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One of the hardest things to do is to separate your work and the effort that you put in from the results. An actor doesn’t control the movie around them. They don’t control what the other actors do. They don’t control the marketing budget. They don’t control the distribution. They could do the role of a lifetime, but the director or editor could mess it up in post-production. If your happiness with your job and your career is dependent on how the movie does at the box office or how the critics respond to your role, you have placed your happiness in the hands of other people, and that’s a recipe for profound disappointment. – Ryan Holiday, The Unmistakable Creative

I’m past 30 years of age and in all these many years, off of many things I’ve been grateful to learn; one of them is to understand (and on-time) the leverage of the right mindset.

“Mindset is an “established set of attitudes, esp. regarded as typical of a particular group’s social or cultural values; the outlook, philosophy, or values of a person; (now also more generally) frame of mind, attitude, disposition.”^[1] A mindset may also arise from a person’s world view or philosophy of life.”

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Now, if you dig further, you’d want to learn some more about Fixed and Growth mindset by Carol Dweck where in her book “Mindset”, she writes, “success comes from having the right mindset rather than intelligence, talent or education“. Debatable? Yes. But I’m not here to talk you about all that. I am no expert, not even close.

I’m here to share how a simple shift of mindsets can give us a completely different perspective and chances are it might as well give us a different life in the long run.

For example:

Awwwwhhh…I have to go to work or I get to go to work.

I’m not hurt or I’m healing.

I’m not losing or I’m learning.

I’m not anxious or I’m thrilled.

I’m not rejected or I’m redirected.

You see it’s inevitable and It’s beyond our scope of control to stop negative things from happening to us and essentially to stop negative thoughts from swelling up our brain.

Plus, despite, … despite all that, fighting back negative mindset makes them even harder if not done the right way.

Which is why, my two cents here, “Have right stuff in to get the right stuff out.”

Namaste.

Our actions may be impeded . . . but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

~ Marcus Aurelius

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For the last two days I had been occupied in a small treasure hunt.

I was preparing the introductory slides for Sauravi, and as I was adding the pieces and connecting the dots, I had to navigate through tons and tons of old photographs.

Well, I tell you, deliberately digging the past has its perks.

I feel more grateful that things are better today than it was before.

I feel I had been through so much that I can cry and still feel the warmth of perpetual joy.

I feel all the uncertainties and all the terrible shits I’ve been through gave me a unique skill to camouflage my colors; gave me skills to bend my ways as situation unpacked.

Those photographs also had me thinking about that one time when I went through a jungle of monumental panic attacks and heart pacing anxiety.

But then I made it anyway.

We all will.

Namaste.

Grateful ~ author

I almost disappeared for a month from Musicpervs. Not that I have not admitted it before that I don’t promise anymore that I’d post a post every Thursday. Because only after coming to the US, my life completely switched gear from a known-comfortable mode to the strange-survival one. And, I had to juggle many priorities balls. I still do.

For instance, in the last one month or so; so so much have happened. So, so many things have occurred. Let’s scratch the surface here and there. Wrapping up on-campus courses. DE Midterm Exam. Job Interviews. Interview Preparations. Incomprehensible fatigue and mental vomits. Landing offers. Accepting one. Moving to San Francisco. Walking like crazy looking for apartment after apartment. Exploring this awesome city. Investing time and energy on Marketplace. Arranging and adding basic stuffs in the apartment and so so much more.

Most definitely, so much happened!

The most important thing for me personally, however —

is I enjoyed each moment of every moment that passed the time they were passing.

is I was nervous but nervous for the right mission.

is I was afraid but afraid of the right adventure.

Every freaking thing was worth it. Perhaps, someday I’ll write in length about this mixed-bag experience on this anew city.

Namaste!

It makes sense.

Don’t gift flowers.

Perhaps, a pot with a flower will do.

Namaste.