Everyone and their TV commercial wants you to believe that the key to a good life is a nicer job, or a more rugged car, or a prettier girlfriend, or a hot tub with an inflatable pool for the kids. The world is constantly telling you that the path to a better life is more, more, more—buy more, own more, make more, fuck more, be more. You are constantly bombarded with messages to give a fuck about everything, all the time. Give a fuck about a new TV. Give a fuck about having a better vacation than your coworkers. Give a fuck about buying that new lawn ornament. Give a fuck about latest gadget.

How Consumerism Works

“My guess: because giving a fuck about more stuff is good for their business.And while there’s nothing wrong with good business, the problem is that giving too many fucks is bad for your mental peace & health. It causes you to become overly attached to the superficial and fake, to dedicate your life to chasing a mirage of happiness and satisfaction.The key to a good life is not giving a fuck about more; it’s giving a fuck about less, giving a fuck about only what is true and immediate and important.”-Mark Manson.

Why They Do So?

Life itself is a form of suffering. The rich suffer because of their riches. The poor suffer because of their poverty. People without a family suffer because they have no family. People with a family suffer because of their family. People who pursue worldly pleasures suffer because of their worldly pleasures. People who abstain from worldly pleasures suffer because of their abstention.This isn’t to say that all suffering is equal. Some suffering is certainly more painful than other suffering. But we all must suffer nonetheless.

About Suffering

Happiness comes from solving problems. The keyword here is “solving.” If you’re avoiding your problems or feel like you don’t have any problems, then you’re going to make yourself miserable. If you feel like you have problems that you can’t solve, you will likewise make yourself miserable. The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in not having problems in the first place.To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action; it’s an activity, not something that is passively awarded to you, not something that you magically discover in a top G-articles.

Where Happiness Comes From?

Happiness is a constant work-in-progress, because solving problems is a constant work-in-progress—the solutions to today’s problems will lay the foundation for “tomorrow’s problems, and so on. True happiness occurs only when you find the problems you enjoy having and enjoy solving.Sometimes those problems are simple: eating good food, traveling to some new place, winning at the new video game you just bought. Other times those problems are abstract and complicated: fixing your relationship with your mother, finding a career you can feel good about, developing better friendships.

Happiness is a Continuous Activity

Truth is that there’s no such thing as a personal problem. If you’ve got a problem, chances are millions of other people have had it in the past, have it now, and are going to have it in the future. Likely people you know too. That doesn’t minimize the problem or mean that it shouldn’t hurt. It doesn’t mean you aren’t legitimately a victim in some circumstances.It just means that you’re not special.

You Are Not Special

The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so not because they believe they’re exceptional. On the contrary, they become amazing because they’re obsessed with improvement. And that obsession with improvement stems from an unerring belief that they are, in fact, not that great at all.It’s anti-entitlement.People who become great at something become great because they understand that they’re not already great—they are mediocre, they are average—and that they could be so much better.

Anti Entitlement

Consumer culture is very good at making us want more, more, more. Underneath all the hype & marketing is the implication that more is always better. I bought into this idea for years. Make more money, visit more countries, have more experiences.More is not always better. In fact, opposite is true. We are actually often happier with less. When we’re overloaded with options, we suffer from what psychologists refer to as the paradox of choice.The more options we’re given, less satisfied we become with whatever we choose, because we’re aware of all the other options we’re potentially forfeiting.

Freedom Through Commitment

A counterintuitive Approach to a good life, Helps us to be Happier, Stronger. Stop trying to be positive all the time.

#1 New York Times BestsellerOver 10 million copies soldIn this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

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Only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't want and do what you would rather not.

