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The Secret to Producing More Time in Your Life: 6 Core Time Management Principles Inspired by Dr. Sudhir Dixit’s "Time Management" | By Prem Kaithwas Some years back, I often said, “I wish I had more time .” I used to start my day full of energy, but by evening, I’d feel drained and incomplete — like I did a lot, but didn’t actually move forward. This feeling is common when you haven't mastered personal time management . Then I read Dr. Sudhir Dixit’s seminal book on Time Management. One line from it fundamentally changed how I looked at everything: “You can’t manage time. You can only manage yourself within time.” And it clicked. We all get the same 24 hours. The difference between those who create something meaningful and those who feel stuck isn’t a matter of time — it’s a matter of clarity and self-management . 1. Slow Down to Move Faster: The Power of Deep Work There was a phase where I’d open my laptop, start coding, reply to a few messages, then check something ra...

Why Humans Overthink: An Evolutionary Point of View A few hundred thousand years ago, Earth was wild—and so were we. Survival was a full-time job. Thinking, analyzing, and planning wasn’t a luxury—it was necessary. It helped humans make tools, build societies, and cooperate. Thinking was survival. Today, our living standards have improved, physical work has decreased, and comfort has replaced activity. As the saying goes: A healthy mind resides in a healthy body. But our intelligence became a badge of honor, leading to fragile egos. Now, even small triggers can shatter our self-esteem. We Overthink Because We’re Bored Children play, create, and explore. That’s human nature. Our minds are wired to improve, solve problems, and create. But idle minds wander. Without meaningful activity, thoughts loop into self-judgment and imagined scenarios. Scrolling social media, binge-watching shows, and constant comparison fuel overthinking. Example: Replaying conversations, worryi...

Have you ever found yourself typing the same long command again and again in a project, and thought… "Life would be so much easier if I didn’t have to type this every single time" ? That’s exactly where a Makefile can help you. What is a Makefile? A Makefile is just a plain text file where you define shortcuts for your commands. It tells the make command what to do when you type something like: make up Instead of writing the whole long command every time, you just run make with the shortcut you defined. A Simple Example Let’s say you’re working with Docker and the command to start your app looks like this: docker-compose -f docker-compose.development.yml up Typing this again and again is boring. Instead, create a file named Makefile in your project root and add this: up: docker-compose -f docker-compose.development.yml up Now, all you need to do is run: make up Boom! Much shorter, much cleaner. Adding More Commands You can add as many shortcuts as you want inside yo...

Before jumping to the reasons why you keep losing money, let’s pause for a moment. Ask yourself: Why do I even want to keep money with me? If you don’t have a clear reason, then maybe that’s exactly why money slips away. Sounds brutal? Maybe. But this isn’t about being nice — this is about being honest.

Are you on a vacation but can't stop thinking about your work? You might be a responsible person but that is not the reason you are thinking about it. Your routine is changed recently and you are in a new environment that is new to you. We are people of habits and actions.  Get away with the tools you use for your work or things that get your brain to work on. Your mobile, your laptop, camera or anything that trigger you to open it and check something or do something because you do not have anything to do. What could go wrong when you will be back on work. This thing is most common and reveals that you are scared of something or someone. Know that thing is important because you are giving it importance may be more than your health, your relationships and things that are actually important. Exercise is important but not always, drinking water is important but not always so work is important but not always. What you've chosen is to take a break, make sure that you are taking a br...

Have you ever asked yourself, “Why was I born?” or “What if I didn’t exist?” These questions often come when life feels heavy, when something bad happens, or when we feel lost. If you’re in that space right now, take a deep breath — you’re not alone.

Life can feel heavy sometimes. When it does, a simple reminder of what makes living meaningful can help. This list mixes small comforts and long-term goals — plus a few short anecdotes — to pull you back when the weight feels too much. Keep this page handy.

When you are practicing self-control and ways to improve your life you might have wondered why my life is at the pit in the first place? Then the answer is, not taking the ownership of your life. Doing things whenever you feel like it. Here comes the answer: SELF-CONTROL Whether you are practicing nofab or  brahmacharya, I want to congratulate you for stepping into things that are good for you and your health. So what is the difference? In simple words nofab is step 1 on the level of self-control and brahmacharya is level 10.  Lets dive deep into this terms to understand each on better. Nofab Any man or woman practicing nofab will stay away from sexual activities and control there urge for any kind of sexual activities with the help of there inner will only, that is tough I would say.  In order to stay pure they will seek online advice and find some mentor to guide them. Eventually they will find out that they have to keep themselves engaged into something to burn there e...

