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  • The Golden Rule in Social Life

    The best thing about being a kid is that you can be frank in your opinions, blurt anything out to anyone and live a carefree life. But the moment you break out of the childhood shell, you gather a lot of cobwebs.
    Then you can no longer talk like you talked when you were a kid. You will have to consider and reconsider every word before you let it out. You will have to think twice before you talk.

    And since I learned it the hard way, I believe I’m experienced enough to share that golden rule of social life and communication.

    And that most unwelcome, most painful, most disgusting rule of life which everyone should remember before even thinking about talking is… [with bated breath]
    …that “No two persons think exactly alike“

    A bit familiar?
    Ever thought something and heard the exact opposite thought from someone else? Ever had a debate where people never seem to understand your way of thinking? Ever tried to appreciate someone and ended up gaining hatred? Ever tried to convince somebody and failed miserably?

    Yeah, you know what I’m speaking about.
    The reason why there are more debates in the world than constructive criticism, the reason why people are always in two sides on every topic of discussion, the reason heaven is not situated on earth, the reason for every extra word spoken…

    For if everyone were thinking alike there would be no doubt, no question, no answer, no debate, no question of who is right, no conflict, no war. Completely calm, quiet.

    No. The world has been designed for mutations and differences. Evolution is entirely dependent on differences. Should there be the fittest, there will also be the feeblest. And so, biologically, we are designed to think different, so that even if some of us do things that may be dangerous for the survival of life, others think different.

    Of course our parents or friends may think like us (though not exactly alike in all cases), but we must remember that our parents are the ones who define most of our thoughts, and that we find similar minded people first and friends next.

    Now leave that aside. Let us concentrate on how knowing this fact can save you out of a lot of trouble.

    I have had many occasions in life which I would very fondly like to undo, but alas! there is no Ctrl+Z shortcut for that in real life. I had made a controversial speech in my school about my life there, which I intended to be a joke packed thriller. But when it was delivered it slapped many people blunt on their faces. What happened here? What I thought to be harmless, where actually venom packed fangs (according to people who thought thus)

    Then there is a whole bunch of marriages where I tried to crack jokes to people whom I scarcely know (supposedly my relatives) and most of them backfired as insults and stupidity because some people think giving respect is the only way somebody younger than them can acknowledge their presence. (You know me, I just don’t like these adults being serious, life is supposed to be enjoyed)

    And what did I learn?
    Nobody thinks alike. So, though you are absolutely right when you talk with yourself, you range everything from exactly true to pure blasphemy. And what does that mean? If you don’t want yourself to be misheard, you’d either speak nothing, or don’t be frank in front of people whom you don’t know.

    When your honest opinion is sought, most probably your positive comments are what is being expected. So, if you don’t have something good to tell, you’d rather not let it out, unless you know the other person very well and are sure that they won’t take it personally.
    And when you are speaking to a crowd, never talk about a person. If at all you are, don’t talk anything (i said anything) about negatives.

    Come on, now tell me your frankest opinions about this post.

  • It is not about your age, it is about your inclination

    Fun and Fun Only sent me a thought provoking mail yesterday.

    3 stupid stages of life
    We have 3 stupid stages of life………..
    Teen age: Have Time + Energy …but No Money
    Working Age: Have Money + Energy …but No Time
    Old age: Have Time + Money …but no Energy

    This is an accurate description of the lives of the billions of people who took birth on this earth and left it without disturbing a leaf. They pass their childhood thinking about things they would do when they grow up. And when they grow up they have their jobs and family to take care of and they even forget what their dreams were. And after they have grown old, they remember their childhood dreams but they declare themselves unfit to pursue them and retire to a solitary life waiting death.

    While we could be just doing it (like Nike says), we waste time finding excuses for why we can’t be doing it. Is there nothing on this earth that a kid can do without money? Can’t time be bought and used if you have money and energy? Does the fact that you are weak prove a handicap?

    It is all about whether you want to do it or not? Whether you can do it or not is not a meaningful question, because you can do anything, but only if you will.

    So, some practical ways to make things happen, at all ages.

    If you are a kid:
    You know how to dream. You like to do things.
    But you don’t know where or how or what to do?
    This is where organisations come to your help.
    You can sign up for NCC, JCI, Scouting, etc. in your city.
    You can be a help for the librarian in the public library (and he will probably let you know about things that is happening)
    You can join the activities of organisations for elders like Rotary club or Lion’s club, (and inspire adults)
    You can form a group with your friends as members and collect money and donate it.

