Friday, February 20, 2009

Small ideas

It's amazing how small ideas can improve the quality of one's life. A small change, a small adaptation, a single flip bit in the stream of your daily routine can potentially take you to a new level of optimality. The small change can potentially help you (re)discover a part of yourself. Say a software tool that you come across, that rekindles an old flame in you, and you get hooked on. Or an old idea that you suddenly decide to pick up again and work on. These small changes can indeed remove you from a state of stagnation; remove from a state of over-brooding, listless, stressful local minimum. They can take your focus off yourself, off your all but insignificant survival, and refocus it on your ideas, your work, your creativity. That is the key: taking the focus off you; it removes stress, makes you more productive and happier. The small change you made has a larger effect on your personal and work life and those of the people around you.

If the quality of your life is great, good for you. But always be on the lookout for the small ideas. Never underestimate the power of the occasional small change. It's always an odd mutation that causes a leap in the scheme of things.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Yea I agree one hundred percent. There are few possessions that make us unique. It is important to keep them alight and it is equally important to expand our horizons in search of new ideas.