Thought Garage

What kind of a person you will be if you were to live just by your Intuition? This is the prompt from Trust30 for today. The secret of fortune is joy in our hands . – Ralph Waldo Emerson If you could picture your intuition as a person, what would he or she look like? If you sat down together for dinner, what is the first thing he or she would tell you?  (Author: Susan Piver ) Intuition is the ability to understand and make decisions quickly without conscious reasoning.  We normally refer to this as gut feeling or instincts as well. So the prompt try to reveal if you were to live by your true instincts what kind of a person you will be? Will you be any different? Totally different? or just the same? To an large extent, we can also paraphrase the prompt to “heart or mind” ? It goes without saying that heart represents the intuition, instincts or emotions and often the irrational behavior while mind represents the conscious reasoning and rational behavior. In my life, a major...

The best way to Predict the future is actually by inventing it. This is Trust30’s prompt for today. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his . – Ralph Waldo Emerson My favorite quote of all time is Alan Kay: ‘In order to predict the future, you have to invent it.’ I am all about inventing the future. Decide what you want the future to be and make it happen. Because you can. Write about your future now. (Author: Cindy Gallop ) I am a strong believer in dreams and chasing dreams. For me, dreams are your perceived future even in your subconscious mind.  So, the best way to predict the future is by dreaming about that future and chasing the dream to make it true. And developing software is a great platform to model this habit. And by far the most flexible and inexpensive method to learn building things....

Crave for ingenuity as imitation is suicidal.  That is the message from today’s prompt from Trust30. Imitation is Suicide. Insist on yourself; never imitate. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Write down in which areas of your life you have to overcome these suicidal tendencies of imitation, and how you can transform them into a newborn you – one that doesn’t hide its uniqueness, but thrives on it. There is a “divine idea which each of us represents” – which is yours? Like the idea I shared the other day , I believe that each one of us are born unique for a reason and we have every right to be that one in a billion with our own views and expressions.  However I believe imitation is one of the best ways to learn from your master or any other source of inspiration for that matter. That is how as kids we learnt literally everything. By imitating others do things and say things. That is how most of us learn even today. Some may call it, ‘inspiration’, but Imitation in its purest form has a...

Dare to be bold. This is the prompt from #Trust30 for today. Our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion, we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us. We are parlour soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Next to Resistance, rational thought is the artist or entrepreneurs worst enemy. Bad things happen when we employ rational thought, because rational thought comes from the ego. Instead, we want to work from the Self, that is, from instinct and intuition, from the unconscious. A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. Its only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.” - Steven Pressfield, Do the Work This is always puzzling to me, whenever I think of.  Its true, Children have no trouble believing in something. And its true that some of us have no trouble in believing in something even when nobody else. But there is a ...

Today’s prompt from Trust30 is to figure out whether we are preparing to live or living the life we always wanted. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. – Ralph Waldo Emerson If you had one week left to live, would you still be doing what you’re doing now? In what areas of your life are you preparing to live? Take them off your To Do list and add them to a To Stop list. Resolve to only do what makes you come alive. Bonus: How can your goals improve the present and not keep you in a perpetual “always something better” spiral? There are many things I can easily identify that fall into the category of ‘doing this now, so that I can do that tomorrow’ with an endless rat race of preparation.  Wrote down all of them as far as I can gather and moved them out of To-do list and inserted activities that I really enjoy.  Now I have a healthy dose of preparation still in place, which I think is critical and required and a set of activities introduced into daily life. As ...

Today’s prompt from Trust30 challenge is about a place in the world that you would like to visit before you die. Not everyone wants to travel the world, but most people can identify at least one place in the world they’d like to visit before they die. Where is that place for you, and what will you do to make sure you get there? I haven’t been an avid traveller, though I love the enormous natural beauty in its vastness, subtleness and equally vividness.  I loved Grandcanyons more than anything so far. Watched the movie, ‘ The Home ’ umpteen times. The one travel destination I have been dreaming for a long time is the Alps . I do not know how I got this fascination about something I never even seen. But this is what comes to my mind, whenever I think of if there is one destination I must visit before I die.  I have certainly made plans. But every other detail must be secret, as it will be a surprise treat to someone.

This was the prompt from 1st of June as part of Trust30 initiative, by Liz Danzico . If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tracks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount yesterdays. How would you describe today using only one sentence? Tell today’s sentence to one other person. Repeat each day. Carpe-diem. Not even one sentence. Just one word that exemplify the concept I believe in.

This was yesterday’s prompt from Trust30 Challenge by Buster Benson. The world is powered by passionate people, powerful ideas, and fearless action. What’s one strong belief you possess that isn’t shared by your closest friends or family? What inspires this belief, and what have you done to actively live it? Though there may be more than 6 billion people in this world, each of us are born unique. Whether we believe in God or in Evolution, each one of us are born unique.  That says something irrespective of what you believe in. However in search of social acceptability and likeability, we tend to explicitly plan to do things and say things that are acceptable by most though we have conflicting arguments at the core. We think too much about what others will think about it or talk about it if we do something or say something. Some of us even fake stuff to look good. Over the time, we loose true distinct selves and become something that people talk about but we hardly could identi...

Today’s prompt from Trust30 Challenge from Jenny Blake is to identify the biggest challenge at the moment and turn it in to question to face it and journal all ideas that come up in next 48 hours. Identify one of your biggest challenges at the moment (ie I don’t feel passionate about my work) and turn it into a question (ie How can I do work I’m passionate about?) Write it on a post-it and put it up on your bathroom mirror or the back of your front door. After 48-hours, journal what answers came up for you and be sure to evaluate them. One of my biggest challenges at this moment and the one that is literally wearing me out is about scaling up. I have been working on a lots of different ideas for some time and have been searching for opportunities to realize them. Thanks to a friend that believed in me and invested on the project last year that became a huge success. And call it snowball effect or just sheer momentum, found opportunities to realize a whole bunch of others.  It’s...

I believe in dreams, for dreams are essentially those thoughts, ideas and wishes that we have been thinking all the while, that kept chasing us every moment.  We are what we dream about.  One of the best ways to achieve a dream is to set a date to it. A date forces me to get more focused. Pushes me to action right away. And magically sets up priorities. Once a date is set, it takes a great deal of discipline to pursue it. Many of us start very well but quick to search for excuses not to go through it. Some pause, some put it on the eternal back burner and some just quit. Keeping a journal or taking up a challenge would greatly help maintain the streak. I am on my way to taking up a one year challenge next week and will be keeping an online journal to push myself towards the goal. And to get started with the habit of keeping a journal and maintaining a streak, I am joining a 30 days writing challenge, Trust30 , an online initiative that encourages to express yourself for 30...