Is Your 'Brain on Fire' yet ?

Yeah – You read it right. Brain-on-fire? You may have heard about a soul on fire but what exactly is a 'brain on fire' ? Interested to get your 'brain-on-fire' ?  

Keep reading !

Before you wonder if you even relate to this 'brain-on-fire' experience , lets quickly put you through some questions that make the answer to the question plain as day .

• Does your work attract you like a Moth to a Fire ?
• Do you feel you are in a place where you feel you don’t experience the real joy of doing what you do ? ( I am not talking about acceptance of circumstances here , dear matured reader :) )
•  Do you feel your best resources are not being tapped and you are doing something which you know doesn't harness the 100% of you ?
• Where you don’t even feel like enjoying the satisfaction of having done something good?

Well, If you answered at least a single Yes, don't go anywhere - you have reached the right place. Being in a place where you don’t feel fully invested in , is more of a Brain Quicksand. But look on the bright side now, you know that you need to get out of it. We can concentrate on how to do that ,what you want to do and most importantly what sets your brain-on-fire !

What is this Brain-On-Fire anyway?   

Have you seen someone do something they are really passionate about? Their eyes, the words they speak and the way they move when they do something which they want to do? The whole world becomes non-existent and what is visible to them is themselves and their craft. 

Take for example, a coder. If you see them at work, their eyes will be engrossed, trapped in the trance of the syntax's and logic that oozes out of their hands. The look on their face when they know after they have written the code, “oh yeah. This will work. This cannot fail because I covered it all” – Priceless. The smile that escapes from their guarded faces that they quickly wipe it off before anyone caught them reveling in their own gift – again priceless. Their eyes will wear a fiery look and their brain literally catches on fire while they go through this cerebral experience. 

Imagine having to experience this much intensity every day, every moment when you are doing something. When the world disappears when you do what you do and when it appears after what you have done, that’s when you know your brain is on fire. If you feel heartbroken now, after reading this, having realized that you haven’t had this brain bonfire experience yet,  I urge you to keep reading because after this reading experience you will at least know what gets you going.

Symptoms of not being on Fire

There are many signals that if you choose to observe you will understand that you are not yet on fire. A simple question. Have you ever observed how you feel when you introduce yourself to people when they ask you what do you do for a living? After you just introduced yourself, what are your immediate thoughts? Are they any of the following?

“Yeah. That’s what I do.”     “That’s it.”    “For now.”

“Just like anyone else.”

Well, there you go. If you don’t feel the energy, the zest of having introduced yourself that you do that ‘something’ for a living you clearly aren’t in love with the job. Be it any industry. If you don’t feel the pride swelling up when you tell people what you do, you have to ask yourself what makes you feel this way. There must be something. Something that lights you up and makes you want to do it immediately when someone asks you a favor or assistance in that craft. And when will someone ask you a favor – this happens only when you were good at it ! It might be Writing, Coding & Development, Event Management, Analytical skills , Hosting shows, Music Vocal or instruments, Art / Theater , Logical reasoning, Database Management Systems and the list goes on.

Call to Action

What do you do now? You somehow swallowed the reality pill and extended your moral fibre to understand what gives you the zing, what makes you Tick. Take this skill, this very personal craft of yours, which might have been buried deep inside your fears of exposing it out to the public and start wielding it out like the sword you Own . Use it with full steam. 

Every time you take out this sword, move swiftly, be agile, have good reflexes and be the Ninja of your gifts. In simpler terms - once you find this gift of yours, start investigating the avenues around you where you can start displaying your craft. Play your cards out, even if it takes the entire deck. But once you find the Ace of your house you will realize your Brain is on fire. 

If you feel you are good at music, start training at it formally, network with people with similar goals and think about performing in any occasion that you feel will be apt. If you feel you write well, start interning as Content Writers or be a blogger and stick to some specific topics. If you feel you have a knack for photography, start an Instagram profile, Pinterest or Blog to display your works. You feel you are a good people person, get yourself a Management degree and start Marketing or Human Resources . If you feel you will ace it in the IT world , hunt down the jobs that challenge you, gives you ample learning scope and acts as the fuel into your system , lighting you up like a VOLCANO. 

The whole point of this is to not subdue your gifts, talents and innate creative threads of magic. Start thinking of associating yourself with your passion, with your field, with a place that makes you come alive. The world needs more of people who come alive – I read this in a Pinterest quote and it latched on to me and made me question my preferences. I began to ponder , What makes me come alive? On a personal note, when I began to ruminate over my journey till now, it deeply illuminated my mental space and helped me understand what my ways ahead are.

My life is in track already, passions can’t pay bills!

                                                                                                                                                          True. Due to the choices you have made till now, that drove your life in this direction to this place where you are now, you might even be in a reputed organization doing some regular stuff which might even be paying you meaty salaries. But do you think you can survive here for long? I am not talking about 5 or 10 years. Can you plan the rest of your life ahead just with this one ray of hope or rope you are desperately trying to hold on just because right now your demands are met? Great things didn’t happen to great people by making easy choices. It takes a lot of character, courage and intellectual stamina to be clear yourself and convince the stakeholders around you who are going to be affected in some way by your choice. You can’t always ensure your life adjusts with your stakeholders expectations on you. Well, honestly it feels a bit odd for me to disturb your illusions like this but consider this as a Timely knock on your door. Listen to that voice of yours that is silently screaming in your system - "Hey , you deserve more and you don't belong here!" .These are your exact thoughts and you are reading them in my words. Make it your own story. Anyone can be a Success story. Any field can be a Success. What matters, is whether your brain is on fire when you are in that exact moment of success?

Your work is your fuel and you are the flame !

Think. Come alive. Revisit and Start your Rebirth Process Now. 

And that my friend, is a Brain-On-Fire !