Life is far from perfect. Lets make it rock!

In the past few days, I have been my powerful self. I have refused to accept that things are impossible and I am just beginning to realize what being true to your purpose is.

But if I take the holistic picture, life is still a breakdown. I am not meeting my friends or speaking to my family, regularly. I am not exercising, neither am I waking up at 5. I am not keeping my house spic and span. Not washing my clothes regularly and almost nothing is planned. I am not reading either.

Ok, so I put all these things together in my life from tomorrow onwards.

Truly converting all my ORs to ANDs.

There are a lot things that I had said I’ll do by the weekend.

• Doing 100 volumes in sales and recruiting 1 person in my team by tomorrow 3PM. I did only 66 volumes and haven’t recruited anyone yet! But I have time till 3PM
• Putting up the Startup Pains research website. (This will be done tomorrow)
• Interviewing 2 people. This again will be done by tomorrow.
• Memorizing my dialogs. Tough, but I have to memorize them by tomorrow.
• Inviting 15 people for my workday.
• Fixing the date for an HILF and a CILF. I am not enrolled to making this happen.

Freaks, its too much.

And I’ll make all of this and the ones above it happen tomorrow, and onwards.

I already have a headache imagining how seemingly tough it looks. This is when I shall grow.

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A few journal entries,

Did my rehearsals today. Not sure how good or bad they were. I forgot my dialogs left, right and center

Met my college buddy Siddharth Banerjee today after a long long time. He is like a family to me. It felt awesome. Got calls from Krishna and Prateek, both came as a surprise. Felt real fortunate in life!

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!

Yet another sexy new possibility – Theater!

It was Aashish who called me up at 10 in the morning yesterday saying that their troupe is short of 1 guy for their play – “The Death of a Salesman”. He asked if I was interested, I immediately said YES. I went gave an audition and I got selected.

I had done a couple of plays in my school. I was the best actor in the Hindi play and I forgot my dialog in the English play!

I have to be truly extraordinary to make it to the rehearsals though. Been heavily out integrity in terms of work. I have at least 20 items in my to do list, stuff that I should have done by now but haven’t.

In fact, I was about to inform Aashish of my inability to participate because I had a lot of other work to be done. But when I thought for it a little more, I realized that what I was thinking was – ‘I am not good enough to manage all these things together‘. I dropped the conversation and said ‘hell, I am‘.

I have invented a sexy new possibility of replacing all the ORs of my life with ANDs. That is, I usually say, I can either do this OR do that. What I have taken on is, to do this AND that. All you need to have, to do this , is -

• Integrity (honoring your word),
• Existence Mechanism (Reminders in phone and daily/weekly/monthly planning),
• Relationships (ability to make powerful requests) and
• Powerful Communication.

Thats all it takes.

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Wow! I had always imagined doing theater in Bangalore. That is happening!

Art is happening.

Dance is next!