Sloppy sunday

I think it’s in the name. “SUNDAY’. I feel lazy just by hearing that word. Sleep late, wake up later, don’t do anything worthwhile basically just waste these precious free hours which I get out of the week’s busy schedule and work. Then evening comes, and I feel guilty about all the waste. Never missed this routine for many sundays now.

Simple solution is to have targets for the day. Just do this and do that, rest is free for you to waste! This will work for me definitely. As long as this and that does not involve investing too much time. Sunday is all about having time for me, time to hang out with the friends I grew up with, friends i critisize, friends I will not be able to ever live without ( okay, thats way too much) but still, I have had and continue having massive fun with them.

I watched “Forest Gump” just yesterday. I am shocked. Shocked that I had this movie with me all this time, and I just didn’t see it. Made a great impact on me. It told me :

• Listen to your momma, but interpret in your own way.
• Find and keep great friends, specially friends who are thinking different.
• Siting will not solve any problem, you have to run for it.
• Fall in love, stay in love.
• Try new things. Buy a boat if your friend comes up with a great business plan!
• Think simple.Stay simple.
• A great pair of shoes is one of the best gift.
• To get back the one you love, you have to let him/her go first.
• Respect choices made by other people.
• ” If god wanted to make everyone equal, everyone would have got braces”. Feel sorry for others who lack those gifts you have. So go and help them.
• Say yes, especially for giving a speech, to a large audience. you might find the one you are looking for.
• Feel proud of you kid. Specially if he is not like you.
• Whenever you make your own decision, people will follow you.
• Do what you like. Make a run for it.
• Whenever you are tired of whatever you are doing, get back home for rest.
• Stupid is as stupid does.

I am sure there are many learnings I have not realized yet, but these are enough to last me for several lifetimes, or several marathons….

BTW, that first paragraph was basically to say that I did not exercise today. Just had dinner as well, so no more opportunity. Tomorrow is another day they say….

Take care.

Two questions

The two most critical questions to be asked to oneself are:

1. What do you want in life?
2. What are you ready to give, in order to get it?

Rest is just detail.

They say, life will give you anything you ask for, but not everything. We are limited by the most rarest commodity on the face of this planet. Time. It is highly perishable, non tradable, often undervalued, purely imaginary entity. Everyone is allocated good measures for it, but everyone asks different value in exchange for his/her time. Mostly, they receive nothing different. In this case then, how to get the maximum value of your time?

Have you heard about the magical power of compounding. You invest as much as you can, as early as you can. Then you wait. The money multiplies itself. Funny observations about this include following:

• If you reduce the initial amount by a little, the final amount varies exponentially
• If you change the investment period by little, the final amount varies drastically.
• If you change the rate of compounding a little, the final amount is changed vastly.

Now, let us compare the amount with time,and the rate with learning. We understand what to do.

The goal is the final amount that we want. We can calculate backwards, to understand how much time is needed to be invested in order to achieve the goal. And how much learning or refining is needed too.

That’s not all. We also need to take inflation into account. Thats when we cannot focus our complete attention. the concentration is diffused. Hence, although we are giving one hour, effectively only 40 minutes are counted.

Also to remember is the performance of the investment. If we see the graph of the amount against time, we see that almost all the benefits are reaped towards the end. Which means that, we should focus on a long term achievement, and need not pay much attention to the intermediate failures. Those are just fluctuations, great tools to refine our technique.

And then, finally, we win!!

Take care.