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Those who are associated with software configuration management understand how important configuration is for software projects, without which everything will be a hotchpotch, causing confusion, errors, and failures. Similarly, we need to understand how important it is to configure our minds regularly.
The brain takes actions as per the inputs or signals received from different parts and as per the external data or information received or events perceived.
To execute the required functions, the brain needs updated information and a clear set-up of the mind. We cannot allow different thoughts to accumulate and run in the mind simultaneously, while we want the brain to execute a particular task, needing top performance and excellent speed.
The mind needs to be in its current state for the brain to perform better. In that environment of the mind, the brain will be able to deploy its codes or signals in the correct and speedy way.
For that, there should be timely debugging of the mind so that waste thoughts and ideas can be cleaned out.
We should be able to constantly trace the states of the mind to ensure that the later is in its current state. Also, during the execution of tasks, the mind needs to remain stable.
Integration of relevant and updated ideas or thoughts is also very important. For that, the mind needs to exercise value streaming, in which only the value-added thoughts and ideas will be set in order.
Also, the brain should clearly know about the desired end result of a particular task.
All of these are possible by managing to configure your mind.
Here, the important thing to note is that as the brain keeps on handling activities continuously, the configuration of the mind is a continuous process.
How to Configure Your Mind?
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Check the baseline of the mind:
Always check for the possibility of improvements in the mind frame, so that broader perspectives of life can be accommodated. If possible, renovate the mind with strong base and value. There is no age or time barrier for the same. Through external mentoring or self study-based mentoring, the perspective & attitude can be changed.
Keep Track of the Best Practices:
Feed the mind with detailed information about the available best practices.
Keep track of all the best practices regularly; find out the priorities and relevant levels of the best practices every now and then.
Keep notes of the new thoughts and ideas:
Note down the thoughts and ideas as they appear and preserve them for the right time of utilization. Keep reviewing the notes on a regular basis so that the right opportunities to explore cannot be missed (Heat the Iron, when Hot).
Bring judgemental stability:
Undergo intensive study-audio-video sessions, training and coaching seminars, brainstorming sessions, mind workouts, etc. to bring the mind to a level of judgmental stability.
Keep the mind open to ever-growing:
Keep your mind open to getting adjusted to the required changes in the infrastructure.
Every day, keep yourself in the learning mode and verify every time information is received. Keep the mind growing today and every day.
Put in the necessary filters:
Put filters in the information flow so that the brain is fed only relevant and accurate information. For that, it is important to keep yourself away from baseless and negative gossip, sites, and environments.
Keep the mind, at the current state:
Keep the mind in its current state every day, as per the current specific task of the brain. The current state will, however, be dynamic, as per the current status of the tasks.
Delete all the stories or memories that do not help you in your moral and intellectual development.
Identify which mindsets or thoughts will badly affect the required brain’s performance to execute the tasks of prime importance at the current time.
Do regular debugging:
Do regular debugging of the mind through a determined approach and strategy. If some illogical thought and imaginative idea are hampering the activity of the brain, then just throw out those. If someone else is trying to make you negative, just filter out that negativity.
Target for small, yet gradual changes:
Target for small yet gradual changes in the mental pattern. Because if you try to implement so many changes together, then that will make the brain confused, and things will be either half done or wrongly coded.
Let fictitious assumptions not control your mind:
Let’s not allow any information or data based on assumptions, but based on facts and analysis.
Let’s not play the blame game:
The tendency of the blame game is to dampen the brain’s performance. In our society, the majority of work is done in teams. To get success in a project, we need to go ahead, keeping everything together.
Let’s not be the fault finder:
Everybody wants to rise. But, in that process, many people keep making errors, unknowingly and unintentionally. So, instead of being a fault finder, let’s take on the role of the auditor, so that we are able to assess the situation and analyze it in a constructive way so that the concerned person can make the necessary revisions to his work or activities.
Let’s not feel dissatisfied and unhappy with what we do:
There will always be a better version of whatever you have created. So, there is no point in being dissatisfied and unhappy with what you have done today.
Verify, do corrections, and update:
Verify the data or information received and make the necessary corrections and updates so that the brain can act faster and bigger.
Concluding Note:
It’s required to configure your mind regularly to keep the performance and functionality of the brain at the top level. When the mind is configured, it will be in the most relevant and updated state. So, the brain will be in a non-confused state, which is favorable for focused engagements.
