2016, is/was a terrific year for me. I gained much and I lost as much. There weren’t 365 days of success and wasn’t all time loses either. Looking back I find — it was a balanced year (just like last year, honestly). And, am happy.

This last blog post of this year is like a baby year-end journal for me, where I would like to share some interesting experiences with you. This year I went through self awakening. I asked a lot to questions to self and got the right answers too. It helped me a lot and based on this experiments I am sharing some life tweaking tips:

Stop making resolutions

I don’t have any resolution for coming new year. I have no special plan. I don’t really want to do something extraordinary in coming 2017. Rather I would like to focus more on what i’m doing, doing it better and then more greater.

Mere resolution are boring. Because if you really want to do something, if you really want to change self, if you really want to start something new — Do It Right Now. Don’t wait for that fancy 1st January or your birth date. Why waste a single day!

Mere resolutions won’t work. Stop fooling self. Don’t dream if you don’t want to chase it. Break the pattern you are following all throughout the life. Because water is pure, if it flows.

Break the pattern

I am an early riser. But I was a dead lazy guy too. I would wake up by 6 am and then I would spend next couple of hours lying on the bed doing nothing. Yes, nothing. Then one day, this year, I realised what injustice am doing to self!

That very moment I started rising at 5.30 am sharp — doing Yoga — reading good articles — listening to meditation music — and of course writing. So now, whatever time I go to sleep at night, I wake up at 5.30 am and do all these beautiful activities. No matter what.

Now since it became a routine now — a fix pattern — I would break this too. I would make some refreshing changes at the right time. That would be based on my feedback to self. I do what I like. I do take advices but I don’t blindly do what others say.

Chase your dream and do what you like

Blame yourself if you are not doing what you like. No circumstances, no third party and no supreme power can stop you. But the one who can stop you is YOU.

I pressed the stop button all these years. Those false fears and false concerns always bogged me down. Then, I just came out of that trap.

What I started doing this year?

I have crush on food and I used to ask me — “Can I prepare meal?”. This year, without answering this question, I just started cooking. I am still a learner but am sure I would prepare yummy food soon.

Music is my another crush, so I started playing Guitar. I am self learning and I know I would crack this art.

Thanks to my brother who guided me all through this life, I along with my wife started teaching art and craft to kids — and in return started learning so much from them. It is such a pleasure.

And I started writing — doing the same now.

So what you do apart from what we all are suppose to do to make living? Think.

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These are some of my experience. You need not follow what I have. Rather I would be happy if you won’t blindly follow any of these tips. Every human being is unique and we all have some great qualities. We all want to “do something”. Just start doing, as you wish — as you like — as per your choice and pleasure.

Reproduced from Chhavi Blog:
https://medium.com/chhavi-blog/so-what-would-you-do-next-73babfd99ec9#.m6vfmsbhp