There’s so much going on in my life. I don’t even know where to begin.
And in this chaos, it feels getting off of social media grid (especially facebook and instagram) is one of the best thing I have done for myself to really try to organize my life around priorities that are priorities indeed.
I still have to work on my ‘X’ and ‘Chess’ consumption though.
Dakota over the phone exclaimed with deep sigh, “Patience, Bijay!”
Dakota is my Point-of-contact recruiter from my current consulting company Mitchell Martin Inc. He’s working around getting interviews based off of my profile as my contract with Bank of America is coming to an end.
On the side, and after a long gap, I’ve been preparing for the interviews that are about to come my way. I really hope I get them. I crack them. I suffer-enjoy through them while I fall in love with the process. I hope I get the job I always wanted. Patience!
They say the Job market these days is dry. I hope they’re wrong … although it seems like so. That’s why ‘Patience’.
Despite.
As Naval Ravikant rightly said, “Impatient with action, patient with results.”
Let’s be impatient the right way for the right reason.
The art of thinking well isn’t easy, but it’s essential. And doing it well is a matter of essentialism—cutting out the extraneous, corralling the negative, focusing on the constructive instead of the consuming.
Ryan Holiday
Tu Hai Kahan (feat. ZAYN) – AUR
I look around.
I see people and I wonder —
It would be ridiculously amazing to be able to read the pages of their life;
to be able to read their mind; to be able to know then inside-out without judgement.
I believe this strong urge is born out of urge to step away from the ‘reality’ framework, or momentarily shift my darn attention from my-own-self.
Matter of fact, you see, this happens to us all the time and we don’t even realize it.
For instance, say you’re watching a movie or soap series — only to realize you have sub-consciously put yourself in the shoe of the protagonist at play. Your life albeit briefly flows through the timeline and the plots and the scripts of that movie in play.
If you’re in the woods and don’t know where to go, start walking.
Jocko Willink
Blending Colors – Take The Road
I’m starting to believe.
Perhaps the only guarantor of remotely having a life of freedom (whatever that means to you) is to be absolutely disciplined. And mistake not, it’s a journey; it’s a way of life; it’s not a summit; it’s not a destination; it’s a goal in-pursuit.
This week, in the last two days alone for the first time in almost a year plus, I’ve been able to finish listening to two podcast episode consecutively.
The reason why I’m telling you all these stuff is because what I have learned from many of my mentors like the two above, or let’s say the common denominators that all my mentors who’ve done well for themselves and the human community in general have committed and have structured their life around ‘Discipline’.
Which is why for the same reason :-
I want us to embrace, embody and materialize it.
I want us to leverage the potential energy ‘Discipline’ withholds like nectar inside the flowers, like flames on the stones.
Better late than never, I want us to board that spaceship ‘immediately’.
I will slip. We will slip every once in a while but I will persevere; We shall persevere…
Let’s establish or to the least — try to substantiate Discipline as our identity.
Let’s explore together whatever follows, wherever it takes us.
Never in my wildest dream have I ever thought of living the life I am currently living.
Oh, for sure I had dreams of one day making it to the states and doing all the things I wanted to do.
I tell you what I did them all.
And, tell you what — I now have more ambitious aspirations,.. more wider roads to trod, … more bigger dreams to keep me awake at nights .
I don’t know, ,maybe that’s life!
I firmly believe the ‘rest’ must be earned and deserved!
On that note, with all these lucks, and the doors of gratitude opening up for me; with this awe of walking on life’s red carpet in my head, I tend not to fly high on this privilege drug. I seek not to sway away from the roots where I grew. I meditate all the more on the idea of becoming… discovering…
We detest change. We want to avoid it at any cost.
Matter of fact we strongly crave for security. We yearn for easy life.
We desire stable, forever wonderful-world but not at the cost of peace-of-mind and suffering.
However.
What I have also realized is — without stepping into the unknown; without willfully-taking risks, without sacrifices, and without the discomforts and sufferings there’s no stability; there’s no real-progress; there’s no real-growth.
Soon I’ll be bidding bye to Bank of America — my current company.
The first company I worked for in the US.
The company that introduced me to the US tech ecosystem.
The company where I befriended wonderful colleague, understood the depth and the breadth of US banking. Most importantly with Bank of America, I get to kick-off my professional journey here in the US which perhaps once was only a dream.
It’s scary as the day nears before I finally uninstall the VPN application, and get off the Bank of America’s grid, and scour out onto the wilderness from these used-to comforts.
Contrarily.
I also have this wave of excitement and tingling sensations for a new destination and the path that lies ahead.
Roughly 90+% of things we do are mundane. Make most out of that 10% of the real, non-trivial deals.
~Musicpervs
Aerosmith – Dream On
Last Saturday was my 2nd Zumba session.
Never in my life I have imagined myself attending these classes and enjoy the embarrassment of dancing cluelessly with handful of zumba disciples.
Today I passed my California’s Drivers’ License Knowledge Test.
Took 305 github DMV quizes. Couple of flashcards here and there. It took me 6-8 hours of actual grinding but that within a span of 3-4 months. Basically, I was procrastinating.
Nonetheless, I had to show up for the test and for a change of experience, unlike in IOWA, I took an online Knowledge test this time. It was nerve wrecking for sure and 38 out of 46 questions need good answers.