Disappointed man Address your feelings, analyse why you have this feelings? Ofcourse because you are human and humans do have feelings.  When it comes to others there is always a good reason why you feel someway about someone? How you've been treated by the other person everytime you had an encounter with that person? Why you feel there is a connection? Yes! Pheromones there genetic make up and other aspects that make us feel attracted towards someone is there but you will be attracted once, twice or as long as the person is around. You will eventually forget about the person in the long run. But if that's not happening then there must be a good reason why you can't let the person go. What is it that is missing and why do you want to be with this person? Okay! What is the ultimate thing you want with this person? What kind of relationship you want with this person? Give yourself time. Life won't be and it was never about you and your own self. The people in your life ma...

Exoplanet Existence of heaven is a lot like existence of God. You never saw him but you know in your heart that the God does exist and he is guiding you at times and he is the reason you are alive. I do not know whether heaven exists or not, neither I've seen it with my eyes. There are different believes among different people, religion and texts but they are all based on something that has been passed on by generations or found in religious texts. Heaven is a place where people want to go but they do not know where it is, neither Google map can locate it. Heaven is a place that is good, rich and has got everything you will ever need. This place would be pleasing for somebody who is not rich does not have enough in this life that is the reason he or she is eager to know whether there is a heaven or not. To have hope to go there by their good deeds if that's the way. Real or just a possibility? There are so many planets in our galaxy and there are so many galaxies in our univers...

You cannot do anything about the other people in your life. The least you could do is to save yourself from the harm they are doing or possibly can do. What is not good?  There must be some activities in your home you do not like or the people in your home. Address them to your people that I do not like this. Until somebody stoods up and tell that you are having problem with things people think they are doing it right. If it's not gonna kill you speak up! what is it you do not like tell them in a polite way. Maintain your distance if it is something you cannot control. Gather alliance in your family and take help from neighbors if required. How long does it lasts? Is it something that happens for 1-2 mins like some quarrels or scolding you get on a monthly basis or it is something you have to go through daily? How bearable it is? Can you seek some help from your other family members and neighbors? Take help from others. Or this is something you keep playing in your head all the tim...

A married person having feelings for someone other than there spouse is a quite complicated thing. Because there are many layers into this, quite like a movie. Do you like movies? A simple answer would be just stop your communication with the other person and be with your spouse talk to her/him and tell your spouse that you have feelings for someone. How your spouse is and How you are is the first thing you should address. How long you've been together? How was your marriage together? Do you talk to your spouse often or you do not find time for him/her just because of your work. We are humans we get attached to dogs if we spend enough time with a dog. I would say do not ruin your marriage if your spouse is a good person. Your spouse is your spouse for a good reason. You should consider the things your spouse do for you. If your spouse is not doing it. Talk to them. Talking to your spouse solves the 90% of your problem and if your spouse does not want to talk and just walks away eve...

Everyone of us have certain believes. While growing up each one of us developed certain believes about ourselves, about other people and world as a framework to drive our life. The sad part is that many of our belief are given to us either to follow what our parent's order or to instill fear in us. All this believes or limitations get lodged in our subconscious mind. Later, the person operate his/her world on the framework instill in the subconscious mind. Just have a look at your current life. Do you always follow what others want you to do? Is it really your cooperation with others or it's just fear of abandonment. What kind of relationships you have? Are your relationships good for your mental, physical , emotional and spiritual growth? Do you always try to make others happy, rather than keeping yourself happy? There are huge level of things that operate an individual's life. And those things are out of the scope of this blog post. I've mentioned just somet...

It depends what do you want in your life. If you want material success. Many successful people wake up between 4am to 8am, while they go to there bed between 9pm to 2am. All they have sleep around 8 hours to 5 hours. Every human being has there own. Sleep cycles. Some need full 8 hours of sleep. Some are fit with having 6 or 7 hours sleep, on contrary some consciously choose to sleep 6 hours. It's totally up to you how many sleep hours you need. Based on that, choose your sleeping time and waking time. It's better to consciously choose our sleep than playing life on automode. I wake up at 6:45am. It gives me time for exercise and meditation. Whatever you do in life. Make sure you are investing time in your health, relationships and personal interests.

Solutions Early morning can give. If you always find yourself busy. Early mornings can add more time to your life. If there is some hobby you want to practice or a new skill to work on. Early morning is the solution. If you are loosing on your health. Early morning can give you time to make time for your body health. Extras of waking up early. You feel fresh all day long. You have more time. Why you can't wake up early in the morning . For whatever reason. If you are staying up late night. You're less likely to wake up early on daily basis. Overeating is also a reason for feeling lazy in the morning. When your body is not tired enough to sleep like a baby at night. All these few reasons why most of the people can't wake up early in the morning. How to wake up early in the morning. Eat atleast two hours before you sleep. Avoid seeing any screen one hour before you sleep. Keep your mobile phone away from your bed before you sleep. During the day time, exercise and m...

