Category: Productivity

On track again. 🙂

The day was super cool.

Kicking myself out wasn’t difficult today. It was easy. But, not too easy, though.

No naps. Nothing.

The day involved preparing invoices for the past work and doing some ongoing work. I tell you preparing invoices is most exciting part but it took more time than what it should have taken ideally. My folders in drive are too messy at this time and that caused it.

In addition to that, there’s lot of useless stuff eating storage space for no reason. Take a look. Both are red.

Garbage and useless stuff needs to get removed. I am going to do it tomorrow. I know it’s not that important but it’s annoying and affects memory performance as well.

I am writing this at 11:55 and could have almost missed it. It was not because of work or something like that. I took care of it very well and was done with it around evening itself.

I was happy with the fact that finally today I will call it a night bit earlier. But, as fate would have it, a good friend of mine called me as he was in town. As it is period of holidays, many of our other common friends from school-time were also there.

I would say it was kinda not-so-planned re-union. We had ultimate fun recalling old memories from school-time. It’s always ultimate fun. So, remember the thing I told you in Day #4 post (fourth last paragraph)? In case, we were friends at any point of time and you end up reading this post, just hit me up!

Now, I think I should go. It might be bit arduous to make it at 5:00, but I got some techniques! 😉

I am pretty darn sure that I will make it.

‘Night & Chilled Dreams!

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Previous: Day 07/30

I seriously don’t wanna post this. I seriously don’t.

Still, let’s do it.

I will be honest as F for my this post.

Ok. So we came around 3 a.m yesterday and I went to sleep at around 3:45 a.m. Hence, it was practically impossible to make it at 5:00 a.m.

However, I made my mind that no matter what but I will just jump outside the bed at 5 a.m & drowsiness will be taken care of later in daytime by taking a nap if I need one. At the end, sleeping just for two hours and waking up isn’t something which I have never done before. There were many times when I faced this situation. (Remember exams?)

But, I was so exhausted that I couldn’t open my eyes till 6:30 a.m. (Ok Unnit! Now you started bringing excuses!).

Noooo!

Trust me 6:30 really is a big deal for me. If something like this would have happened before I started this challenge, I would have woken up around 10-11 a.m. for sure.

This was nothing but a small bad hindrance in my good self-given challenge. I would not like to see this happen for the rest of my challenge.

When it comes to the tasks and work, I learned and read many things during the day. Worked at noon after taking one moderate sized nap and went again at night for Navratri to have some fun. Came back earlier so that I can go to sleep earlier. Wrote this post and almost ready to call it a night.

Let’s call it then. 😉

Next: Day 08/30

Previous: Day 06/30

Ok. We were good today….. almost.

I don’t have much time today for writing this post as one of my cousin is dragging me for Navratri festival. I got around only couple of minutes.

So yesterday I went to bed around 11:30. But, I think I might have slept around 1:00 am. I was tired and exhausted still I could not make it to sleep. I was pondering upon pointless thoughts unnecessarily. I tried delta music for sleeping and sleeping hypnosis but nothing worked. I have problems…

Unfortunately, I don’t belong to that category of people who would sleep in a jiffy once they lie on bed. My dad is of that type. Many of my friends too. I envy you people!!

But, I woke up completely and dragged myself out of bed at 4:30. So willingly or unwillingly I had to take one huge nap around noon.

Well, I have to go now so I will wrap it up in short.

Performance-wise I would say that the day was below average. However, I completed the work which I wanted to complete and still the day isn’t over yet.

We are going out for Gujarati people’s most favorite festival, which is Navratri and it is nothing but ultimate fun. You can consider it as Tomorrowland of Gujarati people 😉

That was it.

Take care.

Next: Day 07/30

Previous: Day 05/30

Howdy?

I am here again. 😉

Well, today it was bit difficult again as I went to sleep little late yesterday because of some urgent work. But, eventually, I made it and kicked myself out from the bed before the time I have promised you—the whole universe.

Keeping ‘Most Important Thing First’ in my mind, I directly started working on project. Until noon, I have done enough to make me feel satisfied throughout the day. I actually couldn’t figure out how time flowed and when it became 1:00 p.m. Yes, I was deeply involved in work to that extent. I hope I can get more like this in future.

In morning itself, I was having this thought that today I will have to take a nap. Otherwise, it won’t work out. Interestingly though, now when I decide to go and take rest then I don’t feel same as what I was feeling in my those discipline-less days. During that time, I would just take rest even if there’s no urgent need to take it. That’s laziness. Now, I think that happens when one forces his body to do something which it isn’t supposed to do. Naturally, at night, it is supposed to take rest. But, no! I was doing the other way around. I had problems…

Evening-to-Night period was quite similar to Morning-to-Noon.

I’m at just 5th day of my challenge and I am already seeing benefits of my this newly developed good habit. My mind stays calm and I get none-to-less negative thoughts as compared to earlier. All I feel is positivity and motivation to work hard and achieve more. Morning pumps it up in myself.

That’s it for now.

See you again.

Dreams!

Next: Day 06/30

Previous: Day 04/30

Here again after having super awesome day.

Waking up wasn’t difficult. My eyes were open before alarm rang and it’s always fun to go back and utilize the left time in dozing off for a while. Those few minutes seem like a blessing in disguise. I took screenshot right after jumping out from bed. So yeah, 4:50 a.m. was the exact time to be precise.

This day was amazing. I started my day with reading a book ‘The Dip – A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)’ by Seth Godin. One of my favorite author. The book is all about when you should quit and when you should stick to any sort of things like business you are setting up, skills you want to develop, habit etc. What amazes me most about Seth Godin is his writing style. You would feel like ‘bring me more bring me more’ while reading his any blog post or a book.

After reading the book for a while, I cloned the old GitHub repository of AngularJS project and made some changes. Coded for couple of hours.

Around afternoon, a friend called for a hangout. I won’t deny the fact that the type of work I do gives me full of freedom. I can work whenever I wish and from wherever I wish. No time limits. No stress. Nothing. However, I still wanna do job somewhere to gain some experience as money is not my top priority at this point of time. But, Learning is.

In his book, Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, Gary Vynerchuck (a successful businessman) once said, “In your 20s, focus on Learning. Not earning”. 

Now, coming back to the track. So, initially, I thought to deny the request of my friend as I was thinking to get started with newly arrived project. But, in conversation he mentioned that, please meet there’s one surprise! Now, you know human mind. Right? It’s our natural tendency towards surprises that builds some kind of instant urge which won’t let us be thoughtless from figuring out what it would be or what it might be. I had no other option than saying “Yes” as I was equally excited to meet him after many days and well not to forget the surprise!! I love surprises. (Who doesn’t?).

We met at the place where we used to meet and surprise was already there. It was our common friend. We haven’t seen her since like ages. It was indeed a surprise. It always feels amazing to meet your friends after long time. So, you know what, in case any of my old friend from any time or from anywhere, be it a school, college, old society or anywhere,  somehow ends up reading this post in the future, just hit me up! Let’s meet! You and me both don’t know how awesome and fun would reminiscing the memories and recalling our old crazy shit we have done together be.

All and all, this day was full of fun and me and my buddies altogether had a great time hanging out.

Tomorrow’s going to be super busy. I hope I don’t get any distractions.

To the productivity… Cheers! 😉

Check out the mentioned books on Amazon from here:

• The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
• Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

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