'Mindscaping' for career building 4

'That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains'.

Steve Jobs

Climbing up any career is as easy as driving a car on a road. But you should know your car and the road! The car is yourself and the road is the career platform you are in.

As in any travel, keeping your focus on the destination is very important. The destination in the career journey is your goal - short term, medium term and long term. Like in any journey, there will be turns and bends, there will be traffic, there will be others to overtake you, there will be good and bad traffic. But you should drive and reach the destination which is your goal. As you are driving, there could be traffic congestions and you may have to wait and you have to wait patiently.

As in a traffic, there could be a diversion and you may have to come back to your planned route.

Mind, by nature, will wander. We need to take efforts to arrest the wandering mind. A determined mind knows how to sustain the focus and manage interruptions. Our ability to conquer our mind is the most essential quality of a successful person.

But how train our mind to focus?

NC Sridharan

www.thetimefoundation.com

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'Mindscaping for career building'! 1

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
 Friedrich Nietzsche

If you look for the meaning of the word 'mindscaping' in any dictionary, you may not find the word itself! But I have been thinking about this 'nonexistent' word for the past few years.

I am sure your would have come across the word 'landscaping'. The dictionary meaning of this word is to improve the aesthetic appearance of a piece of land by changing its contours, adding ornamental features, or plating trees and shrubs. We say that the land has been tastefully landscaped. We also call it by a simpler word 'gardening'.

So, we take a piece of land as it is and alter some features using our knowledge of aesthetics, horticulture and creativity to make the same land more attractive and appealing to the eyes.

Apply the same to our mind! Are not our actions a true reflection of our mind? If we naturally exhibit our mind and behave exactly what our mind tells us, will it be acceptable to the society outside us?

In this series of small articles I will try to explore how we can 'mindscape' our mind to make it more appealing and aesthetically attractive!

Keep reading....

N C Sridharan

www.thetimefoundation.com

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