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Popular Diet Trends

<ul><li>Atkins Diet- People on this diet avoid carbohydrates but can eat as much protein and fat as they like. </li><li>Ketogenic Diet- This involves reducing carbohydrates intake and upping fat intake. </li><li>South Beach Diet- This is not a traditional low-carb diet and instead focuses on selecting the right carbohydrates that have a lower glycemic index. </li><li>Mediterranean Diet- This diet emphasise on plant foods, fresh fruits, beans, nuts, whole grains, seeds, olive oil, cheese, yogurt, fish and poultry. It’s very common in the habits of the people of Crete, Greece and Southern Italy. </li></ul>

Popular Diet Trends Part 1

<ul><li>Fasting Diet- Requires intermittent fasting. It can be for 16, 18 and 24 hours or even a few days.</li><li>Weight Watchers Diet- Not restricted to specific foods but a point system is used to monitor the daily diet.</li><li>Raw Food Diet- Focuses on unprocessed, plant- based,organic food.</li><li>Vegetarian Diet- There are various types of vegetarians including Lacto-vegetarian,fruitarian vegetarian,lacto-ovo vegetarian, pseuco-vegetarian and semi-vegetarian. Some might argue that a vegetarian diet lacks protein. Soya is the rich source of protein. Adding soya in your diet will take care of your complete protein intake.</li></ul>

Popular Diet Trends Part 2

Every person’s stomach is like his foot, and one size of shoe doesn’t fit all, in the same way, one universal diet is not meant for all. Instead, have your own Personalised/Individualised Diet. Some Crash Diets are meant for quick, short term weight loss. But with this, our body will not be able to get the key nutrients that it needs for optimal health. Therefore, if you want to Lose Weight without compromising with your health, then try to find out what is causing you to be Overweight. Sense and moderation is the key for the good health

Why And How Go Beyond The Diet Trends

<ul><li>Chew every morsel of your food 32 times. Daanton se khao, Aanton se nahin (Chew from teeth, not intestines). </li><li>Last meal and sleep should have a gap of at least 3 hours. </li><li>Have unprocessed foods, whole grains instead of refined grains, consume 2 apples rather than a glass of apple juice. </li><li>Avoid empty calories i.e. any food/drink that has zero nutritional value besides its energy value like most sugary drinks, sweets and breakfast cereals.</li><li>Don’t eat fruits and nuts after 4pm. </li><li>Eat slowly so that there is enough time for your brain to receive information from your stomach.</li><li>Maintain acid-alkaline balance</li></ul>

Creative Tips To Eating Better

Veganism is not only about loving animals, but loving yourself, too.Reason behind this is that the animals you eat aren't fed what they are designed to eat. They are fed something that is cheap and make them grow faster. They sometimes fed boiled and ground up remains of dead and diseased animals.Some animals like cattle are injected with oxytocin everyday to expel a few extra liters of milk, which is found responsible for early onset of puberty in children.The fish you eat might be adulterated with Formalin, an anti decomposition agent, used as germicide, fungicide and disinfectant for fish.

Veganism

With 15-20 calories per spoon, a small amount of regular sugar can be a part of anyone's healthy diet. Replacing it with AS might be causing more harm to your body than good.In some studies, daily consumption of AS was associated with 36% greater risk for metabolic syndrome (obesity, high BP, high blood sugar) and 67% increased risk for type-2 diabetes. These AS may be addictive too.About Sodas, understand that low-fat is not no-fat. Diet soda may contain Aspartame, which might cause cancer. Many diet drinks contains caffeine, which curb the appetite temporarily but leads to overeating later.

Fuss About Artificial Sweeteners (AS) & Sodas

An apple a day keeps the doctor away. An onion a day takes care of everyone else.

Learn what kind of diets are there in the world and which one suits us. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food- Hippocrates, The Greek Physician and Father of Medicine. 

