Five rules which should be thrown to the dustbin

Since I’ve started writing blogs the basic problem I confront is what to write when I open the page. So many thoughts keep jostling the whole day in my mind to find space on the blog, but the mind goes blank the moment I am striking keys of my computer. This time I though I will write a blog on Five overrated qualities that should be discarded immediately. Here I go (these don’t gel well with me but you are free to form your own opinion)




MULTITASKING



Since I am a learning to quieten my hyperactive mind, I often withness the way it goes about. The moment I am at a task, my mind will immediately inform me of a pending job and I would leave the task at hand to do the pending job. While I am at it there would be another job that would flash in my mind and immediately I will drop the task at hand to do something else. This process goes on for an hour and at the end of it I am having five unfinished tasks at hand wondering why I am not good at doing things, and where did the time fly?Actually, there are researches to prove that when you multitask your efficiency goes down and most of the times you end up with a job that’s not up to the mark. Still, multitasking is regarded as a coveted virtue.



SLEEP LESS



Same is the case with sleeping less. In fact, it’s often worn as badge of honour as the person sleeping less is supposed to be accomplishing more in his every day life. I clock in my seven to eight hours of sleep everyday but I never disclose this to my friends because most of them are sleep deprived and I could smell jealousy when I speak that I am sleep satisfied.



WORK HARD



When I was a kid I would often hear my dad say that he earned money by the sweat of his brow. My dad was a banker and I would wonder why couldn’t he get the fan fixed so he doesn’t have to sweat so much. We are taught that we should work hard. But somehow with the adjective hard I can sense an element of pain like you’re doing something that you are not relishing. We should insist on working smart not working hard. Moreover, enjoying what you do is more important because then it's no longer work. When I introspect I feel that if I’m able to drive I’ll go to work because I enjoy what I’m doing.



LOYALTY



I just hate this word. Loyalty belongs to the British era because this word subjugates your mind and you are made to do something that you don’t like. Any relationship should thrive on love and affection. There is no greater force than love but loyalty is like chaining you to something that stinks. I would like to have an attitude of gratitude but not loyalty.



YOU CAN’T HAVE YOUR CAKE AND EAT IT TOO



I always feel like asking why can’t I? Since ages we have been tutored into believing that life is all about compromise, to get some you lose some, but life is generous, giving and nourishing. Find hard to believe! At first even I did thinking that I am underpaid and overworked that how can life be generous? Life works on a separate philosophy which is it gives you more if you trust it and to do that you’ve to thank it for what it has given you. But when you say I don’t, it mirrors your belief in life and you actually don’t get. Getting slightly complicated… Actually, even I am in the process of deciphering it.