Need motivation - look back | sometimes only you can help you

I am grateful for what I have. Blessed with a family, surrounded by beautiful people in my personal and professional circles, a job that can pay my bills and a home to sleep in ( and to accumulate all useless stuff 😁). But at times I feel lost and my motivational levels go down.

I followed many leadership gurus. Robin Sharma, Vishen Lekiani, David Goggins, Jordan Peterson and many others. Yes, their ideas helped me a lot. But the person who can motivate you the most is none other than you. When you need motivation just think about why you came so long to this point. You could have dropped it on the way. But you struggled and reached here. Yes, there were times when we were emotionally down, lazy, and professionally weak. But those times will also go away. As Steve Jobs once quoted. You cannot connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them by looking backwards. Follow your intuitions. Your brain or your intellect is limited. Don't rely much on it. Living using your brain will not take you so long. But your heart is aware of what you need, what is your purpose, your future, even your next life (if there is any) and everything. That is why we have intuitions. Life will be full of perplexing situations.

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Mahal Foods Biriyani hut - food spots

Today I visited a restaurant on my food spots list - Mahal Foods Biriyani Hut Kollam. I had chicken biriyani. It was an above-average biriyani. I will give a 3/5 for the biriyani ( and 4/5 for biriyani from Grand hotel, Aluva). It was not a crowded place as I expected. Hardly 10 people were there and only chicken biriyani was available. It is 4km away from the bypass road.

Top down approach - start from a problem statement not from a tool

Course completion posts are frequent in Linkedin. Never have I seen any updates like “I have completed this Project”. As a software engineer, I have done many courses on software languages like Python, Javascript, Flutter, Angular, etc. After these many years in the industry, I think this approach won’t get us anywhere. It is a good approach as a beginner when we are out of college or to get a job. Whatever we have learned will be forgotten if not practiced daily. What I am suggesting is a top down approach.

First, we need to conceive an idea that we can do - a problem which worth solving. It can be a collaborative project involving like-minded people or a single-man project. Design the system and then learn the required technologies. The purpose of the project will always keep us motivated. In this way, we can gain lots of experience. And who knows one day it may grow into a multi-billion platform like Facebook or Instagram.

Top down approaches gives us experiences on various realms such as time management, product management, sales, marketing, implementation best practices, etc.

Signal

Unless signal come up with a strategy, they cannot win. It will end like Google Plus. Signal can work with governments to provide local setup of Signal for the communication of government employees. In this way they can gain trust and slowly get into other realsm. Look at how Facebook grow when Orkut hold the majority of the people share.

Relations

To me, human connections are fostered through emotions, not through blood relations. Whether it is mother, father, brother, sister, wife, or child,.. any relationship is weak unless it has an emotional quotient. Mother-baby relationship is the only relationship which is connected through blood and emotions from the beginning and it happends godly without any effort. I conciously surround myself with people who are emotionally connected to me. Never did I  bother of naming a relation for the sake of convincing the society. They were there for me and I will be there for them.