    Whatever you do there is one big advantage of being a kid. People don’t expect you to do these things, so when they see you do these, they will shower their blessings and cooperate seamlessly.

    If you are working:
    You’ve got a job. You’ve got a family to take care of. You’ve got just one holiday per week which you would rather spend relaxing. Where the hell do you have time?
    But think carefully. The childhood lasts only for about 25 years and of it 10 years you’re in absolute bliss.
    If you’re lucky you may live up to 80 years but your body will last only for about 65 years, i.e. 10 years after retirement.
    Your working age is the widest phase in your life. When you think week by week you might be having little or no time. But think of it as a whole. It’s the best part of your life. Where seconds can be hours.
    Why don’t you take leave for a week and do some social service? You might need to meet the same organisations I mentioned before.
    Why don’t you donate to somebody.
    Sponsor a child’s education, an athlete, someone’s eye surgery.
    Donate blood.

    If your vision has started blurring
    If you are old and if you do nothing, you will end up neglected in your home as if you were the dull picture hanging on the wall. If there’s something that can bring value to your existence it is only activity. Do something.
    Learn to use computer.
    SMS your grandson.
    Help your son in share market.
    Go for a morning walk with your walking stick.
    Teach children whatever you know. Share your experience.
    And why not write a book?

    The mind :
    Decide whether you want to do it. You probably would want to.
    Then think of yourself, in your death bed. Or after your death. How would you like people to remember you? Would you have them love you because you were a human or would you have them love and adore you because you were an extra-ordinary human?
    Do you want to live the ordinary life or the extra-ordinary.
    It’s easy to be ordinary. But at the same time it is not going to do anything for you.

    But when you are unlike others, when you are a kid who does what none of your friends dares to, when you are an officer who does what none of your colleagues never think of, when you are an old man with more energy and enthusiasm than anyone else, then you will really shine, and your light will last for ever.

    Do what no one else has done

  • How to Get Rid of Obsessions

    [update on 2011/02/11: This is by far, the most read post on this blog. And this is also one of the oldest articles of this blog. And I think this article hasn’t been well-written. But, I won’t edit my articles (except for grammar/spelling mistakes) and I don’t want to lose my readers from this article. So I’m doing some gimmick here]

    Added on Feb 11, 2011:

    The bad news is that there is NO ‘ONE surely working way’ to get rid of an obsession.
    But the good news is that there are several ways you could try to get rid of an obsession.

    For example, if you’re addicted to the internet, you could try the crazy tip given in How to Get Rid of Addiction to Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, Twitter, Other Social Networking Sites, Internet or Computer in General

    And usually addictions set in when you are not a happy person. So, try reading The Secret to (Infinite) Happiness (which tells you how to control your mind and be happy)

    You may also find 3 Questions to Define What is Productive and What is Not interesting too

    And if you want to hear a largely biology oriented view about obsessions, read on the original article below

    If you find yourself watching endless hours of tv, or jumping from site to site without noticing the clock on your desk running away, you probably know what an obsession is.

    obsession – an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will

    While what you think is an obsessive behaviour of yours may be anything ranging from obsessive compulsive disorder to humane laziness, it is best to avoid them. It takes away most of your time. It shifts your focus away from things you need to really concentrate upon. It makes you feel less confident. So, we reach our topic of discussion. How do we get rid of obsessions? Of course some obsessions may be biological in origin and may need medication. But, let us try with our mind.

    GET RID OF IT

    The first thing we need to know to get out of a problem is to know that we are in a problem.
    So let us tell ourselves that we are going to fight it. That we will master our mind and direct it to do what we want and not what it thinks.

    And when we are ready, we are almost there.

    ” You are free the moment you think you are.”

    So, what next? To get to the next step let us think why we developed the obsession at the first place. We are back home in the night. We have got nothing to do. We switch on…

    Why? We’ve nothing else to do, we do something we normally don’t do. And this continues even when we have something else to do. Thus the behaviour is established. And our focus is destroyed. Now our bodies start loving the behaviour and it automatically repeats appearing in our daily life.
    And that brings us to the next step in getting rid of obsessions – breaking old habits. It’s really easy to break your obsession if you know the right technique to it. If you observe your obsession for a few days you will see that it usually comes right after something else in our daily schedule. Sometimes you might be coming straight from work and getting into your obsession. Sometimes it would be after having tea. Or sometimes right after waking up in the morning. But it always comes just after something. Find that something. That thing which switches on your obsession. That thing which invariably precedes your obsession. And when you’ve found that, things are simple.
    Eliminate the predecessor . The successor will lose its way.
    Yeah. If you come home and get carried away, come home doing something, or reading something and continue that even after you’ve reached home. If you wake up to your pc, meditate from your bed itself.
    Just don’t give a chance for the obsession to start.
    Thus you have shaken the base of the obsession.

