Love the Art of Simply doing Things

 

Long before you try to be a champion in others’ eyes, try to be a superwoman and world-beater in your own ways. Well, it holds the key to real success. Recognition by those around is simply a natural outcome, a mere side-reward like you have visibility as a flame throws light in the dark. 

Don’t do everything just for money, rewards, recognition, name and fame. As we feel, most of our doings are just blind pursuits for something more important expected at the end of doing. Doing thus becomes secondary, the outcome. The reward takes the centre stage, and everything before that turns a stale, perspiring and frustrating struggle. The process of doing becomes traumatic.

By subjugating the process of doing to some unknown outcome in future, we pawn happiness and intrinsic satisfaction, which simply doing could have been, against the shifting, blinding mirage on the hot sands in future. Try to make doing primary. Love simply the process of doing. It holds the key to your most lovable self. It’s like casting the chains away. It lightens your burden. Not only it will light up your soul, the outcomes, whether you care about them or not, will just follow with a bang.

If you do something just for some specific outcomes, it’s not doing, rather it’s some barter against the drops of your sweat. It’s labor, a menial work, mere slogging. You are not the master. Just try to do a few things without caring for the material and social rewards. You will know that you own the act of doing. It becomes pure and unadulterated. You own it and you are the master of it. Once you master something, given the potential human soul has, the byproducts will drop like sweat autumn windfalls, fully ripe, without any effort. That is the cascading effect of pure doing.

There are hundreds of posts on my blogs apart from a few books that I have authored. I write not for viewership stats or adsense money. My reward is the numerous trophies I gather while simply writing. I write because I love doing it. There is no bigger reward than being able to do something you really love and like doing.

A small publisher trusts me and publishes my books. He likes my writing and invests some money to publish my books. I help him to the little extent that I don’t take any royalties. My books sell in just hundreds of copies, rarely touching the four-figure mark. And even for that I don’t expect any royalty. Still I write for months to complete a book. Simple thing is, I just love doing it. As I work on my books, without any restraints on publisher- and commerce-ordained limitations, I feel like flying in an open sky. It’s like being a painter having a completely empty canvas and possessing all the options to experiment with colors and shapes. This is what you get, the rewards, your breath of freedom, your space and your happiness.

Every moment is like holding a big trophy. And believe me, if you immerse in doing something just for the sake of doing it to the core, you warp space-time continuum to the tune and frequency of your doing, and rewards follow, whether you accept these or not is another matter. Most importantly, the doings that bring an instant soul-sweetening sensation rarely give you money and material rewards. They carry the intangible rewards of nourishing the soul.

Just try any of these and see how does it feel: Helping a stranger, who has lost her wallet on a crowded platform, with a hundred rupee bill that can help her out of a hell lot of trouble; stopping to take an old hand and help her to cross the road; taking a stranded stray puppy out of the drain; a smile from an unknown face just because you did only this much to keep the elevator door open, helping her to catch onto the precious moment, etc., etc.

The feeling you get instantly is sufficient to overpower any vanity of earning millions and getting gold medals. Most importantly, such small, small doings help you hone the art of humanity in you. Just like you pump iron in gym to harden your muscles, such little, little acts of just doing without expecting any rewards will hone the muscles of your conscience.

Goodness can be practiced. It can be made a habit. Start with such small things where your egoistic, self-driven workflow won’t revolt to begin with. Very soon you will turn out to be the best of a human being. And who is a good human being? Well, basically she is happy. And at the top of it all, she is love and care personified.

It will also surely help you in honing the art of perfect 'doing': smart, suave and marketable.

Looking forward to learn the art of balanced "doing"? Do you find yourself falling off the rope usually? Well, you might be lacking in the art of doing. Most of the time you find it's underdone, and the consequent target misses, falling off the mark, and more importantly, the rumbling shadow of self-doubt, reproach, frustration, helplessness and even cynicism. Other times, it gets overdone, and its precipitous after effects, falling off the cliff with the overdrive, giving more despair than not doing at all, and resultant efforts to undo, to chip down the extra, and getting into a zone totally crazy beyond the extremes of overdoing and underdoing, landing in a zone where you no longer know whether it's a tragedy or a comedy.

Wishing you all the best in mastering the suave art of just doing, finely balanced, perfectly nailed and expertly nuanced!