Got chaos….get calm
Find calm wherever you are (picture courtesy of www.tvftdo.com)
Recently a client described her work and office as ’chaos’. The stress she felt from this showed and was affecting many aspects of her life and work. Our conversation got me thinking, what exactly is chaos? Chaos, it’s a great word, very descriptive, a curious connection of letters and could be tricky to pronounce. In reality when we notice chaos, it’s usually unpleasant, unsettling and uncomfortable. I decided to do some research on the meaning and background of this short busy word. I found these definitions on the web at http://www.thefreedictionary.com:
Chaos
1. A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.
2. A disorderly mass; a jumble: The desk was a chaos of papers and unopened letters.
3. The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.
4. Mathematics A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.
5. Obsolete An abyss; a chasm.
What is your kind of chaos? Do you create chaos in your world? Would you rather have something else? I believe we can control chaos by how we react to it. We can choose our responses to anything in our lives, it just may take some practice. Here’s some tips to deal with everyday chaos and still get calm:
1. Create some space to think, go for a walk, take a breather, stop and think.
2. Assess the situation, make a list of everything causing the chaos.
3. Lose the unimportant and focus on the important.
4. Make a plan, add some achievable deadlines.
So turn your chaos into calm, get in control of your thoughts and reactions. Find your peace.