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We are in the midst of sleep deprivation crises, this affects our health, job performance, our relationships and happiness. If we talk about the data collected from a single country like India-<ul><li>93% Indians are sleep deprived.</li><li>72% Indians wake up 1-3 times per night.</li><li>87% confirms the lack of sleep is affecting their health.</li><li>58% believe that their work suffer due to lack of adequate sleep.</li><li>38% have witnessed a colleague falling asleep at work.</li></ul>

Sleep Deprivation

<ul><li>Pain such as body aches, headaches and toothaches</li><li>Itching associated with psoriasis, eczema and other skin disorders</li><li>Medical disorders like nose block, asthma, coughing and breathlessness</li><li>Psychiatric disorders like depression and anxiety</li><li>Addictions such as alcohol, caffeine, drug abuse or digital addiction</li><li>Stress, for example, due to job loss, death of a loved one or divorce</li><li>Acidity causing ulcers, heartburn or acid reflux</li><li>Irritable bowls causing frequent bathroom trips</li><li>Environmental factors like light, noise or temperatures</li><li>Lifestyle Patterns like working night shift, business travel or emergency duty</li></ul>

Causes Of Poor Sleep

<ol><li>Sleeping for more time while in bed (at least 85% of the total time)</li><li>Falling asleep in 30 minutes or less</li><li>Waking up no more than once per night</li><li>Being awake for a break of less than 20 minutes during sleeping hours</li></ol>

Indicators Of Good Sleep

<ul><li>NREM Sleep- Non Rapid Eye Movement Sleep. It is the type of sleep when you don’t dream. It is what most people associate with sleep. It is very relaxed type of sleep that gets progressively deeper through three stages called N1, N2 and N3. </li><li>REM Sleep- Rapid Eye Movement Sleep. This sleep is your dream state. Your eyes move rapidly. It is rather active sort of sleep in which the brain is almost as active as if it were awake. It is also called paradoxical sleep because you only look like you are fast asleep but there is a lot of stuff happening inside your brain. </li></ul>

NREM And REM Sleep

Our body cycles between NREM and REM sleep every 90 minutes, this is known as Sleep Cycle.Having a complete sleep cycle is important because each type of sleep has its own special benefits. For example, some of the things happening to you when you are in deep NREM (N3) sleep are-<ul><li>Wounds get healed</li><li>Energy is restored and body undergoes maintenance </li><li>WBC’s are created to prop up your body’s defence mechanism</li><li>Muscles are relaxed and restored</li><li>Growth hormones are released</li><li>The brain reorganises the mental pathways within the cortex, an activity vital to learning and to brain development. </li></ul>

Benefits Of Deep Sleep

<ul><li>For 1-2 year old/toddlers- 11 to 14 hours a day</li><li>For 3-5 years old/preschoolers- 10 to 13 hours a day</li><li>For 6-13 years old/older children- 9 to 11 hours a day</li><li>For 14-17 years old/teenagers- 8 to 10 hours a day.</li></ul>

Necessary Sleep As Per The Age

People spend money on beauty potions, but a good night’s rest makes all the difference

<ul><li>Inability to fight infection or diseases</li><li>Cause of Weight Gain</li><li>One of the major causes of accidents </li><li>Linked to substance abuse</li><li>Associated with depression </li><li>Cause fatigue and affects athletic performance. </li></ul>

Sleep Deprivation Effects Our Body

<ul><li>Increases decision making skills</li><li>Improves memory and concentration </li><li>Enhances work efficiency </li><li>Widening attention span</li><li>Increases Alertness. </li></ul>

Good Sleep Enhances Performance At Work

<ul><li>Block out lights in the room</li><li>Avoid all handheld devices</li><li>Read any book physically like self help for you or stories to your child</li><li>Avoid long afternoon naps</li><li>Have melatonin supplements</li><li>Follow a bedtime and wake-up time routine even on weekends</li><li>Exercise regularly</li><li>Manage temperature and noise in the room</li><li>Avoid alcohol and heavy meals in the evening</li><li>Practice a relaxing meditative bedtime ritual</li><li>Avoid stimulants like caffeine, nicotine etc.</li><li>Limit fluid intake to prevent ‘Nocturia’- medical term for excessive urination during night</li><li>Sleep on comfortable, supportive and allergen free mattress and pillows</li></ul>Good Sleep

How To Sleep Better

Having peace, happiness and healthiness is my definition of beauty and you can’t have any of that without sleep- American singer and songwriter ’Beyonće’. 

