Blog 16 - Physical Distancing Strategy - Using available Technology

I wanted to do this as the Virus spreads; I think everyone should make use of the technology that we can use not only for convenience but also for our safety.

First of all, there should be minimal exposure to yourself and people. This goes both ways, protecting others and yourself from any possible exposure to the virus.

1. Get your daily chores done yourself; it includes making coffee or cooking food.

2. Things of everyday use, say groceries order it via delivery apps there are a bunch of them.

3. Get video streaming services.

4. Do Yoga, use health bands to monitor your vitals.

3. Try sticking to a vegetarian diet, no relation with the virus, but, bacteria/viruses grow quickly in meat as compared to vegetables. Try eating freshly cooked food every day. That will build up your immune system.

4. Use humidifiers with camphor oil or Eucalyptus oil to disinfectant the air around you.

5. Work from Home if you are sick or otherwise. Use web-based calling apps.

6. Wash hands with soap and water or use sanitizer. If you want to make your own sanitizer, mix 2:1 parts of 90% Rubbing alcohol to Glycerin as the base, you can add essential oils to it. Don’t add any organic products.

6. Avoid travel in public transport unless very necessary. Use cab services.

7. Follow the news from valid sources. Do not believe in rumours.

8. Don’t take any chances, unless necessary. As they say, DONT BE A HERO!!!

9. Disinfect your Laptops, Phones and other gadgets and maintain a regular point to redo it.

10. Be in touch with people who matter to you. Do WhatsApp calls, use the group calling feature. Don’t use apps that have privacy and data concerns.

11. Follow the World Health Organization's personal hygiene procedures. Like for washing hands, taking a bath, coughing etiquette and so on.

Blog 15 - The Walk of Life

कः कालः कानि मित्राणि को देशः कौ व्ययागमौ ।

कश्चाहं का च मे शक्तिरिति चिन्त्यं मुहुर्मुहुः ॥

Consider again and again the following: the right time, the right friends, the right place,

the right means of income, the right ways of spending, and from whom you derive your power.

The quote from above was said by Acharya (Teacher) Chanakya, although there are many other quotes that are said by this great sage, this one got my attention in particular. The following blog could be a gold mine of information if one gets the correct sense of it. I invested months to come up with this blog, however, I had to test the theory too, this is what took a lot of time.

This is how it goes...

One should notice that if in childhood/early-age we were on the top of everything that we did, whatever we wanted to achieve we would achieve it. However, once we entered our adulthood things started to crumble, suddenly everything we wanted to achieve took an awful amount of time or even constant pursuit to achieve and the excitement was not as enjoyable as it was meant to be. On the contrary, we might notice that the undeserving are getting successful in their lives in no matter what they want to do or want to achieve. Have you ever experienced this constant dilemma of what’s wrong has happened to us?. Also, the person that has the capability to move mountains, the person with a will of steel, why do we have to struggle in my life at this stage when we prepared myself for any challenges and to overcome them since childhood. This whole scenario can be vice-versa too.

What I have noticed is that when I needed to have something, the struggle that I have to go through makes me a distance from the people who are close to me, other than my family. Once I am at this place, the struggles come to a conclusion after a long stretch of time. This has happened multiple times now. I started wondering what is it that’s making these ups and downs in my walk of life. I have come to an observation that when I distanced myself from specific people that I’ve known since my glory days things start to work like a clockwork. However, once I get in touch with them again, my life starts taking a dip again and start from the beginning.

What I’ve been experimenting with, is trying to find the exact time-frame of when this "falling apart" started. Once you’ve collected that data try to find what major relationship changes you went through that particular time frame, who were the people you met or left during this time-frame. Who you were close to, who you cancelled totally from your life. Now try to pinpoint the outcomes and the transition in your life, was it better or worst.

Try to draw a road map of all the major events, good or bad with reference to the year and months if possible. Once you’ve done this pinpoint the people who you were in contact or the people you were influenced by. Try to remember the exact opinions or advise these people gave you and how it made you feel. This is important so as to analyze the intentions these people had towards you. Not everyone who is close to you has good intentions towards you. Knowingly or unknowingly there is a sort of positive or negative vibe that these people have, trust me it affects you in such a way that you would never imagine.

Below is a timeline template that you can refer:

The years are clearly marked, the alphabets will be the names. the one thing that is not mentioned in the above timeline is the notable event in our life in that particular year. This event can go below the years marked and associated will be the names of people. This exercise was given to a decent sample of people, the demographics were scattered around the world and the results are still coming in.

Well, you could be on the other side too, this is when we are on the someone's timeline. Notice whether your presence in someone’s life made their life miserable. I think in such a case it would be better off taking an exit from their life in order to give them a fair chance to happiness and not thinking of selfish gains, in other words making the ultimate sacrifice for the people you really care about.

That's for now, I'll be working on a venture so the influx of blogs will be delayed.