We have a lot of people in our life, who supported us, uplifted our spirits, guided us, showed us the right way, scolded us when required.

We all need motivation for sure.

Outside motivation is also important. Outside motivation does not mean that someone must come in person and motivate you to achieve your goals. Outside motivation can also come from a very simple line from one of your mentors.

Outside motivation can also come in form of a suggestion or a talk. Almost everyone in this world even the people who were first-time inventors was inspired by something or someone and that’s outside motivation or you can say external motivation.

Then why everyone is not successful?

Your next question can be that there is no dearth of external motivation in today’s world then why people are not getting success.

Success has got many ingredients. There are many factors on which the success of an individual depends and external motivation is just one of them.

Not everyone applies the inspiration they get in a consistent manner.

Some of them just get motivated temporarily. After external motivation, the intrinsic motivation helps in cruising forward and that comes from your interest in a particular area or the topic.

If you don’t have that intrinsic motivation, no external push can get you going.

All the best. God bless you

❤️ Neeraj Arora

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No matter you are a student or a working professional or an entrepreneur or a full-time homemaker it will equally important for all.

Here are a few things that can add to make your morning routine better. (This my almost my personal routine). It is not a one -size fits all kind of thing, you can have your own depending upon your needs.

Your night routine.

Yes, your night routine has a great impact on your morning routine. Fixing a sleeping time will help for sure. It is ok to breach that time once in a while but there must be a time that is fixed for all other regular days.

Before you go to sleep, you can plan a broad strategy for the next day, just write the broad goals or targets for the next day, don’t go into the details. You must know what your next day looks like.

At this time you can also review the performance of your current day.

It is very important to measure your performance on daily basis.

If you don't measure it, you can't optimise it - Sachin Bansal

Sleeping Hours

A great sleep leads to great mornings. Sleep for at least 7 hours. You will wake up with fresh energy. Unnecessary compromising on sleep is not a sustainable practice.

Morning Motivators

These are cues or things that help you get out of bed in a good mood. For me, music works. I wake up and play some of my favourite songs and this keeps me going. Me and Chikoo (My younger daughter) enjoy this part of the morning together.

Sip-in Something

Luke-warm water is the best, this is the first thing I consume after I wake up and after that, I go for a coffee (no milk, no sugar), I prepare this myself and this again helps me get charged up.

Some physical activity

Either with my coffee or sometimes after finishing it I Stretch and do some basic workout, it lasts for 15 to 30 minutes depending upon my feelings at that time, Here again, my trusted partners are music and chikoo. In between this stretching cum workout session I do dance with chikoo.

Mindfulness

Practice mindfulness for atleast 5 minutes. Sit-down focus on your breath and don’t try to fight with your thoughts just let them flow.

The last-step

Taking a quick shower gives you all the freshness you are looking for the entire day.

I hope this will help you in making your morning better.

Feel free to share any doubts, thoughts or feedback in the comment below.

All the best. God bless you!

❤️ Neeraj Arora

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• start small.

• be consistent.

• make it big.

Small Milate jao Large Banate jao

All the best.

What is the difference between these two days?

Why does it happen, that end of some days is extremely satisfying and in some cases, it feels like a never-ending lull.

The difference is somehow what we do during the day when he had time.

If we plan our day properly and execute even 80 to 90% of it, we feel satisfied.

When we go without goals and execute only what comes in our way that leads to dissatisfaction and demotivation at the end of the day.

Can’t we take a break of a day or two from our work?

Yes, you can and you should. But don’t take forced breaks.

What are forced breaks?

When you don’t need a break and you just take it only for the heck of it. We all are different, we all have different working styles, conditions and zeal towards what we are working on. I might feel like taking a break once a month, for you it might be once every week. When we go on forced break, at the end of the break we feel that it was not really required and regret creeps in. So don’t take forced breaks.

