Where are you coming from?

Roots and respect go hand in hand.

When you know where you are coming from and who is backing you up, you will never forget your values.

For example, my father has never touched alcohol in his life. Because of that, I have never had the craving to do so. More so, it’s always been a pride in saying where I am coming from.

College graduates from prestigious colleges take pride in saying where did they come from.

Kids of celebrities know how to live like a celebrity.

Employees working at Apple take pride in working there.

When we know where we are coming from, we take pride in never abandoning our values.

Take a look at the values you have abandoned.

Do they feel home? If they don’t, what’s the right thing to go home?

Anxiety

Anxiety is tricky.

The game is to make yourself never have anxiety.

The game is to play the game in the first place.

The game is to bring your best game.

The game of life is to be so busy that anxiety does not get to enter you.

The game is to be easy while being so busy that you know you are above all the situations life could offer you.

The game is to trick the game of anxiety, by being resilient when you don’t need it in the first place.

The real goal

The real goal is not to achieve your goals.

The real goal is not to travel, have money, reach that weight, etc.

Those are all fine, the real goal is to change your nature.

That part of your nature that you know is causing you pain and misery, that part of your nature that you know is not serving you, and that part of your nature that you know is the root of most evil in your life.

That is our real goal. To change the nature that nurtures the tree that should’ve long been uprooted.

IDC

Do you know why people enjoy Netflix and other streaming services?

Do you know why people go for YouTube Premium?

Do you know why people get their car tanker filled up when they leave the city for a long drive?

Do you know why people book return tickets for their journeys?

Do you know what is the reason people want to spend so much time with their families?

Here’s the answer: Unrestricted.

Everything above is unrestricted and therefore, very appealing and promising.

What if you made your state of mind like this?

This is not impossible, it is simply a choice. A choice to get away from people (including family and friends) who bring you down. Simply don’t care and keep working on yourself with blessing them. IDC and I appreciate you.

Your unrestricted life requires unrestricted goodness and zero opposites.

Sounds good?

The big set of problems

The big set of problems.

Peopl asking a ton of questions.

People seeking for help.

People not understanding you.

To focus on your goals.

To create and be.

The list is endless.

Well, this is what you were put here on this plant earth: to figure out this thing called “life” and be proud that you did.

Life always comes a full circle

You lost yourself.

And shattered the remaining part of you.

Now, in the process of getting back, you become someone who you aren’t.

Not only that, you hypnotise yourself to believe that you are that.

Then, in a sudden event of things, being yourself starts getting easier and more comfortable.

And that comfort zone makes you expand your confines.

This is the real journey: coming back from being lost. Back to real home.

Sometimes…

Sometimes, go against what you normally do.

Sometimes, smile at the person who irks you.

Sometimes, bless the person who has caused you the maximum pain.

Sometimes, just let people fly away with the credit.

Sometimes, sleep earlier than usual.

Sometimes, skip scrolling Instagram.

Sometimes, sit back and enjoy your life at home.

Sometimes, let others know their opinions matter.

Sometimes, just life be, instead of “doing” life.

Files

We make resolutions and they keep on adding up.

And then we make further resolutions.

The files keep getting bigger.

What if, we do something different: like execution? What if, this time it really looks different? What if…

Wait…

What will you do NOW? After this scrolling and swiping? Now?

Hang around

Weekend is just round the corner.

Time to hang around.

With the same people, for the same results.

With the people you should be hanging around with (maybe in their books as well), for the results you know you should be getting.

Weekend is just round the corner, hang around peops!!! ✌🏻😎

Communication

The ability to communicate is a hallmark of strong human being.

The ability to not speak when not required to, is a hallmark of stronger people.

Also, don’t expect a human being with a weak heart to have an attitude of gratitude. You have that gratitude for being the strong human being, and keep moving.

To feel bad

To feel bad, you don’t have to do anything much. You just have to do nothing and you will start feeling bad, just by being in the environment we all are living in today.

On the contrary, to feel good requires attention.

