Peace of Mind - Sustainable Productivity

When I put my head on the pillow at the end of the day, I want to go to sleep peacefully. It’s okay to occasionally get excited or nervous about what’s the next day will bring. Perhaps I’ll be hosting a training to a broader audience, or I’ll get to meet a person where we’ll decide on something that affects my future. It’s a healthy type of stress as long as it’s not negatively affecting my sleep for days in a row. However, I don’t want to keep thinking about a task that’s not finished or how my code will behave if the demand in Asia will cause a peak while I’m sleeping in the European timezone. I also don’t want to think about how I should have behaved differently on a specific occasion. I certainly don’t want to be bothered with the thoughts of how I risked my money on some specific financial asset1. I want to sleep without being mentally disturbed, and it’s only possible if I have peace of mind.

Some people can easily avoid getting second thoughts while they’re about to sleep. When you don’t challenge yourself at work or stagnate in your life, you could have peace of mind because you don’t even try to grow. After all, stress comes with change as a response to adapt. The same is true for people who don’t invest. If they don’t risk their financial assets for better outcomes, they don’t have to worry about losing; however, they also don’t have the chance of winning. If you’re a person who wants to grow, you take risks with what you are and what you have. Having peace of mind, in this case, gets more challenging because there are uncertainties. There are known unknowns that you know that you don’t know. This unknown type adds a bit of risk that you can avoid by simply educating or positioning yourself correctly. Then there are unknown unknowns2 which you can’t do anything about them. They are “what if”s that bother you when you lay down and close your eyes. They are the worst enemies of having peace of mind.

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