Strong belief

I've been fatigued down recently. Literally, it’s “the more hectic my days, the weaker my health”. However, I've never given up thanks to a strong belief embedded in my heart. Today, I’d like to share how your belief works in you, especially when you are in a great danger.

I’m a writer/photographer but simultaneously working in a chemical-manufacturing company. Recently, the company decided to send some of the employees to overseas countries for one year in order to nurture their English proficiency, and you know what, their “globalism eyes”. My colleague in the same office was chosen to join the program and I believe it will be beneficial to his career path. However, during the one year he’s absent, the other colleague and I should take care of his current works; namely, his workload is added on top of our conventional works.

With the new work in addition to my current work, I’ve just come to be in charge of sales in 70% of the countries in this planet to sell our chemical products only by myself. Of course, my boss noticed how hectic this is to be but he had to admit that there won’t be any reinforcements of staff to offset the one-year loss.

Emails, emails, emails.

Excel,Excel,Excel.

Word, Word, Word,

Meeting, Meeting, Meeting…

Every minute, I’ve been chased by my tasks. I needed to catch up with them, to be on time for tasks. Heavy workload actually attacked me and fatigued me down.

A friend of mine had told me that obstacles will enlarge as your commitment enlarges. Simply, if I’d like to accomplish something bigger, there will be bigger obstacles for me to overcome, and once I overcome it, much brighter future will appear in front of me. I strongly believed the word was for real; this would happen in my life and this word was my armor in those hectic/unhealthy days.

I stood up with this word and realized how important those belief was. This word encouraged me much to keep going on no matter what happened. Whenever I felt sick but couldn’t take enough rests, I reminded myself of this word and spelled out like a magic spell in my mind many, many times.

I wrote about "role-model activity" on this blog previously, and my experience here is substantially the same as the British professor. I have something to rely upon amid the difficult time and the something actually worked as “set-point” in my life.

According to a research group of human's positiveness, all humans have a set-point as their baseline of happiness. No matter how they feel happy, they will get used to it eventually as time goes by and its happiness level will get back to the original one; set-point. However, when humans are in a deep depression, the set-point works as "pull-back"; it pulls you back to the original one to be neutral (*1).

My belief during the difficult time was the set-point. It 's always kept me stable and encouraged. Now, I came to understand why my friends with strong belief in their religion are resilient from the stress. I've seen those religious friends think of many things in a positive way (a beneficial way to them) even amid their difficulties. They have a set-point in their religion and can com back there anytime by daily exercise(prayer).