2017 – The year that was…

Nothing less than a roller-coaster ride, the year 2017 kept me at my edge, out of my comfort zone and pushed me to do things I never had imagined myself doing. Today, with only a few days of the year left, I look back at all the good madness, the grief, the hope, the courage to go beyond the fence I had created for myself, the happiness of shaping my life the way I wanted and thank the year 2017 for all the teachings.

The year that will be remembered as the one, where I lived some of my most cherished dreams, surprised myself in amazing ways and took some unexpected yet fulfilling risks. The year in which I took some astounding steps that it seemed to me that someone else has taken over me. I did different things and, also, did things differently. The year when I witnessed that the things are falling into place, it is all adding up together and everything is started to make sense.

As the year comes to an end, I felt like jotting down the lessons, the year taught me, based on the incidents that happened to me in these twelve months. Here is to the year 2017 as a teacher…

1.       January

·         Take risks. It is always better to take risk and regret later than to not take it at all and regret.

·         Sometimes, plunging into the unknown can seem the craziest to do, but it will also be the most adventurous and fun deed to do.

·         Trust your instinct, let it guide you when you are not sure.

2.       February

·         Happiness, sorrow or the life itself; nothing is permanent. Take it easy.

·         Live as only you can, you don’t know what the next moment is holding for you.

·         Blessings usually come disguised as a dilemma. Just wait and give them some time to reveal.

3.       March

·         You might call them mistakes, but later in life when you look back, these mistakes will bring a smile to your face.

·         Stand for what you believe is right, no matter others agree to it or not.

·         Being positive even if everything seems to be falling apart can be the toughest but the most heroic deed to do.

4.       April

·         Whatever you learn in life, it will not be relevant unless you apply it in life.

·         Don’t be afraid to speak about what you want from people.

·         When you feel good about yourself, you will attract people who make you feel good.

5.       May

·         When life gives you a second chance, grab it without any second thoughts.

·         Your mind will always know the right opportunity to grab, listen to it.

·         Forgive them.

6.       June

·         Patience will take you places.

·         Appreciating yourself will help you rise the quality of your work.

·         Do not carry the work stress to home and to life.

7.       July

·         Keep yourself uplifted if you have taken an uphill road.

·         Worrying about things not going well will not help you get things right.

·         Keep giving your hundred percent, no matter what.

8.       August

·         Raise your vibe to attract people who will be your guides, mentors and your cheer squad.

·         Nurture your subconscious mind with positivity and it will push you and make you take up tasks you feared.

·         Find your mojo and use it.

9.       September

·         Making a month, your best month, is in your hands.

·         When you believe in people, people come through.

·         Everything is inside you, as your beliefs; change your beliefs and life will change from inside out.

10.   October

·         Everything, each of your decision will start making sense one day and things will start falling in place, eventually.

·         When you do, what you love or love what you, there will be no one and nothing stopping you.

·         Get out of your comfort zone; all your dreams lie outside your comfort zone.

11.   November

·         If you love something, you must put in everything you have got to get it. You need to work on strategies, plans, maps and connect all the dots to achieve it.

·         Don’t be afraid to confess love, or your mistakes.

·         Never stop following your passion.

12.   December

·         Be thankful for everything.

·         Dare to choose new beginnings, no matter how novel or conventional they seem.

·         Celebrate life!!!

As I usher into a new year or the new year enters my life, I wish you all (and myself) an extraordinary year ahead. Here is to the year 2018!!!

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No one knew about it because I chose not to tell anyone

Disclaimer: I write this after I accumulated all my courage to open up. I write this because a friend of mine found it difficult to comprehend that a girl like me had gone through such a phase. I write this on behalf of millions of other people who still are not ready to write about theirs. I write this because I am not ashamed of it anymore and am profoundly proud of myself for defeating it without the armor of medication or counselling. I write this because I want to share how I overcame it. I write this to represent people who find it impossible to acknowledge that they have/had depression.

