How To’s – Part 1 – Focus

To keep mahself a little regular on the blog and to serve those who believe in mastering thy-selves being their sole goal, I’m starting with a series of How to’s on the self mastery stuff, I know I myself am a learner on this one, but I’d give my best and contribute the most I know of it.

How to Stay Focused ??

Focus is the first step you take towards achieving something, It really very important to stay focused. Alright so to stay focused L you shall do the following :

1. Keep reminding yourself that you gotto do what you’ve thought you have to do, use affirmations.

2. Keep one single thing/one ritual/one habit in your daily routine, that links you to the purpose.

3. Use a todem, any object that would be a physical thing you’ll carry all the time with yourself to remind you of the target.

4. Locate your position and constantly record the improvements.

5. Take breaks, not periodical, coz a break serves the most when its unplanned, its an art, whenever you think you’ve had more of it(focusing), take a break.

that’s all for now, will be posting the next how-to next week-end.

To be continued…

Have you earned the truth?

At times in life, their are gaps in relationships and at times you’re way to close to someone and when I say someone I not only mean your special one, but it could be any of your friends or all of ‘em at different points of time, one at one, the other one at another, but then there are these times, when you talk to a near one and they lie to you. We’ve been together so long, won’t we know that the person is lying??

Its that time in a relationship when it hurts the most, It simply feels like as if we’re asking to ourselves “was I not even worth the truth”, okay, finding it hard to get, lets put it this way, when we meet a stranger and the person doesn’t seem trust-worthy, what do we do?

Every single question that the stranger asks, we lie to it. So, If you’ve been knowing someone for long and all of a sudden you lie to ‘em, can you even imagine how’d they feel??

Alright, I take it, you lied coz you thought the truth would hurt ‘em, but tell you what, the lie would hurt ‘em more than the truth, so always stick to the truth, they may feel bad for a while, but the honesty strengthens the relation. Be honest to the people, let them live in a happy state knowing that they’ve earned the truth.

Do you know what that person is made of??

When we spend a reasonable time in our work/routine life, we start thinking of every thing, every body as objects, not talking programming here, but yes, mere objects, as if alright, this guy has spent this much time in doing this thing he’s at level B, this guy has spent a bit more time than him, this guy is at level A, this piece of paper ain’t good for anything, but have you ever thought once while dealing with practically everything as mere matter, that everything, every single thing, every person, every single person, has thy own characteristics.

We know how much we’ve put ourselves through, how much progress we’ve made, we don’t know about others, at-least not by just looking at ‘em, we come to know with time, when we interact with ‘em, work with ‘em, but merely looking at someone or observing ‘em on the paper you can’t find out what are they made of.. thee are people who might have spent the same time in pursuing a particular art as someone else might have, but they certainly have differed in their dedication, their effort, there diligence.

All I’m trying to say is two people who might look exactly identical, aren’t the same at all, even the twins differ,  and what I’m trying to suggest here is, try and learn to know what’s in the package you’re dealing with, two covers who weigh the same,are of same color, contents could be different.

At such point of time, when we loose our hobby to analyze stuff, we really need to earn it back.

How to clear Skype chat history on Ubuntu

As simple as select + delete.

In the user’s folder within home folder press ctrl+h
then inside .Skype folder enter the folder with the skype user name you want to clear history for and delete all the files with an extension ‘.dbb’ .

the terminal way of doing it, say the user and sype username is ‘rome’ and the computer name is ‘russia’ :

rome@russia:~$ cd /home/rome/.Skype/rome/
rome@russia:~$ rm -rf `find . -name ‘*.dbb’`

and you’re done.

Looking for the next move?

Are you done with a target recently? Find a lot of silence all around? not able to work out the next thing to run for?

Its the time when you completed your 100m race and now you don’t know what to begin with, its the time when its needed that you plan the next move, life is all about constantly progressing, you can’t be pacified with what you’ve attained so-far.. as there’s a lot more waiting for you to reach it.. although I’d been thinking the same way but this insight was injected by a cousin brother of mine, the man himself has moved mountains, he ain’t a popular person, I’m talking not being the one all over the media stuff, but has a very big circle… a very big social circle.. consisting of people of all kinds..

And btw, don’t start imagining the kind now.. , but, seriously, its always necessary to plan and start executing the next move.. I’m not saying don’t take rest after you’ve conquered a battle.. but there are lots more to be won.. waiting for you around the corner..

Keep rocking..!!

Know the value of what others buy for you..

Well its about almost everything that we get from others , almost anyone, be it a relative, a family member, a colleague, your girl-friend or even your Boss.

It ain’t really about just the merchandises that you get but also about the advices that you get, the care that you get, the time that they spend for you.

It indeed has been a habit amongst all of us, most of the times to take things for granted, you don’t really know what one has sacrificed ? or one has invested, in order to bring you what they felt was your need or will make you happy or will help you take a decision.

Its always important to appreciate every single effort that others put for you in daily life, smile back at ‘em, thank ‘em, it’ll make them happy and in such way they’ll be happy to help you all the time. Relationships matter a lot, you never know what the next moment is gonna bring for you, so you must value people and you certainly must value your relationships. After all, what’s it that’s gonna stay with us apart from the sharing and caring that we brought up around.

100th 100 , how about your goals?

Sachin made it as they say it, he made the 100th 100 on 16-03-2012, Yes he did it!! But have you ever wondered where you are?

Probably it was his dream at some point in the past which he realized on this day, how about your dreams/goals/aspirations? Do you keep a track of it? Have you laid it down somewhere that this is what I’m gonna do until I reach 50 years of age , this is what I’m gonna do next? There’s a very good quote by Robin on this, which I keep reminding myself, it says : “What gets measured Get’s improved” and there’s one more that relates to what I’m trying to draw out here,  “If you don’t know where you’re going, then of-course any road is gonna take you there”.

And please don’t think what I know you must be thinking at this moment, Its a common – human tendency , “How about you, have you really done something for that?” , Yes, I’ve my ways of tracking where I’m going, haven’t really made the tracking mechanism as aggressive as much I am, but Yes I have it in place and I do imbibe myself in a couple of sessions over specific periods of time.

Its needed, extremely needed to keep a check on the navigation of your ship, then only you’ll reach the destination you aspire for or somewhere near by.