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Positioning Oneself

Hard times usually occur to us for different reasons and we find ourselves in such situations where we feel badly lost. In this case, it is easy to take a shortcut and keep on complaining that starts with “yelling” and may escalates to reach “screaming” and may ends extremely with an ugly “nervous break-down”, but is it the only way to react?

My answer is simply “No.”

I however emphasize that this NO does not mean prohibiting the normal feeling of sadness for whatever happened as those feelings, for me, are simply the healthy signs which indicate that we are humans who feel. Nevertheless, my main point in this post is how to work for overcoming whatever we passed through and this, in other simple words, means taking another alternative so in this pot I am trying to place self improvement tips on how to achieve this.

Positioning Oneself: Life Alignment

Positioning and Life Alignment

Since direct routes are easier to walk-through therefore I shall place a practical example.

In the previous blog entry, I told you that I am just recovering and informed you with brief updates about myself while joking – in point 6 – that I have not missed any thing. In fact, it seems I missed out many things in the past long period both off-line (in real life) and on-line (in virtual world) respectively.

My point is that reacting negatively – in the way explained at the 1^st paragraph up – will not help in solving any thing; as no body shall benefit from this negative reaction either me or people around. Therefore the rational way is reacting positively to overcome what happened and rank better in the future.

Indeed, I am aware that for whatever happened we are sad, felt lost, maybe tears appears in your eyes or even depressed but it is time to change these normal feelings into a fuel that makes you keep moving. Hence in this blog entry, I am trying to place self improvement tips on positioning oneself by going through life alignment that requires a “To-Do List” after you analyze, plan, and implement to repositioning oneself in any situation.

Repositioning Process

Straightforward to the point, hard times are usually non-planned situations in your life that need your positive reaction not the negative one. This is other alternative that I meant in the 2^nd paragraph up which can be reached by simply repositioning yourself to align with the new situation according to the following procedure:

1. Identifying what you have lost;
2. Planning how to restore this;
3. Implementing an action plan.

For that matter and apart from theoretical talk, it is helpful and essential to work on something similar to constructing a to-do list where one traces what he (and she) wants to achieve for positioning oneself and aligning to different situations in your life. In my case, a mini-sample for this list can be something like that:-

1. Item one: Work (offline real life)
   1. receiving executive summaries from colleagues;
   2. assigning priorities for urgent versus far client requests.
2. Item two: Family and friends (offline real life)
   1. checking status to receive updates;
   2. fulfilling family stuff that have been missed.
3. Item three: Internet (online virtual life)
   1. updating myself with the latest SEO trends;
   2. checking and replying the e-mails in my inbox;
   3. upgrading software and plug-in to latest version;

etc.

You can write down your plans either electronically or manually, whatever the tool and flavor that you find yourself in. The goal from this is to have a better overview that helps you to adjust and reposition yourself to know exactly where are you know, and where you want to go instead of being in the middle of nowhere. In other simply words, this help you to while going through the decision making process as it’s my life to live.

In a nutshell, I passed by different hard times in both the far and near past, thus not only I know what I am talking about, but also sharing you with my way for achieving such alternative. Furthermore, life goes on and time pass without waiting for anybody, so instead of spending it only in a negative way, it is wiser to spend it positively in order to go for your own flying without wings process because at the end of the day life is nothing but what you decide plus the help from the Almighty Allah (swt) – God – the Creator of this endless universe!

Related Quotes and Sayings

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. — Paulo Coelho

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