I have been there, seen that, felt it, felt the ache, cutting through my soul. Felt the pain, the desperation, the feeling of loss, the feeling that something has died inside me. Writing this brings back some of the most awful memories but today these memories don’t affect me anymore. In fact, I am smiling write now, smiling as I write about the phase which I can, without any second thought, coin as the worst phase of my life.

The pain was so brutal and unforgiving, it seemed it was clutching my heart, grabbing it so tightly that I was not able to breathe. They say mental pain is almost like physical pain. And I was living this fact. I used to feel someone has stabbed my heart and tore it into pieces. Yes, this is exactly how I felt. Crying had become a second nature to me. Insomnia came next, dark circles around my eyes came after that. I used to walk a lot, for hours, aimlessly without any idea of where I was going. I used to walk, as if hoping to walk away from my pain. My ambitions, purpose, career, everything seemed blurry. Life seemed blurry. May be because of my “always teary eyes”. I used to cry myself to sleep.

I chose not to confess this, not to take psychiatric help. I always have been a secretive person, always good at keeping secrets, and I kept this as secret and decided to take this feeling of void to my grave. Not even my closest of people knew what I was going through. My mind used to keep asking one question, on a repetitive mode “why me?”. As it got worse with time, I reached to the lowest of the lows where I started questioning my life. Scary thoughts of wishing it would end soon. Still I couldn’t get the courage to ask for help. I had accepted that I will never be able to come out of this abyss.

It was almost 1 year since it got bad to worse. I didn’t even realize what I might have until one day I overheard some of my friends talking behind my back, something about them convincing and talking me out to go to a psychiatrist for help. And then it stuck me hard. Was I depressed? I googled the word “depression” for the first time in life. And was able to relate to almost all the symptoms (except for the self-destructive thoughts). Acceptance was the toughest. For days, I didn’t believe that I might have depression. I knew I had to do something, but “what”, seemed like the toughest question ever. I used to search out names and addresses of psychiatrists near me and used to stare at the names imagining how would I open up about the pain I was going through. I was not ready to share and speak about it. Few more days passed and I still was clueless about what was happening, still used to cry my eyes out, still used to sit in a dark room staring outside the window.

And then one fine Saturday morning, I looked outside the window, and it was raining. It looked so beautiful, I felt the rain washing the pain for me. For no reason at all, I felt exceptionally ecstatic. For no reason at all, I laughed out loudly, it felt weird. Not only because it was loud, but also because I had laughed after so long, I had almost forgotten how I felt like. I didn’t know if I felt superlatively happy because it was part of one of my mood swings or it was because of the rains but this was the day I felt fear and courage existing simultaneously inside me. Fear of losing myself if I don’t fight and the courage to fight back. I knew I had to do everything possible, to get out of this impossible void I had gotten myself into.

Distracting myself was the first thing I knew I had to do. So, I began with none other than Music as therapy.  I discarded all the sad cassettes and started using my walkman only for cheerful music. I started getting back to all the hobbies I had renounced completely. I started with singing and dancing. Singing was at number one on my priority list. I started singing in weird voices, to make myself laugh. Dancing at fast numbers, as if no one was looking. Yes, I was so desperate to bring back my old self. And it started showing some results. At least I started getting rid of my unusual and unwanted tears. Music always does miracles, trust me. In my case, it had started pulling me back from the dead.

Reading came next. I am an avid reader and reading was another hobby I re-ignited during this phase of getting back on my feet. I used to read the thickest of my books in a night or two. It helped me prevent worrying about myself and instead worry about the protagonist in the book. No wonder they say books are your best friends. Not that it showed results immediately, but at least I had started feeling sleepy at nights due to excessive reading.

I got rid of people (so called friends) who used to send me self-pity and sympathetic messages. I realized, they were just extra baggage I had to get rid of. And I did it without feeling any guilt. Not that they were bad people, but I knew that unless I get rid of them, I will never get rid of the past they all were part of. Trust me, it was a big relief and I felt lot lighter.

