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Productivity Tips

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.

Hard work is too hard

Why don’t your efforts come to fruition when you try too hard, ever thought about it?

What happens when the result of your effort does not match what it should be?

Simple.

At a core level, we don’t believe that we deserve that success.

Why don’t we believe that? Because we are probably hanging around with:

• same people

• same habits

Which ones are holding you back?

Men have that urge more!

I was talking with a male friend, who was sharing his story of how he did not want to pursue career of his parents’ choice.

He shared how at a point of time he was frustrated at taking money from his parents, so he decided to switch what from what his parents wanted to do, to something non-conventional.

While he shared this resistance to take money from his parents, he added: “Men are more likely to have this urge to be out on their own, and not take money from parents.”

Dude what do you think of women?

I have never taken money from my parents in the last five years.

How can you do this gender discrimination when you don’t know how women think like?

That’s what the feminist inside of me wanted to tell him. And he would have heard it and even said sorry perhaps.

Yet I decided to stay shut up and not say a word in retaliation.

Here’s why:

• World is not changed by anger. Even if you’re right, anger dilutes your stance.

• He was not wrong, he just hasn’t adopted the mindset of how an independent woman would like to be treated. Maybe he is showing that he considers himself to be “the man” who has the right to extraordinarily, so be it. It should not lower my respect for him as an individual, rather it should tell me how to deal with him going forward.

• Most importantly, my father who is the most important man in my life, treats me and my sisters with the best love and respect he could ever give. That’s what is one of my greatest assets.

Be grateful for what you have, don’t walk out in the world with a sword in your hand.

And change the world with your existence, not with your excitement.

What are we going to do?

A problem.

On the outside world.

The world has almost stopped functioning.

Are you functioning internally and emotionally?

Inner strength. It is only going to help.

Unexpected

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 Perfect Day

If you don’t like working on PPTs, are you doing something along with it that you love?

It’s okay to feel sleepy when you’re not rested, are you making best use of you time when you are well rested?

If your parents did not give you a perfect childhood, are you giving them a perfect older age life?

It’s okay if you want to change how the current world looks like, question is are you starting with yourself? Daily?

No one was offered a perfect world on the day they were born.

Everyone, was offered an opportunity, to leave the world a little better in the un-defined number of years they were given. If you, like the rest of us, do not know the date of your death, today would be a great day to start.

Working hard

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.

How about having a great weekend?

I happened to call a friend cum team mate today, who is also into freelancing.

We asked about each other’s whereabouts, and ended up knowing that both of us were working today, despite it being a weekend.

The best part is, both of us were happy about it.

Few lessons from it:

1. The lucky life is designed, by consistent relentless hard work.

2. If you’re happy, what day of the week it is, doesn’t matter.

3. You are a product of people you hang around with:)

Trust is whoa!

If you ever feel you can trust others, maybe there’s actually something to change.

Not with them, perhaps with your relationship with the person in the mirror.

Our relationships with others are simply a reflection of how we treat ourselves.

Since charity begins at home, so does trust begin with yourself.

Surprisingly, as you begin to develop that relationship with yourself, no one ever breaks your trust.

The problem

If you wanna know what’s your problem, just try spending some time with yourself in solitude. That’s the real game.

All your weaknesses will come to the surface.

All your problems will come out with a revelation: that the source of them is common.

And when the source of that is common, the solution has to one.

What is that one, has to be decided and implemented by the one reading this right now.

Implement. Execute.

Success is taking too much time…

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.

(Your own) advice

“I tell them to do this a lot, they don’t listen to my advice.” We think this a lot about other people, don’t we?

A bigger question to consider could be:

Do you keep a tab of what advice do you give to yourself? Do you execute on that advice?

If the answer is “no”, now you know why they don’t execute.

If you do execute on your own advice, there’s no reason others won’t.

Wait is over!

Congratulations! Your wait is over!

The result you had been looking for, is right here and right now!!

We all wait for reading this kind of line.

A better question could be: How are our days and actions aligned with what we want?

Do we know that we don’t know?

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.

What do you see?

When you see someone (your favourite person) has checked your Instagram story, it may just be tapping around, instead of consuming your content.

When you see your father is not understanding you, it may be because he was never ever understood since the day he was born.

When you see you are not being given your credit, it could be because the other person has a hole inside themselves.

When people don’t fulfil their commitments, probably because they have been lied to in the past.

Everything we see, is the tip of the iceberg.

The question is, what side of the iceberg do you decide to see?

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.

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.

Task unfinished

One of the reasons people don’t feel happy at the end of the day is because they left their important tasks undone.

Amidst jumping along from trivial tasks to responding to “important” messages, a lot of people feel unfulfilled at the end of the day.

How to tackle that feeling of feeling empty then, when you already know that is the first task you should do?

Make it simple in two steps:

1. Make it non-negotiable. Something you can’t live without. For me, for example, it’s meditating first thing in the morning. Make it as inevitable as breathing.

2. When you do it, get more addicted to the feeling – that is the very feeling that comes you alive.

Think over it, do you really want to live without that feeling?

Today’s post?

You may post on Day 1 and it is going to be fun.

You may post on Day 2 and it still goes okay.

You may want to do your 10th post on Day 31.

And then there are people who make it to the top, because they moved beyond the fear of 278th post that didn’t do well, and are still on their work ethic.

Do you know why?

Because they’re not random “post because it’s fancy” kinda people. Rather because, they post to make a difference. If not this one, the next one definitively will make a difference.

Because past 277 posts were not in vain. They did make a difference, even to a single person, and that compound interest is enough to keep them going.

And that very non-execution creates non-executors.

What to do at networking events?

Went to attend a talk couple of days back.

Was fun, filled with ton of rich ideas, and sitting in a room full of learned people.

What came out of that talk, was peculiarly spectacular:

The speaker kept asking different questions to different people and all gave their respective answers.

Of all those, two people who actually stood out for the crowd were those who had ACTUALLY done the work on that speaker’s ideas.

And no one, absolutely no one forgot them.

Why am I telling this to you?

Because, it doesn’t matter how many networking events you attend.

Unless you “do the work” no one will notice you.

And when you “do the work” you need not show yourself to them, you’ll be seen.

You’ll be seen.

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