4 questions to help you clear your mind

You buy a new computer and find its performance and speed satisfactory. However, as time goes by, the disk space becomes smaller and smaller, and the computer speed becomes slower and slower. Finally one day, you get anxious about it. At this time, computer experts tell you that you should clean up the disk. In our inner world, there are also many such "disk fragments", which are scattered emotions, thoughts and behaviors that consume psychological energy but have no constructive meaning.

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Source of Fragmentation 1: Working under Time Pressure

Doing the same thing under the huge pressure of time and completing it in a calm mood will take up several times or even dozens of times the memory space and produce a large amount of disk fragments. Even if it is a very simple task, once you have to rush to do it, it will consume a lot of extra mental energy. For example, when working on a report in a hurry with a pale face and disheveled hair before the deadline, the whole mental state is completely different from that of writing it early, printing it out and making a backup. It is not only different during the process of completing the task, but also for a long time before and after. Although a sense of urgency can bring efficiency, it also causes stress, leading to increased adrenaline, sympathetic nerve excitement, increased blood pressure and heart rate, dulled pain perception, and suppressed digestive and immune systems. When in a state of stress, the body mobilizes all its energy, preparing to either fight or escape, so this is a very energy-consuming state. When stress is over, there is often a lot of "debris" left.

To clear the debris, start by asking yourself three simple questions: How much of your day do you spend feeling rushed? How many things do you accomplish during the day under the pressure of time? Is it possible to arrange these things in advance and do them when time is not so tight? When you make up your mind to clean up the fragments in this area, you will find that there are many things that do not have to be done in a hurry. The secret is: make good use of the time when you don’t have any tasks to rush. In fact, this part of time can easily pass by in a flash, but it can also be used to plan ahead and calmly complete those things that are not yet urgent.