How to SMASH through your personal barriers.
Aneal Birdi
CareerVive | Changing the way you hire and develop your people | Recruitment | Career Coach
I am going to keep this article a short one.
The topics covered here are as follows:
- Two essential skills you need to balance: Patience and perseverance
- Overcoming hurdles when they arise and NO later
- Entering what I call... Emotionless mode
Let's start with emotionless mode... because I know you read that and thought what? Think about that time you had a load of washing or had to empty the dishwasher and you stopped and thought "I will get to it later." Then, later arrives and you think "I wish I just did it" This is where you enter emotionless mode! Here is how it works:
"Ugh, I forgot to empty the dishwasher, I really cannot be... no... wait... Emotionless mode!"
Say it out loud to yourself.
What happens next? Empty your mind briefly, emotionlessly and thoughtlessly in order to smash the task out the park. It is hard to maintain without allowing thoughts to creep, so work fast whilst you can stay thoughtless.
As a result, emotionless mode creates happiness, because that is one less item off your plate (pun intended) and you did it stress free. It's knife when you don't fork about, right?
Ok, no more puns now.
Next, overcoming hurdles when they arise and no later. Think about a job you have had, where you left it or wanted to leave because you thought "I cannot take it any more" and you needed a short term fix of 'new' in your life. Six months later, same stuff, same miserable situation, same feeling, same... same. Same. The only thing that did not change is YOU. The reason why you did not change is because you left a hurdle that you needed to overcome, believing the hurdle was your job. 99% of the time, when life is the same, you are the same.
Finally, perseverance and patience... the perfect see-saw to balance. You persevere, without patience, you give up. You are patient, without perseverance, things stay the same. Same and same again. You must do both together consistently and, when one of them becomes tough, you must emotionlessly push past either scenario and get the job done. As a result, you will never ever be the same again and life will become balanced.
I told you it was short, the article is over before you could decide whether you liked it or not. In the same way, CareerVive can help you push past your barriers and never be the same again, before you have the chance to realise whether you are ready or not.
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4 年Nicely put Aneal. There is certainly a balance to be struck between patience and perseverance. And this bit made me smile - “It's knife when you don't fork about” ??????