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5 Things to do Everyday

1)        Take care of your Body: Involve in some physical activity for at least 10 minutes day after day that will pump up your heart beat… 2)        Take care of your Mind: Involve in an intellectual pursuit…It could be anything ranging from Playing Sudoku, to reading a book (Not a novel !) , Writing a blog post (Novel is okay here!) ,Practice Singing or Yoga. Your Grey cells cannot go grey…they have to be green 3)        Take care of your Time: Time is an ethereal thing. Micromanage your time & You will be surprised to see the amount of Leakage. 4)        Take care of your Energy: Make the most of the Mornings…Plunge into the Most Important Task (MIT) for the day as the first thing in the morning….It will energize you enough to take you through even a difficult day. 5)        Take care of ___________: I leave this to you…..Fill in the blanks with your own priority……Hobby, Family, Finance , Work, Business etc., My experience is  that my energy levels at en

Time or Energy?

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend …. Bruce Lee I like Sports (more as a Spectator and as a arm-chair analyst) for a reason. On special days, you could easily see World-class performance in its entirety. Like Usain Bolt in the 100m race making the competition look pedestrian…Or MS Dhoni finishing up another Cricket match that seemed out of hand to everyone else…Or Mr.Messi ,time and again, conjuring up one of those convoluted motion that the Soccer ball could have ever imagined. In my humble opinion, while these folks have some special talent for that particular sport, it is their ability to get into a state of “flow “ that result in these super performances. You may well tell me that the above discussion may be good for a talk over the coffee . But, is it pra

The Know-Do Gap

We all know..... We all know that It is better to exercise given the sedentary lifestyle… We all know it is wise to save 10% of the income month after month… We all know it is important to keep learning new skills to further our career… We all know that Smoking is injurious to health…. We all know that Meditation will help t o retain the sanity …. We all Know…. The lacuna seems to be in acting upon what we know…When it is time to act, we suddenly start blaming about lack of time, resource, people and what not. One of the reason for the inertia to act is to do it perfect…For example, we think Exercise is fruitful only if it means hours spent in the gym…Savings helps only if we do it multiple thousands month-after-month. The result of this perfection is that we never begin doing the things… So the solution is ….To think big ….but start small. The first day even it is a five minute routine , just begin that exercise… The first month even if it is an Hundred