Coronavirus-(COVID-19): Staying Positive, Focused and Motivated!

The recent pandemic, Coronavirus (COVID-19), followed by the lockdown has closed half of the world at home and have created panic, restlessness and uncertainties. The current scenario is affecting our lives to the extent that it has disturbed our mental and physical health, barring some. Staying positive, focused and motivated is the greatest challenge we are facing keeping the fact that things are out of our control.

This article is an effort to capture some of the aspects of our life which are in our control amongst all uncontrollable and unreachable factors. I am sure that most of us wanted to do this, but we didn’t or couldn’t coz we never realized our extreme potential.

Let’s highlight some of them and give it a thought.

Money can’t buy everything- We all run for money, I am sure most of us. And there's nothing wrong with it. It helps us shape livelihoods and earn our bread and butter. But is it really helping us now? We can’t use it. No place to spend except for the necessities. We can’t go out. Locked down. Even stuffs can’t be delivered to our doorstep. The demand is there, but there is no supply. 

And the focus has suddenly moved on to health and hygiene.

Didn’t we ignore this fact? To earn money in the name of career building most of us have sacrificed our mental and physical health. Let’s utilize our time staying at home focusing on achieving a strong mind and body and practice it for a lifetime without sticking it to the current unwanted situation only. Cleanse ourselves of such habits. Everything can be recreated if we have strong mental and physical health and will give us strength to face any critical situation of our life. Let’s invest in health.

Contribution to society- Yes! Contributing our part to the society. An example. The moment lockdown was announced we started piling up stocks in panic. This overbuying has created acute shortage of products in the market, the effect of which has started showing. Most of the products are not available in our nearby stores. We don’t know how much time it will take to replenish it as the production takes time.

Lakhs of people starve for food in the world and in the current situation we can’t even think of what might be happening to them. If we could share surpluses and leftovers with them

In the name of self resilience are we becoming selfish and ignoring the needs of the mankind.

Let’s stop this irrational panic driven buying, even now, and don’t waste any product at all in the interest of our fellow being and community at large.

Restructuring our life- Most of us are living the life of others. Let’s introspect and restructure our life as we have over a period of time developed a set of living patterns influenced by external factors and have lost our identity. Let’s go within and find out our interests, hobbies, dreams that we wanted to follow in our life, but we have sacrificed. Develop some ideas for self containment yet being the part of the universe. We have ample time staying at home to do this. Let’s identify them, transform our thought process and start following. A man can do wonders.

Get ready for the next chapter - Bounce forward! Let’s hope to come out of the current crisis as soon as possible and get ourselves ready for the next chapter. Let’s keep ourselves away from all negativity spread across social media or other platforms. Let’s get rid of all habits that have come as obstacles between our journeys to a successful life. Days are going to be tough, and we need to face it with the most powerful and strong mindset.

We all need to develop our own survival techniques supported by a strong will to excel. Only a positive frame of mind with a focused approach and a motivated soul can help us. God is telling us to pause and rethink. Every individual is unique and only he understands it well.

Let’s pledge to stay positive, focused and motivated to give our life a meaning.