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  Something you've always wanted, lays by your side now. A relationship you thought you'd never find is possibly happy and healthy. The bed you sleep on every night, what if i told you is going to taken away now? I've been thinking about value recently but more specifically about losing it. How we over value things we don't own, how we take for granted the things we do, and how value is perceived differently by everyone. I fell down this psychology rabbit hole, said hello to the mad hatter and climbed back out and here's what i've come to know. The first thing i understood (and was very relieved to find out) is that, it's definitely not just you . I'm a person who questioned myself thoroughly about why i don't value things as much as i did when i didn't have them in my life. But the fact is, it's basic human nature. Adaptation. Meaning i've lived with it enough in my life that it has just become an everyday thing now. And the reason you v...

I came across a really interesting video Ali Abdaal made in his book club series, where he talks about the book "The motivation myth" by Jeff Haden. It is a really insightful video on the book, which discusses how our idea of motivation, although socially accepted is actually pretty twisted and how motivation is actually a myth. If you want to check out the video and learn why it was so inspiring I'd highly recommend  you see it for yourself.  Ali Abdaaal: Why motivation is a myth Ali talks about the book in three stages. Firstly, he talks about how motivation is not the "spark" (ergo: a myth). Secondly he goes onto talk about how success depends on the process and lastly he talks about why you should try to be a jack of all trades. The idea that motivation is a myth, Jeff Haden tries to sell is that most of us are all under the impression that to do something, you NEED motivation. And what Jeff Haden argues is actually, no, motivation is just a byproduct of pro...

Change. The inevitable. An uncontrollable aspect of life that everyone is forced to deal with. Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual or social. Every second of every day for a lifetime. As Penny says, "the only thing that stays the same is the fact that everything changes". Be it friends, your thoughts, beliefs, nothing stays the same. But if you really think about it, nothing can.   As humans it is quite normal to resist change. Being creatures of habit, we tend to like things the way they are to stay how they are. But the sheer force that is just out of our control can be a frustrating and frightening encounter filled with anger and anxiety. But acceptance, is something new i came across recently. I think we've all accepted change as inescapable and yet it is not easy. But the ability to understand change as it happens and the power to embrace it can be fearful but powerful. As Socrates famously said, "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fi...

  Wilpattu. One of the largest and oldest National parks in Sri-Lanka famous for its villus, natural, sand-rimmed water basins that fill with rainwater. The Leopards have made Wilpattu a world renowned national park and the gorgeous sights of the jungle are one you truly need to witness. After 3 days of intense planning. new friends and some regular safari folk we headed out early morning and had tons of fun on the way. We arrived a little before noon at  Wilpattu tree house hotel  and were greeted with refreshing drinks and an array of options and activities we could do while we stayed for the safari jeeps to arrive. We had an amazing lunch experience surrounded by wildlife and cycled for a while for fun. Afterwards we loaded everything onto the jeeps and headed for the entrance to Wilpattu National park. Our plan was to stay inside the jungle for 2 nights so we had to take food and water along with us inside the forest. After what seemed like a pretty lengthy ...

Procrastination. As much as we love to kick our feet up in the air and avoid getting any work done, sometime or other you'll feel that that was a total waste of time. Delaying or postponing these tasks you know you should get done is really easy nowadays too where there's so many other things you can and would rather do. However, procrastination is nothing new and all of us have just fallen victim. Greek philosophers even had a word for it, "Akrasia" meaning "The state of acting against one's better judgement". Better judgement means choosing to do something you know will be of value to you in the long term over a mindless quick task for a present reward.  Now let's see the tips and tricks i've come across to avoid procrastinating to some extent and get more things done. The 2 minute rule This is a rule mentioned in David Allens book "Getting things done" where he says, if a task takes less than 2 minutes to do, you should just do it wi...

Reading as you've probably heard since you were 5 years old, completes a man. As much as i'd like to call this the most cliche saying since the beginning of time the truth behind it is unavoidable. The more you read, the more you learn and become aware. And the more knowledgeable unquestionably become complete i think. For me a really good book is just a thrilling adventure.  A journey you take with the characters, uncovering plots and the plans, being thrown in the dark only to come across a huge revelation and so much more. The overall structure just sometimes leaves me in teary admiration for the writer. It's just THAT good sometimes. I want to share my own experience with reading in the hope that it inspires someone to read and lets also talk about the benefits of reading and why it's such a good practise. I started reading around the age of 7 or 8 and curling up with a good book with guava was my definition of a good time until i was 16. That's not to say i was...

20. Early adulthood. The stressful middle-child in my book. School days are over. Accepting that is tough. You might not have a sense of direction or a clear path ahead. A learning period, a supposed exciting age with risk and success and failure and sadness. An age to learn the ropes of life better than you did before. What it's like, my thoughts and ideas and how i find it frightening is what i'm trying to figure out for myself through writing.   I turned 20 about 2 months back and it isn't any different to being 19. There is an added sense of figure out what you're going to do with your life but other than that, nothing else really changed. It's not surprising to think that other people will view you the same way after a certain age but i think the one thing that can change is how you view yourself. I've become more aware of how i present myself to the world, using my time for what's important to me and more-so than ever being caught up with the million d...

 In episode 3 of the My first million podcast hosted by Shaan Puri and Sam Parr, Shaan interviews Sam Parr, the founder of the hustle which is a daily email newsletter with a million and a half readers every morning. This episode was in July of 2019 and they are now up to their 133rd episode. Their podcast is centred around business ideas and entrepreneurship. This particular episode is one that i listened to a while back and found very insightful i thought i'd share.  Sam Parr is the founder of the hustle which is a daily newsletter that goes out to almost a million and a half readers every morning. His email newsletter explains news in like 5 minutes very briefly. The way Sam phrases it is "your no bs friend explaining the news to you" which holds up even today. The hustle.co at the time according to Sam was generating 8 figures in revenue and his goal is to get it to a 100 million dollars by 2025. Sam says he earned his first million by buying and selling companies sta...

 The latest episode of On Purpose with Jay Shetty, which is the number one health podcast in the world is an interesting one with special guest Katherine MacNamara. Katherine Grace MacNamara is an American actress who is best known for her role in the teen drama "Shadow hunters" which aired from 2016 to 2019. She was the people's choice female TV star for the year 2018 and was recently cast in the TV series "Arrow" and plays the role of Mia Smoak. She is also cast in the Stephen king mini series "The stand" at the time. She is a very charitable person who in 2017 produced her song "Glass slipper" and donated all the proceedings to the United Nations Girl up program which is incredible. She also raised over 2 million dollars for the Children's mercy hospital in Kansas city (where she grew up) with Selena Gomez. The most surprising for me was when Jay asked her how she managed to graduate high-school at 14 and get a degree in economics by t...