10 D-10 L Challange: The Conclusion

I gave a challenge to myself to write 10 lines per day for the next 10 days, I was doing this challenge because for many years I wasn’t able to write and I was trying to find out the root cause of this mental blockage.  During this challenge due to some reasons, I wasn’t able to write all 10 days, I took a break due to some personal reasons and I completed this challenge in 11 days. I don’t feel sorry because I am not a perfectionist. During all these challenges I had several findings in me. I want to share as below,

 I will try to make it short because I know even I can’t write very long in a one seating

No Commitment – I find that there was no commitment from my side towards my intellectual appetite, no commitment towards my reader, I feel like when there would be a desire to write then I would write and I was indulging in my daily life. But I was wrong because when we are dedicated or committed towards any cause then. We do not force ourselves on our goals

Creating Masterpiece – it was not like that during this mental constipation time, I didn’t get any ideas, some ideas were coming but I rejected them at the draft level because I thought they were not worth writing because I was wishing to write a masterpiece, that was sheer stupidity .even all work of William Shakespeare is not masterpiece or classic then who am I, just a newbie, unrealistic expectation from my self

Over Thinking –  this was another issue that I was dealing with during all time, rather than writing something on the page, a lot of things were going on in my mind, and rather than pen binding my idea was just in the puzzle of my own fantasies, and believe me, overthinking is a slow poison for your intellectual fitness.

Bad Time Management –   this is again something where I can blame myself because usually I didn’t find time to write something or I wasn’t in a comfortable position to write.    again this is a false allegation by me, if I were motivated to arrange my time then really I can do it. everyone has 24 hours in life and we have to arrange our time in such a way that we have to do our daily life work and side by side have to pursue our hobbies and interests, it was my bad.

Now I can conclude my finding from here because I can add some more points but that would be unnecessary elaboration and stretching of the same thing with fancy jaguars. hopefully, now I can continue writing and fulfil my desire of writing and fulfil the expectations of my fellow readers.

© Abhishek Yadav 

 

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10 D-10L Challenge: Day 10

We feel that we are busy and we keep ourself keep busy. whenever I meet with some people and talk over the phone then they say that “I am busy”. this is why many times I think that is why people are so much busy now a day. Earlier when we had a hard life, no amenities, we don’t have machines, ever to burn a fire we need a lot of effort, at that time if someone says I am busy then it is understood that he/ she is doing some kind of manual job and not have enough time. nowadays when we are surrounded by machines and AI, you do even need not to reply to your e-mail, AI would draft a reply for you, but still, we lack time. Why? Who is sucking up our time?

I think we need to comprehend our time management and our priorities, which are important things for us, which are necessary, means some type of classification of our tasks, because every day, every task could not be Urgent. if we mark every task as urgent then there is no significance of an Urgent Task.

 And also we need to understand our limits, what we can do and what we can’t do, no one among us is either Superman/ Superwoman, so we need to say NO to some of our tasks. If we can manage these little things in our daily life then I have a firm believe we can spare a few extra minutes in our daily life and can use that extra time for some positive work, not on social media.

ABHISHEK YADAV

10 D- 10L Challange : Day 9

Everyone in life wants to be happy and enjoy life, but very few want to sacrifice and to hard work for that. We all know that there are no free lunches in the world, yet we want to have free lunches. Everything which we desire after watching social media or someone in our close circle, we have the desire to achieve, we want to have something which someone in our friend circle has.

But very few of us know what the scarify or worked work he/ she did to get that. If we see someone on social media have an expensive car, we also want to have that, but we know the real story behind that.? How that person got the luxury car? If his/her car is after finance from the bank loan, are you willing to pay that EMI to the bank to own that car, is it really you need a car? There are many questions we need to ask ourselves before having that feeling to own something which is tempting our desire.

There is an endless thing around us that we can own, and we could have the temptation to own those things, it is we need to ask questions ourselves, and we need to scrutinize our desires, if we are not going to control our desires then definitely we are going to be the salve of our desires. the day your desires own you, you are in the vicious cycle of continuous desire and temptation

ABHISHEK YADAV

10 D-10 L Challange : Day 8

The human mind is a very complex machine, it is always filled with ideas and a lot of ideas. some times too many ideas are together and mess up feeling. Some ideas or feelings or memories our brain keeps with us for longer but some feelings, experiences or memories are short-lived.

Our mind is trained in such ways that our memories and ideas are in different types of categories. Good Memories, Bad Memories, Important experiences, Not so important experiences. I am here not to tell you about the anatomy of the Brain or how ideas are formed, so any technical jaguars are here.

I just want to share my opinion about the working process of the brain only. we need to prepare our minds in such ways that our good memories should not overlap with bad memories, we need to train our brains in such a way that, we should not linger in either past or puzzle about the future. Because the brain is a very worthwhile tool. If we would not know how to be masters of our brains then this brain is going to be masters of us. And that situation would not be good at all.

There is no fixed formula for the method to train our brain but the simple one is meditation and talking with yourself for introspection.

