How To Stay Productive After Work

Loved this article : How To Stay Productive After Work

hoping I'll follow at least few of these, Hmmmm let's see.


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Get Started As Soon As You Get Home

getting started as soon as you get home and you're still in work mode goes a long way, For me, body in motion tends to stay in motion, body at rest tends to stay at rest.

Give Yourself 10 Minutes. Just 10 MInutes

Lifehacker Editor-in-Chief Adam Pash gives himself 10 minutes in the evening to work on his pet projects, sometimes more, never less. If he can drag himself off the couch for 10 minutes of focused work, that's a success—and at the end of that 10 minutes, if he feels like working some more, he does. If he feels like closing up shop and going back to the couch, he does. The important thing here is that he makes himself get started, and even on those nights when he doesn't feel like doing anything, he at least gets 10 minutes of progress towards his goals. Photo by bendao (Shutterstock).

Make Sure You Get Some Exercise

Want more energy, or more hours in your day? Exercise. It may seem counterintuitive, but exercise is key. Even a walk around the block will make you feel energized, and the benefits grow with more regular and frequent activity.

Schedule It and Keep It in the Front of Your Mind

If you use some energy earlier in the day scheduling and thinking about your projects, it'll be easier to respond to an alarm or a beeping phone later in the day and go to work. CommenterMischiefMack also pointed out how important planning is, and suggested you get started thinking about your pet project before you even leave the office, so you're pumped and ready to tackle it when you get home. When you do get home, have a very specific goal to accomplish, and get started. Mad Molecule also stressed the importance of specific goals:

First, plan what you want to do with your evening ahead of time. When making this plan (and all plans), BE SPECIFIC. "I want to be productive" is not specific. "I will finish ten pages of this screenplay," "I will clean and organize the hall closet," "I will set fire to the homes of half of my enemies"—these are specific goals.

Be the energy

There are only two possible ways the awareness gets dispersed and we are what is popularly called "lost in the game"

- an event in the conscious mind which linksto another thought causing a chain reaction
-past residual impressions popping up all of a sudden

these two distractions prevent me from being consciously conscious.

Watch the watcher, that is the way out.

while meditating today felt the being of energy in me, this energy is always there and is called by many names - awareness, willpower or energy.

When this energy gets conscious of limiting thoughts due to past conditioning, we feel like a being with limits. This results in misidentification.

This is what I learnt today when I went within.Aum

Gurudeva in dream

My guru Sri Sivaya Subramuniya Swami had come in my dream this early morning. I see him meditating and stay back there looking at him while others move away.

I will consider my life successful if I can achieve 0.1 % of what he had achieved in his lifetime - the understanding of different states of mind, the ability to use the inner eye for understanding and bringing knowledge from within, speaking only out of intuition, the ability to maintain persistence in sadhanas, the ability to realize the self, parasiva, the ability to describe the ancient agamas even without ever having read them.

I surrender at your feet gurudeva. Thanks for changing my life and giving me the right perspective to face life's tests.

Aum namah Sivaya

Siva's world of opposites

It is only when we get into poor health do we really appreciate good health which we take for granted daily.

It is only when we lose and miss people do we realize their importance in our daily life.

It is only when we are ignored /avoided do we realize the value of people who love us unconditionally.

It's only when you are extremely busy and don't have time for what you want to do, do you realize that time is precious when it was available to you which you didn't make use of.

It's only when you are blind and in dark do you realize the value of eyes and light.

It's only when you lose people do you realize the value of relationships and insignificance of money.

It's only when you give abundantly, so much that it hurts, that you realize that you really aren't the giver, but  just a channel in the act of "giving" which the universe does everyday.

It's only when you experience the other person, do you really realize that you are one with him/her.

It's only when the world experienced 2 wars did it realize the value of peace.

It's only when you are bankrupt and in recession do you realize the importance of spending money wisely, living within ones means & value of contentment.

This Siva's beautiful world of opposites has been designed such, so that we learn from the opposites, duality and finally merge in our real identity which is Nondual.

Aum namah Sivaya

Accepting things as they are

Off late, the fiery passion I had for spiritual progress has suddenly gone down, maybe due to the influence of the buddhist book which I read called "the zen mind, beginners mind".

Something about the book made me feel that even the desire for enlightenment must be given up. Life and it's expression is very simple but the mind makes us complicated. We must unlearn more in spirituality than learn. We must 'be' than do. We must enjoy the journey than imagining a future enlightenment which is yet to be attained. How can you become that when you are already that. Any idea of enlightenment is a self created principle, a projection of the mind. A deviation from the now.

All that's needed in Buddhist meditation is accept the fact that there is no goal,  because you are already that which you seek,  the search is always in the wrong way.
The desire has fallen down after reading this. To desire what? That which I am!? If I am seeking a state, then I would be in the mind in duality. The seer can never see himself, all he can do and must do is to be quiet and allow the infinity to express itself.

Aum