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Why and how to sleep well?

Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.

<ul><li>What you do with your time? And</li><li>what you do with your money?</li></ul>should be 2 completely different things.

Rules For The New Rich

<ul><li>How do your decisions change, if retirement is not an option? (Inactivity should not be a goal)</li><li>What if you could use a mini retirement to sample your deferred life plan reward before working 40 years for it?</li><li>Is it really necessary to work like a slave to live like a millionaire?</li></ul>Remember “The perfect job is the one that takes the least time”.

Test Your Most Basic Assumptions Of Work-Life Equation

<ul><li>D stands for Definition i.e. Design the Work Recipe. </li><li>E is for Elimination, which provides Time. </li><li>A is for Automation, it gives us the regular income. </li><li>L is for Liberation, it helps in Mobility. </li></ul>Let’s start discussing one by one in detail.

Reinvent Yourself And Your Work By DEAL Method

<ul><li>Not to retire early or young, but to distribute recovery periods/adventures/mini retirements throughout life on regular basis</li><li>Not to be the boss/employee/incharge, but the owner. To own the trains & have someone else ensure that they run on time</li><li>Not to make money only, but to make it with specific reasons, defined dreams to chase, timelines and steps included</li><li>Not to have more of everything, but to have more quality and less clutter. Avoid Materialistic wants. </li><li>To think big but ensure that the payday comes everyday or every week. Cashflow first, Big payday second. </li></ul>

1. DEFINE Or DESIGN RECIPE - Goals For The New Rich Should Be-

Money multiplies in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life-<ol><li>What you do?</li><li>When you do it?</li><li>Where you do it?</li><li>With whom you do it?</li></ol>

Freedom Multiplier

Retirement is the worst-case-scenario insurance, its like becoming physically incapable of working and needing a reservoir of capital to survive. Retirement can’t be a goal. Reasons<ul><li>It means, you disliked whatever you do/did during the most physically capable years of life.</li><li>Most people will never be able to maintain a medium/good standard of living due to inflation which increase 2-4% per year. So this math doesn’t work.</li><li>And if the math does work, it means you are ambitious, hardworking machine. If that’s the case, you’ll be bored and look for a new job after a weekmonth of retirement. </li></ul>

On Retirement 

If i offered you 10 billion to work 24 hours a day for 15 years and then retire, would you do it?Of course not- you couldn’t. Alternate periods of Activity and Rest are necessary to survive, let alone thrive.

Interest And Energy Are Cyclical

Doing less meaningless work, so that you focus on more important things, is not Laziness.Our culture should reward Personal Productivity rather than passing time in offices.

Less Is Not Laziness

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Like- Waiting for a good time to quit your job, the stars will never align, traffic lights will never all be green at the same time. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams with you to death. If it’s important to you and you want to do it eventually, Just do it and correct course along the way. Most people are fast to stop you before you start, but hesitant to get in the way if you are moving. So, get good at being troublemaker and saying sorry when you really screw up. Ask for forgiveness, not permission.

The Timing Is Never Right

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Find your strengths and work on them rather than fixing your weaknesses. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Things in excess become their opposite like pacifists become militants, blessings become curses, help becomes hinderance, more becomes less. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Money alone is not the solution, its just an illusion. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Relative Income is more important than absolute income. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">Distress is bad, Eustress is good.</li></ul>

Other Nuggets

Now, as you are constantly reading, be interactive with your brain and take out pen, paper and vomit your thoughts subjectively about the following questions-<ul><li>Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you did what you are considering?</li><li>What steps you could take to repair the damage in advance?</li><li>What are the outcomes of more probable scenarios?</li><li>If you were fired from your job today, what would you do to get things under financial control?</li><li>What you are putting off out of fear (that one call, conversation, action)?</li><li>What is it costing you to postpone action?</li><li>What are you waiting for?</li></ul>

