Or get up, step out, take action and make your luck.
At least, go buy the darn lottery ticket! "
III.
"When you judge yourself, count not your successes alone -
Your list of failures tells you exactly how many times you tried.
And you suddenly realise - you simply haven't failed enough!"
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Henry Winkler, known as the 'nicest man in Hollywood' also actor and author, on negativity, in his memoir - Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond :
"When you finish a negative sentence, it grows immediately into a paragraph, and then into a thesis, into so many words that grab your ankles and hold you in place. When a negative thought comes into your mind, you have to literally say out loud, “I have no time now.” People will look at you strangely, but you have to just keep saying it until it lodges in your mind. Release the negative thought before you put a period on the end of it. If you put a period on the end of it, you’re in the morass. On the other hand, if you don’t finish the negative thought, you can get it out of your brain by replacing it with a positive. What kind of positive? What I always say in my talks is that it is a moist chocolate Bundt cake with soft chocolate chips. No frosting."
Source: Book: Being Henry - Henry Winkler
II.
Osho, philosopher and Godman, examines boredom and its opposite, in his book - Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously :
"It is not a question of money, power, and prestige; it is a question of what intrinsically you want to do. Do it, irrespective of the results, and your boredom will disappear. You must be following others’ ideas, you must be doing things in a “right” way, you must be doing things as they should be done. These are the foundation stones of boredom. The whole of humanity is bored."
Source: Book: Courage by Osho
1 Question
When were you last disappointed with someone? When were you last disappointed with yourself? And so, where are your expectations not based in reality?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times