You are exhausted because you are fighting physics. Learn the “bin or build” audit.
Think of your last gridlock at Silk Board in Bengaluru or on Western Express Highway in Mumbai.
You honked. Even cursed the government. You checked your watch. And messaged your team, enraged.
Did the traffic move? No.
Did your blood pressure rise? Yes.
About your career and life:
Reality is a moving cart. You are the dog tied to it.
When the market crashes, when your appraisal is average despite your hard work, when the client rejects the pitch at the 11th hour, that is the cart moving. It goes where it wants.
You have exactly two choices:
- Walk with the cart. (Accept the new reality and pivot.)
- Or be dragged by the cart. (Complain, resist, and get skinned alive on the pavement.)
Most of you are choosing to be dragged.
You think “venting” at the chai tapri is therapeutic. It’s not. It is you digging your heels into the ground while the cart drags you anyway.
It’s not the bad boss or the traffic that destroys you.
It is your resistance to it.
The Tool: The “Bin or Build” Audit
Stop wasting energy on “why” this is happening. Do this instead:
When chaos hits, take a blank page and draw a line down the middle.
Column A (The Cart): Things I cannot change.
(The economy, company policy, the client’s mood, the traffic.)
Column B (The Walk): My response.
(My skills, my next email, my portfolio, my attitude, my next move.)
Look at Column A. Bin it. Ignore it completely.
Look at Column B. Build it. Pour 100% of your energy here.
Stop screaming at the traffic. It doesn’t care.
Start walking.
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