Yoga calmed me in a way I can’t explain. Although I always used to do yoga, I earlier had no idea on effects of Yoga on mind apart from my body. It was the phase I used to practice rigorous yoga. It worked wonders for me to begin with and it started soothing my mind in a way which was inexplicable.

But as time flew I again started finding it difficult to manage life. It was that moment I realized I had to resuscitate my ambitions as well and I knew how to do that. Changing air, water, house, street, place, job and people around was the last resort for me. This was the cusp of me getting rid of my depression. I left my job and the city I was living in and to be honest, as we drove out of that city, that was the first time ever I realized I had left my depression in that city forever. I knew I would never look back, and in that moment, I again had tears in my eyes, but this time, these tears were of pure bliss.

It took almost 1 year of my rigorous struggle in a new city, to find a new job and settle with it; and all my life’s effort to prevent myself plunging back into depression. This was also the time I realized that how I unknowingly was using the law of attraction to leave the city I didn’t want to live in. I used to affirm myself that I would be leaving this city by the end of a specific month. And guess what? I left that city by the end of that month, and with that I left all my sorrows and never looked back. I knew, I had done it, all by myself, knowingly and unknowingly, because I wanted to do it.

Today I open about my depression, but there are so many people who have it but it is never accepted by them or acknowledged by their family members. They live in a fear surrounded by social stigma, suffocating inside. I wonder why does it take a celebrity’s confession for people to acknowledge that it is serious and people with depression need support and love? Why is it so hard for people to comprehend the fact that it’s not a phase, it will not get over by itself? Also, people in depression are not doing drama.

Although choosing not to ask for help was not the right thing I did, but today I feel proud of the fact that I overcame it myself. I have reached to a point where I can laugh at my own depression. Not because I won and it lost. But because it is part of who I am today. It made me realize I can come through anything harsh. It made me recognize how strong I am. It was the reason I regained my identity, my ambitions and started my journey of finding my purpose. I wish everyone ever, going through such anguish, gets through this, and opens up to the fact that life is too worthy to be wasted for a person, phase, or event.   

P.S.: I thank my depression, the inspiration behind this blog.

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Life lessons from kids can demystify The Law for us!!

Running senselessly till I am out of breath, laughing uncontrollably till my stomach starts hurting and playing games that are so childish, I start questioning my maturity level. Yes, playing with my nieces is like travelling back in the 80s. The time when my only wish was to grow up, me oblivious of the fact that growing up would only make life complex. Playing with them is also like working out because they never let me rest (as if they are my personal trainers) and I find myself trying exceedingly hard to match with their energy level. Sometimes, it becomes tough as well but to be around them and stay crazy is priceless. And there are innumerable things I learn from them; I might even allow them to have regular classes for me and grown-ups like me. Every time I see a twinkle in their eyes, I catch it unknowingly. Their lighthearted laughter is infectious and so care free, it makes me forget everything I am fretting about. And I wish, if only, I could learn and be like them, I will always find myself on cloud nine for no reason, be less prone to the drama around and more receptive to the fact that the Universe is magnificently magical.

Being around their unusually ecstatic company and listening to their exquisite conversation, I have started believing that kids are Universe’s way of telling us to be like them if we want ourselves to be happier, appreciative, pleased at everything around and connected with our source, like they are. There are life lessons they teach us, that can be so transforming, we as grownups should rethink on spending more time with them. If I could replicate at least one of their qualities below, I will be pulled a bit closer to my source. Also, if we observe these lessons minutely, they demystify the universal law of attraction for us. Let us dissect the learning and see how it all fits together to simplify the law for us.

They are enthusiastically energetic, and so full of life, most of the time (touchwood!!). It takes so much of extra efforts for us to keep up with their energy level. It is as if they are some kind of highly vibrating energy balls. And if you are around them, there is no way you will not be able to match their energy frequency. It is infectious. If we can exhibit their kind of enthusiasm toward life and its challenges, we automatically will start raising our vibes and feeling good. And once we start feeling good, the law will take its course and one by one, our pieces of troubles will start resting in peace.