ABHISHEK YADAV

10 D-10 L Challange : Day 7

Nowadays on social media I always find too many Positive Quotes, some motivational quotes and many times when I start my date, I find some good quotes.  Many times I use to think that why there are so many people out there who want to spread positivity in the virtual world. Why people are full of positivity and inspirational quotes and a lot of motivation online.

On contrary to this when I see people around me or the real world then there is not much positivity! , there is hardly you would find someone who keeps you motivated. Now the question comes if this positivity and motivation are not so prevailing in the real world then who needs it? After analysis, I noticed that what people have less or little something with them they have much more adore that thing, in this case, positivity and motivation in daily life. Most people around us are not so much positive, or motivated so they are striving for these virtues from other people.

Unfortunately what happens is that we are so fond of seeking positivists from others that rather than we found it by ourselves, we made ourselves PARASITE to get it from others. And due to this now we are not self-exploring motivation and positivity in our life, we are depending on others to give it, like a shot of positivity booster from others. And this is a reason that when we are not getting compliments from other we become depressed and feels rejected.

So please stop searching for positivity and motivation from others, better start looking by yourself and within yourself.

ABHISHEK YADAV

10 D-10 L Challange : Day 6

Yesterday I wasn’t able to write something as per my commitment to myself. When I dig down deep into the reasons, “why I missed out on my writing today”. then I find out that I was clueless and lazy attitude because of that I wasn’t able to prioritise my daily work, and my working schedule was messed up.

When anyone doesn’t set his/ her preferences then what happens is that you don’t know what you should do first and what you should do after that. scheduling, task management and any such kind of productivity tools might be familiar to us, but these are really important things to give you the productivity boost to your short-term and long-term productivity output. 

For example, the TIME TABLE is a very common tool for a student, time table tells to students when he/she starts daily routing and what time he/she should study which subject and how much each subject must be practised. Without time table it would be a bit complicated for a student to Give proper attention to each subject.

In our daily life, we all should have a timetable and to-do list so that we can give out desired performance or expected daily output 

ABHISHEK YADAV

10 D-10 L Challange : Day 5

It is a nice feeling to write something,  and I am able to write something, it might be because I have a restriction on me that I have to write something, another thing is which is playing in my favour is that I am not worried about being a judge that what and how I am writing and the last thing which is playing in my favour is I am free to choose any topic to write. All these factors are playing a good combination which motivates me to write and continue my journey to express my opinion.

If you have bounded yourself to do something and you have the freedom to choose your task as per your convenience and you are not worried about judgement from others then you can do anything. I can say that sometimes when you have some different random parameters and when all these parameters are combined together in my case the freedom to choose, commitment to writing and not being evaluated by others play a significant role to let me write and continue my challenge.

ABHISHEK YADAV

10 D-10 L Challange : Day 4

It is 4^th day of my challenge  to write, and I am writing without any aim and target . Because I have to push myself just to write, usually it is considered that there should be a central idea  or objective for your writing , then only your composition or writing would have any significance or importance to your audience.

But this perception nullifies and has zero value when you are not writing for any audience  or you don’t have any target readers. Like this what I am writing. This writing is entirely for my own self , this minimum 10 lines which I am writing is just to show myself that, if I commit something then I can do it passionately, because I am procrastination to write since 2018 and since last 4 years I am comforting something that I need something big motivation to write something big or something extraordinary .

This entire exercise is just to prove my hypothesis  wrong that “ big motivation must be to write something extraordinary . My new hypothesis is that small and continued writing can turn into big creations too.

ABHISHEK YADAV

10 D-10 L Challange : Day 3

Today is 3ed day of my challenge. And I feel myself committed to writing, today I watched a movie called “The Big Short”, this movie was based on the 2008 subprime crisis in the USA , which ultimately  turned into Global recession. I am not going to discuss or review that movie , but I want to say that, may times in life so many well educated than you, better skilled people , much experienced people than you . can ignore or can’t identify problems which are around you. But you or I can say I noticed it .

But in most cases we don’t have fear to speak up or don’t have courage to tell people that they are wrong. You know why , because we fear  to be wrong. We are not confident that we are right. Our minds say that a mass of people could be wrong . but if you really have the guts to stand your opinion , then victory is all yours. So have faith in yourself as characters in movie have faith in themselves even against the entire financial system.

ABHISHEK YADAV

10 D-10 L Challange : Day 2

 During all day my mind was thinking what to write, what to write , how to write , I was just thinking and thinking  and ultimately rather than doing something , most of the time I was thinking. And till evening I realized the power of OVERTHINKING . Yes, overthinking is a real problem . It is that problem which very few of us can notice.  Overthinking is like slow poison which can kill your efforts, your output , your ability to reach your goals.

When we are thinking and planning then it is very good because to start anything we should have an action plan and detailed study , but problems arise when we start over planning and over correcting our plans rather than doing any actions. Our actions are the only tool which could lead us a step closer to our dreams . but when we do only planning and only thinking then the only thing we are doing is making a fool to ourself. This is why we need to stop overthinking and start acting . 

Abhishek Yadav