Whatever Works
Today has been a little messy. My mind was a badly run metro station with trains of thoughts colliding into one another – the Isetan project, ACIM Day 1, creativity and match.com. I was literally switching between tabs on a browser every other minute. Nothing significant came through.
Ordo ab chaos.
That’s latin for ‘order from chaos’.
I wonder what should the end be. Greek philosophers would say Order, but seriously, what’s wrong with pure chaos? Isn’t there beauty in chaos too? Chaos, like what went on in my mind today.
OK, order sounds good. But if everything eventually ends up in order, what would the world be like? Would we all wake up at the same time, eat the same breakfast, do the same thing, hold the same conversations and die the same way? If you take order to its ultimate end game, it doesn’t sound so pretty either.
I think the saying is misleading. An improvement would read ‘ordo ab chaos ab ordo ad infinitum”. This, at least, reflects our human condition more truthfully.
What if both ‘order’ and ‘chaos’ are just illusions. A pseudo-understanding of the world taught to us to keep us running in circles. A veil of sorts. The blue pill.
What if everything is just the way it is now, in this very moment; and whatever combination of ‘order’ and ‘chaos’ you might misunderstanding there to be, that it is really all the beauty that the world has to offer to you, right here, right now?
In Woody Allen’s latest movie ‘Whatever Works’, the ingenious, morbid, insensitive and suicidal Boris Yellnikoff (played by who else but Larry David) is not anything else but himself. Obtuse – yes, but that’s him. And being true to his essence, life, unfolding to him within Woody’s script, would reward him with finding his true love. And under the most unexpected and unusual circumstance.
There is light beyond this infinite cycle of life.
With this, I close the day with a can of Sapporo’s best and a new lesson learnt.
Read More8 Ways to Beat Procrastination
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We all know what procrastination is. Personally, I’ve been fighting it ever since primary (grade) school. And till today, I’m still not entirely free from its lock, succumbing to it every once so often.
I know that I should not procrastinate. I know I should strive to be conscious about what I do with my time. And I know delaying one thing for any period of time takes out the emotional equivalence of doing it for that duration.
Procrastination is a formidable opponent. It is as smart as you are. There is no ‘one way’ to beat it all the time. You need to arm up many different strategies to beat it in the long run.
This article gives you 8 more ways to beat procrastination with.
Read MoreIf you are going to try, go all the way.
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If you are going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise don’t even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives,
relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.
It could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
It could mean freezing on the park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean derision.
It could mean mockery, isolation.
Isolation is the gift.
All the others are a test of your endurance,
of how much you really want to do it.
And you’ll do it.
Despite rejection and worst odds
and it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you’re going to try, go all the way.
There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods.
And the nights will flame with fire.
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter,
it’s the only good fight there is.
Read MoreCharles Bukowski, Factotum
Using the Seinfeld Calendar to Create Content Everyday
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I recently rebooted this blog and made a commitment to write a post everyday. I needed the initial momentum because I am someone who loses interest easily. After 12 straight days, I finally met with my first bloggers’ block. All of a sudden, I was totally void of ideas. Zilch. Nada.
Today, I am glad to announce that after a 3-day hiatus, I am shifting back into 5th gear again. And, the thing that kept me going is Seinfeld’s Calendar.
Read More3 Ways to Stay Committed to Your Goals
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All promise outruns performance. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
We all know instinctively that small efforts, accumulated long enough, will produce great results.
Yet, one of the hardest things to do is to stay committed to a plan for a long period of time – be it going to the gym, sticking to a diet, spending quality time with family, quitting smoking, or separating your garbage.
Taken individually, each of these activities are a cinch. What seem to be missing is our daily resolve to go about doing them. The ‘pigs’ in our minds are consistently outsmarting our better judgement and winning the war.
In this post, I will list 3 online tools that I’ve used to turn the tables against this ‘pig’.
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