Happy New Year!!
Do the things you always wanted to.. No excuses this year.. No trying inly doing..
Wishing you all an exuberant new year.
🙏🏽
Life
Peace and War
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.
Martin Luther King said above lines to one of his colleagues when asked about peace army that he was building. Organization ability of Dr. King gets attributed as the one of most important skill leading to his success.
Cheers! ✌🏽
Spring’21
Update: Virtual Movie Club
Weekly virtual movie club has become an instant success and a helpful tool for me to connect and socialize in this perceived social distancing era. I have been enjoying the weekly discussions and movies recommendations for last few weeks.
Some of the movies recommended were as follows:
I would not have watched most of the movies from above list myself as Netflix/Amazon/Others would never have been able to recommend these to me based on my viewing history.
Another major benefit of having these movie club discussions is that people talk about something unrelated to current situation as opposed to “How is the lock-down in your area” .
I hope to continue this trend of virtual weekly club after life goes back to normal and we pretend to become busier.
Cheers!
P.S: Check out https://amits.blog/2020/04/15/virtual-movie-club/ If you missed my original post about the virtual movie club.
Thought of the Day
If you don’t want to be poor then you would never be poor. This is a dialogue from Johnny Depp starer movie “Blow” that frequently comes to my mind when I think about money.
I probably watched this movie a decade ago and haven’t rewatched it, but the essence of the dialogue has stayed.
In the movie scene, a boy tells his father that “he doesn’t want to be poor” and the dad responds with above dialogue.
When people talk or complain about being broke, not having enough money , being poor etc. The main reason is that they never thought or wanted to be rich.
You can do a simple experiment, ask 10 of your friends/family member about what do they want monetarily in their life and you would be surprised..
Cheers!
Only Person on Planet
“What would you want in life if you were the only person on this planet”. This could be a very powerful way of thinking about priorities in life instead of chasing materialistic (cars, house, mansions) and non-materialistic goals (name, fame etc..), because someone else has it. If we only get happy by having things that others don’t have, it is not truly happiness, but a sign of sickness.
Be joyful!!
Life Ingredients
Life is a game of just five ingredients. Even a pizza requires more ingredients. In yoga, both the human body and the cosmos are based on the magic of only five elements: earth, water, fire, air and ether.
Many people who attained self-realization have often termed life a cosmic joke due to this utterly simplistic ingredient.
Keep life simple.
Cheers!
Do or Do not
Many people add the word “trying” to their sentences signaling a low confidence. There is no such thing as “trying”. You are either doing it or you are not.
Please be affirmative.
Cheers!
Amit Roy 