Some More Habits!

In one of my previous posts, I had declared taking on some new habits. I did not fulfill on that. I will take it on from today.

Here are a few habits that I am gonna follow from today onwards.

1. Waking up at 6.
2. Doing everything that I say, when I said I will do it.
3. Eating 3 proper meals a day.
4. Planning my day every night. Referring to the plan, every morning.
5. Planning every week on Sunday evening/Monday Morning.
6. Implementing the Performance Triangle in my life.
7. Being absolutely unstoppable. Whatever I resist, I’ll confront and transform.

This is a new beginning!

This time I shall fulfill on each of the above 7 points.

May has been a roller coaster ride!

There are so many highs and lows that I have seen this month!

The Lows,

• I break my resolution to read 5 books every month.
• I break my habit of waking up at 5am every month.
• I stopped planning my work
• I became careless about my eating habits again. There are few days when I have my breakfast. Often skip a  meal.
• I quit exercising
• I quit yoga
• I quit meditation
• My house started getting untidy again
• I don’t read my goals daily
• I didn’t meet my financial targets
• I quit painting

The Highs,

• I became absolutely unstoppable towards my entrepreneurship centric projects
• I made money! Finally!
• I got the offer to revamp a dead organization as an entrepreneur with limited liabilities.
• Impressed with my proactive attitude, the company’s founder asked me to become a director in the company instead of my previous role as an adviser. Its a big honor and privilege for me to be regarded to highly.
• My coachees at Landmark love me and we are contributing to each others’ lives. Its a very enriching experience
• I developed alliances with several people and companies.
• I am close to building a team that will create a revolutionary book.

Well there are a lot of gaps in life right now. I would like to do everything that I want to do. And do it all together. I gotta grow massively as a human being to make everything happen together.

Today is the 3rd of June.

Today I take on being an absolutely un-stoppable person. I will not succumb to my circumstances, I’ll be their creator instead.

I will restart megaliving from tomorrow onwards and also restart simple.ology. I have to build a lot of habits before I take on my role as an entrepreneur. I have time till July 21st. And I’ll make it happen.

I also take on writing a blog entry every night. I want to document my growth through these times. I would love to read these pages sometime in the future!

My Worst Day So Far. Feel like quiting Megaliving

Ever since I have taken on working on myself, there have been a lot of bad days. Today has been the worst among them.

Why? Because, YET ANOTHER TIME, I panicked at a critical juncture. I had declared that I will build my website, Earlier I had also promised my buddy ‘Kiran’ that I will make a draft of my 5 year plan and share it with him by 8 PM tonight. And I really wanted to attend this conference thats happening today.

3 important things at stake and what did I end up doing? I said, “ITS TOO MUCH FOR ME TO HANDLE” and went off to bed. Of course I didn’t get sleep. And it was well past noon that I actually got out of my bed.

Boss, this is where I need to grow up. Later on when I’ll be having my own company and I would be leading people, I am sure my super star colleagues won’t be inspired to work under a boss like the current me. To have a star studded team, I gotta be a star. And to be a star I gotta work on myself. We all carve our own sculptures.

The choice of making a “Michelangelo” or “Some Random Plaster Of Paris Shit” is ours. And I chose the former.

Ok, enough of philosophy. This blog is about action remember. To me building a habit of keeping my promises is more important then meeting my friends in the conference or learning about entrepreneurship. I have got the following things to do:-

1. Practice Megaliving Daily exercises. [3+ hours]
2. Practice Simple.ology daily [15 mins]
3. Build up my website. [8+ hours]
4. Put it on production, test and host it [3+ hours]
5. Practice Simple.ology blogging [15 mins]
6. Write down my 5 year plan and share it with Kiran [3+ hours]

Looks like I do not have sufficient time to do em all. But I am taking them all on. Anyone other than me might wonder, “Why do I always make my life so difficult?” (Mamta says this often). The simple answer is: “Because I am like this”. I have always encountered situations where I had to choose between ‘bringing my goals down and winning‘ and ‘keeping my goals the same and growing up to it‘. I have always chosen the latter. Thats who I am. Thats what I stand for.

Here is an opportunity for me to really grow up to a big challenge. To work like a genius and make things happen.

Well we’ll all come to know the outcome by 11.30 tonight.

This journal really helps me be on track, I am indebted to it and this blogging habit

Building habits is probably the toughest, and the most rewarding of practices.

Todays update

Well today was a disaster.

