What do we think about being simple and how does simplicity enable success? These questions always perplexed my tiny mind. However, upon brain storming and with passage of time, when a journey of life reached its middle, this sentence compelled me to overthink which made me decided to inscribe beauty behind this point.

Initially, it is to note that key to success is to focus on simplicity. It is rightly said that simpler we can make things, which will help improve our efficiency and effectiveness which generate better results.

To me, simplicity means power, power to rise above confusion and complexity and to get meaningful stuff done. Power to create what deeply matters to us. To me, act of creating deeply desired results is best road toward to success of many kinds. One of key position people in my life was my father. An extremely simple person in many ways and extremely successful. I learned a lot from him about living a joyful life with simplicity and how to make complications simple with creativity.

Moreover, I think that a lot of people unknowingly mix meaning of complication and complexity together. Complication is just a long and intricate road that leads to confusion and frustration. Whereas, Complexity is when different simple solutions are working together to achieve a bigger goal. People are not afraid of hard work, they are afraid of failure, and complexity just adds to that fear and erodes confidence. Simpler we can keep things more successful we will be, it’s as simple as that!

Furthermore, this is for sure that success leaves clues. By studying practices of great leaders, great companies or even great cross-country people; we can learn more about what it takes to be successful in our own endeavours. These were successful because they stuck to a simple and clear strategy of running hardest at end and ignored everything else.

According to Richie Norton, simplicity is complex. It’s never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require most advanced thinking. High thinking refers to thinking beyond yourself or above yourself (or your self). Observing or witnessing thinking mind. Phrase ‘high thinking’ in proverb refers to purity and highness of thoughts and deeds. More than making our lives affluent, we should be more empathetic and selfless for others. High thinking could mean taking a macro or long-term view of your life. It is generally said that man should believe in simple living and high thinking. Simple living is well defined but what constitutes High Thinking? Are we all capable of thinking high?

To understand more, easiest definition of high thinking is unselfish thinking. It only means not to think about your own self, about your own benefits about your personal gains in all matters. It means to take yourself out and think in terms of others and society, find ways and means as to how you can contribute to make it better with your effort. Man lives as a part of one big family and it is our duty to give something for family’s uplift. As your works are frozen thoughts so your thinking has to be high to be beneficial.

Somehow, “High thinking” is like “high level” and “focused thinking”. It sounds a bit elitist. High thinking leads to positive attitude which leads to positive ideas. Interestingly, having a mind filled with positive ideas is bliss as it can help you in attaining heights of success. When good thoughts generate in mind then it also helps in boosting our confidence. Our thoughts shape our path of success so we need to train our thoughts to attain success

There is overwhelming evidence from research in positive psychology that people who are happy are more successful. Positivity is related to higher levels of job performance, supervisory evaluations and perceived customer service. Positive people perform better because they are more motivated and more effective. This is due to a number of benefits associated with experiencing positive emotions. It keeps stress at bay, boosts your confidence and self esteem, keeps you psychologically fit as those who are psychologically strong are more resilient, more energetic, optimist and confident.

Besides it enriches mental health. It is truly said that happy brains are smart brains because it opens us up, broadening the range of ideas that come to mind which leads to greater creativity.  Social benefits personally attached with people, which leads to high quality relationships related to personal growth, creativity, motivation and productivity. Moreover, one can retain good health as positive people are physically healthier. They have lower blood pressure, lower heart rate, lower levels of stress-related hormones and stronger immune systems. Anyhow, positive thinking is an attitude that pushes you to expect good and desired results. Power of positivity helps you in creating and transforming energy into reality. Positive mindset helps you to seek happiness, health and a happy ending regardless of situation.

To sum up, next evolution of simple living and high thinking is simple living and positive thinking with high awareness-evolution from intellectual to spiritual. High thinking came first followed by simple living and then more high thinking.

Published in The Daily National Courier, January, 20 2023

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