Baby steps
When we are assigned a task or if we have an assignment to do:
Let us just begin with baby steps. The baby steps evolve into a routine. We hit a 'flow'. We complete the task with happiness and satisfaction.
Often when we observe babies trying to learn to stand or walk, it is admirable to see their persistence. A word of praise or a clap makes them go getters! That is because babies are not prone to self-criticism ( thank god for that). Can we learn from this and take 'baby steps' and be kinder to ourselves?
These baby steps will help us settle into an enjoyable routine. And in such a routine we shall find the 'flow' -In his seminal work, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Prof Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi outlines his theory that people are happiest when they are in a state of flow— a state of concentration or complete absorption with the activity at hand and the situation. It is a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter.[9] The idea of flow is identical to the feeling of being in the zone or in the groove. The flow state is an optimal state of intrinsic motivation, where the person is fully immersed in what he is doing. This is a feeling everyone has at times, characterized by a feeling of great absorption, engagement, fulfillment, and skill—and during which temporal concerns (time, food, ego-self, etc.) are typically ignored.[9] ( Source: Wikipedia)
Let us just begin with baby steps. The baby steps evolve into a routine. We hit a 'flow'. We complete the task with happiness and satisfaction.
Often when we observe babies trying to learn to stand or walk, it is admirable to see their persistence. A word of praise or a clap makes them go getters! That is because babies are not prone to self-criticism ( thank god for that). Can we learn from this and take 'baby steps' and be kinder to ourselves?
These baby steps will help us settle into an enjoyable routine. And in such a routine we shall find the 'flow' -In his seminal work, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Prof Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi outlines his theory that people are happiest when they are in a state of flow— a state of concentration or complete absorption with the activity at hand and the situation. It is a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter.[9] The idea of flow is identical to the feeling of being in the zone or in the groove. The flow state is an optimal state of intrinsic motivation, where the person is fully immersed in what he is doing. This is a feeling everyone has at times, characterized by a feeling of great absorption, engagement, fulfillment, and skill—and during which temporal concerns (time, food, ego-self, etc.) are typically ignored.[9] ( Source: Wikipedia)
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