Today, we must reframe our mindset. We must change the way we think.
Rex Bacarra, Ph.D.
UAE Golden Visa holder. With UAE Qualification Equivalency. Educator. Speaker. Writer. Specializes in People and Change Management, Philosophy, Leadership, Culture, and Ethics.
With what is happening, we must reframe our thoughts and change your points of view. The difficulty is the same - the fact is unchanging - but to see it in a different light will lessen its negative impact on our emotions. Hope springs from a positive attitude and opportunities are attracted to hopeful convictions.
Don't look at difficulty as a problem. See it as a challenge. Problems create a blur. Challenges make you act. They make you resolve to DO.
Neither be angry nor blame anyone to the point of being too overwhelmed by emotions. Do not also judge when one is angry, for behind that anger is fear, helplessness, and exhaustion, which we all share. When we are too angry, we become paralyzed mentally and crippled emotionally, and can hurt others and ourselves physically.
Tell ourselves always to pause. To reflect. See the pandemic as a fire with no intention to burn, but to mold us to do something differently. I read of a preschool teacher who lost her job, but instead of blaming her employer and the situation, she thought, "This is happening to many. This is temporary. This is a challenge I CAN OVERCOME." With that in mind, she started a fruits-and-vegetables delivery venture, and differentiated herself from the others through personalized service. Now she's getting by, able to provide for her family. This is keeping alive one's spirit in a deadening situation.
Reframing our mindset should become our habit. It takes time, but it makes us see who we are as human beings with the capacity TO HOPE and TO DO.
Reframing our mindset allows us to see that events repeat itself. Rain comes and goes. Sun sets and rises. Spring replaces Winter. Death gives way to life. Pain brings forth courage. Only when we allow ourselves to expand the way we look at the experiences of our lives can we understand life itself, and we get to set out from being negative to positive.
And TRUST.
Trust while you seek new opportunities.
Be happy when times are good, and be not afraid when times are bad.
God's loyalty and grace to you are unquestionable. Therefore, darkness should not be feared. You are afraid not because God will fail you - for God will not - but because you do not trust enough.