Brain Vomit Questions

The opposite of Happiness is not sadness but ‘Boredom’. So, Excitement is more practical synonym of happiness. It is cure-all. When people suggest you to follow your passion, they are referring to do What excites you. Don’t ask what do i want, askyourself what would excite me. People work till death saying “I’ll just work until i have X money and then I’ll do what i want”. If you don’t define “what i want” alternate activities, the X figure will increase indefinitely to avoid the fear inducing uncertainty of this void. This is when both employees and entrepreneurs become FAT MAN IN RED BMW’s.

Real Meaning And Measure Of Passion And Work

Make a tabular plan of your dream<ul><li>of 6 and 12 months</li><li>list upto 5 things that you dream of for each Having, Being and Doing</li><li>write their next action plans otherwise they’ll only be mind plans. </li><li>after calculation, find your target monthly and daily income to complete these plans. </li></ul>

Create Your Dream

<ul><li>One doesn’t accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs on simplicity- BRUCE LEE. </li><li>Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away. </li><li>It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.</li><li>Being selective/doing less is the path of productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest. </li></ul>

2. Eliminate Somethings To Have TIME

<ul><li>Be Effective rather than being Efficient. Apply Pareto’s Law- 80/20 Principle to everything you do. </li><li>Parkinson’s law- A task will swell in importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion e.g. If for a project, I give you a week or a single day. You’ll be able to focus more when you are having only 24 hours. </li></ul>Limit tasks to the important to shorten work’s time- 80/20 Principle. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important- Parkinson’s Law. To get Time<ol><li>Have a todo list</li><li>Have a not to do list</li></ol>Do your own thing independently, Be the Chess Player, not the chess piece.

80/20 Principle And Parkinson’s Law

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone- Henry David Thoreau. A delegated task must be time consuming and well defined. Steps to start and automate the business-Step 1. Pick an Affordably Reachable Niche MarketStep 2. Brainstorm (do not invest in) Products. Options-<ul><li>Resell a product</li><li>Licence a product</li><li>Create a product</li></ul>Step 3. Micro-test your productsStep 4. Rollout and Automation.Flowchart of 4 Hour Work Week (Look at the image in this post).

3. Automation

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. By working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day. Liberty means responsibility, that’s why most men dread it.If you must play, decide on 3 things at the start-<ul><li>Rules of the game</li><li>The stakes</li><li>The quitting time</li></ul>Simplest formula for success- Double your failure rate. Only those who are asleep makes no mistakes. Everyone of us must plan Mini Retirements in between our working life whether its for a single day, week or month.

4. Liberation

This book deals with what Ferriss refers to as "lifestyle design", and repudiates the traditional "deferred" life plan in which people work grueling hours and take few vacations for decades and save money in order to relax after retirement.

Offers techniques and strategies for increasing income while cutting work time in half, and includes advice for leading a more fulfilling life.

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Immature poets imitate; Mature poets steal; Bad poets deface, what they take:But, Good poets make it into something better, different and unique.

Art Is Theft

Every new idea is just a remix of one or more previous ideas like Genetics.

What Is An IDEA

An Artist is a COLLECTOR, not HOARDER.Just collect the more good ideas and choose from them to be influenced by

<ul><li>Films</li><li>Music</li><li>Books</li><li>Paintings</li><li>Photos</li><li>Poems</li><li>Dreams</li><li>Random Conversations</li><li>Architecture</li><li>Street Signs</li><li>Trees</li><li>Clouds</li><li>Nature</li><li>Water</li><li>Light</li><li>Shadows</li><li>Anything</li></ul>Steal that touches your soul, this theft will be Authentic

Where To Steal From

Chew on 1 thinker/role model you like, Study everything about him & then find the 3 people he follows/loves and now study them like you study him and repeat the process as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you build your tree, its time to start your own branch.

