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You want to pick designing after engineering.
Maybe go for a self-financed trip for six months.
Perhaps quit graduation and get a full-time job in photography.

All these are not the conventional paths.
But all these are the paths that seek your attention.

Should you take them up?
Or should you “settle-down” first and have a back-up plan?

Steve Jobs said you can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect the dots looking backward. How will we be able to connect the dots if we do not move away from where we now are?

We picked up a book to read.
Now we don’t quite enjoy it.
However, if we leave it midway, guilt quickly jumps in.

Should we finish it up or read it fully?

The guilt works strangely. Instead of making us decide, it makes us give up on reading all together. 

What if we kept the books down if they took away our interest?
Or perhaps we skimmed through it?
Or read between the pages about what piqued our interest?

The best relationships with books are give and take.
We give them our time and they keep us hooked to read them.

What if they don’t respond to my cold email?
What if I get rejected in the interview.
What if people laugh at the content I share? 

What if they do respond to my cold email?
What if I crack the interview?
What if people give me great feedback on my content? 

We can get into the highest state of happiness or create a forever prison for ourselves, just through our imagination.

Creating content is less about new ideas on a random day.
It’s more of a process.

Showing up each day.
Documenting what we did.
Being yourself.
Creating content even when we don’t get the muse.

And, listening to the audience about what lights them up.

If we keep on doing it consistently without worrying about it to monetise, the power of compounding will take us places even we couldn’t imagine.

But the universal caveat remains unchanged:

Creativity shows up when we do.

You got promoted..
Maybe getting married this year!
And oh, you got a pet too.

Or you got fired from a job.
Went through a tough breakup.
Perhaps the family went through a crisis.

These are extreme emotions.
People share them all the time on social media.

And there are responses like: “I’m so happy for you”, “So glad to see you like this” or “Extremely sorry to hear that”.

However, no one feels what we feel. No one knows what we are going through. 

No one is as happy or as sad for us as they say they are.
We have only ourselves to know what we are going through.

We are still using some things in life.
Old words. Old thought patterns. Old behaviours.
Just because we have accustomed ourselves to them. They’re a habit now.

They don’t serve any purpose.

As we form new habits, it is also important to question which are the old ones that we are leaving behind. 

A good habit to have is to discard habits that do not work.

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90% of new year resolutions are broken by 15th January.
Why does that happen despite our best intentions?

The brain is always looking for shortcuts, and its default shortcut is to go back to what it is used to. Deep down we haven’t conditioned it to act in a manner aligned with those goals.

What if we change what the brain is conditioned to?
What if we create habits because of which it is possible to achieve our resolutions?

When goals go for a toss, habits are always there to catch you safe.

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2020 was a different year in many ways.

We were indoors not out of choice, still out of choice.
Our trips didn’t go as planned.
So didn’t our plans.

Amidst all this, we survived the least expected year of our lives.
Amidst all this, we held our hopes high.
Amidst all this, we even found solace in memes.

It is all a call of how much we are blessed with.

We need little to survive, and we can flip our lives around for the health of our family and the world.

We often ask ourselves a lot of questions:

Why am I doing this?
Why do I not want to do this?
What do I want to achieve on taking this path?

All are very meaningful, very important questions.

However, are we allowing ourselves to get to the answers?
Or are our lives a big question mark because of never getting out of a whirlwind of questions?

Questions give different directions, answers show the path that drives actions.

MBA immediately after graduating looks like a cool choice.
We will be a B-school graduate, have a great job, and finally “settle down”.

Gaining some work experience before that is coined as wastage of time.

However, what if the work experience turns out to be fruitful for an MBA?
What if we enter the MBA not to top the class rather understand how business decisions work?
What if we knew that to understand business, it pays to have work experience?

The goal of college is to understand how college can help us. For an MBA that might mean gaining real world experience before college.