The unconditional love they offer to everyone, without any judgement or conditions or expectation, can we ever love like them? Sometimes I think they recognize people (even if they are strangers) through their vibes and automatically connect with them. And if they like you, they don’t care if you like them back. If we match with their vibe, they will love us anyways. And that is how they easily attract back love, even it is from a stranger. Loving like a kid, with no conditions and radiating love for everyone around us is what we need to learn. Reflecting love always bring love back to us, as they already say “like attracts like”.

For them, the tiniest of the things is proportional to the vastest of happiness. They can effortlessly find pleasure in the simplest things. From a broken doll to a funny looking key chain, from a tiny twig to a clumsy sketch, everything is amusing for them. Seems like they want us to learn how to find joy in life’s simplest things, instead of waiting for some monumental event. And yes, it teaches us to appreciate everything we have in life right now, even though it is small, to attract a major life altering miracle.

Have you all noticed how persistent are they when they want something. If they want something they want it with all their heart and are so determined, they usually don’t give up until they get that. They have all their focus on that one toy which they believe will bring them happiness. You might call this obstinacy; I call it persistence. Something that teaches us how to be persistent for our dreams and goals, keep it in your mind and focus on those, every time you have time. Be it through your affirmations or consistent thoughts, be it through your visualization or through your words, believe in the fact that you have achieved your dream. Be persistent for your dream and the Universe will be persistent in helping you achieve it.

Forgiveness was never my forte and I think it is difficult for us all, but see how quickly they forgive each other. Sometimes in a few seconds, they are from each other’s worst foes to best of friends. Isn’t this something you would like to grasp from them? Instead of clinging to our anger, forgiving it and letting go will be the best gift we can offer to our soul. The law says that if you can’t forgive your past, you can never be grateful for your present and can never achieve the future of your dreams. Forgiving and letting go is one of the first few steps we all will have to take to continue on our journey to the destination of our dream life.

If you have to witness make-believe at its best, watch children’s pretend plays. Psychology says it is healthy part of their social, emotional and cognitive development and every child engages in pretend plays. It is fascinating to watch them making up stories, imagining, role playing and acting as someone else. It is like witnessing a fantasy. They act as fairies, super heroes, prince/princesses or anything they want to be.  It’s something we should learn from them on how to imagine or visualize who we want to be, what we want to achieve or how we want our life to be. Imagining miracles will be one of the most important steps on our way to becoming deliberate creators. (Although I would like to emphasize here that mere imagining success with no action will lead you nowhere. The Law of Attraction has “action” as suffix).

Wow…their belief!!! So strong, so unwavering. They believe in fairy tales and magical kingdoms, queens and kings, princes and princesses. They believe that Rapunzel has magical hair or Cinderella owns a magic shoe. They believe in every magic and everything magical and they believe with all their heart. They never question the existence of miracles. Unswerving and firm, I wish I could have that kind of faith for my dreams. I consider believing in yourself and in the Universe is the most important part of manifesting your dreams and is also the most difficult. But if we can master our belief, we can be the masters of our destiny. And mastering our belief is what we should learn from kids.

Their sense of oneness, their connection with who they know and with those they don’t know. Can we try and learn it from them, to know and act as if we all are one, that the Universe is one and we all are connected through the superconscious, that there is abundance for everyone so we should cheer for everyone, that if we wish or pray for others, it will be given to us as well. That sense of oneness found in kids can be lighted in us as well.

            Do kids need reason to laugh? No. My nieces laugh at lamest of my jokes. They find everything hilarious. Yes, they can feel good for no reason, smile or laugh for no reason. And they laugh open-heartedly. FEEL GOOD. The words I just highlighted in capitals is the MOST important lesson you can learn from kids and the MOST important step you must be at for the Law to work in your favor. Either you feel good because you are grateful for the things you have right now or else find another reason to feel good. But you must anyhow try and feel good, no matter what. The Universe always reciprocates your feelings while it is working on manifesting your dreams. And your emotions play the MOST important signals for the Universe. So, send out only the best of emotions out and be ready to get the best.

