Agile and Mental Health Connection

The pronged approach for developing mental health is thoughts, behavior, and emotions. That means irrational thoughts need to be replaced by realistic ones. Acting in a good way by understanding situations, and having higher EQ that is to not get controlled by feelings but understand them and control them.

Sounds familiar?

Yes, we have gone through all these concepts in agile. Agile is not only a methodology used to change processes, but it involves the development of a complete individual-to-individual scaling up of an organization. By refusing to go with the traditional way of working where only higher managements are the ones who take decisions and others follow them without questioning. Agile has started a new way of working where everyone has their share of decision making and their contribution other than only physical work.

Agile has started involving and explaining the right way of handling emotions, mental power, and physical strength in the right way for improving productivity, efficiency, and well-being of the person. Agile concepts and processes not only help individuals to improve at work but these habits and concepts if followed will also help them in their day-to-day life.

There are various ways with which you can improve your mental health other than agile concepts. As agile always have encouraged various concepts for improving a person’s personality, many take it in the wrong way and implement any concept considering it the right way to improve mental health. In today’s article, we will see what to be avoided to improve your mental health and mental agility.

Don’t Waste Time, Feeling Sorry For Themselves

Everyone deserves success but missing it and seeing someone else getting what they needed makes many people more frustrated and angry or most of the time sorry for themselves. But mentally strong people avoid this feeling of being sorry or that they owe the world resenting others and focus their time on doing good deeds continuously.

They know that self-pity is most addictive and disconnects them from reality just wasting their time. Instead of focusing on what they missed they focus on what they get and have gratitude for their actions which further improves their mental health.

Don’t Let Go of their Control over Their Life

Many times people's actions or words affect your feelings making you think, feel and react in a way you shouldn’t. A person sometimes on their own thinks that their life is out of control. This limits your ability to disrupt life and success. Mentally strong people are well aware of this fact and keep a check on their power over themselves. They don’t get affected by others as well as their feelings and opinions unless it’s useful for them for their growth.

Don’t Shy Away from Change

People many times get affected or dwell over their past or the legacy of their families continuously. Making it an obstacle in their way of growth or accepting reality. This affects their way of working as it makes it for them hard to accept the change. Mentally strong people are always ready to accept the change that brings positivity to their agile working and life.

Don’t be Afraid of Failure

Many are afraid of taking risks due to fear of failure this makes them weak in decision making which is essential in agile. Taking calculated risks and failures makes you mentally stronger just open up for new opportunities and make sure not to make the same mistakes repeatedly. Failure is a stepping stone so it’s okay to fail experience makes you wiser but taking a step to be prepared with the required skills is the key.

Don’t Fear Being Alone

Humans are social animals, in everyday life, they are surrounded by noise and people,  most people feel fear or uncomfortable by being alone and try to fill those silence again with some noise. Strong people are well aware of alone time spent with themselves helps rejuvenate, renew, reflect and inspire them. They find time at least for 10 minutes to be with themselves and their emotions and decide their further path.

Don’t Expect Unrealistic and Immediate Results

Most of the time we find people starting to achieve their goals but give it up in between or near the end. This happens due to unrealistic goals or not having a complete idea of the required efforts. To be mentally strong it is required to set realistic expectations and follow them. This can be achieved by accepting the path to success will be though, don’t fix an exact deadline it’s good to have around time but not exact, and don't anticipate achieving goals will change life drastically wonderful.

When an individual follows these tips to be mentally strong along with agile processes they can highly achieve respect, success, and better opportunities in every possible aspect and also help improve their personality making them face every life situation calmly.

 

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