Climb Your Own Family Tree

<ul><li>School is one thing/education is another. </li><li>Be curious about anything, then go deeper into one thing than anybody else, that’s how you’ll get ahead. </li><li>Google everything from your dreams, problems, solutions, foolish questions. This way you’ll either get your answers or you’ll come up with a better question. </li><li>Always be reading- There is a magic in being surrounded by books, collect the books and read them. Get lost in the stacks. </li><li>“Nothing is more important than an unread library” - John Waters</li></ul>

Always Be Learning

<ul><li>Always carry a pen and paper or any tool with you wherever you go to collect ideas and put them into a ‘Swipe File’ (Open this whenever you need any inspiration)</li></ul>

Save Your Thefts For Later

If you are ready for creating something, just start making. Don’t wait for the specific or perfect time, just start

Start When You Are Ready

<ul><li>Start copying as we learn almost everything by copying e.g. Writing by copying alphabets, music by playing scales repeatedly.</li><li>Those who don’t want to imitate anything, produce nothing.</li><li>Figure out about who to copy and how to copy.</li></ul>

Copy

Draw the art you want to see,Start the business you want to run,Play the music you want to hear,Write the books you want to readBuild the products you want to use.

Write What You Like

Step away from screen, do some work/art, but perform physically.Go through the motions, Screens should get ‘on’ after you plan or think about any idea completely. Bring your body into work, art that only comes from the head isn’t any good

Use Your Hands

We must have 2 or more projects at hand, so if we bored from one, move to other and if we get sick of other we can switch to third or start the first where we left.Bounce between these side projects and hobbies to practice this productive procrastination. Combine all your hobbies/passions and make your real masterpiece.

Practice Productive Procrastination

In the beginning, obscurity is good as you are unknown, so there is no pressure of performance and no image to maintain in public. GraduallyDo good work and share it with people, wonder at something and invite others to wonder with you.

Be Obscure Or Undiscovered

Leave home at least once to see the change in your everyday surroundings. Make your brain 🧠 uncomfortable by going to different places, meeting different kind of people who do things differently than you.If you want to complain about the way other people make software, then complain by making a better one. Money<ul><li>Make yourself a budget</li><li>Live within your means</li><li>Get educated for as cheap as you can</li><li>Say no to consumer culture</li></ul>

Make Yourself Uncomfortable 

<ul><li>It gives you money</li><li>Connections to the world</li><li>Routine</li></ul>A Day Job put you to the path of other human beings, learn from them, steal from them like<ul><li>Library job can teach how to research </li><li>Web design job can teach how to build website</li><li>Copywriting job can teach how to sell things with words.</li></ul>Worst thing a day job can take away is your time, but it makes that up by giving you a routine.” Establishing and keeping a routine can be even more important than having a lot of time”. So, <ul><li>Keep a calendar to cross ✅ your work daily and </li><li>Get a logbook to record and see your past events.</li></ul> HAPPY STEALING-RDx.

Benefits Of Dayjob

This article briefly teach you to get ideas from anywhere in the world as we are on a planet of artistic ones.

You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side. When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist, the book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, collect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination.

Steal Like an Artist

<ul><li>Fill your mind in afternoon with books, learning and socialization.</li><li>Empty that mind before bed with journaling, planning and meditation.</li><li>Use that brain in morning by creating new things, making new plans, giving outputs to your work, focusing on the tasks at hand.</li></ul>

