PRODUCTIVITY, MOTIVATION, GROWTH

REIGN OVER THE UNFAVOURABLE

OVERCOME WHAT OVERWHELMS.

The Magic Ceiling
2 min readOct 22, 2023

How often do you go through tough times in your day, when things are not really going as you wish?

Maybe you planned to start your day with a run and it started raining?

Or maybe you are about to pack from a long day at work and your boss drops a new task for you?

Maybe you have finally sat down to study or to have some peace and quiet when suddenly all the calls in the world seem to dial into your cell and by the time you are through with them, you are distracted and off track, thinking how less time you have now?

Don’t you feel despair?

When a random unknown stops you from doing what you want to? Attempts to derail your day and your commitment to you?

Do not be troubled, as in depair lies the secret.

In such times, Life has 2 paths for you :

Path 1 : To Be overwhelmed, to wallow in your despair & blame your luck.

OR

Path 2 : To Reign Over The Unfavourable

To change the unfavourable to favourable, we must take a step back, to bring objectivity, to see under a new light, we must change our lens and see the true nature of our situation.

Is it really despair?

Allow yourself this, just for a moment, see through a lens of your better self.

See as a different version of you, a stronger version, a version who is Able! Indomitable!…Unstoppable!

A version of you who holds strength beyond bounds. Allow yourself this moment. Don’t dream, keep your eyes open, see it, feel it. Elevate yourself.

The version which faces the problem and the version which solves it are not the same.

Your solution is not at the same level as your problem.

Now, look at your situation. Look at it from your position of strength.

What do you see?

It is not Despair — It is a a Challenge.

It is not really a Challenge — It is an Opportunity.

The image must be absolute.

From the absolute image of despair. To the absolute certainty of Opportunity.

Get up. Don your jacket, cover your hood, go out, go run, go to the gym, work yourself.

Finish your calls, take a few deep breaths, settle down and work yourself.

Life will try to poke you, when you want to get something done, distract you, drop an obstruction but you know what you must do.

They are Pseudo Obstacles.

Go through them.

Act your version, Act your vision.

Do not let emotions get the better of you.

Understand the Opportunity it provides.

Show up. Take Action.

and once you have,

you will feel new, you will feel different.

You will know, you have become better.

Go be better today.

- Shakti

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The Magic Ceiling

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