Sunday, October 24, 2010

New perspectives

The week is coming to an end and tomorrow is yet another fresh start waking up like an early bird in order to take the metro to the outskirts of Praha for P.E (physical education).
It's a rather long way to go to get there, pretty time consuming and the lessons are not super exhausting but it's a really good start of the week. You'll get activated in a good way, including lots of endorphins.

Recently I haven't had many worries. But the first weeks were rather hectic with a lot of them. It's easy to be wise after the event but by looking back you can always reflect over the things you did, and didn't do.

In one way problems may consist of three compartments; cause, solving process and outcome. The solving process will radiate both negative and positive energy. There will always be negative energy present in one's environment, as well as positive - you just have to chose how to divide the percentage between those two affecting you.
The negative energy will of course wear you down and strife to reach a destructive outcome while the positive tries to accomplish a creative one.
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The best thing is that, no matter which way you go, the two ways to solve the problem will always reward you, in one way or another, even if there will be a loss. You see, even if a problem is solved in a "bad" way and you will lose materialized concrete objects such as money, or abstract things such as time, you will always be rewarded with a new experience and hopefully you wont even encounter that specific cause in the future - and even if you do, you know what way not to take.

Even the smallest problem might become a big one - and the big problems might grow even bigger - but regardless the issue, learning how to shift one's perspective, by looking from a different angle, might open up new doors to turning the negative energy into something positive.
By seeing and being affected by the positive energy you might find yourself a little happier.

Recently an inspiring video, a blog post of a father with a sick child as well as a nice conversation over a glass of wine with a new friend reminded me of these things.
How to see good where there's evil and right where there's wrong.
How to appreciate my fortune and everyday life.
How to always look forward and how to invest my energy and use the energy around me to work with me in the best way possible.

The video below is one of many interesting talks from TED.com with Srikumar Rao on the subject happiness and spending your energy in the right way.
I found it very inspiring and motivating and I hope you do as well.






Remember, "the best way to escape from a problem is to solve it" - Alan Saporta

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3 comments:

  1. Quite good. You might want to read Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness...

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  2. To search ... change the negative thing into positive
    It is very good listen to this definition!!!(sorry I cant see the video)
    I believe ... give to receive and the problems not get entangled so much in them if not to look for the solution
    (sorry for my english)

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