Three Things in My Mind

My mind tends to be very complex as in I have so many thoughts that I cannot describe in a structured way. So one method it seems to be working is by saying out or deciding that I have three things in my mind and then try to fit or try to pick three things out of the pool of mind.

Here are 3 things that make it works for me.

First, it makes me realistic that we are limited. So we need to pick three out of the so many ideas or so many things I have. In other word, it helps me to prioritize and it removes my fear of missing something because anyway I can only fit three things.

Second, it gives me courage to make decision. 3 seems to be a reachable number. I think I can make up something up to 3. For example when my manager asked me what I plan for meeting the future interns, I just quickly said three things while I actually haven’t decided what are those 3 things. So while talking to him, I came up with three things starting the easier, which is to introudce the team members, followed by to settle the admin as I remember there is something I need to ask, and third is to have a rough plan in the coming few weeks so that we can get things started.

Third, it helps me to connect things and structure my thoughts. For example, during a meeting in my church, we were talking what it means with the term weakness in Romans 8. So while listening to others, I try to connect my thoughts and classify them into three. The three does not need to be all independent. I decided that weakness can mean difficulties in keeping hope alive in three aspects: how to change my mindset, how to change my behavior, and how to pray for others when they seem not changing. In other word, there are actually only two: difficulties in changing myself and difficulties of ofthers to change. But I break the difficulty in changing myself further into two parts. One is the the mindset part, and another is how to change our behavior or improve skills even when the mindset has been changed.

So hopefully I can continue using it just as I try to use it in writing this article.