In efforts to reach this end, we set up time-management systems and come up with plans of numerous varieties: daily plans, weekly plans, market plans e.t.c.. The motive is that the key to winning each day is to come to each day properly prepared, so as to achieve what we are meant to achieve. It is only when we have checked all the boxes in our meant-to-do list that we would deserve the bliss of accomplishment and a sense of satisfaction. But, as miserably accomplished people attest, setting out to achieve the items in our to-do list only addresses one bit of the problem of end-of-day satisfaction: a bit that can be called the technical bit. A superior bit of this problem exists and it deserves the attention we often reserve for dealing with the technical side of the problem. A bit that can be called the emotional bit.
Say you are at the end of a given day, alone. You play host to a multiplex of thoughts but one stands supreme. It operates at the background of consciousness, at the rim and at the foreground: You are broke. All the options available to you seem resolutely shut. You should call Ade, your best friend for 10k, but you had asked him last month. To ask him again would be a testament to one truth: You are an incompetent fool capable of nothing.
The perceptive reader would note how the interpretation in the above scenario arches, how it changes from one of fact to one of emotion. How "You are broke" quickly becomes "You are an incompetent fool capable of nothing." The scenario reveals one thing: We often play host to emotional interpretations of reality - and these interpretations are often impervious to tweaks offered by time-management systems and our best laid-out plans.
Our emotions - through feelings - often stem from legitimate concerns. However our failure to unpack their meanings when they come at us in unkind forms often ensure we endure twofold suffering. It is important, in addition to giving technical responses to problems we encounter, to deal with the emotional response we give to problems. This is because giving technical responses to problems we encounter often depends on the emotional lens through which we use to address them. A person who thinks in terms of being "an incompetent fool capable of nothing" as a result of being broke is unlikely to bring himself to dealing with his problems in effective ways. The key to living (remarkably) day-to-day is to ensure our emotional outlook reflects a true depiction of reality.
One contention to ensuring an emotionally clear outlook to living is that it can be difficult, and that it is possible to arrive at a false conclusion about the state of our emotions. But there are means to break through the difficulty of deciphering our emotions, from the utterly simple exercise of keeping a journal to the more sophisticated options of consulting a therapist. The truth of the matter is when it comes to dealing with the challenge of reaching the end of a given day in (blissful) satisfaction, it matters where we place our efforts and attention. How we navigate our emotions in technically dealing with problems matters.
Enjoy!
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Post Author: P. W. Uduk
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