You need to take care of your mindset, what goes inside your head in the morning, what goes inside your head throughout the day, and most importantly, how you talk with yourself.

Feeling good requires efforts.

Feeling bad requires a ton of efforts, later on.

You get to decide.

One of the messages for my life

This one comes out as a small request.

To all those who smoke,

You’re not bad, however when when you get back indoors post a smoke, please please please do something to make sure that odour of smoking is not being radiated from you.

It makes the non-smokers feel suffocated and have an instant severe headache in some cases.

You may consider this as a small request from a family member who does not smoke and needs that level of space.

Thank you, and saying again, this is not to label anyone as “bad” (notwithstanding the fact that smoking KILLS), this is just a little request to make another little difference.

If you have the ability…

If you have the ability to think, think wisely. Not negatively.

If you have the ability to speak, speak words that build people up, not tear them down.

If you have the ability to give something, give regard to people versus judging them in your head.

If you have the ability to walk, create a pathway you would be proud of, instead of closing doors for others.

If you have the ability to see, see the other human being with dignity and respect, not to put them down.

Your life changes in these small situations only. And never handle a situation like this.

They got “lucky”

That’s true, someone else did get lucky.

That’s true, they got “lucky” because they’ve done some great deeds in the past.

Since you can’t change their past and your past, the way forward is to make your “future-past” better.

In the future, your past is going to be what’s your present in the moment.

What you do today, will be your past tomorrow.

What are you going to do today, create a new “today” or mourn over what’s not working?

Today.

Success and happiness

My cousin forwarded a video about success and happiness, from a very well known person.

There was this closing line about it, that particularly stuck my head (greatly designed in that way, though 😊). It said:

“You can be successful doing what others want you to do, you can be happy only when you do what you want to do.”

The second part is cool, happiness does multiply manifold when you are in love with your work.

Although, how can there be success when there is no happiness?

There can be cash and credibility and fame and fortune with that, yet how can that ever equate with success if you go home every night feeling shattered from within?

That’s NOT success.

Here’s the solution instead:

1. Change your definition of success as the ability to do what you want to do – which pretty much makes it synonymous with happiness.

2. While you are still trying to make “happiness” happen for you, start digging small things in your current job that you like. It could be as little as having a clean desk or as big as having the opportunity to stay in luxury hotels.

The goal, is to live and swim and sink in happiness. Not only when you have it, also in the chase.

Let’s thank Beatles

Beatles was right.

Love is all you need.

We all are made up of love, should not save it up like we’re going to retire on it. Rather use it a lot because you’re made up of it.

We’re living in an economy filled with fortune yet starving in love.

Yet, today businesses, work and of course, families need love more than anything else.

Lemme explain this in a small video here. Hope it would add value to you.

Is “everything” good?

You and I have come across this several times: Everything that happens is perfect and for the good.

Then, why do people get upset at the outset of things not happening right?

Because they want to control it. They want to have the certainty, unbeknownst of the fact that it’s the uncertainty yet faith in the sun and rain that makes the crops grow.

If you go back to any situation of your past, most certainly you would find yourself contented today, with what happened.

If future can give you the capacity to accept the past, then the present has even more capacity to allow you to accept, that:

Everything will ultimately turn out to be good.

Is this the right treatment?

The way you treat yourself…

The way you check phone when you should be sitting silent…

The way you allow yourself to be replaceable…

The way there are people on social media deciding your life…

The way you allow someone else to be an influencer and not your own self…

…is this the right way you should be treating yourself?

Would you treat your most loved one like that and take pride in that?

Last one?

Rest assured, you won’t ever know what and when is going to be your last one.

Today, being the last day of the year, a lot of people are thinking of what the last year did to them, reviewing it, etc.

What if, we treated each day with the urgency of the last day.

Some of the benefits that are going to accrue:

1. You will stop hanging around with people like whom you don’t want to look like.

2. You will be more kinder towards your work.

3. You will stop procrastinating on the thing you need to do the most.

Last one?

Well, you will never know the last one for you.