Thought for the Day - Growth and Ease

 We are always concerned with two things - growth and ease. We want to grow. And we want our growth to happen with ease.

Growth or possibilities happen when we take risks. We need to push that little extra each time and improve our risk appetite. Talk one sentence more, ask one question extra, buy that thing you never bought, stop, go. Everything that you did not do earlier is a risk. Only when we risk do we grow. Yes, 'we'll fail a few times but we will have fun doing that.

 Ease happens when we let go of control. Funnily we don't take risks because we want to control everything. We want to control the outcome and if we are not sure of the outcome we do not risk it. Ease is that state when things happen almost divinely without our having to do anything. People appear, opportunities fall into your lap, things happen easily. Now all that happens only when you fully let go of control. 

Which means - we have to take risks and not be attached to the outcome. After the initial fear during which you lose a few, things start showing up with ease when you really let go, fully let go. What do we let go? We let go of attachment to the outcome fully. Just act and forget about it.

That's the secret then.   

Thought for the Day - We're not Stupid Enough to be Successful

 That's the truth. For anyone who is not successful the only thing that is coming between them and success is that they are not stupid enough to be successful

I am not using stupid as a bad thing here. I am using it as one with great respect.

All that you are not doing to make you successful is all that you think is stupid. If you let go of your judgement and do that, you will be successful.

Simple.

Drop Mr Pretentious. Accept Mr Stupid. Success loves honesty (even in dishonesty). 

Me Shivaji Park - Movie

 2018. Marathi. Five senior citizens become vigilantes after one of their relatives is murdered and the killer is getting away. Loose but somehow holds together. Has a message. Interesting.

Lovely cast of seniors - Vikram Gokhale, Ashok Saraf, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Shivaji Satam and Satish Alekar.

 

Thought for the Day - Each Time You're the Victim You're Not Yourself

 Each time you play the victim you are not being yourself.

There's you. And there's this needy chap who's posing as you. He's the victim.

He's not you.

He'll beg, cry, sulk, scream and kick, make things difficult, mess relationships, create drama. He wants attention. He wants to be the centre of attention. The more you give it, the worse he gets.

He's sidelining you. He wants the stage. Your life.

He's not You.

Each time you play the victim, remember, he's not you.

Thought for the Day - What Is Far Seems Scary, From Inside It's Not

 I realised this when I stayed alone at Beauty Green last month. The empty building looked scary to me for years. It was beautiful but desolate.

One day I decided to spend the night there.

Once I went into the room it did not seem scary.

What's scary form the outside is not scary from the inside. Go right in. 

Thought for the Day - Three's a Crowd - Me, My Body and My Mind

 Be the witness they say. So there's me, my body and my mind.

I am carrying these two people along with me and they need to be in sync for any alignment, harmony. I am not either - the body or the mind. I am separate.

That's interesting in itself. I guess I will have to give myself more importance. These two seem to think they are me.

Thought for the Day - How to Go Full Potential (Drop Shame or Ego)

 To benefit from my full potential I need to open myself to it and let go of all that is holding me back!

It works like this. I have potential. I know all I can do. But there are certain things I don't do - hold myself back - to protect the idea that I am not 'that kind of a person'. It could be as simple as asking for money, for a favour, for advise, for help, for a deal, for love, or even posting stuff on Facebook or  Insta, opening a shop, putting yourself out there - anything.

This is stuff that is holding you back. Long as its legal you must do it. Shamelessly, relentlessly.

Go for it!