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Keep moving forward

Small increase in weights you lift.

10 minutes early from your waking up time.

Eating healthy most days of the week.

For the longest time, it will feel like you aren’t making any progress. Until you see a transformed person altogether.

Transformation is usually tiny tractions of taking time to simply show up, every succeeding time. There is power in showing up.

Hell vs heaven

Our body loves familiarity. So it stays in hell.

It hates to get out and seek some newness. So it lets go of heaven.

Truth be told, we know what they exactly are.
We just need to choose.
Every single day.

Let it go!!

In the last scene of ZNMD, when Imran and Arjun try to convince Kabir to reconsider his marriage, Imran tells him: “Let it go. Let it go, Kabir.”

That, to me, is the goosebumpy moment.

Because in order to be free, we gotta let go of everything that is keeping us away from who we want to be.

You got to let go. Only then you will let it in.

Are exams urgent or important?

Are exams urgent or important?
How do you manage your time during exams? 

I’d say exams are both urgent and important.
Ideally, nothing else should take up space in your mind during those days. 

What this means is – you won’t have time to pursue your passion, create content, or do anything else on the side during that time.

And that’s okay.

What this means is, that during your exams, your exams are a priority. Both urgent, and important.
You ought to do your best at it, and not regret it at all.

Once they are over, you can get back to your rhythm effortlessly. Easily. And happily.

The ones who manage their time well don’t do everything everyday, but they know they can get back to their routine if they get off the track, if that happens.

This is the beauty of life. You can decide whatever you want to do, whenever you want to – if you have built a strong foundation of routine.

It is JUST the start!!

Getting the degree is not the end.

It is the start.

Clearing the interview is not the end.

It is the start.

Entering a relationship is not the end.

It is the start.

Raising funds is not the end.

It is the start.

Your goal is not the end.

It is the start!

Super-underrated

The 2-minute rule.
The MOST UNDER-RATED productivity hack ever!

If something takes less than 2-mins to get done, get it done right away.
Postponing them only adds to the cognitive load our mind had to bear with.
Our brains will think we still have a LOT to do.
Feeling burdened and overwhelmed.

Get the small things done quickly.
It will eventually get the big things done :)

Facts of life

When I asked my first boss, how come there is always this unequal distribution of work even within the same team, he replied,

“Good people pay a far higher price for being good than bad people pay for being bad”

He wasn’t talking about work.

He was talking about life.

Lessons on friends

  1. Once you start taking life seriously, you start losing friends.
  2. Your truest friends are those who are happy for you when you succeed.
  3. Who is your best friend? And why is it not you?

Friendship is epic.
If you know what friendship truly is :)

La familia :)

I still remember that day in July 2002.

I was to leave for the US in a month.
It had been an expensive affair – paying for the exams, visa, books.
We were completely out of money.

And I needed overcoats.
Michigan is a really cold place.

No one we knew had spare overcoats.
Heck, no one even wore them in India :)

Dad figured a place in Old Delhi that sells used overcoats.
We took the bus.
Reached Chandni Chowk market.
Found the place.
The old man was selling them for Rs.400 a piece.

We were overjoyed!
We had budgeted Rs.1000

Bought 2 overcoats.
Spent Rs.50 on kulfi faluda to celebrate :)

I still remember that day!
It taught me an important lesson of life.
The most wonderful memories in life do not cost money.

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