LESS is MORE

Lesser tv inches definitely means more wall space, lesser furniture more room, lesser stress more calm, lesser excesses more healthy lifestyle…and i can go on and on. And yet in our culture obsessed with more it is increasingly difficult to think about less. In a lifestyle constantly obsessed with upgrading to the latest iteration of what you possess, can we think about downgrading?

Alas if we had MORE time, we could have perhaps, or can we do it with LESS?

Radically honest!

To be honest with you this isn't going to be easy.

It actually means being honest in every moment, with everybody, in any situation.

That means no white lies, grey lies or any black or blue lies, it means nothing but the truth and the whole truth, every time, all the time.

Difficult, crazy, strange, call it anything but definitely not impossible, as we have some amazing people who chose this path and the fate of nations depended on their radical decision to be honest, no matter what!

Try it for an hour, for a day and you'll see for yourself that it definitely changes the world around you.

Your Givelist

Yep its a list you make up with stuff you'd like to give to make somebody else's wish come true.

Check your room, your house, your cupboard, your closet, get a list of all the things that you'd like to giveaway. Put it on your blog, make it your facebook status update, twitter it, take a printout and put it up on your office board or just put it outside your house.

Find people whom you can bless with these things. Ask people if they need the stuff you can give. Search and don't stop until your list is finished.


Repeat as necessary.

Its fun. Trust me on this.

Get it done at any cost!

really? any cost?
even if it means your values? (if they matter that is!)
even if it means priority over loved ones?
even if it means pushing your body to extreme limits?

is it worth the cost? are we looking at the compounded effects of that cost years into the future? will the cost be worth it then?

The next time someone orders you to get it done at any cost, tell them that the compounded cost of that cost does not make it a wise investment today to spend that much on what you ask me to do! so sorry, but i can get it done at a lesser cost!

Do it for free

Yep. Your best game/ talent / art / expression, for free. absolutely nothing in the bargain.

some of the things that we are most amazed today started out with people just giving their awesomeness for free, think inventors, musicians, teachers....its not the prize but the thrill of giving their best thats changed the way we see our world today.

It's high time we got our act together and gave our best for free! And once you've started the freebie thingy, spin it with more freebies, then switch the room, the audience, the situation, and finally your act!

* you can find more of the above stuff at the goodness manifesto.

Hear what you see!

More proof that we don't actually hear all that is said, and its our brain once again playing spoilsport with our senses. Come to think of it our brains are smarter than we are and that is good, just imagine that you had to consciously get the heart to pump blood, the kidney to purify it while deciding to let air into your lungs while simultaneously managing another 10 things atleast! Phew!

But the brain increasingly relies on past information, visual and sensory clues, often at times relying on the past even at the cost of ignoring current real time info just to make a faster decision. 

Time to tame the brain, I guess!

More on the above clip here.

Facebook, We are done!

It has been a long journey together, but finally managed to let go of Facebook (well almost, you can still find me on a page here).

 Which brings us to an important question, do we have stuff that we hold on to that we cannot let go off?

Is it because?

• It is/was/will be something precious.
• Have unlimited storage (physical/ mental/ psychological/ in the cloud).
• The process of acquisition was enchanting/ demanding/ painful/ disturbing.
• Too lazy to bother.
• Costly to make the decision to let go.
• Isn't worth the cost to make the decision to let go.
• Love to be in the comfort label that it puts me in (victim/ controller/ stoic / martyr / hero)

Now would be a great time to find out those things/ situations / people / feelings  and decide...to hold on or let go?

The Hiatus is over!

Back again. soon. like now. in 5 min.

#BTD Are you the complainee?

Have we ever stopped to think about the times that we are the complainee?(the one who is complained about :) )  At work, on the road, at home, by our friends, coworkers, enemies?  Kinda changes the perspective of why we complain, doesn't it? Which brings us to the quintessential question, why do people complain anyway?

Good Intentions. Bad Directions.

And it happened again. Walked 2.5 kms extra off course because a good soul chose to help me by giving wrong directions!

Why do we do this all the time? Is it because we can help but help? or because we cant afford not to know the answer and come off as ignorant? Or is it because our egos do not let us politely say that we dont know? or is it our brains trying to guess by approximating the location of landmark based on past references with the said location that we might have heard/seen/felt/thought?

P.S. : You must be asking me, Why didn't you just use google maps?