Dreaming to dream

You don’t think about a dream, you don’t plan a dream, dreams just happen. People say dreams are meant to be broken, but I believe, dreams are meant to be built. Dreams are at times an extraction of a reality which we want to see, which we want to live, but the only condition is, we ourselves will have to bring it to reality.

Living a meaningful life is all about living a journey of making those dreams a reality. It’s that reason to live, see and create a better tomorrow for yourself and for others. Everyone can dream, but only a few try to live those dreams. Life is short and it is your decision to be a viewer or a creator. 

Our soul needs exploration and growth

When we look at other living beings around us, we realize, as humans we have something unique about us, we all live and explore things around us as we believe we grow every day. We are intelligent, we have a sense of our existence, as we innovate every day to understand to live the way we want. We all know, we all have to die one day and that is the end, but the question is not what to do with death, but what to do with life.

You are living for a blurred purpose, which you somehow know exists or existed sometime in your life and you are not able to carry it along with you consciously, but no matter what, it is always walking with you. In the daily today we somehow lose track of the purpose, we are doing what we do and living with the guilt of not being able to do what we wanted to do. Why? What are you waiting for? It is not that easy to get some time out of the day for the thing you want to do, stepping out of your comfort zone, or to just push a little bit more, but one day you have to do it, so why to wait.

You just need to look for that purpose to explore the life you wanted to live and grow towards that purpose and sense how beautiful life can be.

We all are hungry about exploring the world around us and this hunger for exploration never ends, no matter how much we try. Just take an example of the TV series you are watching, the wait for the next episode seems long and sometimes it keeps you busy thinking about what will happen next. We are humans and we can think and we need topics to think about, the more we know the more difficult it is to stop thinking about anything, here comes the second part of the requirement, Growth. Growth help balance out the exponential urge to keep exploring, you need a break and for that, you need to feel accomplished. The growth is when a goal is achieved from one of your recent explorations. It’s in our innate nature, we look for meanings to things, we learn and we want to apply. In your life, you can do what you always wanted anytime, it’s just about getting started and consciously feeling that purpose, the reason to live for.

It feels bad to feel bad

Being in the emotion of uncomfortableness feels bad, you want to try and control what’s in your head, but there is something which drives you away from calmness and into the chaos. In that phase of time you try to look for shelter, a place where you can hide and run away from the world. But what if, when you know where the shelter is but cannot be there, as it seems farther and fear that the problem will reach before you reach.

Then you find yourself in the middle of the problem and you can see your shelter but you are not there yet. You feel frustrated, agonized and feel like quitting and giving up. Suddenly you realize that the shelter is also coming towards you, you are not alone, but the solution is walking with you, you just had to look towards it.

This gives you hope and strength to carry on and not give up and just try a little bit more, when you see someone trying for you, the best they could. 

You feel bad when things are bad and then you feel bad about feeling bad, but there is still someone in your story who knows about that moment and is ready to help, you just need to let them!

Passing through the past with your present

As you see yourself standing where you used to before and you thought you will never come back again, but you are here, standing right there, again. You are in a better present and the past was almost gone, but again, you are here, standing with those memories but a different experience.

Its been a while and things have changed and changed for the good. You are unsure about what is happening around, but you are still sure about what you have today. You don’t want to give up on that one thing that is most valuable to you today and for that it is ok to move past the past.

It will make you more strong, it will tell you how much you have grown and how things are today, better than yesterday.

You can look back and be sad about things which are gone or you can experience the present moving to the future. You will be distracted by your past, once in a while, but you need to make sure it’s time to blur it out and focus on the present.

When success doesn’t feel like success

You are there, right where you wanted to be, but it no more feels like the right goal or maybe you are stuck in so much fog and cannot see the brighter side. It seems like people believe in you or at least some times you feel they do, but you no more trust yourself.

You are trying to get up and live the success, but you are just unable to get up and experience it. You are trying to find someone who will show you the brighter side of things, but you are unable to find them.

But you know, it is just a phase, which will most likely pass by, but all the newness and shine of the success will be lost by then.

Stay on the path

You need to stay, stay strong through it, no matter what. You need to take responsibility, you are the only one who can do it the way you want to do it. No matter how many people around the world are following a similar goal, a vision, a dream or whatever, but every step you take will be unique and different in it’s own way. If 10 people are running in a 100m sprint, everyone will have their own different and unique styles of running, a different reason to win, but everyone wants to cover the next 100m quicker than everyone else.

Anyone can do it, but those who actually do, are the ones who can pass through the boredom and still do it. You will surely get bored of doing the same thing again and again, but that is what sets doers apart from everyone else. They can still do it when they don’t feel like doing it, again and again, so that they don’t miss anything when it really matters. It’s about preparing yourself for the big day, it can come anytime and surely you don’t want to stand unprepared for the day you were waiting for years.
It’s just that feeling of not feeling like doing, you will never feel like doing it, you will have to do it to feel it. Doing a simple thing is simple, but actually start doing it and switching from the chaos of the world is the most difficult thing. Stay on the path, even if you don’t feel like, just stick to it.

