To Succeed, Keep Bringing it Back to the Core

Don’t get lost in the fuzz of life

Photo by Andrew Wulf on Unsplash

Do you ever feel overwhelmed? Ever feel like you can’t see the wood for the trees? Like you’re juggling a department store’s worth of plates and you can’t remember which ones are the most valuable?

Yeah, I get that.

It doesn’t matter what job you do, whether you’re employed or self-employed, whether you’re married or not, whether you have kids or not. We all feel like this at some point.

Our lives are so busy that we end up prioritising things that don’t actually matter but seem urgent. We hold so many things in our heads — to-do lists, messages to respond to, things to look up — that we open a browser and can’t even remember what it was we were about to do.

We’re flooded with work and social media so we end up flitting between screens, tabs, chores.

I don’t know about you, but it exhausts me.

Andy Puddicombe, the founder of the meditation company Headspace, tells us we must quiet our minds. That we must note simple actions from breathing to standing or sitting. We must, in a sense, bring it back to the core of physicality.

And I think he’s right. But I also think that we can apply this to our work.