In today's busy world this Patience has become a rare commodity!!
All of us want to get our things done and have our own priorities and we think that our work is urgent and important. Well, whats wrong in that ?? Its in fact correct to do right things at right time and all of us have freedom and liberty to do that. Then, whats is that I am going to write now? In fact its very simple. All that i want to emphasize is how to do what we do.
I do agree that we are all busy with our own work and all of us have only 24 hours a day. But we all should think- 'am I the only person with all these responsibilities?' or 'can I or to be specific, should I do my work at the cost of somebody's work or time?' the answer is very straight, its NO, I cant take anybody's time or I can't disrupt anyone's work. The unfortunate situation has been created in this world where we have become too selfish or to say too busy with our work that we rarely think about others. We are just not patient enough to do this. The cascading effect of this impatience has led to a series of problems.
I live in Bangalore, the IT capital of India and I get nightmares when I think of traffic in this city. After all 1/6th of state's population resides in Bangalore (close to 1 Crore) and the population density is more than 5k/sq Km in many areas!! How can we expect people to have safe journey in this situation? Its difficult but this situation still worsens when 'We, the people' act like animals. As long as motorists don't hesitate to ride on footpath or in one way, to wear a helmet, cross lanes without indicating, take three persons on the motorcycles, over speed, jump signals, ride or drive carelessly, cut across precariously and do everything they can just to avoid a signal or reach their place as early as possible, we can't expect a safe travel. The traffic density has increased exponentially and number of accidents are also growing. So, why don't we have some patience? Why cant we leave ten minutes early and ride/drive normally? This is very simple, right? We don't have the right to take anybody's time or life.
This is just an example, having patience can solve hundreds of problems and can avoid thousands which are heading our way. Be it reacting to your parents, children, spouse, friends or boss, if we just think and react we will become better persons. This is what Stephen Covey says in his 90/10 principle. He says on 10% of things happening in our life we don't have any control. The remaining 90% depends on how we react to this 10% of things. Isn't it simple? React in simple way to complex situation. many a times complex problems have simple solutions!!!
Adopt and follow this powerful habit and make your life happier....
All of us want to get our things done and have our own priorities and we think that our work is urgent and important. Well, whats wrong in that ?? Its in fact correct to do right things at right time and all of us have freedom and liberty to do that. Then, whats is that I am going to write now? In fact its very simple. All that i want to emphasize is how to do what we do.
I do agree that we are all busy with our own work and all of us have only 24 hours a day. But we all should think- 'am I the only person with all these responsibilities?' or 'can I or to be specific, should I do my work at the cost of somebody's work or time?' the answer is very straight, its NO, I cant take anybody's time or I can't disrupt anyone's work. The unfortunate situation has been created in this world where we have become too selfish or to say too busy with our work that we rarely think about others. We are just not patient enough to do this. The cascading effect of this impatience has led to a series of problems.
I live in Bangalore, the IT capital of India and I get nightmares when I think of traffic in this city. After all 1/6th of state's population resides in Bangalore (close to 1 Crore) and the population density is more than 5k/sq Km in many areas!! How can we expect people to have safe journey in this situation? Its difficult but this situation still worsens when 'We, the people' act like animals. As long as motorists don't hesitate to ride on footpath or in one way, to wear a helmet, cross lanes without indicating, take three persons on the motorcycles, over speed, jump signals, ride or drive carelessly, cut across precariously and do everything they can just to avoid a signal or reach their place as early as possible, we can't expect a safe travel. The traffic density has increased exponentially and number of accidents are also growing. So, why don't we have some patience? Why cant we leave ten minutes early and ride/drive normally? This is very simple, right? We don't have the right to take anybody's time or life.
This is just an example, having patience can solve hundreds of problems and can avoid thousands which are heading our way. Be it reacting to your parents, children, spouse, friends or boss, if we just think and react we will become better persons. This is what Stephen Covey says in his 90/10 principle. He says on 10% of things happening in our life we don't have any control. The remaining 90% depends on how we react to this 10% of things. Isn't it simple? React in simple way to complex situation. many a times complex problems have simple solutions!!!
Adopt and follow this powerful habit and make your life happier....
I forgot to give the economic dimension to the above topic.. Her it goes..
ReplyDeleteConsider we all start early from home and ride/drive at optimum speed patiently, turn off vehicles during signal stops, vehicle gives optimum mileage and u save a lot of fuel cumulatively!! This doesn't stop here.. You become a hero, First, you will in serve the nation by reducing the import of crude oil which in turn reduces the trade deficit and you buy less foreign reserves and keep a healthy level of foreign exchange reserves!! Second, You will have less carbon foot print, which means you pollute less compared to others, in turn you will contribute towards earning carbon credit which can be traded with developed nations !! Isn't this great on your part??!!
Then, reacting patiently to situations also saves a lot. If we lose our temper and shout at someone when something happens and to take out our anger if we damage things around us we will be destroying our natural resource which was spent to produce that thing. This means I buy things which I wouldn't have bought if I had controlled my anger and had not damaged that object.
So there are lot of unseen advantages for us if we react patiently and not lose our temper..