Biting MORE THAN What You Can Chew?
HOW OFTEN do we promise more than WHAT we can fulfill? Dreaming way beyond the roof? Working way beyond what your health can handle? OR shopping till you drop dead till you end up with cashflow issues? OR living an active social life sacrificing your commitments at work OR in business? OR aggressively expanding your business prematurely? OR spewing your anger on someone till it affects your health? OR scrimping on your budget till you neglect your proactive health checks? It's Biting MORE THAN What You Can Chew📗📙📘Just one too many small-small debacles in life chronic enough. BUT the biggest ASK to our own selves is, is this a concern? An issue? OR are all these NOT worth a fraction of our time and effort at all? My quick retort is that there is NO ONE SIZE THAT FITS ALL. Instead, let us take stock of things, slicing and dicing, breaking down with the end view of making an UNFILTERED assessment, doing a post-mortem because for chronic issues that have compounded. Unless you cut down the serpent right on its very head💧💧💧 Now, before we dive into these murky waters, step back, look at the BIG PICTURE, and pin down on the LOW-HANGING fruits. Amongst all your overruns, shortfalls OR overflows, WHAT and WHICH ones are easiest to fix? And which mountains are the most steeped to climb? Once you have split-up the whole lot based on the combination of complexities and implications + consequences in your life, your NEXT STEP is to peg a no nonsense FOCUS on the short list of LOW-HANGING fruits. This is NOT to imply that for the remainder, you will simply sweep it under the carpet💥💥💥 As every personal situation is unique, there can be no apples-to-apples comparison for the collective dilemmas even between two persons. Nevertheless, in practical terms, allow me to share my generic list of LOW-HANGING fruits: - FINANCIALS - This is easier said than done. Examples would be credit card bills becoming mile-long ones. BUT if you want to overcome this even within a short-term. it's WILLPOWER
- WLB [Work-Life Balance] - As I articulated in a previous piece, this issue should NEVER be blamed to organizations [because no company can ever force one to work beyond his schedule, so, again, it's WILLPOWER😀😀😀
Our takeaway: Regardless of the compounded complexities of the issues and problems in life that need to be sorted out [a.k.a. FIX], at the very least, if hypothetically you have a hundred problems that need FIXING, even on a quite conservative estimate, 20% to 30% of the whole lot can be around SIMPLE/MINOR in terms of complexity. Clearing up [a.k.a. FIXING] those 20% to 30% should be a shot in the arm, a huge welcome relief from the tons of weight on one's shoulder. So, dude, still BITING MORE THAN WHAT YOU CAN CHEW❓❓❓
