I had just boarded my flight, tucked my bag under the seat and messaged my parents.
“We managed to board the flight”
PAUSE
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Category: Self-Development
Stay fit for travel, stay fit while travelling
Hello friends, it has been so long since I penned a blog post here. To reveal the cause of my lapse, Priya (my wife) and I are on a one year trip around India. We started in April and were in the remote Himalayas where we had some blogging habit killers. First, the Internet connection was extremely poor, even non-existent for long periods. Second, with our commuting and sight-seeing, we ended everyday with fatigue and a lack of motivation to do anything further except crashing to our beds. Third, a habit once lost for too many days in a row is momentum lost and the sheer inertia against having to work to restart the habit has been getting in our way. We hope to get back on track soon.
However the one thing that neither of us lost is the hunger to keep travelling. This hunger has been fuelled and aided by a very important factor which never flagged unlike our blogging habit. Our supreme FITNESS. Continue reading Stay fit for travel, stay fit while travelling
Who are the 5 people you hangout with ?
Existentialist Question
How do you become a better person? How do you improve your odds of success?
There is a simple formula to succeed in life i.e to surround your self with outstanding people.
You = Avg (Friend 1+ Friend 2 +…Friend 5)
Continue reading Who are the 5 people you hangout with ?
Unbore Yourself !!
Handling Boredom is increasingly becoming a very important skill.
The entire gaming industry, social media, news industry, even online shopping has been built around this one feeling/emotion.
Continue reading Unbore Yourself !!
Regret
What Death has to teach us about life?
Palliative care is a section in the hospital where people with terminal illness live the reminder of their lives looking for a peaceful death. People often grow quickly when they are facing the imminent death, a date with the creator.
Why we should celebrate ?
The Way Mind Works
We all remember the moments we had missed a bus/train/flight by a whisker, missed the top college by quarter of a mark in cut off, the stock that we failed to buy/sell in time, the girl you did not ask out but were interested in and that is how the mind works. I am not sure if it is quest for improvement, or just plain negativity, there is always a lot of focus on things that were missed. The dominant feeling in this case is pain and it’s deep.
21 days of ‘No Junk Food’ Challenge
It is said ‘We are what we Eat’. So with the intention of correcting some deep rooted food habits and to examine the possibility of eating healthy on a consistent basis with less or no junk food, I recently went on a ‘No Junk Food’ Challenge for 21 days.
Junk Food:
The definition of ‘Junk Food’ in this case included :
1)No Carbonated Drinks
2)No Ice cream
3)No Chocolates
4)No Deep fried foods
5)No processed cheese
6)No desserts with refined sugar/processed flour
Is it your hobby, passion or lifestyle?
Here is an observation. I regularly convert whatever I love into my lifestyle, rather than just a hobby or a passion. If it is not part of my lifestyle, then I most probably don’t like it enough and will eventually give up on it. Continue reading Is it your hobby, passion or lifestyle?
How Elon Musk learnt Rocket Science ?
My Childhood Friends
I have been a voracious reader of books from when I was young. I grew up with the Famous Five and Hardy Boys, matured with Nancy Drew and Perry Mason, spent court rooms with John Grisham, flirted with Sidney Sheldon and explored unknown worlds with Michael Crichton. Now I read mostly non fiction.
My Mentors
Through Books, I have learnt from coaches like Anthony Robbins, Zig ziglar, Business Tycoons like Sir Richard Branson, Akio Morito thought leaders like Dr.Atul Gawande, Tim Ferris, Journalists like Malcom Gladwell, Charles Duhigg and many more.
One idea that kept haunting me through many of these self development literature is that “Leaders are Readers.”I always thought ‘wow, that’s a nice thought’ and nothing more about it. Continue reading How Elon Musk learnt Rocket Science ?
A year of freelancing: What I learnt
It was just after the Diwali of 2015 that I quit my regular job and started software freelancing. Since then, my life has taken a different turn. While at work, I have been coding, taking calls, documenting, improving, improvising and deploying projects. When not working, I am travelling, trekking, cooking, reading, watching documentaries, running, bicycling and learning a lot of new skills. It has been a wonderful year, one of the best in my life. In this post, I am listing out what I learnt while sailing through the year. Continue reading A year of freelancing: What I learnt