    Now exploit the chance. The obsession is losing ground. And if we launch our attack right now, the obsession will sure fail. And our weapon?

    Our only weapon against an undesirable behaviour is a desirable behaviour. Take a sapling from the desirable behaviour and plant it where the undesirable used to stay. So, we need a new behaviour as a substitute. Anything from reading to exercising will do. And it need not be static. You can exercise one day, read another day, cook one day, blog another day, but there should be a substitute ready to enter the playing field.

    Now cement your victory by watering the new plant everyday. Never go back to the obsessive behaviour. Whenever you feel like just get away from the thing that lures you (physically, away). And start doing the other thing.
    Now there will be a voice from our mind talking about why the obsessive behaviour is probably not bad for you. But just don’t listen to it. If you try to argue, almost always only that voice will win. (It has biological reasons: There is a neurotransmitter called dopamine in our brain which is related with the pleasure system. It is designed in such a way that whenever we get a pleasure, it is released, and whenever it is released we desire to have pleasure. Read more)

    Due to this dopamine effect, the obsessions that have already been with you for a long time cannot be uprooted with anything I have discussed above.

    But fortunately I have found a cure for dopamine.
    Just like any other hormone, the effects of dopamine don’t last more than a few minutes. So, the moment you feel like doing something you don’t want yourself to do, tell yourself that you are ready for the obsessive behaviour (Am I telling the opposite? no! wait, read it completely). Then borrow a little time from your obsession. Think of how dopamine is working. Think of why you feel like doing that. And just sit in silence for a few minutes. And by that time dopamine will have failed to affect. You will slowly be thinking more impartially. And you will at last decide not to sway towards the obsession.

    Bear in mind that fighting dopamine is difficult. But it is not impossible. And once you win this battle, you will certainly be rewarded by a stronger will.

    Tell me whether this has worked for you after trying out.

  • How to Make Resolutions and Keep Them

    We make a lot of resolutions. And we break all of them.
    Can you tell out loud at least one resolution that you’ve kept (If yes, the comments section is open and waiting for you )
    By the time you rack your brains to find one such resolution, I bet you’ll have found out ten resolutions you haven’t kept.

    Why do we make resolutions and break them?

    The reason is that we don’t make proper resolutions. When you make a resolution properly not only does you keep it, you will most probably end up building on the resolution. What makes a proper resolution different from an improper one?

    • Proper resolutions are made when they are least required.  Most people resolve to do things better just after doing the worst. If you’re a student you will decide to start learning daily only when you do your examinations very bad.
      But if you make that resolution during holidays, then it’s a proper resolution.
    • Proper resolutions come from your heart, not from someone else’s. That is why most new year resolutions fail. On the new year eve, everyone is making resolutions. So, you too does and not because you want it from your heart.
      Proper resolutions are made during moments of solitude, when no one is around, and you are talking with yourself. You ask yourself who you are and who you want to be. Then you resolve to be that soul which you always wanted to be.
    • Proper resolutions are not postponed for the next day. Most probably you would have done this. You resolve to stop watching TV, not from today, but from tomorrow. Today is the last day and you go on breaking resolution today thinking that you will keep it tomorrow. The rest I need not tell.
      But when you make a proper resolution, you begin this moment. The moment you resolve you begin realising the resolution. You do not postpone it for another hour.
    • Proper resolutions are well planned.
      You just resolve to do something. You will fail.
      But you plan it in detail, how to do, what to do, when to do, for how long, where to do… A proper resolution is so well planned that the person who makes it knows exactly what he means to do.
    • Proper resolutions are properly motivated. 

     Think like you want to make a new resolution, right now? One which you have been making and breaking. Let us start together.

    1. What is it?
      Think of it. Think of why you need to do it. Think of how you can do it.
      Now clear some time in your daily schedule, and keep a time for your new habit. (If you had resolved to lose a bad habit then fill the time you used for it earlier, for something else. Read my post on getting rid of obsessions)
      Of course when you decide to do something new you will have to devote lesser time to something else. For example if you decide to exercise, you will naturally need 30 minutes to warm-up, exercise, and cool down. Your day can’t go as long as 24 hours and 30 minutes. The only thing you can do is to cut short something you do daily by 30 minutes. Be it sleeping. Be it blogging. Be it chatting. You’ll have to cut something short.