Yes, only if we take them seriously, children can teach us how and why not to take life so seriously. And, how life and the laws of Universe will always be in our favor if we let our inner child keep having fun.

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What (or who) is stopping you from writing?

I wrote for almost a week, edited content 6 times, finalized and published my blog, only to realize the next day that there is a video created on similar concept, already available on You tube. Not only was it disheartening for me, I also started developing self-doubts, fearing people will start thinking I have plagiarized someone else’s idea. After going through some hard moments of uncertainties and apprehensions, I realized how unfair I am to doubt myself every time on such a petty issue and worry about the judgement of people who most of the time, don’t even matter.

This moment of realization (or should I say, awakening) came to me when I comprehended the fact that two great authors writing two books on the same subject, usually end up inscribing similar ideas through almost similar words. They are too magnificent authors to be doubted that they would have stolen ideas from the other. This realization brought instant enormous relief as I was able to drop my unheroic idea of “never writing again”.

I realized that there should be no excuse to stop you from doing something you love to do (in this case, writing). You don’t stop writing just because you found a similar article already available on the internet, or you think people might not appreciate your effort, or you have naysayers pulling you down or you start questioning yourself if you are good enough.

I resolved each of the challenge one by one (thanks to my moment of realization). I realized that there will always be your thought doppelgangers, who will think like you. If you all are writing on the same subject, there will be chances your ideas and writing technique would be similar. There are millions (I couldn’t find the exact number) of people who are writers, or claim to be writers, or wannabe writers (in English language) and there are just 171,476 words available in the Oxford English Dictionary. Think about the chances of ideas getting repetitive!!! And you should actually be thankful that there are people who think like you and have similar thought process. And you can float the same existing idea again since neither the thoughts/ideas, nor the style of writing can be patented.

Coming to the fear of cynics around, I only have three words for them, “ignore their existence”. Remember, only the ones who pushed/pulled you up. These are the ones whom you have to acknowledge in your award acceptance speech.

Lastly, worrying about your writing competence is something you shouldn’t be doing if you have dared to write. There are enough of dreams which died just because the person who dreamt those, was not confident enough to pursue those. It shouldn’t be yours. Just keep writing, practicing and learning. Read authors who inspire you. Watch videos on how to develop writing skills. You need not have training or professional course to pursue a dream. Just pour your heart out cause the heart always materializes ideas in the best way possible.

So keep writing (or pursuing any other dream) and have fun!!!

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Staircase to materializing "miracles"

“Miracles” – Wow, what a word that is!!!  One of my MOST FAVORITE WORDS and I can’t stress it enough. There is so much of extraordinary mystery around the word that captivates me. Something that is inexplicable, extraordinarily exceptional and so remarkable, it makes you wonder. Sometimes even science is not able to explain these, and you feel if cause of miracles is some divine intervention.

I believe in miracles, I, myself am one.  With a soul (no one can define), an amalgamation of conscious and subconscious minds, the heart, the organs, the cells, working in perfect harmony, every single day of life. Doesn’t it sound like a miracle? Yes, we all are miracles, moving around, unknown of the fact that we are. Some of us even questioning the existence of miracles.

And for those who never believed in the existence of miracles, I was like you. A scientifically oriented girl, always trying to figure out the logic behind everything. I believed in mere coincidences and accidents. Until I witnessed the fact that the you will be undermining the magnificence of the Universe, if you don’t believe in miracles. And it is not the Universe alone, creating miracles, sometimes it works in coordination with our minds. Yes, miracles are born in our minds. If you believe in it, you will witness it, everywhere. I started witnessing miracles, when I lost my resistance toward it. And I believe, there is a staircase to materializing miracles in your life, if you take it, step by step, persistently and patiently.

