Its tough replacing ORs with ANDs

In my previous post I had mentioned my resolution of converting the ORs of my life to ANDs. I have been in action towards living that resolution, and by jove, its not easy. But it is real fun.

Take this for instance,

Right now I have 4 important things to do :-

1. Prepare for my play – “The Death of a Salesman”
2. Build/Test and publish the web app for my research on “Startup Pains” by 18th May.
3. Sell books and earn – involves giving presentations and all.
4. My SELP
5. Build Website for Mumma. (I just finished it today)

Each of the above 4 are very important to me and I can’t ditch any of them. The amount of work involved in doing all 4 together looked almost impossible due to the sheer lack of time and inflexibility. For instance, I have to rehearse for my play everyday in the evenings and that is the time that I gotta make presentations for my books as well. Similarly, the web app would have easily taken about 20 hours of my time. SELP would take the whole of 18th, all monday evenings and about 10-15 hours in the week. Whatever… basically, doing all of them together looked impossible to me.

But my possibility of replacing the ORs with ANDs was equally inspiring. So I did this, I sent a mail to the Bangalore Ruby Users Group and asked if any of them want to work with me on building the web app (point 2). It was a proactive step and I had never considered it. It helped a lot, I got 2 replys. I went and met Satish Kota, of Heurion Consulting and he gladly took the responsibility of the whole website! Amazing, isn’t it! I earned myself about 15 free hours. I woke up at 5 today and finished designing Mumma’s website. I again requested Aashish to host it! So I save some more time by making powerful requests.

I am still struggling with time, but what I have realized is that, everything is possible if you really want to make it happen.

I have given Gyanesh, my director a word that I will memorize my dialogs before going tomorrow. Looks tough, but I shall do it. A word is a word.

I am beginning to realize what Stephen Covey calls ‘being proactive’ and what SELP calls ‘making powerful requests’. I am beginning to live an extraordinarily powerful life!