Flow Like a Water

Flow Like a Water

Have we seen yet water getting stuck in its flow ?  Never, right ?  Instead, water will always figure it out and find a way to worm its way in its flow regardless of the obstacle it hits along the way.  And to think we're just talking about water as a natural resource.  It's not even human-like.  Yet, the way it flows seems more super-human than us.  Can we Flow Like a Water in life?

Lao Tzu, the great Chinese Philosopher is best quoted by this poster.  What it says is a mouthful because despite its SOFTNESS, it overcomes even the monstrous and HARDEST obstacles ever, be it mountains or rocks.  We may start off a debate here and argue that we humans are not natural resources, and BTW, that is non-debatable.  That is a given.  But the truth of the matter is, the way our life flows, do we flow like the water day-in day-out ?  Me thinks, this is our gaping hole in life.

How can we translate these hollowed words with concreteness and crystal clear enough ?  Let's start with our THINKING.  Many of us [and that includes me before] OVER-think, OVER-contemplate and OVER-ANALYZE.  Yesirrrrrs, I can attest to all these 'OVER-OVERs' in a first-person account because I've witnessed how people can get so STUCK in the MUD, over-analyzing over and over again.

In two curt words, I've witnessed people in 'ANALYSIS-PARALYSIS'.  More than just being pitiful and somehow distressing, I find it appalling how some of us can end up miserable and so pathetic because of the sheer paralysis one self-inflicts upon himself, resulting NOT JUST to INACTION but sheer stagnation.  Imagine you needed to extract yourself from a foxhole?

It's as simple as overcoming that dilemma of ANALYSIS-PARALYSIS which is nothing but that inability to make a decision due to over-thinking a problem or a key decision-point.  What compounds our dilemma is that too much information, too much data drags us into that pit.  What makes us so thinly vulnerable to this dilemma is because it is that easy to get bogged down in an analysis of many options UNTIL IT BECOMES IMPOSSIBLE to decide.

How do we overcome all these ?  First off, let's agree that it's completely normal and logical that before we get to make a decision, we would take time to consider all options.  But what if when weighing your options, you can't get the scales to balance ?  Instead, you spend so much time thinking through choices you could make and end up not coming to any decision at all.

So can we not get into this 'analysis paralysis'?  #1-RECOGNIZE that you are having that ANALYSIS-PARALYSIS.  Only by recognizing will lead you towards fixing it.  #2-EXPLORE your own triggers causing you to OVERTHINK.  #3-Decide SWIFTLY on minor decisions.  I've witnessed people whose cognitive thinking goes on a full throttle before deciding whether to take his coffee or not. #4-DON'T ever let decisions 'consume you alive'.  #5-Improve your SELF-CONFIDENCE.  #6-TRUST your instincts and lastly, #6-PRACTICE ACCEPTANCE.  Remember, you do NOT live in a perfect world.  Let's all wake up all these realizations❗❗❗