CHAOS & ORDER 2021

As we enter into the new year 2021, there is still some hope left within all of us to think of things that can go right & we often think of our worst fears come alive. It’s a mere combination of how our brain is so well structured to accommodate both ends and still choose one over the other in the due course of time & move forward with that intimate thought.

Chaos is one of the best ways to emulate from our current state to the next level. Whenever humans have been faced with challenges, the chaotic behavior sets in as much as to fight it & the challenge the status quo and set the best course to move away from those troubled waters.

This is more likely referred to a situation which we all know is when we are bitten by a mosquito in our deep sleep. we tend to wake up, hit the mosquito, or scratch our limbs if required. This is to do with regards to our reflex and not something with our emotions. Our brain is designed to react first and then analyze what causes it to behave in such a way. We often perceive chaos to be the worst nightmare but do we understand that “chaos has potential”. It is out of chaos many new things come out. In the business world today, we never understood the true potential of being productive from home until the pandemic forced us to be, all those stand-up meetings & reviews were done online using zoom or google meet or Skype for business.

We didn’t worry about how this could affect people, the long working hours, or the core values upon which the business has been built upon. We were too quick to adapt and move forward. Of course, this pandemic has helped us to figure out how to make the stressed balance sheet a little healthier without taking too much off the line items. There is something business realized that people adapting had mental issues while being productive working from home. This is our innate response to chaos but it just forced all of us to explore the unexplored.

On the contrary, we have ORDER, we have designed our brains to behave in one such way that we need the world to behave or us to behave that is acceptable in the world. When we go ice skating during our festive seasons, we have a strong hope that there is a solid hold of the ice on which we skate & that is what is order to be precise. We expect the expected and are not prepared to meet the unexpected. While order can bring forth a lot of benefits in our health, wealth & even mental wellbeing. We often fail to program our brains that order cannot be in order at every given point in time of our lives.

Here we are at the very beginning of the year 2021 with lots of hopes and dreams or say at least expecting the pandemic to end. Let's have order in our lives and at the same time be prepared for chaotic situations in our lives that will bring out the potential within us and give rise to the better version of us.