Previously on my blog, I spoke about attention being a new valuable asset, well here I am to talk about another one, this time is peace. Overtime, a valuable lesson we get to learn as human beings with the passing of time and aging of our bodies, is that peace of mind can be quite valuable. Living under the notion that one is at peace with themself and they value it more than the need to be right or even proving a point, is remarkable. I have a theory that the reason why people refer to old people as wise is not only based on the things they have seen but also on their choice to remain calm despite what they may have seen.
At first, it is natural for our human instincts to come up defensive, driving us with the urge to comment, make your opinion known and the need for I must be heard no matter what. Then there is the passing of time and getting older, when you begin to wonder to yourself, what's the need for this, and why do have to respond. You start to understand that you are not responsible for what the other person thinks and it definitely not your job to force them down the road of correction. Everybody has their opinion and not everybody can be right at same time. So when it comes to picking my peace over the need to correct the other person, then I choose my peace.
A better way to look at it is selecting the battles you choose to fight. There is something I have noticed about professional chess grandmasters as a fan of the game. They have structured out the list of events they will partake in. Not every chess tournament in the world, requires their attention, so they spend their time selecting the ones that do. Playing attention to the one that brings the most reward in terms of prizes, rating gains and media coverage. Now, let's take this analogy into the article of the day which says protect your Peace, it's valuable. You come to understand that not everything requires your attention, so choose wisely. What I like to do is when I notice my peace of mind will be questioned or put in jeopardy, I remove myself from the equation. Nothing is worth my peaceful sleep and calm mind. This mindset can be helpful.
So in simple terms, protecting your peace is selecting what is worth your attention, reject the ones that are not worth it and choose your mental well being over being right. This will bring about avoiding arguments that led to nowhere and worrying less about what the other person sees as right or wrong. The state of world is affecting the human well being physically and most importantly mentally, so pointless need to be right is less important than you think. Nobody is an island of knowledge but at the same time who made me the correction pen for another person's wrong thoughts when my peace of mind is already threatened.
In as much as it important to protect one's peace, it does not mean let people push you around. Do not mistake both. It means you have chosen what is what your time, effort and above all your time. There is a lot in the world competing for person's time so the earlier you create priorities for your peace, the better it becomes to value it. Nothing is what worth your peace of mind.
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