FEU Framework

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Productivity Cycle

Some of the people are confused with the Hal Elrod's SAVERS formula as they don't know what to do exactly. Here is a simplified version or we can say examples for each.<ul><li>S is for Silence- Be Quiet, Show Gratitude, Meditate etc</li><li>A is for Affirmations- Affirm about your purpose, confidence, priority, goals.</li><li>V is for Visualization- Visualise your Goals or the Ideal Life you want.</li><li>E is for Exercise- Here you can do Aerobics, Yoga, Dance, Streching, Other Workouts.</li><li>R is for Reading- Read good Self-improvement books.</li><li>S is for Scribing- Write Journal, Personal diary, answers to questions related to yourself.</li></ul>

Explanation Of SAVERS From The Book

The Miracle Morning routine was introduced by Hal Elrod in his book The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8 AM). This method of self-improvement consists of waking up early in the morning to set up a daily morning routine, through 6 activities called life savers.

What's being widely regarded as "one of the most life changing books ever written" may be the simplest approach to achieving everything you've ever wanted, and faster than you ever thought possible. What if you could wake up tomorrow and any-or EVERY-area of your life was beginning to transform? What would you change? The Miracle Morning is already transforming the lives of tens of thousands of people around the world by showing them how to wake up each day with more ENERGY, MOTIVATION, and FOCUS to take your life to the next level. It's been right here in front of us all along, but this book has finally brought it to life. Are you ready? The next chapter of YOUR life-the most extraordinary life you've ever imagined-is about to begin. It's time to WAKE UP to your full potential...

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The Miracle Morning

"Can someone really retire, if he/she is passionate about what he does?"

I am not going to make the post complex as it is against the laws of IKIGAI itself, just kidding, but i am going to give you the most important points that i collected after reading the book. That will be presented according to their nature.

What You Get In The Next Few Posts?

<ul><li>Hara Hachi Bu- Fill your stomach 80% and stop eating.</li><li>Avoid Stress and anxiety as it affects everything from digestive system to our skin.</li><li>Be Physically active and take care of Sleep.</li><li>Keep your fingers busy till death, you can see 100 years.</li><li>Eat less with more servings.</li><li>Drink Green Tea regularly.</li><li>Breathe Better, Live Longer. e.g. breathe with the sound of Si as SIR with slow exhale for healthy lungs.</li></ul>

Physical Processes To Follow From IKIGAI

<ul><li>Whatever you do, don't retire.</li><li>Train the Brain by doing new things everyday.</li><li>Slow the neuron aging process by - </li></ul><ol><li>Intellectual activity, </li><li>Curiosity, </li><li>Desire to learn, </li><li>Playing games, </li><li>Getting familiar with new situations/people.</li></ol><ul><li>Practice Mindfulness/Meditation.</li><li>Find reasons to LIVE - Because he who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.</li><li>And to get reasons to live, ask yourself, 'why i am not getting SUICIDE?'</li><li>Try to be in the moments of FLOW as much as you can.</li><li>Stop multitasking, focus on a single one.</li><li>Microflow- Enjoy mundane tasks.</li><li>Get instant vacations - getting there by meditation.</li></ul>

Mental Ideas 

<ul><li>Break big tasks into parts and then ATTACK one by one.</li><li>Be resilient (be able to deal with setbacks).</li><li>Enjoy life's pleasures, but don't get enslaved by them.</li><li>We, human beings, are INSATIABLE, when we find our dream job/thing, after a while we are already hunting for a new one.</li><li>WABI SABI- Instead of searching for beauty in perfection, look for it in the things that are flawed or incomplete.</li><li>ICHI GO ICHI E- This moment exist only now and won't come again.</li><li>Be AntiFRAGILE- Being stronger when harmed.</li><li>Create Redundancies- Don't depend on single salary, try to make money from hobbies, new ideas, businesses.</li></ul>

Continued...

