Life is not all about being rational

Most of us are managing a lot of responsibilities daily and can be so easy to be completely taken over by the day to day aspects of life. A lot of things happen in a day, and we are constantly faced with life situations who require us to analyse our options, reconsidering the direction towards which we want to move and make decisions.

I use my rational and analytical side quite a lot in my work by designing plans of actions and following up. This is serving me well when I need to accomplish something.

Most days I have a lot on my plate, I make a lot of decisions and in between, I do my best to block time to connect with people I love and care about like friends and family members. This is an area of my life on which I worked hard to balance, and I do my best to keep it this way.

For a long period of my life I was only using my rational side and if is one thing I am sure of, this is the fact that it was extremely exhausting.  I didn’t understand why I couldn’t enjoy the things I was engaging in, outside my workspace.

A few years ago, when I was finally willing to explore what was going on for me, I understood why:

I was using my analytical and rational side in all other areas of my life. No wonder I wasn’t enjoying many things. By looking from the same perspective, using the same mindset with pretty much everything, I have felt like my life was on repeat, experiencing the same feeling of dissatisfaction. Even when some of my daily experiences looked different, they didn’t feel different at all for me.

Eventually, I understood something very precious that helped me to introduce some airiness in my life: Life is not all about being rational!

From that moment onward I have created pockets of time throughout my day and committed to not make use of my analytical side during these breaks. My only aim was to just be in that space and enjoy whatever that space contained without trying to make up a story about everything (this is what our rational mind does all the time).

Since then I have introduced airiness in all areas of life: Hobbies, friendships, my personal development and workspace.

When I am in this mindset, as I go through various situations daily nearly no experience feels like the other, even they may look the same at the surface.

Are you mostly using your rational and analytical mind, looking at things from the same perspective?

If you would like to experience more joy and less dissatisfaction in your daily life, please feel free to reach out and I may be able to help you.