Another day of work begins and unfortunately it is accompanied by stress and anxiety among us. And sadly, everyday, this stress is brought on the platform of our mind by our own negative attitude. Surprised, but it’s true.
Instead of setting targets to improve our own performance level in accordance with our past records, we are busy competing with other people who don’t even give a damn about our mere existence in their life. “I have to be number one”. This statement haunted many of us in our life. We are putting a lot of stress on our mind whenever we say this statement.
“I must accomplish more than other people and leave them far behind” and lot of other things we say to soar the magnitude of stress. We think a lot and most of the time could not deduce anything logical from it. Moreover we expect our mind and soul to accompany us in achieving that illogical conclusion we reached upon, giving more stress and pain to ourselves.
Just wondering , how can everyone be number one? How can everyone achieve 100% in their life? Being a student of economics, opportunity cost does not allow me to have everything in life. We get some and lose some. So is the life we live a paradox? How to achieve everything? How to live a stress-free life? Is there any solution?
Before reaching to the ultimate answer, we should first try to understand this. Everyone has their own strength and weaknesses. We all are different – one may be good at sports, other might be good at academics. Some people can communicate their thoughts effectively by speaking whereas other prefers to write. But due to our expectations and ego, I feel that instead of improving our capabilities, we end up spending more time meeting the expectations of others and in competing with them. Well, this may degrade our performance. Instead, we should work on better ways to improve our potential, rather than wasting our time trying to be someone else.
Now the big question arises. How to do it? How to reduce the level of stress in life? The answer is simple and you won’t have to go anywhere to find it because it is within you. All you need to do is go back to basics. Imagine your life when you were a kid and think about the amount of stress you handled when you were 4 years old. Statistically none. One used to enjoy their life, every moment. Just compare it with the life you are living currently. Are you even trying to live every moment of it? So break the monotony, do what you like and make every second of your life memorable. Improve your weak spots, learn new things. The moment you start doing this, stress will be gone miles away. After all, there is truth what someone once said: “It is not work that kills men, it is worry”.
So start you day with a positive attitude and a big smile because it is the only curve which makes all the problems go straight.
