Your glass is half what? Full or empty?
Is your life the same – kind of half?
Here is a reflection article on what your core attitude might do to you. And maybe what your attitude to life might do to others?
Do you overthink, sometimes find yourself being overly emotional, and do you, stress, – a lot? More or less all the time?
Do you sometimes sleep SO BADLY that you wake up thinking, really, already.. I just went to bed, or as you wake up in the middle of, all the time, you thinking is, well, shit!?
Do you have this nagging feeling of – things should be a bit more like this (your way) or like this (not that way)? I know I do,
sometimes now..
all the times, earlier.
I have been working on this all my life, not knowing about it, until, well, this article?
Half empty attitude | Neurotic | Why? Or how to adjust? It is up to you – overthink, or act for improvement.
Why is your glass always half-empty? It (the question) could also be: why is your general attitude so negative? Yes, I know, you are just being more realistic, but what if that is not it? Or even if it is, what about growing a tiny bit more colour into your otherwise grey life?
Why people interpret the glass as half–full or half-empty (empty or full) doesn’t matter; how thirsty you are does.
What is the point of this, water in the glass – focus? As in WHY is there water in the glass? Could maybe be a more interesting start point?
As life. What is the point of life, of living?
What is the point of having this or that attitude to life?
I am asking you to reflect on this – because it, your attitude, affects your life, your attitude to life affects how you live it, or?
Mindset guides behaviour that drives results. Or?
A half-empty glass kind of (negative or just more realistic:-) attitude can be hard to have and be around. Wouldn’t it be good to understand your half-empty glass mindset?
Or, what about not doing what the half-empty kind of people do as their way of being, and just leave it like it is, and instead just go about giving tips about what to do about IT (the half-empty glass attitude)?
Here are some tips I caught when working, coaching, half empty glass attitude people, (and I was then what I think of as – (ME) Børre 1.0).
- Become more mindful of yourself. Well, this is potentially what you already (as in always) DO when your overthinking goes awry (suddenly takes a wild run downward spiralling towards the abyss – by interpreting anything half-glass empty kind of way), so – not being more mindful but what you are mindful about – could be a more precise kind of a tip. How to avoid the downward spiral, one tips could be touching on how much energy you have, sometimes the lack of energy keeps you from holding back and staying focused, to just (because of no energy) you just fall into the thinking as it falls downwards. How do you sleep? Not. Waking up at night from negative thinking or having nightmares.. worrying about, well, life`s realities? And that is how you are always prepared, as long as you keep enough energy and health to keep going.?
- Become better at stress management. Well, being aware of stress, the awareness of threats is why half-empty glass people are good at surviving in surprising situations. You are ALWAYS more aware of EVERYTHING around you, so that did not help. Being better at stress management is not a tip; it is your natural way of focusing on everything. Being always caught up in a stressful feeling is who you are. You are just more sensitive, more aware, more awake, of .. well, things? But maybe being aware of why you always interpret stress SO negatively that it becomes a negative attitude toward everything might be a point. What if you are stressed and interpret stress so negatively, potentially because you are so afraid of it, and kind of always must (that is your driving feeling), you must be prepared for death? Have you ever thought about that?
- So instead of focusing on the stress itself, just avoid it, or when it is there, and it is kind of too late to avoid it, as you find out you are stressed, take a breathing break, as in a white no-screen or no-people-faces kind of white break? Calm your thick, stressed blood vessels that are not able to carry anything but stress hormones; calm down, slow down your blood temperature, thin your blood vessels out – giving the blood a chance to take up and carry oxygen to your brain, helping your thinking quality. Could you do that?
- If so = YOUR STATE OF MIND?! What can you do about that? Except visit your state of living and see if you are really doing your best effort of living the life you want, so WHEN, and that is a fact, when you do die, or when death comes around you, it doesn’t crush you like a bug. Maybe making sure you live a life worth living and that you live a best-effort kind of life, where you are brave and learn, from those two things together, is something to think about and act on? IF that is what you find out, while thinking and reflecting on how you live your life, and IF your half-empty attitude to life is something you want to become more aware of and slowly adjust a bit?
- When people die and have their “five regrets” as Bronnie Ware suggests, based on her working with and interviewing people dying, it is about being in the now, better, more mindful, and growing, keeping relationships. Does your attitude help or make it more challenging? Avoiding dying with the five regrets?
- Practice self-acceptance. You ARE GOOD ENOUGH just as you are. You don’t have to change or feel bad about yourself. We are all the same, unique, based on, among many things, our differences of being. You are you based on many things, but just because you are this or that doesn’t mean you have be that way all ways, always? We do grow, and yes, sometimes change is necessary, but, you are good enough anyway, all ways, always. As you are, accept it, deal with it by – enjoy you being your best version of you, starting with, IF you are a half empty kind of person, fill your glass, or use what ever is in the glass, to water the plant that is you. Remember as long as you can refill the glass, it doesn’t matter if it is half full or half empty.
The point of this text? There are two.
- You ARE unique, you are.
- You can choose to grow more.
Mindset affects behaviour, one way or the other. If you want to make sure your behaviour results are as you’d like them to be, have a reflection, as in think about it, and based on the thinking, reflect, see things from different perspectives, and potentially use that to adjust, or not.
THIS text is the starting point of my book chapter called “Culture the Competence”.
Why do I start the culture chapter with this text?
You are the driver of your own surroundings, the culture, together with everyone else. If you want to improve the culture you find yourself in, my thinking, suggestion, is, it has to be done by you and the others together.
And sometimes we all get thirsty.
Here is an article, text, about neuroticism | this one inspired me (among other things) to write this half-kind of thing 😀
https://www.healthcentral.com/condition/anxiety/neuroticism
And here is a short 4 min + video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-3g5DcbnAU
And this one I like a lot | 7 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cXoFxjIRQ0
A thought from tiktok | 2 min | serotonin https://www.tiktok.com/@doacpod/video/7492919413461536043
Wiki says this about the topic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroticism
Here we grow, together | My website as always www.synergizing-leadership.com