Write Something Everyday

This thought that the title expresses made me feel peaceful today. It may not be applicable to everyone. Probably there are people who are wasting  way too much of their time. I, however, felt peaceful when I gave myself permission to waste my time. You see, I detected a background anxiety in my mind which, if put in words, would say, "Make sure you spend every minute of your life building your sense of self. Make sure you're working on your goals, building your wealth - oh my God, you took a break in the middle of the day - get on with it..." This background unease would say - you're turning 30 - you're still not successful - Oh my God! Your life is running out. Look at X, X just went to this country and had a good time - X has more money than you. Look at Y, Y is younger than you and is already so  famous...Oh my God! Get off your ass and work! Now someone people would say, "Great, that unease can be a great motivator." Not for me. That une...

I've recently read/listened to quite some  spiritual  books - especially by Eckhart Tolle. In The Power of Now,  for instance Eckhart Tolle clearly states that the mind  which obsessively keeps thinking - and our identification with it is the root cause of unhappiness and stress. I have noticed this with my own mind: whenever I am alert and observant, I keep seeing my mind  chattering away all the time. For example, I may be cooking and my mind may be lost in thinking what X thought of my yesterday or what Y will think of me tomorrow. Similarly, I may be brushing my teeth and my mind may be playing and re-playing snippets (especially the embarrassing ones) from the previous day or imagining scary  outcomes for the day to come today. Or it might just be playing some gossipy  snippets that capture my attention. So, I have seen Eckhart Tolle to be right when he says the mind goes on and on until you observe it. But all this is just...

Something inside me tells me that I 'am' a writer - I just haven't discovered the writer in me enough  yet. I generally set goals once every six months (at least that's what I did six months ago). For the next six months, one of my goals is to write one 'piece' everyday. What is a piece? Any 'chunk' of coherent text. The aim is to write, to express myself better and get better at the skill of just...writing. What will I write about? Anything. Could be fiction one day. Could be a rant the next day. Could be processing  what happened on a particular day. What are my other goals for the coming six months? Here they go: 1 To register my firm (current account), get VAT, CST, to get suppliers, to start selling online and to start automatic fulfillment/shipping. Basically, this means practically testing the mosquito nets  idea. 2 To start jogging from 6-6:30 AM everyday. 3 To write one ‘piece’ everyday on a blog. (The writing can be about ...