The significance of fostering alternative views or activities
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We all face potential challenges in our lives. These challenges open the path to moving forward. Many of us take these challenges as obstacles or threats and decide to be unmoving.
Movement is the essence of life. Stagnation gradually makes our lives obscure. We know it, but the majority don’t bother.
In this vast landscape, there are opportunities, but most of the time we fail to identify them. If we select and pursue some goals, we leave them midway through or even earlier. Keeping something half-done is a great default in life.
Planning is more important than the plan itself. A plan is the process of identifying what is to be done, and in planning, we have a map of execution. Even a brilliant plan may end in failure if execution is faulty.
There are circumstances when we genuinely need to go for Plan B. It is okay when the target is the same. In tough situations, we have to have plan C or plan D too.
This blog is to discuss alternative views and engagements in our lives. There are many paths to arrive at the same destination. All paths have their own merits and demerits. But the whole thing depends on initiating the process, even if the paths are largely disguised or vague.
Just recall a career plan. There are or were many options. Based on our own wisdom, skills, trends, conveniences, and opinions, we are today teachers, entrepreneurs, advocates, academics, artists, writers, cooks, and farmers. Nobody is born an artist or scientist.
When someone fails in business, it does not mean that the individual, partner, or group has lost everything. Another business can be explored, the location can be changed, and we may form new groups or even shift to do something else.
Whatever we opt for, there are obstacles of different sizes and varieties. Thinking about complete smoothness in any action is an illusion. We have to face all barriers head-on to reach the ultimate.
"When you fell down yesterday, stand up today." H. G. Wells
We can see alternatives clearly only when we are not hugely disturbed. Yes, in emergencies, we don’t see the alternatives and jump or apply force.
In normal conditions, there is a need for patience in all endeavors.
"Patience will achieve more than force." Edmund Burke
While discussing alternatives, we must consider the words of Jennifer Aniston as below:
I always say, Don’t make plans; make options.
The significance of alternatives cannot be underestimated. At the same time, we must not develop the habit of jumping from plan A to plan B to plan C and again to plan A. Mostly, it is a sign of indecisiveness.
Once a decision is taken, we must be strong enough to execute it, considering barriers as not more than ryellow signs for traffic or points of caution.
Once we know the power of fear, we know how to face it. Fear is like a swampy land where the wheels of a vehicle go deeper and deeper until some other techniques are applied.
Awareness breaks all narrow territories. The rules set in our minds are to be corrected and upgraded so that we may have options with little effort.
Awareness is an antidote to fear and uncertainty.
Understand life by looking to the past, but live life looking forward. And looking forward, this is happening today.
All great deeds have ridiculous beginnings. People are there to comment while we are in search of an effective path out of many options. It is time to stay with our vision and ignore negativity all around.
We are here to experience life in abundance.