    2. Get going
      You’ve decided. Now start doing. If you can do it now, do it right now. (Of course after finished reading the next few tips). If you need a prop, get one as quickly as possible.
      But that is not enough. As I told, you need to be motivated so as to keep the momentum. So, how do you get motivated?
      Here is the most important thing to remember
      The motivation that you create by yourself won’t last long. It will run out as soon as you meet the first obstacle. So, we need a never ending source of motivation. For this, I’ve found two extremely useful sources.
      1. The opposite sex:
        If you’re a boy, think of impressing girls through what you have resolved to do. If you have started exercising, think of how having an attractive body can help you in winning their hearts.
        Not only that, have a crush on the best girl around you. By the best girl I mean the girl whom everybody wants to be a friend of. Now how can you make her feel for you? Keep those resolutions. Cultivate those enviable qualities, like an attractive body, or sharp intelligence, or sweet voice. Just exhibit those when you get a chance.
      2. Lie:
        Lie to your friends that you have already achieved your resolution. Not to go straight to him and tell “I have done this”, but during conversations distantly related to your resolution, just put in your resolution and ‘how you achieved it’. If you lie to someone, and if you are not a big fat liar, you would probably want to make that lie a truth. And you will actually keep the resolution. Got me?
      3. Just tell others:
        Now if you don’t want to lie, you can just tell people that you’ve made such and such resolution. Only that it would be a little less effective. Still, when you tell others about your resolution make sure that you tell them in a tone of confidence or over-confidence. Tell them that you are going to do it and you are going to show them the results. Otherwise you will slip back.

    3. Keep the momentum
      So, you are properly motivated, and strictly keeping your resolution. Now after a week or a month, just do a review. See how much your muscles have grown, how good you can sing, how good you are with people,…
      If you are on the right track, the results will possibly be what you expected. And those results will in turn motivate you to keep doing things.
      Don’t worry if you don’t find any results. Think of what you could have missed, where you could have gone wrong. Rectify those errors. And start from step 1.

    If these steps do not work for you, there is one last resort I would recommend you – similar minded people. Find online groups doing what you intend to do. Hear from people who have already done it.  And you will probably know why you’ve been failing.

    So, happy resolving. (OK! It’s over, now you can start from step 1, what is it?)

  • The Secret to (Infinite) Happiness

    Everyone knows how to be happy when it’s party time. But how to be happy when s*it is happening to you?

    Being happy always, in everything that’s happening in your life, even when tears are rolling down your cheeks, even when you’re wilting with pain, even when you’ve failed at the most important tasks… Yes, that’s possible, and that is what I call infinite happiness (This is not infinite bliss that is supposed to be coming after God realization)

    You needn’t be successful for being happy. Because unlike success happiness is within you. You decide whether you are happy or not. There is no external condition necessary for happiness. When it comes to being happy you’re the boss. No matter what the world showers upon you, your state of mind is what you decide. If you decide to be unhappy even when you are having everything that an average man needs to be happy, then you will be unhappy. And if you decide to be happy when all the odds are against you, if you decide to smile at your enemies, if you decide to laugh out loud when the worst is happening to you, you will be happy. Happy or not, you decide.

    The first step for being so is to know the mechanism of happiness.
    What brings about happiness?

    As Will Smith says in The Pursuit of Happyness (or as he should have said) “When you are pursuing happiness, you will never be happy. To be happy you must leave worrying about being happy and start enjoying life.

    Did you say enjoying life?
    Yes. Enjoy life. Enjoy failure. Enjoy success. Enjoy doing nothing. Enjoy doing things. Enjoy eating. Enjoy sleeping. Enjoy exercising. Enjoy reading. Enjoy life.
    And how?

