Life in Bangalore

“If you are distracted to everything, you are committed to nothing”…James Clear One day Warren Buffett,  went up to his pilot named Steve and jokingly said to him that “the fact that you’re still working for me tells me I’m not doing my job.” “You should be out going after more of your goals and dreams,” Buffett reportedly said. To help him with that, Buffett asked Steve to list the 25 most important things he wanted to do in his life. Then Buffett asked that he review each goal and choose the five most crucial ones. After considering a moment, he drew circles around five fantastic goals, confirming with Buffett that yes, indeed, they were his highest priorities. And the rest? “What about these other 20 things on your list that you didn’t circle?” Buffett asked. “What is your plan for completing those?” Steve knew just what to say. “Well, the top five are my primary focus, but the other 20 come in at a close second,” the pilot said. “They are still

David Allen is a world-renowned authority on Time Management.David has helpe thousands of people around the world through his personal productivity system called   Getting Things Done , popularly known as GTD®. I would suggest you to get hold of his book  that goes by the same name “Getting Things Done…The art of stress-free productivity”…It will provide you clues to time management, but more importantly to free-up your mind for chasing the higher purpose of your life ! Sharing with you here,, some of David’s  lines of thought from his book…. You need to think about your stuff more than you think,but not as much as you’re afraid you might You can only feel good about what you are not doing when you know what you are not doing Use your  mind to think about things, not to keep thinking of them. What we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding. Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. Everything you

A question to you all to start with “How did you pass your school/college exams?” . Now don’t get offended…as long as you are not an uber topper, most among us would have done the following… Physically attended the classes(mentally absent!)/bunked the classes for 6 long months of the semester… Never ever opened the prescribed book for the course during this 6 months… Then they announced the exam schedule, and gave study holidays…still nothing more than a cursory look at the book…. The D-day …eve of exam day arrived…you thrust yourself into action…you brooked no distraction…had zen-like focus on the subject…burned midnight oil…studied even on the way to college, while riding the pillion on your friend’s 2-wheeler ! At the end of it all, You had a disheartened feeling about “What if I had used up my time better?” Francesco Cirillo  was one such average student… he went through this time anxiety during his schooldays in the 1980s. Fransesco however did not stop t