Applying Principles from One Sphere to Another

Had this lightbulb moment while driving. But I dread to write it. Because as people say, writing takes a long time. Sometimes your ideas suck, and you have to have the bravery to press the delete button. I do not have to do it because this is blogspot. Told myself I will, WILL, finish this in 7 minutes. As of now, two mintues have passed. HA-

ANYWAYS. The tldr version is I think people can apply the rules that they learnt/familiarised with in one aspect of life, in other areas of life. I for example, know what it means to do a good job at work. I know the precise moment, or the precise list of tasks that I need to tick off for that project to be in a good enough shape to be sent off to my managers. I also know the list of things that are nice to have but do not need to be done for it to be a good job, if they are all done maybe that would be called perfect instead. So I do not struggle in this sense at work, to decipher between what is considered a well done job and not. 

On the other hand, I suck at this in general at other things in life. Finances, friendships, developing skills, working out. There always seems to be too many things to juggle at any one point of my adult life. Dropping any of the balls seem to disqualify me from the living a good life bracket, and juggling all of them just seems insurmountable. Hence I lie down, metaphorically. I helplessly juggle a little everyday, thinking before I even start that it was a failure already. I cannot seem to cut the list down, because in my mind anything short of that is imperfect, and not worth accomplishing.

Therefore it dawned on me that if I take the same approach to managing life tasks bar work, the same as I approach each project at work, I might be better at it, and not feel so tired and helpless every other week. Exactly the same rules, figure out a point where things are good, not perfect and strive at it and maintain it, until I have the capacity to do more. 

I got excited. Perhaps other people can benefit from thinking like this too. They may not have the same familiarity for the rules of work that I have, but they almost certainly do for at least one aspect of their lives, they must have figured out the rules to win at it pretty well. They can just apply it to the other aspects that they are struggling with, and voila! Everybody might feel a little better.

I have a suspicion some already think like this. For example, MBTIs. It is essentially the study of how people think about/react to the same situation. Some people think about it intellectually more, some feel more, some are more spontaneous, some plan ahead. I am no expert in MBTIs, in fact I am not sure which I am! Knowing that a situation is one and the same, but people see and relate to it in different ways, can reframe our mind and redefine the meaning of success to be a little more achievable. In the same way, knowing the way to game an industry can be applied to another sphere of life is also highly encouraging.