Flow
The state of FLOW as scientists and psychologists describe it to be the state at which the human can be at his best.It’s the state at which you can be so challenged to the degree you are not feeling bored nor feared/stressed.
The state you feel happy that you are making something that you enjoy and love doing.
We are distracting our minds
The problem is that we live most of our lives outside that ZONE. On the contrary, we live on the state of stress and fear. And others live in boredom, laziness and helplessness.We only trade times. Many others only surf the internet or checking others status updates. We don’t feel like we are doing something useful anymore.
That’s why people who live in the ZONE are the ones who are living happy and fulfilled life.
Then how can you make this too?
To live in that ZONE most of your life you need to live it most of your day.
Staying in the ZONE is not easy
It doesn’t mean it must be easy. It could be hard, painful or even tiring. But at the end of the day you know that you’ve done something significant.As the time passes, weeks and months have better meaning for you. You feel that you are not trading time any more.
Think about it. When you stay waiting for someone on the street or just being bored of waiting for your turn in the mall, you start to feel irritated or just play with your smartphone.
We tend to distract out minds to take them from what significant to us.
Because what is significant to us is hard to be done regularly. We only what others tell us to do.
You may finish a report your boss told you to deliver it to him in only three hours if you have to.
But you may postpone writing some chapters of your book you WANT to write.
Stop time trading. Stop procrastination. Stop doing things to distract your mind form your main mission. Find your true goal and go for it.
Go to the ZONE and try to stay there even if it’s hard to stay there for so long.
There will be many people and things want to distract you and get you out of this state. That’s because they don’t want to be left alone in their misery.
They just don’t want to be left behind. And those people who live in the ZONE sure have left those living in continuous misery and distraction.
Where is your ZONE?
My zone is here. I find my ZONE in creating, reading, writing or playing useful things. I find my ZONE in challenging myself to do something new.I challenged my mind to meet new people and to talk to them even if I didn’t know them yet. This may have cause me some troubles and sometimes it made me look like an idiot.
But when I finish it I feel happy because I took the challenge. I feel the achievement of taking this leap of faith.
I just told myself, what’s the worst thing that could happen? Then go for it. And I take new challenges and new opportunities are open for me.
Elon Musk and the ZONE
When I started to read about Elon Musk in the famous book describing his life, I find him living most of his time in that state.He is nearly living most of his day and consequently most of his life since he was a child in that same ZONE.
Even if he is living a hard life. A life that I heard him saying he doesn’t recommend anyone to live as he is.
Maybe it’s hard for him. But it’s rewarding and fulfilling.
For him, not living this kind of life is where the pain and suffering come from.
Some or many people may say: “But I have to word. I have to pay the bills and take care of my children.”
That’s right. You need to work and to take care of your children and to do anything that can get you out of the ZONE. But if you cannot stay at the ZONE for most of your life then don’t just drop it altogether.
If you keep logging your time of day you can find that you have many times spent in things that neither are important nor joyful.
You may feel that you need time to do what you love beside what you already have to do while you are wasting so much time.
The key to this is that you need to find your state and decide to spend even half an hour a day in it.
That will make your neuro-association with this state as the time passes.
This will bond passage of the day with the urge of feeling to live in that ZONE.
Just as you go to work every day automatically. You will have that urge to go to your state and stay there for a while.
As your mind creates this association, you become better at it and it becomes part pf your personality.
Addicted to the ZONE
Then you can notice going to this state is easier than before. And staying there is more joyful. As you find more challenges for yourself and as you feel that you can deal with them, the better you feel and the more you bond your mind with this activity.You will literally get addicted to something useful. Have you heard about people who are addicted to work, addicted to read or addicted to read?
Have you met those people who are addicted to helping others?
Go and find yourself something useful that gets your life to the fulfilment.
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