Category: Resolutions

• August 28, 2016

  My new social media policy

  Share on blog first. Every­where else next. Read more

• May 5, 2016

  First four months of 2016

  Since the start of this year, I exer­cised 50 hours and ran 15 5ks. Most impor­tant­ly, I achieved one of the two res­o­lu­tions for this year. I suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed Chai­tanya 3.0 project. More details lat­er. I am not doing very well on the sec­ond res­o­lu­tion: get­ting the per­fect abs. I am fail­ing to eat excep­tion­al­ly well. I ate more junk,… Read more

• January 7, 2016

  There are no finish lines

  I chanced upon a great quote today. There are no fin­ish lines. It made pre­fect sense. This is some­thing I keep in my mind with every­thing I do. My rela­tion­ships, friend­ships, habits, and prin­ci­ples are all for my life. There are no fin­ish lines. In the oth­er news, I tried to keep qui­et in Twit­ter and Face­book but I soon real­ized… Read more

• December 31, 2015

  Master yourself. Help others.

  I recent­ly wrote about how what I do aligns to “Mas­ter your­self, help oth­ers” phi­los­o­phy I learned from Derek Sivers. I loved this phi­los­o­phy so much that I want to make it my life mot­to and make sure every­thing I do fits into either of these buck­ets. This mot­to adds on to the four prin­ci­ples I prac­tice. Here is the com­plete list: Mas­ter… Read more

• December 29, 2015

  Three ideas I learned from Derek Sivers

  I learned three great ideas from Derek Sivers over the last cou­ple of months. I am very grate­ful to Derek for the fol­low­ing ideas. Hell yeah or no. /now page. Mas­ter­ing self and help­ing oth­ers. Hell yeah or no I came across Derek’s “Hell yeah or no” idea via Leo Babau­ta’s tweet. I instant­ly liked it and… Read more

• December 25, 2015

  Understanding GTD

  If you are keen to get bet­ter at achiev­ing your goals in the new year, I sug­gest you check the free Get Stuff Done online course on YouTube. This course teach­es how to apply the famous GTD phi­los­o­phy to our life. It was orig­i­nal­ly offered for a small fee but the nice fel­la, Tia­go Forte of Skill­share has made it avail­able for free on… Read more

• August 24, 2015

  Push ups

  One of the skills I hoped to devel­op this year is to learn how to do push ups. I total­ly sucked at push ups last year despite exer­cis­ing 110 hours. I just could­n’t do even a sin­gle push up on my toes. So rather than get­ting frus­trat­ed and angry at myself and jeal­ous at oth­ers who can do,… Read more

• August 9, 2015

  Unsubscribe, Unfollow, Unread, Unfriend, Unplug.

  One thing I start­ed appre­ci­at­ing after becom­ing a dad is the val­ue of time. Like many dads, being the best pos­si­ble hands on dad is non-nego­tiable to me. You don’t need a lot of mon­ey to be a good par­ent but you cer­tain­ly need a lot of time and patience, things mon­ey can’t buy. How­ev­er, this is not the only… Read more

• August 6, 2015

  Habits and streaks

  I clear­ly remem­ber that July night in 2013. I dis­cov­ered Medi­um and was on read­ing spree. Just like how I used to read any and every blog in 2006 when I dis­cov­ered blog­ging. That Medi­um post was titled Delib­er­ate Prac­tice, one of my favorite sub­jects. It main­ly talked about two points which I can’t recall at the moment. I have… Read more

• June 7, 2015

  New year resolutions

  I did not have res­o­lu­tions for 2014. Instead, I decid­ed to plant and grow few habits that are worth pur­su­ing for years. To help me get going, I made the fol­low­ing three rules for myself: Base goals on Iden­ti­ty. Not on Per­for­mance or Appear­ance. Rely on Habits and Process­es. Not on Willpow­er. Believe in Evo­lu­tion. Not in… Read more