       Stair 1 to 10: Believe – If you believe in the existence of miracles, you will find it everywhere. It is not that they were not present earlier but now since you believe in these, your mind will start focusing and finding them out. From a beautifully colored butterfly to a tiny seed developing into a huge tree. From your heart beating fast when you see someone you love to your mind’s expertise in taking you to places through thoughts. Aren’t all these miracles? Believe me, if you start believing in them, life is nothing but a series of fabulous miracles sitting all around you, hoping you would notice them.

      

       Stair 11 to 25: Make-believe – Once you start believing in the miracles, congratulations, you are on the stair 11, make-believe, a verb that means imagine or play-act. Don’t you all remember playing make-believe as a kid? Well, I remember. We, as kids had exceptional imagination. Hence we believed in everything miraculous. From fairies to magical kingdoms, we believed in everything, and with certainty. But as we grew up, our imagination lost its ground and maturity took its toll. And now we all believed a little lesser. I believe, if we make-believe miracles, our mind will start mending ways to make it a reality. Just think, what is the miracle you are seeking? How would you feel when you see it in real? Go to that zone of make-believe, attach emotions to it, feel and match with its frequency. Your mind will immediately take the hint and start its job to make it real.

      Stair 26 to 35: Expect – Start expecting your miracle. Feel excited about it. Be happy that it is on its way. Know that it will be there for you. But in this process of expecting, you need to have an unswerving patience. How do you act when you know some event is assured to happen? Do you ever doubt it? Don’t you expect a knock at your door when your friend is expected at your home at a specific time? Don’t you keep your phone handy when you are expecting your mother to call? Have that kind of unquestionable and conclusive expectation for your miracle to arrive.

      

      Stair 36 to 45: Attract – Since you, yourself are a miracle, so as per the Law of attraction, “like attracts like”. If you believe you are a miracle why can’t you attract miracles? And once you believe in this fact, you will be attracting it not only for you, you will attract miracles for people close to you. You will attract it from everywhere, for everyone around you. You will hear more miraculous stories of people sharing it with you. Just believe in you being your own miracle and you will attract it from everywhere possible.

     Stair 45 to 50: Materialize – And the final step when you actually materialize a miracle in front of you. And you will not find it unfamiliar because you have lived it in your mind. Haven’t you been expecting it? This moment of utter exhilaration is not only of materializing your miracle but also of the awareness that you are capable of creating miracles because you yourself are one. Congratulations on the realization!!!

And as very rightly said by none other than Dr. Wayne Dyer, “I am realistic, I expect miracles”. 

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Notes to Self

       

        I have blogs, articles, stories sitting and lying lazily on my laptop in a miscellaneous folder named “when are you going to use these” (I tried but couldn’t use a question mark (?) in the folder name because the folder names can’t contain a character). I used to open this folder every now and then and felt the word files staring at me longingly and with a hope that I might publish one of those. But somehow I always failed them because I thought they were not good enough. And I used to say “someday” while closing the folder back as if trying to answer the question “when are you going to use these”. But today, someone pretty persuasive* convinced me to publish one of my compilations of notes I write for myself as affirmations/reminders. 

These #NotesToSelf are to keep myself motivated in a world of electrons and media. They help me get closer to who I want to be. I have been using these as ways of reminding myself who I am and what I want myself to be, lifting my frequency, vibrating on a higher plane, keeping myself in alignment with my source and the Universe. I sometimes send these as messages to myself and use as updates on my twitter account.

Yeah, that’s how hard I work to keep myself out of my worry zone. You see, I am a worrier, I sometimes worry about not having anything to worry about. Hence, this kind of uplifting and self-pushing is needed for souls like me.

So here I am, publishing my #NotesToSelf and hoping, you can relate to some of these and a few might even make you smile or uplift your mood.

