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.
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.
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.
We are never prepared for everything that would happen to us and everything that would not.
~ Musicpervs
David Kushner – Daylight
The spot I’m in, right very now is not new to me. I’ve lived on edges before. I’ve been in uncomfortable situations before. Well, it won’t be wrong to say that this time I feel I have got thick skin to be afraid of outcomes that are out of my hands; to have fear out of expectancies.
But, It is also not that I wouldn’t love to feast on plenty of wholesome notes that’d help me keep my mind straight, focused, resilient, unafraid, undeterred. I’ve consolidated some of them for you as well. Have a wonderful day
What they did to you was not your fault.
You make the world a better place.
Keep shining bright, for the world needs your light.
I hope you know how loved you are.
There are no mistakes, only lessons…
Don’t forget why you started.
Happiness isn’t out there, it lies within you ..
Life is too short to spend it battling with yourself…
Whatever you’re going through right now, trust me, it will get better.
You didn’t change.., you evolved.
You are a perfect being 🙂
Just in case anyone hasn’t told you today. YOU MATTER 🙂
You still haven’t met all the people who are going to love you.
Someone out there feels better because you exist 🙂
Congratulations for all the silent Battles you’ve overcome 🙂
You still have plenty of time to figure things out …
Trust your Intuition …
The Universe made you uncomfortable so that you could grow ..
Go for it. Rejection you will forget, but a missed opportunity, you may regret forever …
Keep on shining your light, the world needs it 🙂
You already have everything you need …
Love the process, Without knowing the outcome 🙂
What if it worked out better than you ever expected?
Regardless of what’s happening, the world is beautiful … just like you are!
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
Seneca
Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth
An uncle died this week. Purshottam Shrestha.
Took me back to one of those dark places. Again.
A place where tomorrow is not promised.
A place where the best you can say; a place where the wise thing to acknowledge is that no matter how brutal the day was — you still had the day regardless.
With the news, came the wave of ‘Urgencies’ rushing to the shore.
There’s no better time than today.
There’s no best day than this day.
Pritchett wisely put it,
Make your move before you’re ready!
I tell you where big dreams go to die.
They go to the Planning Place.
Getting ready place.
Ahh..
Preparing myself .. and it’s the biggest con job we work on ourselves.
There are so many bones in that Graveyard where people … It’s always something; There’s always going to be set of reasons to wait.
When you’re going to take the risk?
I hope my drive and aspirations are stagnant, static, saturated and still.
I hope I keep believing that life barely is a synchronous series of episodes and events but rather an open, white, empty canvas with welcoming un-expected brush stokes from no one but ourselves. Looking for ways to write it’s own meaning albeit not necessarily only the meaningful ones necessarily. But ephemerally. But, writing it anyway.
I hope I get tired but complain less.
I hope the man in me keeps believing, keeps saying, keeps encouraging me to live the best version of my life!
There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
Ryan Holiday
Cigarettes – David Kushner
We all love stories. Don’t we?
In the like pretext, rarely have I met a person who doesn’t like movies.
For, movies move many stories and we can’t help but be captivated by their awe.
Personally, I believe stories have immense power.
We all ought to ‘authentically’ put one. Take it as one of our moral obligation.
Not only the highlight reality over social media. Not only the sugar. Not only the cream.
But both good and bad.
I was talking to my girlfriend about it as she’d ask why do you always have this strong urge to tickle the terrible days of the past; emphasize on the contrast you have with the present?
I said, i only tell stories. It’s upto the readers how they’d want to look at it.
I don’t have grip over their narrative and rightly so.
Philosophy gives a way to life. Don’t let it come in a way of trying to live a gleeful life. Balance.
~ Musicpervs
Alex Yurkiv, Thelma Costolo – Take Me to the River (I Will Swim)
Couple housekeeping: Paid off my student debt. New plans on the way. Dinner date after a while.
Over dinner date this evening, I and my girlfriend talked about trodding the path of lifeline with the end in mind.
I went in to explain her that either of us is going to outlive the other — only if we were not to get into an unfortunate, unimaginable accident together. Touchwood.
I also confronted her that secretly, I do enjoy her getting pissed off at me, for at least she has me who she can trust to vent off at, to get angry at and know things will fall back to normal when things have cooled off.
I told her we ought to learn to not take the other for granted and cherish our partnership; our moments of togetherness as well as the times we’d separate with kindness, care and utter delicacy.
I told her that I want to see and experience world, different culture, different stories. She shared all she wants in life is not to be bothered by anybody and live rest of her lives without pressure.
I also went on to tell her, that fundamentally all we’d ever crave for is one clean, full, deep breathe of fresh air, a food on the table, and few we love around us. I told her I don’t really see the point of being angry, being dissatisfied, even chasing things. Exception: Trying to be better than yesterday is a must.
In the due course, we clinked on our choices of red wine. Ate the spanish dishes we had never tried before. Bitched and buried one or two on our colorful, intense conversation. Most definitely savored the San Franciscan, Spanish culinary experience at ‘Coqueta SF’ to the fullest. Rode the Bay Wheel together, laughed a lot, lived a little more.