Your happiness zone

You are not fine and out of nowhere you enter your zone of happiness, you feel you are coming back and you will be fine again. It’s a temporary fix, you just need to be in that zone to feel happy and wish that you were there always, but it’s a big world; you will have to step out of that zone every once in a while and that’s when it hurts. You need to toughen up and show that you can be strong outside of your zone. You just need one thing; you need to figure out what is your strength in that zone and take your happiness out with you to explore other zones.

The moment you think, just a few minutes back you were happy in that zone and as you move a little bit, you are lost again. You are trying to find something, something that you know exists but are unsure where to find it and that is taking all of your strength. You are trying hard to understand, you are using all that you know, but still unable to find answers.
You need a different perspective towards things, you need someone to guide you through something which is unknown to you, but known to them. You need to try to see the world from their eyes, what they see in you, why they believe in you. It’s their faith that will drive you forward, if you believe in them you should believe in yourself, at least for them. They will be there, always beside you, they will try their best to keep your zone always with you, but they just want you to try, try your best.

You can change things alone, just start

Who says the world around cannot be changed by a single person, have you ever tried to change something, or you have just always wished to change. You cannot change anything until you stop wishing and start doing, start trying. We all think a lot that we could change this, we could change that and that is the problem, we think a lot about it, we need to change our thoughts to actions and start to do something about it. If we start to take a step to actually change something, we might be able to find someone on the way who was also thinking about it and hasn’t yet started.

You just need to believe in something, and that something is you.
Edison once said,

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."

We don’t start working on things, because we think that we are not capable of doing them, we think, but how can we be so sure? we haven’t done it before and we don’t know, maybe we are underestimating ourselves. Why don’t we just try before thinking we can’t, things would be much more better if we tried before giving up. You have already lost when you give up but you will never loose until you give up, keep trying.

Growth is always relative

You don’t know until you step into the world, observe it and scale yourself with others. You can’t grow until you know what you have and what you lack. You were there alone growing, but how much? You might be better today from your yesterday’s self, but you live in this world, and the scale is not you. You need to test yourself, you need to measure yourself, on the scale this world accepts and if you are not up to the mark on that scale, your growth is a fail. You need that courage to step out into this world, show your authority, get up to proceed, it’s time to lead.

Someone makes you happy when you are sad

Having something positive around you when you are sad is the best thing you could ask for. You are overthinking on things, speculating things shouldn’t have happened as they happened, but suddenly someone steps in to interrupt your overthinking. They came because they want to see you happy, and you want to share because you want them to know what’s in your head.

You miss them so much because they are the one person you want to share the story with, you don’t tell them that you are sad, they just know it.

They stay there with you to make sure that you are fine, they want you to feel secure and touch some happiness with them, you might not be fully happy but there will be some improvement.

They are there in your life as a ray of light among the dark clouds. They have so much light for you which you cannot see because you are blocking it with the black clouds of thoughts in your head, but they still sneak in to give you some light. Believe in them and believe in what they believe for you.

I looked into the mirror today

I looked into the mirror today and found something was missing. I was missing the complete picture, whom I am a part of. Today the image was missing a belief, as the reason was disconnected. The mirror was there but without the reflection and with those doubts I was looking for justification.

I kept looking for that inspiration, waiting for some light to see the reflection. But I am not the reality, I am myself the reflection, I am created as my reality looks in the mirror to find itself.

You are powerful

Power itself is a strong word. It could be because of the social factors which suit you, but that power is always temporary.

Every one of us has a permanent power within us, that makes us who we are and gives us the reasons to sustain as a living being on this planet.

That power, that strength, decides how we react to situations hitting us everyday, as we face challenges and come out of them stronger, we add power. The challenges could be difficult or easy, it all depends on that internal strength within us, we are the ones who decide whether things are easy or tough.

We belong to this world and the problems are in this world only, everyone of us has similar power and resources to face it. So the next time when you are hit with a problem, make it easy, search for that power within yourself needed to face it, crush it and add its power to yours.

Sometimes a loss can be a bigger win

It’s always easy to win and feel proud, but how about losing and being proud of it. When you win, you are winning for yourself, no matter who all are the reasons for your win. Losing to see someone smile is like losing yourself for others' happiness. You don’t care about who you are, what your image is, what people will think and infer about you, you can win for yourself but you choose to lose.
You just need enough reasons to lose, you can always win for yourself, but sometimes touching people’s heart is more important than self. The one who is laughing because of you will not judge you, you know who you are and you don’t care about the ones who are laughing at you.
You haven't lost, you have won hearts.

Days pass and things change

As we live and move forward in time, the days pass with a different experience everyday. We lived yesterday, we are living today and we don’t know what will happen tomorrow. As we will enter tomorrow it will turn into today with a new experience. We expect to carry our yesterday as we enter a new today, we want to follow and experience those same patterns we had yesterday.

We are a part of overlapping stories, stories which we are creating in our lives with others around us. So many experiences overlap with a different view towards all those passing moments, but all the characters share those same experiences. These overlapping experiences fade with distance and when the stories stop overlapping, the experiences are different.

