Musashi’s Take on Relationship and Life Goals

If you try to strengthen and settle for relationship, you won’t be able to achieve your life goal. It’s because relationships require lots of time and devotion. Without it, relationship will be a failure. In the story of Musashi, Musashi has a coherent life goal of becoming the greatest swordsmen of all time. But he […]

How to Be Productive with Cell Phone

Today, one year ago, I purchased a cell phone. I was scared to buy any cell phone. I was aware that I couldn’t produce anything through it, only consume. And I did everything to stop consumption–stopped watching TV–before that. I needed a cell phone, but I didn’t want it because it had more disadvantages compared […]

August 1, 2014

Today is August 1, 2014. I like to review my process every month on the first day. I’ve been doing so for some months, but not every time: February 1, 2014 and April 1, 2014 Some months ago, I challenged myself to write a blog post everyday. I also challenged to take a video everyday. […]

Set Small Goals Everyday

I was just reading Radhika’s new post, “What do you deserve” and found this: Remember, set small goals everyday, and then build on the momentum of completion. For example, if you want to read a book, tell yourself you only have to read one page. Chances are, once you start, you’ll keep reading. As soon […]

Burn Your Boats

While you commit on anything, burn your boats. Burning boats means to do something that makes it impossible for you to change your plans and go back to the situation you were in before. Some stories: A general sailed over to an enemy country with his army. While the army slept, he burned the ships down. […]

Forgot? Forget! Keep Going

“Forgot? Forget! Keep Going” is a rule I use while I establish new habits. Habits need consistency to build up. At the initial stage of forming habit, we usually don’t miss any days. But as time builds up, motivation fades away and we slowly start to move away from our habit building goal. During this period, […]

Titles Dont Matter

After I write a post, my writing ends up nowhere near the title that I wrote before writing the post. The blog post takes different route from the title. Titles are only there to keep my focus intact with the post. It doesn’t matter. In similar fashion, goals are there to make you focus on […]

Handling Things That Are Out Of Your Control

Most of the time, we blame luck if something we anticipated doesn’t occur. For example, you didn’t win the competition. You didn’t get good grades. Your trip was cancelled. It’s an easy excuse. I used to do the same. I’d either blame luck or blame some external force which I had no control over. It […]

April 1, 2014

Today is April 1, 2014. I wanted to make this year productive and focused on action. Every time I try and force action, it becomes the most unproductive day/week/month. I had very clear goal for the year and also to not beat myself up trying to force it. If I’d force it, I won’t be able […]

Not Waiting for the Perfect Condition

You build habit by doing something constantly, but if you bring in any factor to stop the consistency, then you’ll never be able to create a habit. I have been using weather as a factor to stop me from doing my work. If it’s stormy, I wouldn’t go out and run even if I have […]