I woke up again at 11 even though I had forced myself to sleep at 1 AM the previous night. I did not do my Yoga, didn’t even have a shower or wash my clothes. Didn’t do any work, but did read a Robert Kiyosaki book about which I will write a couple of posts later.

The day was not entirely unproductive because I sat down with my Coach Mamta. (She was my coach at Landmark’s SELP program and is like a mother to me. She literally takes care of me like her own son ) and found out what are the missing ingredients in my routine. I realized that I had not set any buffers. So I updated my “Daily Routine” post and put timings against the same.

I however also took on not perpetually postponing my targets. Earlier this month I had decided that my site will be up by the 11th then postponed to 15th and then to 19th and the fact is that I have still not started any work on it. So I took on “NO MORE POSTPONING”. Mamta wont allow me to work 24 hours without time for fun and proper food and proper rest. So I still have 14 hours a day. In 28 hours I have to ready 5 Handwriting Analysis books, 1 software guide and build a website. Learn how to host it and host it. Also to post 20 articles in my site’s blog.

Ok, thats not practical. I will read 1 book instead of 5 Handwriting Analysis books.

Rest, Ill do the bare minimum of the Megaliving and Simple.ology courses.

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The Power of Being Present

I realized a very important thing during my work life. If we don’t enjoy what we are doing and still keep doing it, life becomes hell. For example I did not enjoy my work, but I had to obviously keep doing it. And as you can imagine, I was highly unproductive. I have probably never been so unproductive ever. I guess I had never done anything that I didn’t want to do earlier! Anyways, I could have done better at my job if I had mastered “Being Present”. I am not regretting over here. I know that I was wasting myself in my software job. But I am also aware of the fact that “not Being Present” is one of my biggest weaknesses.

So what is “Being Present”? In essence, “Being Present” is concentrating on whats happening right now. Not thinking about the past, not thinking of how things might be in the future but doing things RIGHT NOW.

Megaliving’s flower exercise states “Take a rose and focus on it for 20 mins, if any other thought comes to your mind, then let it pass like a cloud making way for a clear sky. And get back to the rose”. I am doing this exercise for the 2nd time today. The first time I did it I fell asleep mid way. Today, After 5 minutes I got completely pissed with the multitude of thoughts entering my head. Man this is a really tough exercise. But Robin says, keep practicing it daily and after a few weeks, you’ll be able to focus just on the rose and nothing else for the whole 20 mins. I felt like giving up the exercise many times, but ended up doing it for 20 minutes none the less. By the time I finished, I was thinking about everything other than the flower in my hand.

BUT, I want to reach that 20 minute calm. This exercise is all about concentration, but what it teaches you in essence is, to “Be Present”. Newton had the gifted ability to concentrate on any thought or topic for severals hours without distraction. I am 1/Newton. But I would like to reach there. And if this is what it takes to take my steps in that direction then I am doing it.

I declare, doing the “Flower Exercise” daily till I reach the stage where I am not distracted by a single thought for 20 minutes.

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My Short and Medium Term Goals

I would like to jot down my short and medium term goals here.

Short Term:

1. Earn 1000$ in the next 16 days
2. Build my Handwriting Analysis Website in the next 4 days
3. Create my Tech Blog and my Handwriting Analysis Blog and update them daily with fresh content. Content from what I have studied during the day
4. Practice Megaliving, Simple.ology 101 and Simple.ology blogging daily
5. Plan my work and work my plan daily and weekly

Medium Term:

1. Earn 2000$ a month by April 2008
2. Earn 3250$ a month by July 2008
3. Reach among the top 5 percentile in TopCoder
4. Build a prototype of my algorithm software product by July 2008
5. Read 5 books on entrepreneurship
6. Make a business plan of my software product

My Daily Routine

Wow, writing things down in a blog really helps

Soon after I wrote the habits I am taking on, I realized that I gotta do a reality check of my current standing. Looks like, I was again in wonderland… I had thought that I had been doing pretty well with a good amount of discipline. But thanks, I have come back to reality again.

Now, 1 complain about Robin Sharma (whose work I had been resisting a bit). He says that you just gotta give 15 mins of your time daily to the program. But with his all new exercises increasing day by day, I guess I need 2-3 hours to do them properly everyday as of today (day and would require about 5 hours a day after another 20 days. I am finding this Megaliving thing highly confronting. And I guess the sheer reason that I am still following it to the best of my capabilities is that I feel its testing the best of me. Besides I know that if I can do this thing “the way it is meant to be done”, I will never ever complain about my being indisciplined or lazy. And yes I am seeing some results coming too.

