Three simple mindset shifts that help you to minimize your daily disappointments

How many times does it happen that you just simply wish that you could maybe come up with some ideas that could just help you to deal with daily life disappointments in an easier way. It happens to me a lot that some days I just feel a little extra disappointed with how things are going on for me and I feel like just coming up with some solution for it.

In that search I was reading the works of some popular content creators and authors on how they deal with disappointments in their daily life and get that extra dosage of positivity in their thoughts. Then I came up with a bunch of ideas and I figured out these three to be the best out of them.

So here I am sharing the three simplest to follow and easy to adapt ideas that will surely help you to have a better perspective towards the daily ups and downs of your life and will help you to make things a lot less terrible on your challenging days.

Stop expecting even the tiniest of extra from your work:

Let’s be honest about it. We do a lot of work on a daily basis and sometimes we come across things that take a lot of effort, more than usual. But, we have a simple human tendency to expect a bit of extra care or appreciation from our peers or superiors whenever we do work that needs us to go a little out of the way than usual.

There is nothing wrong with expecting a little bit of applause for the work that took a lot from you but it turns out you just get an “alright” from your superiors after you are done and that’s it. Even worse, they assign you your next task exactly after you are done with that one.

The logic is quite simple. Your peers and superiors think that whatever amount of effort you are putting to do any work, you are getting paid for doing that only and that’s enough. Apparently everyone cares about the results and not about how you brought that result and how much does it take from you to bring that up.

It’s only you who knows the details and the backstory of what you bring on the table and how you do it. So, just keep that in mind that as long as you are getting paid, nobody bothers about the fact that how much appreciation and support should be given to you as they think paying you is enough to cover up all of that.

Minimizing the expectations of appreciation, care or voluntarily offered support from work will actually help you to think more about what to do and less about how you will feel once it’s done. That ultimately leads you to lesser disappointments because your focus will be completely on delivering what’s asked and not at all into thinking what could go better if you did things the best possible way. Putting out the best effort is all what you can do and getting the right appreciation or recognition is never in your hands so leave that part out of your mind.

Stop thinking of life as a race full of competitors:

No matter if you are in school or you are a professional, the more you bother about how good others are doing and how much you are behind, the more you’ll be in discomfort with yourself. With modern times, life is surely getting more competitive but you need to understand that the people around you aren’t thinking of you as a competition as you are thinking about them.

There are so many people aiming for the same goal but it is not mandatory that all of them are too concerned about how their competitors are doing. You want to be better than the rest and this thought process is surely considerable but you need to get this thing right inside your head that the only person you need to be better than is who you were yesterday.

You need to be more productive, ambitioned, determined, calm and focused than tour previous self and rest will just be fine. See no one as a threat and take all of the people around you as just people busy in their own hustles. All of us are fighting our own battles and we do not need to bother about how it looks for others and how nicely they are dealing with their issues. Almost everyone’s life looks better when we are unable to deal with our own business in a proper way, but the truth is that we only know the tip of the icebergs of what other people around us are dealing with.

So, the more you are determined to improve yourself everyday and pay less attention to other people’s businesses then it’s rest assured that you’d be a lot less bothered about tiny disturbances of daily life and you’d turn out to be performing and focusing on yourself a lot better.

Stop prioritizing how life looks over how life feels:

Nobody is safe from the materialistic attractions around us. It’s obvious because somehow everyday we are getting surrounded by more and more materialistic pleasures. From expensive clothes to high end tech gadgets, most of us want it all and are even willing to do a bit extra just to have access to more of it.

There is nothing wrong in seeking luxuries or trendy things in life, in fact it’s ok to have them as rewards of what you do to get them. But, trouble arrives when we are obsessed with them. Sometimes we are so much occupied in making a lifestyle that seems attractive and looks amazing, we tend to forget about the real quality things like mental peace and emotional wellbeing.

Never underestimate the power of breaks, good bonds with people, having some time off with yourself and spending time with your family or partner. These are the things that have the power to energize you to do a lot better in day to day activities of your life. The better relationships you have with your close ones the higher are the chances you have a better mood and it will ultimately result in better performance and less disappointment.

Prioritize health, learn to save and manage your finances, build habits that help you to stay on the right track, find hobbies that can keep you entertained and figure out things that contribute more to bring out that beautiful smile on your face quite often. You deserve more of that natural happiness in your life.

So, to summarize everything that has been stated so far, I’ll say that work towards shaping your life in a way that you expect nothing from the people of least significance in your life and value the ones more who are genuine to you. Remember that not everyone who is competing for the same thing in life is your enemy, you just need to find out ways to reach your goals without taking anyone else under concern. At last, find things that actually make you happy instead of things that just make you appear happy from outside.

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