tuxmaniac’s blog

Having decided to take a day off from work today I did some interesting and different things. I badly wanted to take a day _completely_ for myself. No Code, No Usual rants, No Gadgets and any other usual routine stuff!! The first half of the day I spent time in solving Maths puzzles/problems in Trigonometry, Algebra and some Vector Calculus. Really felt nice and good after a long long time. (Though I have lost touch in these couple of years) Then I added some words to my vocabulary and wrote some flash cards. By this time it was around lunchtime. The other half of the day was spent on a lot of self introspection, goal settings, plan of actions etc. In the recent few days I always had the feeling that my life is going goalless and direction less and hence wanted to have a clear roadmap to work upon. The difference between “Goal” and “Desire” is that “Goal” is in our hands i.e under our complete control whereas “Desire” isn’t. Hence I decided to take my life back under control by sorting out a lot of things. Tried the good old technique of mind mapping which had always come to my rescue in the past, assigned priorities, laid down action points and deadlines. Relaxed myself at the cozy comfort of the Barista couch sipping Cappuccino. And here I am back with a lot of energy and mental clarity to get going with “MY” Life.

I guess it is very important for everybody to take such breaks to analyse and sort things in life. One might argue that “Weekends” are always there for those. But somehow the whole “weekend for self” concept is nt very convincing and has never worked for me. But this mid-week break seems to do a lot of good.

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