The Greatest Enemy Of Knowledge Is Not Ignorance, It Is The Illusion Of Knowledge - Stephen Hawkings.
Having worked for 10 years in Software industry,which is touted to be one of the greatest job and one of the most sort after job on earth, Mr Jaydev is expected to be very happy, content, and peaceful. But if we were to know his own feelings, he is very stressful, almost always, and worried about everything , from what would his cricket team do in its foreign tour to how would his child perform in his mid-term exam. Even though he earns 10 times an average employee earns in his country Mr Jayadev is not happy at all as he complains about every thing in his life;he complains about his job, love-life, children, EMIs, someone jumping traffic signals, corruption, and, not the least, politics of not just his country but around the world. Nothing to do much about earning, because he thinks that money can cure-all and he is earning well, he is left with no option but to grieve. Irrespective of what someone earns, every one has been nagging all the time, resulting in being unhappy. So this has become absolutely a universal problem.
Deep Inside?
What is really causing you stressful is worrying beyond what is called Circle Of Influence.
Circle Of Concerns: has things that worry bother, worry or frustrate you.
Circle Of Influence: has things you can do something about.
Realize, firstly that you are not God(if you believe in God), or not the one who has created and supposed to take care of everything on map, may it be increasing gold prizes or missing Malasian flight MH 370. Secondly, you are the one who has got your own things to accomplish and is responsible for. You can only increase your circle of influence not just circle of concerns. Why worry about things that don't really effect you, at least directly, and make yourself stressful that makes you inefficient at doing thing that you owe to do? Finally, you can only increase your circle of influence by being effective in doing things in circle of influence and by maintaining the centre of focus and influence or be concerned about only one thing at a time, unless you are good at multi-tasking(but do only things in circle of influence).
You can't think about your boss praising you, when you are beating world record of Tightrope walking at 5000 ft or, at least , think about breakup while you are driving!
Mr Jaydev :)
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