“A smile is happiness you’ll find right under your nose” – Tom Wilson.
“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present” – Jim Rohn.
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
Happiness had always appeared relegated to home and leisure. As Well-being has become mainstream, it now seems more acceptable to discuss people being happy in work and business. Do we all believe we can be happy and do we mean the same feeling when we talk of happiness. What is happiness for you and do you know how to find and nurture it? Could you recognise what makes you happy without first knowing who you are?
Listen for some thoughts that may confirm or challenge your views. Something here might also prompt you into action to be happy.
The Who Are You Podcast #16 - Musings in the Middle
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Are you feeling the squeeze from opposing sides, opposing demands, opposing desires? Are you tempted to play it safe and avoid taking a position? Is there a place and time for compromise and flexibility, and how could one recognise it?
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature…Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller
Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. – Teddy Roosevelt
The middle ground is at the same time pressure, balance, mediocrity, comfort & safety. It all depends on the situation. When one is in the middle, the key point to remember is to find oneself and be true to that self and from there engage with the situation. An authentic response would emerge.
Despite how it feels and how long you’ve been in the middle, you can still choose and feel you did. In Carl Jung’s words “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart…. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
In our increasingly noisy world, it’s easy to accept being distracted and that a short attention span is the norm. Successful individuals would however have learnt to focus and pay attention to what is most important.
Focus is both a choice and an action. It is ‘directed attention’ which takes place even in the presence of distractions. This is typified when we are asked to “pay attention”. Then, either one or several our five senses must be brought to bear on our chosen target. They’re unlikely to stay there for long without habit or an act of will. We can therefore learn to keep focus or pay attention.
So, does multi-tasking really work for you? Better than choosing to focus on one task at a time, before moving to the next? Are you still able to give adequate attention to each of the tasks? Perhaps you’ve not explored which suits you best. Listen, tell us your views or experiment with it, then share your views.
