Tame the Mind - Part 1

In the professional world we do keep hearing phrases like "Keep it Simple" or "Stick to the basics" but in reality when it come to applying them we are far far away from it. The reason is that our mind does not let us do that. It is that Monkey whcih will never be still and will keep on wandering and trying to do something or the other.

Infact, we are always challenged to do something different and in the race of doing something different we are never at peace. Though mind works 24*7 and never sleeps but then it is important to control, manage and direct it output to something meaningful which gives happiness, satisfaction and a feeling of contentment.

As per me there few basic reasons why the mind, the most powerful tool becomes an uncontrolled animal:-

1. We never live in present, either we are thinking about future or the past. We are always engaged in what next. We are in a meeting but thinking about is there a new EMail or a new Whats App, after this meeting I have to meet Sushant and the list goes on. The next thing is like a radish infant of the donkey which he keeps on seeing but never gets to eat it. IT is important for us to live the moment that we are in and it is easy, though at the beginning like learning any new thing it is disturbing but when you start living and practicing this mantra then you will automatically start living in present and this mantra is "Mindfulness". It says that we need to be 100% involved and focussed in what we are doing, and it can be anything literally anything. As simple having a glass of water, or an ice cream or a eating any dish, just imagine when you are having delicious food wherein you are just focussing on it, the expressions of your face changes, the food starts eating amazingly great and you may not even realise but you might be making the the sound of "mmmm..." and enjoying every bite of it and when you are over you feel so good and there is feeling of positivity, completeness, right!. The same practice if try to do with everything that we do the mind will get used to it and you will have a better control over it.
2. There are multiple things which we try to drive at one go and in corporate worlds we are expected to do Multitasking but unfortunately we end up doing multiple tasking and my friends these two are very different. Multitasking is have many responsibilities to be handled and you approach each one those tasks/responsibilites one by one in a planned manner and ensure that the critical, urgent, important are segregated and worked upon in that priority. Whereas Multiple tasking is trying to all the tasks at one go for instance, you are in meeting, but you also trying to answer a mail and a sms or even taking the phone call, giving instruction to your PA, but there is no focus on one single thing which doesn't lead us any where. Hence to have a better quality outcome it is important that we focus on one task at a time, do justice to it and then move to the next. The more we do it the better you are able to perform a task and deliver amazing outcomes every time.

Will talk more about tame the mind in my next article ... keep tuned in....