JOMO

The opposite of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) is JOMO, which stands for Joy of Missing Out. 

 

JOMO is the feeling of contentment and satisfaction that comes from choosing to disconnect and not participate in certain social activities or events. It involves embracing one's own interests and priorities, rather than feeling pressured to constantly be engaged in social activities.

Although JOMO is defined as the convenience of letting go of something, it cannot be interpreted as an excuse to be unproductive. Because to fight the existing fear (FOMO) is not by avoiding or breaking away from the world.

 

It is important to walk the middle path of not allowing others and social media to decide the choices you make. People and values are more relevant than superficial toys and artificial games. Follow your heart and do what it says.

Do not allow others to decide your true joy
Embrace JOMO… let go of the needless toy!

- Pravin K. Sabnis

 

Rope

Trained elephants are often held, in their enclosure, by a small rope tied to their leg. No chains, no cages. Obviously the elephant can, at any time, break away from the bond but it does not. 

 

When they are young, the trainer uses a small rope to tie them. At that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.

The animal can at any time break free from its bonds but because it believe it can’t, it remains stuck right where it is. Like the elephant, we get held back by overpowering bonds of initial conditioning. 

 

We go through life hanging onto a negative belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before. Initial failure often tends to weigh heavy on our belief systems and prevents us from recognising our own potential. 

 

We must not allow failure to blur our attitude towards our aptitude. Failure is a part of learning and growth; it cannot become flimsy reason to be held back in life... the conditioning rope has to be undone by holding on to hope inspired attempts to transform the situation!

Do not allow failure to hold back hope
Choose to break the conditioning rope!

- Pravin K. Sabnis

 

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HIGHLIGHT 13 November 2023

 

A king, with one leg and one eye, was generous and competent as a ruler. In his palace, portraits of his ancestors adorned the hallway. He invited painters across the kingdom and asked to paint a beautiful picture of him. 

 

Most painters were confused about how to make a beautiful picture of the King. Only one painter came forward. He painted the King sitting on the horse with one leg visible, holding his bow and aiming the arrow with one eye closed. 

 

Everyone was pleased to see that the painter had creatively highlighted the King’s positive characteristics but not the deficiencies.

So often, so many of us keep an eye on what is lacking and ignore the prevalent positive. We must learn to highlight the constructive and escape the tendency to be destructively judgemental. 

 

To highlight is to attract attention and emphasize the important. The important is always the positive in another person. And we will evolve into positive personalities by highlighting the positive in others

Instead of loitering in the negative
It is best to highlight the positive! 

- Pravin K. Sabnis 

Downtime

Downtime refers to inactive time between periods of work. It is also used to refer to unforseen time required between time slots.

So often, so many of us plan for time management for every detail but end up forgetting downtime. And then we are suprised by the delay caused by the time required in between.

For instance, in a program of multiple speakers, we allot time for each speaker but often forget the gap between one speaker completing and the next starting. Sometimes it is the walk to the lectern. Other times it could be unavoidable distractions.

Even if this downtime is of miniscule duration (maybe under a minute) but the cumulative of various downtimes ends up as a substantial amount.

You may have factored just a couple of minutes to fill up your fuel tank but the lines at the Petrol pump may lead to further delay. Now the extended downtime will undo your time schedule.

Hence for good time budgeting, we must factor for downtime, considering possibilities as well as surprise challenges.  

In time management don’t ignore the obvious

downtime can make the best plan superfluous

- Pravin K. Sabnis