    The courtesy of the following idea goes to ancient Indian philosophy.
    Who are you? Are you your hands or legs? or your heart or brain? or your body? Or are you your mind? Are you any of these? If you think you are your body or your mind, then you will be unhappy when there is some sorrow to any of these – your mind or your body. And it’s easy for your body and mind to get hurt. Now, here’s where it gets interesting. Think of yourselves as someone else, a consciousness that controls your mind and body. Think of you as someone who sits at the back of your head and monitors the thoughts in your mind and the movements of your limbs. Don’t associate yourself with your mind or body. Dissociate yourself from them. Just be a witness. A witness of your actions. Of your thoughts.
    When you are reading, it is not YOU that is reading, it is your mind that is reading with the help of your eyes.
    When you are getting angry, YOU are not getting angry, it is your mind that is getting angry.
    When you are exercising, YOU are not exercising, it is your body that is exercising.


    Keep yourself out of everything. Let your body and mind do things. They are your servants. You are their master, sitting happily in a chair and enjoying the little mistakes that your servants – body and mind – do.

    And when you are not your body or mind, nothing in this world can hurt you. Am I right? Things in this world can only hurt either your mind or your body or both. But they can never touch you. Because you are not your body or mind.

    So, watch your thoughts. Watch your actions. Watch how your actions affect others. Watch how your actions affecting others in turn affect your thoughts. Watch how your actions affect their thoughts. Watch how they react. Watch how you fail. Watch how you succeed. Watch how you eat. Watch how you wash. Watch how life goes on. Be a witness to everything. Don’t involve yourself in anything (Now, your body and mind can involve in anything, but YOU won’t be invoved, you know how.)

    And then you will reach a state where you can manipulate your mind and body as you wish. You tell the mind to be happy and it will be happy. You tell the body to be strong and it will be strong. You decide how your mind and body must be. This state of mind:

    This state where you actively screen yourself, see your thoughts, and feel your actions; this state which is sometimes called “living in the present” or “being present minded”; this state where you feel no excitement and no worry but just a serene calmness; this state is the secret to infinite happiness.

    Now go, be happy, and spread beauty in the world. Just remember “you are beyond your body and mind”

    _________________
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  • Life Actually is “Trying to Perfect the World Around”


    Wherever you live, whatever you are, you’re never living in a perfect world. One or the other, there will be defects in the system of which you are a part of.

    If you’re a doctor think of uninspired staff, inadequate facilities…
    If you’re a teacher think of lazy children, poor environment…
    If you’re a student think of crazy teachers, small school, small playground…
    If you’re working in an office think of office politics, gossips…
    If you’re a politician think of dirty colleagues, baseless allegations…

    Yeah, in whichever field I choose, I can find imperfections, because after all, the world can never be perfect.

    So, how do we define life in this imperfect world. Life is nothing but constantly trying to perfect the world around us.
    Try and fail. Try and win. Try and half win, half lose. But try. Try to change your world, and you will gradually learn the art of living happily and peacefully.

    How?

    You are going to perfect the system. You can’t do it alone. So you ask for help. You organize. You team up with people. You get to know about their feelings. You understand the way others think. You may get enemies, but more importantly you will get friends (and if you don’t get any, there is something wrong with you or your asking). Convince people to be a part of your team.

    And when you have a team ready?
    Start the revolution. Change the ways. The old ways were made by your predecessors, as THEY like. You are a different generation, a different group. Your thoughts and emotions and world have changed. And the ways too need to change. You needn’t change yourself to suit the old ways, you can change the ways to suit the new you.

    So, you and your team change the world around you. And you strive for perfection. Constantly you do so. Until at last you will call it a day one day. And on that day you will know that you LIVED your life.

    “There is nothing in this world that a small group of inspired men cannot do”

  • Do You Think Everything Happened By Chance?

    This is the question which has shaken my base of atheism. And this is also the question which clearly demarcates atheists from theists.

    The Big Bang, Evolution, Quantum Mechanics, Conservation of Energy…
    Agreed. Everything is right.
    But do you think that all these happens by chance?


    Would you be feeling better attributing a designer to all these, or thinking that it all happened by chance?

    This question has shook me in the last few months. I don’t know where I heard it from, for I always thought it was like “The Human Brain is very very complex, so don’t you think someone should have made it that way?” But when the term ‘chance’ was involved my mind started conflicting with itself.

    For everything else in this physical world, we know the cause, the reason. An apple falls to earth, it is the gravity. Drinking water is essential, water serves various purposes in the body. Rain, evaporation and condensation. War, greed of power.

    For everything else, we either know the cause, or we are eager to know it.

    But for the cause of “everything”, we (I mean the atheists) don’t know and we don’t care.
    We know it all started from the Big Bang. But we don’t know what was before it.
    We know it all came from a single cell. But we don’t know why it is evolving.
    We know the electrons carry a charge, and protons yet another. But we don’t know how their charges are different.

