Tag: Yogi Berra

7:17. Home.

The screen time across devices has reached a pandemic level. I am spending more than 18 hours on the phone and the laptop. I need to control it. I am literally addicted to social networking websites and I am scrolling those feeds without thinking. I am not even registering what I am seeing. I am merely moving. I am constantly checking even when I am engaged in other things. Need to get away from that.

Yesterday was good. I met one of the people I care for. I spoke to two more that I care for. And I met the friend that I literally grew up with. Drove around the town (realized how much I love driving) with him and talked about what he could do (realized how much I love thinking about work). Or what we could do together. We went to Theo’s and ate. Realised how much I love good cafes and getting out of the house even though I dont like the food. The concept of someone serving you and you being able to sit and all that is nice. I love them. If you are in Noida and want to eat good continental food or baked things, you have to go eat at Theo’s. At Theo’s I even had Diet Coke but that’s ok. It’s from the next week that I plan to get into action. So that’s cool.

#epiphany just happened. Maybe I dont like spending time at home because I dont have things that bind me at home. You know, relationships. People. Etc. Or may be I dont have the kind of space that I want – physical or personal. Maybe this is why I love the idea of moving from one place to another. Maybe this is why I hate indoors? Need to think.

In other things, saw this tweet where Visa (love this guy’s work and thoughts) says that Morgan wrote 3000+ articles before he became the phenomenal writer of Psychology of Money. This has reaffirmed my view on quantity vs quality debate. I need to double down on the output and continue writing. I mean I want to make a life as a content creator. I have merely written like 3 pieces and I am hoping to be famous. How dare I? Need to write a 100 pieces to start with. And then a 1000. And then ask the question to God, the Universe or whatever about success and failure.

So that!

I guess this is it. Oh, must log that I couldn’t get sleep last night for some reason. I was up till 3ish. Need to fix this.

Here’s the journal.

1. Emoticon: 🙂
   Right now I am ok. I have just woken up and I am little tired and groggy (was up till 3 AM). Need to get back to better sleep and a better state of mind. I think if I stop being on so many devices all the time, it would be better.
2. Mindful Index (on a scale of 10): 0.
   Literally 0. Distracted all the time. Need to find a solution.
3. Things that I am grateful for
   1. So many people put their faith in me. I am grateful that I have them around. It gives meaning to my life.
4. Things that would make my today great
   1. Work. I have been stalling it this entire week. And this is the week after the trek. I should’ve done a lot to be honest. But I did not. I need to ship a lot of things. Must work hard today.
   2. Better food. I need to be mindful of what I eat. Today on, I will get onto OMAD. Haven’t done it in a while. Will be tough. Let’s see if I can manage.
5. A daily affirmation
   I am a super hero and I can get things done at a snap of my fingers. I will show how cool I am and will get things done.
6. Amazing things that happened yesterday? 
   1. Met Monu. Spoke to people from #teamSG.
   2. I drove a car after a while. I realised that I love it so so much that it’s not funny.
7. What could have made yesterday better?
   1. If I could’ve avoided Diet Coke, I wouldn’t have broken the streak.
   2. I wish I found the time to get some work done. It’s just playing too much on my mind. And if it’s wrecking such havoc on how I think and I am living, I need to find a way out. It is not worth taking all this stress. #note2self.
   3. If I could have slept on time, it would have been nice.
8. Quote for the day
   “In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.” – Yogi Berra

PS: I could only write one thing that I am grateful for. I need to ensure that each day I force myself to think of three things.

PPS: I also need to avoid repetition. I wrote about a thing and then I am repeating it in the journal. I need to find a way to not waste words.

And here’s the streaks…

• OMAD – 0
• #book2 – 0
• NOFAP – 0
• #noCoke – 0. Had one Diet Coke yesterday.
• #noCoffee – 2
• #aPicADay – 8. I am yet to post today’s. I plan to take a new one. So if I post today, I will make the streak 9. If I dont, I am back to 0.
• Daily Journal – 9
• Money spent – 6361. I am back to tracking it rigourously. Ergo.
• Killer Boogie – 0
• 10K steps a day – 0
• Surya Namaskar – 0
• Daily Mail to #teamSG – 9
• 10 mins of meditation – 0
• Minimaslism Counter – -3 +1.
• Morning Pages / Meditations – 9