Points to be taken care of

Almost in all my posts, talks and write-ups, you will find one thing in common. Take care of physical and mental health. Sometimes, we just confuse taking care of health with taking a break. You can do regular work-out and meditation or other activities, which will add value for your health with your regular work.

Planning your day is extremely important.

• Plan your day in written format.

• Jot down the core tasks to be undertaken.

• Be very specific and crisp about what are things you want to achieve today

• Assign times.

What if I was not able to work on my plan?

It is totally ok. Just reflect on it (Again do it in written format), plan the next day accordingly.

What to do on the days you are taking breaks?

• Don’t just sit on the couch and binge-watch series(s)

• Spend time with family and friends.

• Do something which is completely different from your work

  • You can cook, dance, sing, draw, play board games, go for a walk, or do whatever you enjoy other than your work, go for

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.” - Margaret Thatcher

Doing nothing and not being aware of it causes demotivation and makes you dull. On the other hand, planning your day and working on it gives you immense satisfaction and make you feel contented.

Neeraj Arora

सीखते रहे, क्यूँकि सीखना बंद तो जीतना बंद

We are living in a world of information overload and most of the information we consume is not at all relevant for us.

Just sit down for a while and make a note of what is the most important activity for you in this particular phase of your life and then list out what you actually need to do that activity.

You will find that only a few things are required to do that activity or only a few things contribute to your core activity. The rest of the things are just creating problems and consuming your time unnecessarily.

Before you say yes or you get involved in a particular activity just ask yourself whether it will contribute to the goals that really matter for you or not.

Learn to PRIORITISE.

It is not just the humongous amount of information we are consuming unnecessarily, we are also letting others impose their opinion on us or even force us to give our opinion even if it is not required at all.

We all have to choose deliberately and purposefully where we need to focus, otherwise, we are leaving our mind on autopilot mode and it will definitely be lured by things that are not going to contribute anything to our life goals.

Rather than spending time on unnecessary information and activity, spend some time with yourself. Start learning about your strengths and weaknesses.

“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible – Pablo Picasso“

Start practising solitude.

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सीखते रहे, क्यूँकि सीखना बंद तो जीतना बंद

• Start your day with 20 to 30 minutes of workout. 

• Do it for your entire life. (Skip when not well etc)

• You will start feeling the difference within 30 days.

How to do it?

• Make no excuses for “TIME NAHI HAI”

• Don’t fall for “if only” syndrome. If only I had better shoes, a better health tracking device, a better place

• Just pick your mat and then see the magic.

• Music helps (but don’t make unavailability as an excuse)

• Show up every day.

• Pat yourself after work-out.

• After a good session record your feelings (writing, audio, video)

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Seekhna Band To Jeetna Band

- Uncertainty comes from two factors.
- The first is future events that cannot be predicted by anyone
- The second is our ignorance/inability to see the obvious.

Try to minimise the second one, there are high chances you will succeed in achieving your goals.

“Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing” - Warren Buffet.

Have a great day.

I was born in 1986. I was used to waiting for my favourite serial for one week. I used to be there at the time it was to be telecasted; otherwise, I could have missed it. Even when “CABLE TV” era started, we were used to see TV serial at a particular time.

Coming to the current situation, we can watch whatever we want, whenever we want and wherever we want. We deliberately don’t watch a single episode; we go for a binge-watch.

We want immediate gratification in everything. Almost in everything. We post pictures and videos, and we keep pulling down to refresh the screen to see the number of likes and comments.

We have amazon which delivers the very next day; we have dominos which delivers in 30 minutes (Otherwise it is free.)

We want what we want, and we want it now.

This is somewhere becoming the root cause of many problems in our life. We have almost forgotten how to delay gratification and enjoy the journey. This “IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION” leads us to FOMO – Fear of Missing out, which ultimately leads to decisions taken in haste.

Would love to know your views, incidents and examples related to same. Will try to write the solution of the same in the upcoming write-ups.

Regards

Neeraj Arora

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