    And we attribute it all to chance. “It so happened.” “It is such. “

    Why? We never said an apple fall to earth because it is such. We never said it rains because it rains. We never said people wage war because people like war.

    But we say that “evolution happens”, “there is no time before Big Bang”, “protons carry positive charge”. We say it but we don’t know the reason.

    Why are we partial? For everything else, we are ready to find a reason, but regarding creation, we like to answer that it all happened by chance. Isn’t that double standards?

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    P.S. : But the question “Who created God” still exists. And that is why I remain an atheist.
    “OMG! Will we ever reach an answer?”

  • Beat That Voice Inside You Which Tells You – “You Can’t”

    Will Smith says in an interview how running and reading become the keys to life.


    Well, it is a video worth watch.

    Now, I’ve got something to add on to this part of his interview. On why running he said the following:

    When you get on the treadmill you deprive yourself of oxygen. What kind of person you are will come out very, very quickly. You’re either the type of person who will say you’re going to run three miles or you stop the treadmill at 2.94 and you hit it and you call 2.94 3 miles, or you get off after a mile, or you’re the type of person that runs hard through the finish line and when you get to 3.0 you realize, ‘God, I could really do 5,’ and you go ahead and do two more. And that little person talks to you and says, ‘Man, do you feel our knee? We should stop. I feel we should stop ourselves right now. This is not healthy anymore.’ When you learn to get command over that person on that treadmill, you learn to get command over that person in your life.

    And this is something really true. There IS a voice which talks to you always. And it talks to you more, when you are doing something long and grueling (like the 24 question mathematics assignment which I just finished doing).
    The moment we start talking with that voice, our day is ruined, we are not going to finish what we started. We’re going to be stranded halfway through. We know we mustn’t have, yet we can’t resist it. That is the power of this voice.

    It is a wonder. You are doing something you should be doing, and suddenly out of thin air you get thousands of reasons why you shouldn’t be doing that thing. And you know what, sometimes it is not the bad things that are luring you from doing something you need to, but the good things.Yes. For, whenever I think of completing my assignments, I feel like putting a post in my blog, or exercising the whole body, or solving a sudoku puzzle, or reading the newspaper, just not doing my assignment!

    And how do we escape?

    Avoid the voice.
    Ignore the voice.
    Accept whatever the voice says to be true, but tell it that you really have to do this thing right now.
    Just concentrate on what you’re doing. Don’t give a chance for that voice to be heard.
    Just forget about answering whether you could be doing something better.
    Just Live in the Task.

  • My Dream Hospital cum Mini City – “Live Longer” or “Freedom Centre”

    This is another of the things I am going to do in the future.
    Of course I will become a doctor. Then, I will start a hospital. This hospital will not be like ordinary hospitals. Ordinary hospitals are designed in such a way as to just get the patient out of ailment. But my “Freedom Center” will not just do that. We will make sure that the patient has a totally new lifestyle by the time he leaves “Freedom Center”. Such that he will never have to visit here again.
    In the “Live Longer” section, we will also have a gym, ( a swimming pool, ) a library, and a forum for people and especially youngsters to think and talk about what they like and need.
    We will have music running continuously in the background everywhere inside the Freedom Center.

    Yeah, and people will love to be inside the Mini City. And people will live longer. And they will get freedom from the sorrows of life.

  • How a Pen and a Pad can Save You a Lot of Time and Mind

    There is scarcely anyone unaware of the ultimate to do list manager. It is not a software. It is not a web based app. It is the age old, evergreen, ultimate productivity tool called ‘pen and paper’.
    Whereas it is paper that is used usually, I would suggest using a stack of small rectangular papers, single lined and bound using a clip – a reminder pad.
    Now the advantages of actually writing down your tasks and then crossing it off one by one over any software are that:

    1. There is unparallell functionality (including handwriting recognition and instant switching of font, size, style, etc)
    2. Extreme portability: A standard reminder pad is designed so as to exactly fit into your pocket.
    3. Quick, lightning quick: No booting required, no saving, no backing up.
    4. Simple: Take any web based app, you will have to log in to access your tasks and that is an added disadvantage.

    Well, once you’ve started using it, you will find that unlike when you start with the web based apps or any software, you don’t give up writing your tasks after the initial enthusiasm ends up. It’s such a simple yet effective tool that you’ll soon get addicted to it.
    And what more, you’ll soon be able to live in the present.