Posted:Mon Jan 12, 2009 7:05 AM CST
How to keep sanity?????
How to keep sanity in a world dominated by insanity?
Look around you truly and try to find the goodness in your life before the badness, the pluses before the negatives. Really sit down and bring two papers. Write on the first one good and the other bad. You could also name it positives and negatives. Then try to list down on each paper as points. It could be full sentence or just a single word. I am sure you will jump to fill the bad paper first but is up to you to start with anyone of them,, you can start with both at the same time. Take your time don’t rush into it. Give yourself more than one day to complete them both and you can have a good friend to help you too.
Then after you feel that you have listed down everything in your life such as; love, family, friends, health, body features, mental, work, finance, property, possessions, race, country, sex, memories, experience and anything around you that makes who you are at this moment in time. After you think that you have listed everything in your mind, start organizing it properly in full meaningful sentences. Then make a table with two columns; priority (from 1 to 10) and importance (from 100%).
Now start giving your rate to each item as you think and feel. Give it randomly no string attached. Once more take your time and you may visit each item as much as you need.
Finally, I am sure that while doing such practice you will find out that there are some items that cannot be categorized as good or bad, pluses or negatives, so remember this; anything that is not bad, it is good but anything that is not good it is not bad too. So, anything you think it is not bad but it at the good paper or just make another paper and call it common.
Also, you can notice from the list alone if you life is good or bad by how long the list goes. However, let me give you an analytical way to calculate it. Take the average for each column,,, See the overall average in your good list vs. your bad list, also, the importance in your good list vs. bad list. The higher number is your place in life at this moment. If the average of your good list is higher than your bad list you are in a good place. If the average of your good list is higher than your bad list, then you are in a good frame of mind. Note: at Priority category 1 is higher than 10.
However, if not??? Then you need a professional help and I am not joking but before you do that, go back to your lists and try to revise your scores with the following points in mind:
Priority: you should not have more than three items in the same level of priority. I am sure your list will not have more than 30 items. If it does??? Then you have to revise your list and you can see that some items can be merged into one, otherwise you need a professional help (now I am joking).
Importance: you have to know that all items importance must be a summing up of 100%. So you have to revise each one accordingly.
I am sure that you can learn more from those numbers such as if the values are more to the middle part of it such as 5 out of 10 and 50% then you are more at ease in life and more content.
Those are just my humble thoughts and I am not a professional help.