33 life lessons on 33rd birthday :)

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, your girl turned 33 on 26th June 2024 🙂

Who says their birthday like that?

Anyway, here are some life lessons I found useful, that you would find useful as well:

1. Keep your inner kid alive. The world will force you into becoming a grown up. Never be one. It reminds me of a team lunch we were once having in our Kerala offsite. At one point the discussion morphed into movie conversations, where as my boss’ kids were playing in sand just next to the lunch area. I moved on and started playing with both of them. It still remains one of my most beautiful memories with them.
   
2. The pain that you were over with? Guess what? It will come back again. And again. And again. Learn to give an answer to your mind instead of “moving on”. You will be better prepared to face it.
   
3. Walk under the moon for at least half an hour every night. It is a therapy that will give you something you didn’t know you needed.
   
4. When you are feeling extreme emotion, good or bad, don’t act. Period. No one ever regrets not reacting in the heat of the moment.
   
5. Your life is lived in the things you do for yourself, not what you do to impress others.
6. The trauma someone else gave you 42,567 years ago? They don’t even remember it. (Universal observation!)
7. Just because you have changed and evolved, does not mean the world has, too. Most people don’t change, unfortunately.
8. A clean environment is worth a million billion dollars.
9. Respect people for who they are, even if they are entirely different.
10. It’s okay to adjust yourself for your colleagues, friends, family. Only the fruit-giving tree bends.
11. If you were not allowed to post about it on social media, would you still be doing it?
12. Some friendships will never be the same.
13. You don’t meditate or read or workout as “hobbies”. They are insurance to protect your mind and body, before you go out into the world and fight.
14. Whenever you feel you aren’t doing something everyone else is, more often than not, you are right 🙂
15. Don’t force yourself to stay in touch. Focus on yourself to bless everyone you think of. Few things are as priceless as keeping your aura clean.
16. Go out of your way to be there for someone who lost an immediate family member. Being there doesn’t have to be transactional. It has to be a natural way of life.
17. You know the answer in your heart, already.
18. Tell everything of your life to God. I tell about a conversation with a friend, what we will have for dinner, or ask him to wake me up at a certain time in the morning. Make him a friend instead of a vending machine.
19. Cliche but true: There is no one like you. No one ever will be. But how will the world ever believe this if you don’t believe it?
20. Nothing, absolutely nothing sails you through more than consuming good wisdom.
21. You will never regret listening to your intuition. You will never ever regret on honing your intuition.
22. You never lack time. You are merely distracted.
23. If you have a work relationship extend outside of work where the other person cares for you as a human being, consider yourself lucky.
24. It is your job to keep your good word. Either don’t tell people that you are there, or be there when they need you to be there.
25. You cannot correct anyone’s wrong by telling them they are wrong. No one likes that. You need to learn to understand what they want, and start from there.
26. You will make infinite money even when you do the thing you love (but see no one doing it). The question is: Do you believe in yourself?
27. Stop looking for who did not do good things for you. Start looking for who did good things for you. You will find plenty. What you focus on expands.
28. As you grow in life, you learn to say no to a lot of opportunities. This to me a big win, especially since most of 20s are spent in saying a lot of yes.
29. All problems could be solved with communication. Trust me, my friend.
30. Do not believe what people say. Their love, their “I am there”, their “you can count on me” dissipates when needed the most. At the same time, don’t get fixated by people’s angry words as well. They don’t mean it. They just happened to vent out.
31. Don’t expect. Period. Not because people are bad. They aren’t. Rather because people do not have the mental bandwidth to fulfill their own expectations, how could they do yours?
32. Be a giver, baby. You will receive more than you can think of.
33. Lastly, even if you have nothing but a routine to take care of your health, your mind and your life, you are a true winner. Lose your routine and no success really matters (because you are now building a building without a foundation). Take care of your day, and you are winning on your own terms. Every day. Every year.