Resisting sugar craving

This morning I had an undeniable urge to eat sugar. Chocolate cake + cold coffee to be precise.

With only one problem: Had I baked the chocolate cake, I would have to eat it daily.

Not that eating it is a problem, rather I’d love it!

The only problem being, it is not good for the health, baby 🙂

So I made myself a chocolate shake, and sipped it with a laddoo.

Sweet for the day, and no sweets for tomorrow. Win-win!!

Burning with fever

I am burning with fever. Something that disappears sharp at 9:30 pm daily and comes back at 11:30 am again. Wow!

Yes, I have tested negative.

However, here’s what I am doing:

  1. Attending meetings from bed.
  2. Working for my clients
  3. Cooking my own food

Why, you ask?

Because what we spend time with is what encircles our thought process. Thus, it always helps to stay distracted.

That said, I am not jumping around and walking very fast as I do usually. However, I am still not married to the bed and moving around. And that’s precious.

Also, if you understand this part, it is priceless: The disease is in the body. “I” am always untouched.

Are you moving in the right direction?

With WFH in place for almost all of us, how do we know if we are going in the right direction?

Yes there are our coworkers who will constantly give us feedback, support us when we need, and also appreciate us when we perform well.

However, to know if we are on the right track in our lives is a different ballgame together.

Here’s how we can know it: By looking at the best in the world at it. (Online of course!)

When we set our standards at best, we get to know what we need course-correct on, and how we can execute it.

For example, yesterday my cousin and I decided to have a micro workout challenge. One game of arm wrestling, 10 push-ups and 10 jump squats – best of two. Since I have been working out for more than 8 years, I won. That’s not the point, however. Point is, when my cousin was doing push ups and jump squats – he was performing an incorrect technique in both of them. So let’s say he was able to perform only three repetitions, his next step would be to be able to perform four of them – without being aware that the first repetition itself needed course correction.

This wasn’t a remark on his skills at all, because he is phenomenal at a lot of things that I am not. However, I could point this out because I have small bit of understanding around it.

Imagine what would happen if we set our standards in whatever we did – against the best people in the world!

How would that change the trajectory of our learning?

How would that make our learning curve better?

How would we be a better person if we had such high regards for our standards, instead of simply using our previous skills as a barometer – which weren’t remarkable anyway?

About workout

Today morning, I woke up on time, did my meditation and went back to sleep.

By the time I got up again, it was already the time for breakfast. Also, was feeling very hungry. So decided to skip exercise in the morning, and thought to do it in the evening.

Around 12 noon, when I opened up the fridge to prepare for lunch, a different thing happened. I just felt the NEED for exercise.

So I dropped my plan of cooking, and stated exercising. Had lunch around 1:45PM post workout.

Though lunch got delayed too much, learnt a powerful thing about life: we always know what is right.

Our body is also telling us what is right.

All that we need to do, is to listen.