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Grab some grub for your mind too
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Keep it active, energetic all the time. You will derive extra enjoyment from your routine. And yes, the devil will stay away too!
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TAKE A NEW LOOK: Why not try out thinking out of the box to keep the mind fit and fighting? Photo: K. Ramesh Babu
Habit is a recurrent, often unconscious pattern of behaviour that is acquired through frequent repetition. It ranges from brushing the teeth to maintaining cleanliness of the study room. If we cultivate the habit of paying attention to even small things, it guides us towards a healthy and intellectual life.
Life is not merely living, but leading a healthy life both physically and mentally. Before running a mile, the participants loosen their muscles. Loosening enables the muscles not to work against each other, but with each other. Like the body, our mind also has many compartments functioning in different directions. It requires loosening up. "Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong," said Norman Vincent Peale.
Whenever you are free, indulge in mental exercise. Mental exercise may include reciting Z to A, explaining to a childe why sea-waves come towards land, how an electrical cooker automatically switches off when the rice is cooked, conducting a mock interview, sketching your bedroom without observing it, recollecting the events on your previous birthday, and summing up your achievements during the previous year.
Try these out
Consider the funny idea of taping the entire one-day cricket match and watching it later by fast forwarding the advertisements and completing the show within four hours rather than wasting the time from morning to evening. Think of new concepts. How about showing films in railway chair car compartments, or selling cinema tickets at reduced rates to fill up the vacant seats in the last minute (like in certain airlines)? Continuous mental exercise thus gives you the stamina to concentrate in a better way.
The simple and main difference between great persons and normal people is that the former concentrate and work a bit more. When a fielder throws the ball from the boundary line to the wickets, the one-second extra speed sometimes decides the fate of the match. Always strive for the `extra'. Start with small issues. Next time when you brush your teeth, or write notes, put in some extra concentration for few more minutes, and you will enjoy the difference. That is practising success.
Types of complacency
Psychologists found three types of complacencies in people. When you are working for a small salary and somebody asked you to join him for partnership, you may not take risk though you are not happy with your income, and say you are contended with what you get. It is called cosy complacency. People with this habit normally say, "I am doing ok...not very happy but no regrets ... just keeping hand to mouth..." In certain situations where competition plays a vital role, the `I am comfortable' policy does not work.
Arrogant complacency is overconfidence. When a leading company thinks that it needs no further development or future thinking as it is doing an excellent job, it slowly loses its number one position. Arrogantly complacent people believe in teaching rather than learning.
The third type of complacency is more common. It is lack of vision. Our horizons are limited. Certain times we don't know what more can be done.
Some interest, please
A school-topper from a village struggles like a fish out of water to compete with more brilliant students when he joins a highly professional college. He may withdraw into his shell and cease to fight.
Apathetic and disinterested work makes us lazy and indifferent. A person went to the railway enquiry counter to ask where the tickets are being sold. The clerk asked "Which tickets?" The irritated passenger retorted, "cinema tickets". The clerk replied, "I don't know, this counter is to tell about the arrival and departure of the trains only".
Yandamoori Veerendranath
www.yandamoori.com
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