Day by Day #1 | Inaction is the outcome of your Mindset
I was at my workplace, finding difficult to take some action as well as focus on my work. I was getting a feeling of hangover although I didn’t drink last night. All I can do was to get out of this and ended up writing about why I felt so!
We are in spring and it’s the season of new beginnings: buds bloom, animals enjoy, and earth comes to life again. The pace in which wind blows reminds me of my childhood days. Without a doubt, Childhood days are the best memories. The memories that you wish to be recurring. I was similar in expectations this spring.
But this time, the spring was showing up in a different way. The situation is more panic, people are living with fear, and with the future in doubt. In December 2019, in the Wuhan Province of China, the first case of the pandemic virus “COVID-19” was seen. Since then, it has not taken a long time to travel around the world. It originated from one of our neighboring countries: China and that’s what makes the situation even uncomfortable. The fear still continues and no one is tested positive to date in our country.
It’s also the month of examinations: almost all the levels have examination this month because it’s the end month of our calendar year. Keeping the fear away, people are still dedicated to their work. Dedication is injected into the veins of the people. People are getting to work, offices, examination as usual but not sure until which day of the month we are continuing. Yesterday, I attended the exam of the challenging subjects of my course, that too in a challenging situation. After taking the exam, I felt quite relieved because I was not focused on blogging.
It has been about 1–2 weeks that I have been watching the series called “The Money Heist”: You feel bored in the 1st episode but when you keep being consistent watching this series, damn, you wouldn’t stay quiet until and unless you finish the series. And I have been the recent victim of it. The exam is in a few days and you are wondering what will happen next.
Today, I went to my workplace after 3 days. After all, it was ok because my workplace has a flexible time schedule as well as ‘work from home’ system. There was a lot of change in the workplace than before. There were different “COVID-19 awareness pamphlets” as well as sanitizers on every desk. The new protocol was implemented which focused on hygiene first.
The change I felt after being at the workplace was quite strange. In the past four days, I spent my entire time focused on the study, which has nothing to do with my work. In other words, my mind has diverted from my ultimate goal (i.e, writing blogs). But I had no other option. Whenever I wish to write about something, first of all, I think about my exams. The second thing, I hesitate to take any action because there was some fear moving around by heads.
Today, in my workplace, I felt the same. Though one of my exams was over, I thought it was all ok to continue the same routine of writing as I used before a week. In reality, it was quite different. In the past few days, my mindset was to study and pass the exam, therefore, I performed the action (i.e, reading, practicing, and researching). I’ve been doing it successfully for 3 days and I would have been continuing a few more days if there hadn’t been any exams gap.
When you have a mindset to achieve something, you do the action as per that. For instance: If I had a mindset to write a blog in a day, I would perform the action as per that: set goals and methods. After all, you are what your mindset is. If you are not succeeding, maybe your mindset is different than what you value a ‘success’.
To be honest, I had no mindset for today before entering the workplace. I went with no mindset and ended up with inaction (i.e, didn’t do my work in the way I should have done).
And another thing also to be noted is that your mindset should be strong enough to yield some actions. For instance: Ram has his mindset to earn a good amount of money, but he doesn’t work well on that (i.e, hesitate to put some actions). It means that his desire is great but his mindset is weak.
‘Desire’ and ‘mindset’ are two different things. Everyone has the desire to earn a good amount of money, have a luxury villa, a car and dream holidays. But mindset to achieve that? Very less. If you have a strong mindset to achieve that, you will have a proper roadmap or say proper action plan. But your desires die up there without proper action your mindset is weak.
In the end, What I learned today is mindset is the driver, desire is the car, and action is the road where desire runs.
I hope you liked my first blog series and I’ll be back again tomorrow with the new blog. Thank you and please provide some feedback so that I can improve.
