Journal

  • It is raining milestones this week.      I hit 100 day streak in meditation. I started meditating this January but failed rather quickly. I say with experience that trying to start meditation with twenty-minute sessions is a sure shot way to stumble. So I started again in May with Calm app. I started with…

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  • Bay of Islands Mesh

    Here is another Mesh of Bay of Islands photos: https://me.sh/19v1tkaq/36a-lb4

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  • Bay of Islands

    We drove to Bay of Islands for the weekend. This is the log of the locations – most of them in the waters – during the Hole in the Rock Dolphin Cruise on Sunday morning. https://me.sh/148br8d

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  • How much is too much

    As a personal blogger mostly writing about myself, my biggest dilemma is to decide how much is too much. I often wonder if I am exposing myself too much on the internet. Until recently, I did not even dare to have my photo on this blog. I am certainly not ready to post my family’s…

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  • About me in three words

    For a long time I described myself as unparalleled, unpredictable and unassuming. I had filled all my online bios with just these three words. They still apply to me but I stopped using these adjectives for no clear reason. Later I learned that using adjectives is a terrible way to describe oneself. While I think…

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  • Leveled up in Pushps

    I just completed the Level 2 Pushp Challenge and signed up for Level 3. Level 3 helps me do 30 pushups in four weeks. I reached to 30 pushups in the last few days but today, on the last day of Level 2, I had to land on my knees at 28. But the numbers…

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  • James Clear

    James Clear is one of my favorite habit bloggers. I came across him sometime last year. I am reading his blog ever since. It changed me for the better. I love his content, consistency, and writing style. His work has been immensely helpful to me while I was forming my habit philosophies. Until last week…

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  • Relieved

    My grandmother is recovering and is now out of ICU. Sigh! I can’t wait to talk to her and see her get back to the routine.

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  • Gutted

    I feel sick in my tummy as I write this. Both my grandparents, who raised me, are dealing with an unfortunate health conditions. My grandfather had an eye surgery recently and is recovering. But my grandmother’s situation is what is making me sick. She was operated yesterday as she broke her hip. She was knocked…

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  • Exercising enough

    I used to wonder if exercising only three hours a week is enough. Now I am convinced it is. I exercise on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. I train equally hard on all three days. But the after-burn (that nice and mild pain in the muscles) of Thursday’s kettle-bell workout lasts until Sunday. So if I…

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