The story is told about Jacinda, a Chief Executive Officer who noticed
the weary behavior amongst her subordinates since the onset of the Covid-19
pandemic. The usual happy, alive and
bubbly behaviors amongst her subordinates were not there anymore. So, she
thought of a way to bring back their motivation otherwise if she would not it
would surely be the end of their organizational life.
Hence, she called for a meeting of the entire human resource in their organization’s
gymnasium. And she told them, “We have to have a positive mindset
notwithstanding our present predicament if we want our organization to survive
otherwise we would be all out of job sooner or later.”
But what is positive mindset? Positive mindset is a mental attitude that
expects nothing but the best despite of all the negativity, gloom and adversity
that surrounds us. Positive mindset is also the beginning of having a positive
life for without positive mindset there would be no bright future ahead of us.
Positive mindset opens new avenues, new doors and new windows for life’s
opportunities and success. It ushers us to uncharted lands that give us nothing
but the best. Helen A. Keller the famous blind and deaf author has this to say
about positive mindset: “No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars,
or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
Positive mindset is also the secret of athletes in winning and achieving
success in their chosen sport. Michael Jordan the greatest basketball player of
all time has this to say about positive mindset: "If you run into a wall,
don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or
work around it."
Positive mindset is the best mental attitude that we need to have during
this trying times. Because it programs us to have a laser like focus on the
brighter side of life. It blinds our eyes to all the negativity of life. And
when we are focused on the brighter side of life we naturally invite it to come
eventually into our life.
Going back to the story of Jacinda. She was able to bring back the
sagging morale of her subordinates and their organization is still vibrantly
existing right now. Simply because she encouraged them to live with a positive
mindset.
This too we can apply in any arena of our life: Family life,
organizational/work life, married life, personal life, retired but not tired
life or whatever area of life that we are in right now. We will be able to
survive and eventually win this battle against pessimism, gloom and negativity
brought about by Covid-19. Because we will use to the hilt the power of
positive mindset. Aye! – Marino J. Dasmarinas