<ul><li>MOAI - Make a get together community, meet and enjoy with your loved ones and friends regularly.</li><li>Central tenet of STOICISM is 'Knowing what we can contro and what we can't'.</li><li>Learn about the impermanace of Humans and Things.</li><li>Take it slow in life, leave urgency behind.</li><li>Surround yourself with good friends.</li><li>Get in shape for your next birthday.</li><li>Smile- Have a cheerful attitude.</li><li>Reconnect with nature.</li><li>Give thanks to everyone from ancestors to nature to friends and family.</li><li>Live in the moment- Today is all you have.</li><li>Find and follow your IKIGAI.</li></ul>

Spiritual Things To Grab From The Book

Ikigai is the action we take in pursuit of happiness. As Okinawan residents know, “In Okinawa being happy every day is ikigai.” Such happiness is the outcome of valuing purpose, flow, movement, meaning, health, and community.

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 1.5 MILLION+ COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE “Workers looking for more fulfilling positions should start by identifying their ikigai.” ―Business Insider “One of the unintended—yet positive—consequences of the [pandemic] is that it is forcing people to reevaluate their jobs, careers, and lives. Use this time wisely, find your personal ikigai, and live your best life.” ―Forbes Find your ikigai (pronounced ee-key-guy) to live longer and bring more meaning and joy to all your days. “Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years.” —Japanese proverb According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—a reason for living. And according to the residents of the Japanese village with the world’s longest-living people, finding it is the key to a happier and longer life. Having a strong sense of ikigai—where what you love, what you’re good at, what you can get paid for, and what the world needs all overlap—means that each day is infused with meaning. It’s the reason we get up in the morning. It’s also the reason many Japanese never really retire (in fact there’s no word in Japanese that means retire in the sense it does in English): They remain active and work at what they enjoy, because they’ve found a real purpose in life—the happiness of always being busy. In researching this book, the authors interviewed the residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds—one of the world’s Blue Zones. Ikigai reveals the secrets to their longevity and happiness: how they eat, how they move, how they work, how they foster collaboration and community, and—their best-kept secret—how they find the ikigai that brings satisfaction to their lives. And it provides practical tools to help you discover your own ikigai. Because who doesn’t want to find happiness in every day?

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Ikigai

We all know about the achievements of One of the Most popular Former Indian Cricketer Mahendra singh dhoni. Now, Let’s peep inside his properties which made him, what he is.

How Ticket Collector Became The MS Dhoni

<ul><li>Don’t complicate things, avoid unnecessary chaos. </li><li>See pressure as a opportunity to perform even better. </li><li>Aggression is waste of TIME & ENERGY. </li><li>Detachment from desired result is most important. </li><li>Simplification of a goal is an exercise of the mind. e.g. 200 runs in 20 overs.</li><li>’What ifs’, ‘then whats’ paralysesthe thought process. </li></ul>

Right Attitude

You should have an idea of the steps and outcome of what you are doing e.g.If you want to lose weight, you need to exercise and take care of the diet, they are connected like Lose weight- exercise. Similarly, <ul><li>Want to be calmer- Meditate. </li><li>Crack an Interview- Prepare. </li><li>Business Decision- Strategise. </li></ul>Ignore everything else like anger, frustration, fear, confusion, overthinking etc.

Follow The Process

Don't get too much attached to anything in life because Attachment leads to Thinking then Overthinking and then obsessing.

Detachment

Live in the present moment, don’t regret the past and don’t worry about the future, just do the best thing you can do presently wherever you are. At any point of time (Happy or Sad), Always say to yourself- “THIS TOO SHALL PASS.

Carpe Diem

<ul><li>Take a peaceful walk home without thinking/carrying office baggage home. </li><li>Keep yourself between the Praise line and Criticism line. Be same in all situations, neither excited nor depressed. </li><li>Prioritising your day/work is significantly important. </li><li>Take time to unwind the mind and body. </li><li>LEADERSHIP is mental skill- part natural, part acquired. </li></ul>

Some More Nuggets From The Book

I really admire MS since my childhood from his looks, his game, his attitude, his calmness to the impact and legacy he has made to the world, these are some of his traits that the author got to know as she interviewed him and i tried to provide you them all from the book in a short possible manner. 

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