The 7 Rituals: Number 6
Calming practices that help bring more harmony into your day
Ikigai is about experiencing your essence and purpose in harmony with whatever you do.
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Days filled with stress, anxiety, and worry separate us from the harmony required to live out our Ikigai.
Here are seven rituals of calmness that you can practice to help bring more harmony into your day.
In this ongoing series, I will list all seven and detail each in this and subsequent posts.
If you missed the first five you can find them here…
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The Rituals
These seven rituals will help you cultivate an attitude of calmness:
A calm morning.
Observe your response.
Take things without judgment.
Express gratitude.
Create stress coping habits.
Mono-task.
Reduce noise.
Mono-tasking:
Focusing on one thing at a time
Many practices help you be here in the moment, present in your life.
One to expand on today is the idea of mono-tasking.
People were convinced that multi-tasking was a great way to get more done for quite a while.
In his book Disruptive Witness, Alan Noble states, "Multitasking forces us to make millions of tiny decisions. This wears us out cognitively.
The result is that when it comes time for us to make important decisions, we are too exhausted and are more likely to make mistakes.
Decision overload is a problem. Our frenetic and flattened culture is not conducive to wrestling with thick ideas, ideas with depth, complexity, and personal implications.
It is a culture of immediacy, simple emotions, and snap judgments. In this distracted age, it is easier to ignore contradictions, the flaws in our beliefs, and avoid introspection."
Though discredited in numerous studies, the practice continues.
Mono-tasking is the new multitasking.
Being able to focus on one thing completely is actually the productivity breakthrough we hoped would come from multitasking.
It also allows us to be more present and focused and supports our Ikigai reflections.
The challenge, of course, is that our systems sometimes drive us to the multi-tasking mode without our even realizing it.
🌀 When was the last time you let yourself focus singly on doing or thinking about one thing?
🌱 You should try it even today. Mono-tasking is the new, new thing.
Mono task...makes me think of how do we eat an elephant when the task ahead seems large. One bite at a time!
We have come to a point where we making decisions and complete work so fast that long term consequences are not considered. We do not need to take longer to make decisions, we just need the focused time to think through them. I enjoyed reading and thinking through this. I have been talking about this subject a lot with fellow managers.