1.       Smile. You know you look beautiful when you do.

2.       Sing. Just sing whenever you can. Even if it is the office restroom.

3.       Don’t do it if you can’t put your heart into it.

4.       People need more inspiration, try and inspire them.

5.       Once in every 3 days, laugh so heartily your stomach starts hurting or you spill water all over.

6.       Grow up but don’t age. Look at least 7 years younger than your age. Give them a shock when they ask you your age.

7.       Workout like a freak. Give them fitness goals.

8.       Your body is the home for your soul. Don’t put in anything that ruins it.

9.       Drink water, a lot. And, don’t dare waste food.

10.   Don’t settle for anything just okay. Also, stay away from people who are okay about being okay.

11.   Don’t judge. Don’t ever judge. Always put yourself in their shoes before making an opinion about someone.

12.   Always find time to call those who are waiting for it.

13.   If 2+3 is 5, doesn’t mean 4+1 isn’t 5. If you are right, doesn’t mean they are wrong. Accept it.

14.   Don’t you dare compare yourself with anyone. You are unique and so is everyone else. Also, you have no idea what they are going through and they don’t know what you have survived.

15.   Don’t label any sex, region, caste, people based on the deed of one person. Not all five fingers in your hand are similar.

16.   The people who have opinion about you will never be there when you will need them. Don’t live life based on their opinion. Let them have it. It’s a free country after all.

17.   Care about people. You have a beautiful heart and you are not a robot.

18.   It’s okay to be sensitive and get hurt. It reminds you that you are capable of loving unconditionally.

19.   Motivate yourself to an extent that you can motivate others as well.

20.   Write your heart out, even if you don’t publicize. Write it for yourself.

21.   Don’t act as a queen, act as a leader. You were not born to rule; you were born to lead.

22.   There will always be electrons, the negative ones, the naysayers who will try to rule you out, bring you down. But unless you give them the power, they can’t affect you.

23.   Mind your energy. Raise your frequency. Vibrate higher.

24.   Give yourself a break, occasionally. You don’t have to pay the bills, right on time, or return the call, right away.

25.   There are people wishing for a life like you. Don’t crib. Br grateful.

26.   Have a sense of humor. Use it as an armor to survive any negative situation or being.

27.   Be responsible, in every way possible.

28.   Don’t make anyone wait for you. Arrive before time and see their expression of loving surprise when they see you reach early for them.

29.   Don’t break rules. Breaking rules is never cool. Break stereotypes instead.

30.   Dress up as you want to. People will stare, make it worth their while.

31.   Don’t feel guilty about spending money. You have earned it and you will earn more. Don’t keep it stagnant, let it flow.

32.   Don’t lose faith, or your temper.

33.   Inoculate only the positive into your subconscious mind. Filter out everything negative.

34.   Read. Read. Read. You will never be too old to stop learning.

35.   Keep listening to music, singing, writing, reading, working out. Keep busy.

36.   Be an exception. Not the rule.

37.   Be in NOW. Here, in the moment. There is no “forever” unless there is no “now”.

38.   Refuse mediocrity, don’t settle for anything or anyone average.

39.   Look up to people who inspire you and try to be like them.

40.   Never stop believing in eternal love.

41.   Love minus conditions. Tell people you love.

42.   Your soul has no deadline. Take your time.

43.   Forgive yourself for all the blunders and mistakes. You had no idea they were mistakes.

44.   Believe in miracles. You yourself are one!!!

45.   Believe in yourself. But more than that, believe in the Universe.

46.   The entire Universe is behind you, looking up to you, for your command. Wish wisely.

47.   Have audacious dreams. The dreams which create visible twinkle in your eyes and butterflies in your stomach when you are talking about those.

48.   Your unwavering and unshakeable faith is what going to manifest your dreams.

49.   Burn all the bridges behind, leave yourself no possible way of retreat, let your dream engulf you, consume you in a way that your only option is to live it.

50.   There are 26,000,000,000,000 cells in your body rooting for your dream. Go for it!!!

And last but not the least.

51.   Make your parents proud.

*P.S.: The persuasive thing that inspired me to post this was my Baba’s (grandfather’s) name written on one of his books.

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