As the time passes it’s difficult to keep track of all the experiences, as the stories are now different. It becomes difficult to understand the current passage, as you have missed a few pages. The connection is still there with the memories of that overlapping phase, but since then things have changed, you can now see the change, but the reason is missing.

You are never lost: going through difficult times

We all have those low times, when we feel lost somewhere in the unknown. There is no force that can pull us back to the known. We all go through a series of days or weeks or even months where nothing seems right. We think a lot about not being on the right side of things, and just the thought of being on the wrong side takes you deeper and deeper into that state of negativity.
We fight against a storm so strong, which takes everything away to where everything is wrong. Wait, I am still here and not even a single tear. I fought and it took everything, but it's my world and I am the king. The difficult times do take a lot away from you- your time, your energy, your efforts and so much more, but nothing will be able to take the fundamental things from you, the things which make you who you are.

Not having control over decisions: entering in the bubble

It’s easy to come out of a bubble, because you still have the space the bubble had, but getting into a bubble is difficult and if you do it, it is giving up on all the space outside the bubble.

There is always a layer of the bubble in between and the world inside will have more influence on the decisions of the life inside. No matter how much you try, it hurts when the bubble bursts, because no matter big or small, someone has to compromise and fall.

It's about managing focus, not time

We live in a world full of chaos and our Universe works in a random way, so no one knows what’s coming up next. No matter how much you plan your tasks and fit them into time slots, you will still miss something.You don't really have much control on how you want to spend your day, you can plan it up to some extent and the other hours are reactions to things around you.

Time is a constant and it’s the same for everyone, it will flow as it flows, with that very same speed. You might think you have control over it, but it just slips by.

As you start planning your days with slotting tasks in the allotted 24 hours, you seem to be doing fine in the beginning. But then one day you realise, you missed a few tasks in the last few days and now it looks tough to catch up.

The only thing that is in your control is the focus, the moment when you are with yourself. Managing time might seem to be the most obvious thing, but focus is what helps you hit with the full swing. No matter whether you have one hour or one day to finish a task, if your focus is rough, whatever time you have will not be enough.

Don't let distractions drive you away, they are not there to stay. Distractions are what drive you away from focus and your tasks. Filter out distractions as much as you can and build your focus, as it is the most powerful tool you have in your control. Focus on one thing at a time and your productivity will flow and you will be able to get more done in that same limited time.

More you use creativity, more you have it

Creativity works like a muscle, more stress you put on it and more you stretch it to the limits, more effective it will become. It’s about not settling to the good and trying to be as close to the best as possible. When you already have a solution to a problem, look for new ways to solve it, and in that attempt, you will fail and that is what you need. Failing is the process of creating new things, solving big problems or being creative, you fail because it’s not easy and if it’s easy anyone can do it.

To be creative you need to explore more and more, don’t restrict yourself to a particular domain or subject, keep learning and look for connection between things.

It’s about seeing things from different perspectives, making sense by mixing different subjects, that is what effective creativity is, connecting things.
It’s not a skill, that you can directly learn from somewhere, creativity is an art that is developed. Your creativity is shaped by your experiences, you just need to be aware and live the moments to experience it, otherwise they are just memories.

Creativity doesn’t happen in a blink of an eye, it’s a process, a process of carrying the thought with you until it makes sense.

Things might not be that obvious when you start, it might not make any sense, but just stick to it and look for connecting it with the things around you and out of no where you will have a solution. The first solution might not be the perfect one, but you will have the direction to follow.

It's about a productive and motivated team: investing in company culture

Motivation is one of the most vital factors that makes a workplace productive. If you are not motivated enough to do what you are doing, the time will slip by, with not much done. During this phase, you are busy keeping yourself distracted and when you notice that you have deadlines to catchup on, your productivity is affected. With the worries of time running by, it’s difficult to stay focused on the tasks in hand and so less work becomes so much more.

Why invest in company culture at all.?

For a company to grow, it’s not about an individual or the work a team is doing, but about how productively and together a team is moving.

We spend most of our day in the workplace and if we are not comfortable with people around us, it will not get the best out of us.

If most of our day is be spent around people we don’t care about, we don't really have a reason to work for the company, we are just getting paid. With positive team building and motivated environment everyone will be more willing to take challenges, not because they can do it, but because they are confident about themselves as a team.

You are allowed to have those bad days

When you don't have something, that is when you realise the real value of it and that is what bad days are for, to make you realise how important good days are. If you don't go through those bad days, you miss that phase, where you don't let good days drift away, unnoticed.

There are only 24 hours in a day and they are same for everyone, and we miss most of those hours in the hustle and bustle of life. We don't see the clock ticking second by second, we don't experience every second of the day, it just passes away and before you realise, 24 hours have ended and a new day has started. You can't slow down the ticking of the clock but you can at least experience most of it, be it good or bad, you can still learn from those experiences.

Time is a constant, it will never wait for you, don't wait for the right time standing in the queue, break it and catch the flow and let go of the emotions that are making you feel low.