Fear and choice When we are afraid, we start believing that we don’t have a choice. That creates more helplessness and more fear. You always have a choice. A choice of how you react to your circumstances. Choose.
Creating roads to creativity. It is important to create the roads. If there are no roads, there would be no development. Your podcast channel, your medium page, your WordPress website, these are channels for you to express yourself. Once you have a road, you can drive a Mercedes through it or a truck, whatever
Writing Hour I started this habit this Wednesday. And it has changed the trajectory of my mind. Every day, I put a timer for 60 minutes and sit down to write. I keep writing in a semi-public forum. This has helped me give shape to ideas and resolve complexities and ambiguities in
Don’t talk about your idea. Ship it. If you have an idea in your mind, don’t talk about it. Write it down. Find what you need to do to make it live. Unless you are thinking about a cement factory, in most cases, making the idea live won’t cost much. Create a Notion or Strikingly
One by one There are times when everything seems to be falling apart. Nothing is in its place. We don’t even know where to start. The key in this situation is to activate the finishing mindset. The finishing mindset is the antidote to the perfectionist mindset. When you activate the finishing mindset,
Jump without a parachute. Our lives go down the tube looking for the parachute, for the backup, the worst case scenario. We obsess so much over the worst case scenario that it becomes our only reality. The way to get out of our day to day misery is to take the plunge. To not
One hour. 4 times a day. We keep hearing about 12-hour and 16-hour work-days. Days full of meetings and distractions. Of shallow work or no work. But if we can find an hour of zero distraction. An hour of single-tasking. We can get a significant amount of work done. Creating 4 such hours each day can
Finding your way back. It happens. One day we are a professional and then we are not. Call it a slippery slope or a rabbit hole, but one exception leads to another and soon our ‘amateur’ habits become a norm. The thing with slippery slope is that it’s easier to slide down but
Making space for sleep. 8 hours a day. That’s what is needed. Nothing less would do. Instead of stealing hours from sleep, it might make sense to create ample space. That can unleash a different level of creativity and productivity. If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are already a subscriber,
One body. Mind and body are connected. We can’t have a healthy mind without a healthy body. Yes, the brain and the mind give us intellect but they are part of the body. Creatives need to take care of their body like they take care of their tools. Without the tools,
Is it any good? May be it is. May be it isn’t. But that’s not the point. The point is to ship consistently. The point is to not get stuck in the voice of Resistance. We can always make it better. But that’s what version 2 is for. — If you liked
What do we want? Why is it that we shy away from being very precise about what we want? Because that is the key to happiness. When we are clear about what we want, we can take the action that can get us there. Make a list. Get the direction, and then drive. — If
Shipping Just keep shipping. Are you thinking of an idea? Ship it. Are you deciding whether to do this or that? Ship both. The thing is, you can think and you can talk and you can keep discussing and deciding, but nothing matters until you ship it. When you ship it, you can then
Listening to resistance. Listen very intently to that voice inside your head. Listen to what it is telling you not to do. Then, with all the courage in the world, simply do that. Keep listening, keep doing. Resistance and self-doubt can used be a compass, just that the north and south are switched.
Together is better than alone. But together with the right people. People who share your ambition, who share your professionalism. People who propel you forward, rather than dragging you back. If that’s not there, then definitely alone is better. A spaceship can’t get attached to the people on land, it has to look
Actions and dreams. Are your actions taking you towards your dreams? Or are you busy in simply maintaining the status quo? The first action to make your dreams a reality is to list down the things that you want. Be very precise about them. Then identify what needs to be done in order
A thing that I do. Until it becomes a thing that we do, it remains optional. And if it remains optional, Resistance has power. But when we make it a part of our identity, then it happens. That blog, that podcast, that book you want to write, make it a thing that you do. — If
It's the same. Resistance is all the same. It is powerful but it is extremely boring and predictable. It acts almost alike in all of us. Resistance is beaten through persistence, stubbornness and community. When as a community, we embrace Resistance, we learn how to beat it together. It does not need to
Space We are in space. Space is everything. We are not in space. Yet we are there. It’s non-dual. It is not two. It is one. Space is us and we are space. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are already a subscriber, do share with your
Day A good day. A day is too long to be effective. We have 16 hours of awake state. It is not easy for the brain to manage such a long period. We need to break it down. An hour is better, for most tasks. Can we focus exclusively on one task for an
Vitamin S Deficiency Cause: Lack of enough shipping Symptoms: As Pressfield puts it: “We feel like hell. A low-grade misery pervades everything. We’re bored, we’re restless. We can’t get no satisfaction. There’s guilt but we can’t put our finger on the source. We want to go back to
Letting fear drive. Fear is a part of us. It has its utility. At times it keeps us alive. Especially when we are facing a physical, or in today’s time, financial, danger. But fear merely wants us to survive, to stay alive. It stops us from taking action, any action. Its philosophy
The dichotomy of rest. When we think of rest, we think of lazying around. And many times, things such as YouTube, Netflix, etc. can be counted as rest. But rest doesn’t happen without engagement and connection. To activate the parasympathetic nerves, we need to signal to our nervous system that there is no
Bad writing. Bad writing is better than not writing. Bad writing is the way to good writing. What matters more than anything else is consistency. If we are consistent, we will become better by default. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are already a subscriber, do share with your
Doing something new. When you do something new, you become someone new. The stagnation goes away. The growth mindset takes over. You feel like doing something next which is also new. This is the beauty of a creative life. This is the beauty of life. Because life by nature is creative. — If you