You remember, when you were around your friends or family or on a trip enjoying or reading a book or working on a project. When you were lost in the present moment. You were thinking nothing. You was in that moment enjoying things and people around you. Whatever you were doing that time. You was in action/ motion that time. Anxiety of future hits you when you are still and same goes with the heartaches of the past. A person who has no goal, purpose today. Has fear and anxiety of tomorrow. A person who isn't at peace with his/her past will be haunted by wounds of past. To be in present, you need to cut out the strings holding you in past or future. I'm not against planning for your future or learning from past mistakes, failure or any analysis that can help you today or tomorrow. Most beautiful memories of yours are in past. Lots of opportunities that can transform you and your life are waiting for you in the future and it's nothing wrong to think about it for awhile. ...

Happiness is one of those emotion that our ancestors and society has welcomed with open arms. It's contrary sadness, misery and failure are perceived as uninvited guest. If you are seeking answer of "how to be happy all the time", you are avoiding some kind of pain or suffering. By avoiding, things doesn't get solved normally. Confront your suffering with open mind and ask this question to yourself:- What is bothering me. Why it is bothering me. How should I act inorder to be at my peace. When you are at peace. You perceive things differently, that are potentially enough to make you sad. Let's define happiness: " A point of view of a particular individual based on his perception of things that make him/her happy ". As you can see I am trying to tell you that, it is just a POV. Anything that makes you happy. It can be so depressing to some other person. So instead of seeking happiness. Enjoy when you are happy and live that moment with gr...

This book was written after taking interview of many-many millionaires and billionaires. While reading this I thought that, it will give me a quick formula to get rich on my own. It does has things that are helpful in being financially independent. As it speaks about things around your brain, mind and thoughts feelings and emotions. It may seem like, what does feelings and emotions has to do with being rich. I want to tell you that it does. How do you feel about yourself. What things you desire and how strong that desire is, it speaks about this things deeply. One more thing that I felt is repeated in this book is that, programming your subconscious mind for what you want in your life. It may seem like programming your mind is easy. Just listen the affirmations repeatedly and this is true till some degree. I will suggest be choosy while choosing a affirmation for you and your life. Give it good amount of time to think and analyse. It is a good read and atlast I want to say that, rea...

Yesterday, I saw this movie " I want to eat your pancreas" . In the beginning of this movie I thought it would be something interesting as this movie's name is a bit different and it stands out to make you think about it or what this movie is about. At last it made me emotional. I am writing review for this movie because the male protagonist is quite similar to me and some scenes touched me. It made me think and rethink about my perception and the way I operate around people. The story is about a girl 'Sakura' who is going to die and in those last days of her life, she wants to do things in her bucket list. And while completing things in her bucket list, Haruki (the male protagonist) learn things about his life. That, Why is he Antisocial and doesn't has any friends. If you are someone reading who doesn't has friends you must go for this movie.  This movie taught me three very necessary things for life.  First, Most of the times we think that people w...

How start small to improve yourself If you are on this blog reading about how to improve yourself. You are half way done. You have the most important thing needed for change "The Desire". Here we go with the small things you can bring within yourself in order to step towards a better self. 1. Look Simplest thing to change is the way you look. Changing you hairstyle. The way you dress, your clothing and most important your attitude. 2. Your Environment Your work place, bed room, or any place you spend most of your time. Observe the unnecessary things there and dump them. Add some good pictures, home/office decorative , and declutter your place time to time. 3. Things and People If you wanna pick a new hobby get a company with someone who's into that hobby. If you wanna quit a bad habit, Stop spending time at the place where you do that. Also stop seeing those people who participate in the same bad habit(e.g, Alcohol, Drugs) with you. 4. Ea...

What Is Intuition And How To Use Intuition Intuition Intuition is a feeling you feel out of nowhere. It guides you, and you just have this feeling that I must follow this thing, do this thing, take that action. All the time it guides you towards exactly the thing right for you. How to Use Intuition? 👇 Recognise the difference It happens quite often that when we are new to intuition. Logic gets in and we think that oh! that's my intuition I must follow. So whenever you are confused between logic and intuition. Check, where this information is coming from? If this information/ decision/ conclusion/ calculation is based on the past data/experience then its not your intuition speaking. It's 100 percent your logic speaking. Intuition is a feeling you feel towards some action/urge. Your gut is guiding you towards. Go with that feeling at your own risk. It is usually fruitful. Try to stay calm The more you try to hold the sand ...