An important concept that can make your life a little bit better

in #life6 years ago

Hello my fellow steemitians! How much time and energy you waste daily on problems that are out of your circle? If you don’t understand what is this question about or what is “your circle”, then you probably need to read this post.

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What types of problems do you have?

All your problems can be divided on 2 large groups:

  • Problems within your Circle of Influence These are problems you can solve.
  • Problems within your Circle of Concern These are problems to waste time and energy on.

You need to learn how to differ one form the other and focus your energy on important things. Internet made this more important than it ever was. With the information storm, that strikes you every day it’s hard to focus on real issues. Let’s take a look at both circles.

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Circle of influence

This circle is filled with the problems that you can actually affect: work, studies, car family and etc. Your car is broken? You can do something to fix it or buy a new one. You have an important exam in a month? You think about it a lot, it negatively affect your mood daily? You can start studying to prepare yourself. You have problems with your girlfriend/boyfriend? Well, there is usually a way to fix this too.
You need to focus on these problems. You can fix them, you can make your life a little bit better.

Circle of Concern

This circle is filled with problems that a way out of your league. You’ve read ten news articles about Israel-Palestine conflict today, but you live in Norway? You keep discussing how bad this conflict is? You’ve made a dozen posts on twitter about it? Congratulations! You’ve wasted your time and energy on the problem you can’t affect. Don’t let all this stuff to spoil your mood. Never waste your time on these problems. If you want to help people, you can actually help them. Knock on the door of an orphanage and ask how can you help.

Circles are not constant!

The last thing I want to bring up is that circles are not constant! You define their size! If you will waste your time and energy on the circle of concern, your circle of influence will become smaller. If you will work on yourself and focus your efforts on the first circle, it will expand. Here is a good example form one of my friends. He was working as a software designer for a small company (around 30-40 employers). The company was experiencing difficulties. It was hard to predict if it will survive or if everyone will lose his job. Most of the employers were struck by it. They blamed their manager. They thought it’s time to search for another job. They were in the bad mood. My friend wanted to fix it. He started studying a new technology, he learnt from experience of similar foreign companies. As the result he suggested a good change in their product. He encouraged others to support him. As a result after 6 month of hard work they launched an updated product that changed everything. Same company with the same employers in the same market conditions became successful.

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it seem that you have very wide interests. not only crypto but also human psychology? :)

great piece of work @cryptohumster.

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