1 reason why I resist Robin’s work is because I don’t want to use some techniques to transform my life. Self realization is a beautiful blissful process. But after really confronting it and questioning myself, I realized that I am fine with using techniques or whatever it takes to get what I want in life. Its the fear of people saying “abe oye! you used all these techniques to succeed” that was stopping me. But as I said, I have taken on becoming independent of peoples’ opinions while still being attentive to them.

So here is my daily routine:-

(Mind you, there are a lot of things that I have inserted because I liked doing them on my own, besides Megaliving’s influence)

Morning

• Affirm a goal I have set for the month loudly
  • Read out all my Megaliving goals loudly (5:35 AM)
• Read the days exercises in Megaliving (5:40)
• Practice 2 minute concentration exercise (5:45)
• Brush my teeth, and while brushing read my favorite quotes, my mission statement and find answers to questions like “how do I make today a living masterpiece? (6:00)
• Exercise (6:15)
• Practice with the Flower Technique for 20 mins (6:45)
• Cleanup my bed and my room (7:00)
• Start boiling water (7:05)
• Practice Yoga and push it a little (Kaizen) (8:00)
• After the “Shavasana”, practice the memory affirmation
• Have a shower and wash my clothes (9:00)
• Have Breakfast (9:30)
• Read something inspiring for an hour. (Probably my simple.ology stuff) Come and read my simple.ology 101 lessons and do the days target practice (10:00)
• Plan for the day (10:15)
• Get down to work (10:30)

Afternoon

• Work till 1.30
• Go to eat lunch. (2:30)
• Exercise the 2 minute concentration technique (2:35)
• Read the blogging simple.ology lessons (3:00)
• Read on Technology (4:00)
• Work hard + smart as per the plan made in the morning
• Read on Handwriting Analysis (5:00)
• Read on Handwriting Analysis (6:00)
• Update my Handwriting Analysis blog (7:00)

Evening

• Chill out with friends
• Paint/ Listen to music/ Read
• Read about entrepreneurship
• Complete pending things like shopping, calling up folks etc

Night

• Walk to have dinner, practice 6-6-6 breathing in route
• Come back and practice the 2 min concentration exercise
• Finish off with whatever is pending towards Megaliving/ simple.ology
• Plan for tomorrow
• Read a novel/paint
• Write my this blog and update today’s progress
• Practice the flame technique for 15 minutes
• Affirm my monthly goal
• Read my Megaliving goals
• Smile and sleep

Wow, looking at this list I must congratulate myself on having the courage to take it on. And also to have followed it partially (the best I could without todays declaration) for 8 days.

Well, tomorrow is not gonna be easier so I better hit the sack now

Habits!

Well well, who we are is a product of our habits.

And I too have a few sexy ones!

• Believing in my dreams
• Sticking to my principles
• Setting high goals
• Not honoring my word
• Choosing to Procrastinate whenever I get an option to do so
• Indulging in negative thoughts
• Waking up late every morning/afternoon
• Respecting everyone
• Planning my work
• Not working my plan
• Momentarily quiting
• Consistent endeavor to be a better me
• Not expecting from others
• Not cleaning my room
• Not eating my food regularly

There are a lot of sexier ones that are not coming to my mind right now.

However this post is about habits and not my habits. But since I don’t have much to talk about them until I have formed a few new ones and dropped a few oldies, I will carry on with my own thing.

At times I wonder why am I even writing this blog of mine? It fails to impress me in every way. Well I guess I am writing this so that a few years down the line I can visit these pages and see the phases of my evolution.

So this blog is entirely for me and I am not gonna share this with anyone. Any random user who comes across this page can muse with my musings.

Coming back to habits.

Since I have taken on being the best I can be, here are the following things I declare I shall do :-

1. Update my blog daily

2. Wake up early morning daily

3. Exercise/do Yoga daily

4. Read 5 books every month (3 complete for January)

5. Eat food all three times daily

6. Clean my room daily

7. Practice honoring my word daily (how do I measure this?) Ok, I’ll keep this one for next month. Aha Procrastinator… Ok, I practice honoring my word by making note of all the commitments I have made in my day. Looking at them in the morning and check marking them in the night. Daily

8. Putting in 8 hours of good work daily. (Weekdays only)

9. Honestly updating the results of the above 8 daily in my blog.

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Man this thing is as good as a journal. Chances are that I’ll mature with time and use this blog as a medium to spread love and inspiration later on.

Time to say good night