2016 - You were too good to me! 2017 - Here I come with more vigor!

Although the number of years we as a human species are going to live is very less compared to the cosmic scale, a year in our terms is still a year long! In that sense, 2016 has been a fantastic year both professional and personally for me. Simply because I feel that the past year gave me enough thrust to launch myself in a fully positive direction. I was able to achieve a lot in the year that just ended.

Picking up stats from coach.me here are the bunch of positive goals and the number of times I hit them in the past year.

• Sporting activities - 44 (almost once a week over the year)
• Reading - 165 day streak!
• Meditation - 111
• Yoga/Stretching - 109

All these are not haphazard things, these are real habits I've been wanting to develop, nay "Sustain" over a long period of time. Perseverance bears a lot of results over Impulsive Resolutions.

But it is a new year and I too want to take resolutions. Not to develop any new habits. But to sustain the existing ones. Probably improve those numbers above. Yet, those habits above give a lot of positive boost to myself!

Wish you all a very happy new year 2017!

Breakup letter with Resistance

Dear Resistance,

How have you been? I've been longing to write to you for quite some time. Ironically, the only force preventing me from doing that was none but you! I think the time has come and I have to say this now - I am breaking up with you!

Yes, this may come as a shock to you. However, you did not give me any other choice. You kind of pushed me to a corner and forced me to do things (or rather not do things) that I would later regret in my life. You are that untold aura around me (and everyone perhaps) constantly making me yield to you. You have the knack and potential to masquerade yourself through my own physical self. Even identifying you took a long time for me since you hid and rode yourself through my unconsciousness. Throwing some conscious light over you took close to 30 years! That is a super long time to possess someone. That is why you are being called as the Devil.

Your true colors got unraveled only after I took the magic potion with ingredients containing definiteness of purpose, courage, dream, belief, luck, perseverance and lots and lots of action. I am pretty sure we may cross paths in future, but I am super happy having learnt to un-summon you at will!

Goodbye!
-Braga

Coach.me contract!

I am really excited to have taken a serious stance towards improving my writing habit. As a first step, I wanted someone to help me towards making it a practice rather an "impulsive surge" that is great only for a short period of time. I already have an account with coach.me for a very long time and I just hired a personal coach. The Zeroth assignment given to me was to first write a contract that I should abide by. My coach Jen Anderson, gave a template on how to write one. This is what I came up with

"Beginning today, October 11, 2016, I, Braga will write every day for a period of minimum 20 minutes for 30 days. Should any obstacles present itself during this period, I would seek expert advice from Jen, my coach. As with other key goals, I track with coach.me, like Meditation, Yoga, and Read - I would include "Write" which I will check-in only if I meet the minimum requirement of writing at least 20 minutes a day; I do not have an upper limit to this period. I pray to the almighty to give me the power and consistency to be on track with this objective."

I am really excited and hope to continue in this direction. I am blogging about this not for the general public, but for myself - more like a journal.

Cheers!
Braga