It is not the lack of time that makes us do lesser work.
It is the lack of ability to not to waste time.
When we on what needs to change, change happens beautifully.
Tag: time
Years passed by, while you were waiting for the right time to do your dreams.
Why is this lockdown of three weeks now affecting you?
Use this time to meditate rigorously.
Eat less. Set a time table. Grow your emotional strength.
Meditate. Go within. What comes without, is going to be something YOU are going to be proud of.
Some productivity tips, not season specific or specific for place you’re working from.
Work every time, you just need to decide.
1. Don’t receive a call on the first time, unless it’s scheduled. It turns out, when you will call them back an hour or two later, the “important” work would’ve been resolved. So would be your time be saved.
2. Take a nap post lunch, do NOT engage in phone after lunch. Will make you happier, and of course, more productive.
3. One minute, every hour – take a break. Move, or sit still. However, just a break.
4. Have your goals for tomorrow, tonight itself. Your mornings will be saved from internet in the morning.
5. After having the goals for tonight, tell everything to God. Everything – good or bad, meetings, aha moments, etc., during the day – give it to Him. Surrender all good as a gratitude to Him, surrender all that is not good, to him to handle. You will be mesmerized at how your life starts falling in place.
That’s it folks! I could write a ten more; however doing less makes chances of execution better.
You wake up in the morning and are filled with utter positivity.
You get out of your home and receive an unexpected news.
A news that tells you that you are not required.
You didn’t expect it. However it did happen.
You don’t know what to do now.
Then what to do? How to proceed? How to make the next right move?
Here’s how: take some time. Take the time to be calm. Take the time to relax. Take the time to think.
And then, take the step that you would proudly be able to tell God.
The things that affect you, are the things that control you.
The things that control you, are the things that decide your course of action.
The things that decide your course of action, should be something that needs approval from your happiness.
Now, think and decide: what’s something that’s affecting you right now?
Are you happy with it?
If not, why are you allowing it to affect it?
If hard work could solve all the problems…
…you know it doesn’t.
Except when it does.
Hard work, without putting in the right thoughts process and strategy, won’t ever come to rescue.
Having a laser like focus and not working hard for it, won’t either.
The goal, then, is to use your power of discernment, and decide if you really ought to be working hard Bro.
If success is taking too much time for you to unfold, it’s not because you are incapable.
It’s perhaps because somewhere, inside your head, you still don’t believe that you deserve this success. And since you don’t believe it, your belief always comes true.
We talk about self confidence.
What about self confidence for success? When you have it, you will know it will move mountains.
Bonus Point: Self confidence comes from doing the work.
Each time I cook dal rice, invariably this episode happens:
I put the dal in one pressure cooker and put on the flame.
Next, repeat with rice.
Both the pressure cookers have been put to heat at the same time.
With a small difference:
The pressure cooker containing dal, has already had three whistles, while the one containing rice hasn’t had a single one till now.
The cooker with dal is preparing for its fourth and final one, while all of a sudden, the one with rice blows its four whistles back to back.
After this, the dal also gives its fourth whistle and both the flames are shut off.
Here’s the lesson this preparation teaches me every single day:
It may take time for your whistle to metaphorically blow, yet when it does, it’s just the best one.
Be patient and keep up your hard work, all will be fine at the end, as it did to rice.
While you are executing and being patient, it seems irrationally illogical.
When that patience pays off, you find all that optimistically logical.
Here’s the catch: when you have finally made that win, as you will, definitely: just remember to get back in action to have more low points.
This is not crazy, this is a fact: that you may want more success, yet the juice feels tasty when you have gone through the bitterness and knock-downs.
If there were a time machine to go back to the past and change it…
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…then you won’t have been as strong as you are today.
Be the master of time instead of being its victim.
Five seconds.
Just five seconds.
Just five seconds before he would have known that it’s going to be over.
What would have crossed Kobe Bryant’s mind when that did happen?
Perhaps a feeling of satisfaction and happiness for living a life he was proud of.
Perhaps the fact that he should have said “I love you” more often to people who mattered the most.
Perhaps the tragedy to see his daughter die along with him.
Perhaps none of these.
Whatever that may be, none of us know the time till when we are here.
Neither the one with the most money, nor the one who knows the most influential people.
All of us are cut from the same cloth of anonymity.
That’s what makes this life worth understanding and living.
Understanding and living.
Not postponing. No more “my time will come”, rather, my time is already here.
Right now. Otherwise, literally, never.
There are times you don’t feel good.
There are times when people aren’t happy with your happiness.
There are times when people want to control you.
Amidst all this, just remember:
- Someone somewhere is struggling against huge uncontrollable fires.
- Someone just got to know they’re suffering from terminal disease.
- Someone just lost a young kid.
- Someone wanted to say “I love you” to their father yet couldn’t.
Now go handle your life’s situations with gratitude.
How do you decide if you had a great day or not?
What are the parameters?
What really has to happen in order for your day to be great?
Being super specific helps, although if you aren’t specific, your days will pass quickly and so will your life.
Letting that happen to you is a sad thing to be.
We all are talking about what 2019 taught us, yours truly being one of them.
Though that’s all great, I respectfully urge you to think over, what’s something you want to master in 2020.
Not a resolution.
Not a goal either.
Something that’s a part of your identity as much as perhaps your cellphone is.
And when you’ve decided, don’t wait for 2020 to teach it to you by December end.
Instead, be someone who teaches their awesomeness to the world as and when they learn it, something that’s independent of clock of time.
Why is it important?
Because the time needs to know, you’re the Master, not the other way round.
You may want things to happen quickly.
You may want results to pop out like a toasted bread.
You may also want to show them to others.
However, what takes time, takes time.
The awesome stamina you have after three months of strength training.
A wonderful friendship that has seen the scars of time.
A goal that made you rise earlier every single day.
Great things take time and patience.
And make you more powerful in the process.
Here’s wishing y’all a Merry Christmas!
Bob Proctor said in a YouTube video, most people, if they were asked what they were thinking, would go blank.
Thinking is a muscle, and the more you use it, the lesser you need to depend on the outside world to judge your life situations.
In this world of AI and bots, the only way to have a living is to use your least used asset: the power of thinking.
You aren’t getting this life again, just in case you forgot.
Between I wish I could…
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I regret…
Just make sure there’s a life filled with execution you’ve lived.
When I had just entered tenth standard, I also exited something superimportant: playing badminton on the street with my neighbourhood friends.
Of course, it was justified back then. Board exams were coming up, I needed to focus on what was important. Playing wasn’t. (I don’t believe it now, back then I did.)
In a consequent events of getting plumper from 11th standard till first year of college, I finally started taking health and fitness seriously from second year onwards, and also achieved wonderful results post that.
Fast forward to yesterday, I was playing badminton with a bunch of friends, who otherwise, play the game daily.
And boy o boy, what a sad demise the team had which I was a part of.
I was leaner than them, had a stronger body with a lower fat percentage than them, can do a headstand and also do a plank effortlessly; over and above the strength from training in the gym.
Yet, here I was, flunked beautifully in the sport that had been a part of almost entire childhood of mine.
What I learnt from last night’s sport was this:
1. No matter what you can do, when someone else practices more, they become an expert at it. The same applies to business and life. Working more, creating more, and failing more, will lead to greater changes of success. Invariably.
2. Your future is designed by what you do in the present, not what you did in the past. This applies to all those who didn’t have a beautiful past, and also to those who had great habits in the past and now have left them.
Today is the past that will be created in the future. Take care of it, and if you want to experience some fun, make time for your metaphoric badminton.
Please.
Time and thoughts
Value each second.
Create the right thoughts.