Where do you derive you sense of self from :- progress or consequence ?

What is your Primary Focus in work – Progress or Consequence? I know, most of you will say “outcome matters”. Alright. I agree with you. However, I have counter question for you; Is the effective consequence, performance, result or outcome possible only when you focus on it, every moment day and night. I can still read your mind that, you are still saying “YES”. Because that is what has been taught to us; without considering the negative by-product our side-effect from it. Still I am Ok with you, however let’s move a bit deeper.

When you primarily focus on consequence, performance, result or outcome and your secondary focus on process or progress; you are most of the time in your future; which may only give you some positive-excitation but no access to experience of now and positive energy to embrace the challenges in now. Try to think for a moment; can you enjoy your long-drive with your fiancée by indulging your attention every moment on what happens or will happen at destination? If you do so, you will miss to experience the greenery around, gazing animals, sharp peak of mountains, the soothing flow of river and so on on your drive-way. Also, you might get irritated, when you encounter a blocker on your drive-way. This might reduce your excitement, enthusiasm and derail you from reaching the destination on time. Also it may drain-out your energy to execute your planned events energetically. However, if your primary focus is on process and progress on your drive; not only you will enjoy the drive, but also you will consciously embrace the challenges on the drive-way to resolve it playfully in an effective, efficient and innovative way to reach the destination joyfully to execute your planned events energetically.

?In other words, consequence, outcome, result or performance becomes your automatic by-product as a law of nature, when you focus primarily on process, progress, curiosity and quest for possibilities. On the other hand, the obsessive focus on outcome or result will deposit the slow poison of aversion and cravings with a sense of struggle, entanglement and dissatisfaction. Unfortunately, this will happen even if you get grand success in achieving the outcome, as this success is ephemeral and high probability to making you self-centric pride. This becomes a slow poison for life to thrive with playfulness. In long-run it will lead to irritation, regret and remorse in later part of life. One of the surprising side-effect or by-products of this mind-set is that >90% people with this knowledge are dying with regret. As Sadhguru says; result orientation has become a trend as people are treating life is a race and trying to reach the finish line before everybody else.

Process and progress are closely connected to our action or response to a stimulus in life-situation; on which we have control over. However, the consequence, performance, outcome or result is dependent upon many factors of the universe; on which we neither have knowledge nor have control.?This is exactly what Srikrishna said to Arjun in Bhagvat Gita (2.47);

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Which means; “do your action without attachment to result of the action”.

?Do you also feel – “ result orientation is a slow-poison for thriving playfully in life?

?Kindly comment with your views.

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