Heys
Heys is a collection of my letters I send to myself. It's a way for me to step out of me and reflect on me, and life.
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
There’s this visceral resistance that you feel when you sit on your desk to produce something rather than consuming. I still haven’t found a best way to overcome for you but I’m getting there. In the meantime, I think taking very deep breaths, dividing your tasks into smallest units works. Can you try that and let me know how it goes?
Have a productive day my friend
Akash
Hey aakash how are you doing today ?
Why do you wallow in the past? Past is only as good as it helps you learn, It’s not a place to be. It’s just history my friend. The present moment is right in front of you, It’s the most real thing you can experience in life.
Have a lovely night
Akash
Hey Akash, how are you doing today?
Sometimes you seem to forget, but it’s absolutely a wild and awesome time to be alive right now. Literally every single thing in your life right now didn’t exist just a few decades ago. Computers, Airplanes, Waste management, Hot showers, AC, Medicine, Vehicles, Internet, etc and so much damn more man! So there’s always something to be grateful for. Can you try to remember that next time you’re feeling down?
Have a lovely evening Akash
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Every year when the spring comes around, almost all trees just give off their leaves. They look so empty at that point. But come summer, they’re full of all new leaves, full of life again. When you’re fasting, your cells do exactly the same in the process called autophagy (repair or shed off). It seems like a good practice. Why can’t you do that for your creative endeavours and other life things? I think one reason is that you get too attached to things, so it becomes harder for you to let go. But if you don’t let go, it’ll weigh you down. It’s actually very liberating to let go. I think one way to get around it is to reframe it. Make it a ceremony to shed things off just like how trees and your cells do. They’re extremely unselfish in that way.
Have a beautiful day my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash you keep fighting to open the door of opportunity but sometimes maybe the door is just locked you know. And All you can do is level up in all areas of your life so that when someone finally opens the door from the outside, you’re ready. Can you do that for me ? Can you let go of trying to find and open a door and focus on levelling up?
Thanks and have a thoughtful day
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash you’ve this image of ideal Akash and you keep striving towards that. But I feel like that’s a wrong way to look at it cause your image would keep on changing, and more importantly there’d always be a large disparity between your current you and the image. And that’s just going to evoke negative feelings in you. Can you maybe reframe from an ideal image to just doing more of what you like and want to have. For example, I like akash going to gym, I want to do that more often. I think that’d keep compounding. Give it a try.
Have a sunny day my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
It seems to me that lately you’ve been too focused on consuming rather than producing. It’s like, if I only I’d learn about this, if I only knew this, If only…, then I can start producing. But do you see the falacy here? I’m pretty certain you see the falacy. In fact, I’d argue that you see it clear as day and yet you choose to follow along with that cause the other thing is downright terifying to you. I mean to go on your own and build it yourself? that scares you man. And you’re doing everything you can to avoid that. But it doesn’t have to be that way. I mean you can still be scared, but you can learn to do things despite of fear. Here are the things I’d suggest to you,
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divide your problem into smaller chunks. If you don’t know how to divide, take the end goal and walk backwards from there on. For example, if your goal is to run a marathon, think of what needs to happen before you can do? And keep asking yourself that rcursively until you reach the smallest goal that needs to happen
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eliminate all fluff and focus on the single smallest chunk You don’t need to learn anything new, just focus on the smallest chunk and build/do it.
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Build momentum by keeping it consistent You need to keep pushing on your smaller chunks everyday. This will build momentum and create chain reactions that’ll keep you energized and motivated
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Have follow ups with me regularly You need to periodically take a step back, see what worked and what didn’t. This will also help you release all the frustrations and tension you may have built up in your sprint.
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Breathe through your negative emotions We’ve already talked about this a few times so I’m not going to dwell on that but you know what to do
This these things should help you move forward when you feel distracted. Try them out and let me know how it goes!
Thanks and have a powerful day my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing?
Trees are amazing. They have huge trunks, they branch off, shed dead weight, their root system is absolutely vast, they respond to changing whether patterns, they defy gravity to deliver nutrients to the top, they respond to their environment, and so much more! And yet, if you look from an outside, they look rock-solid, static, unfazed, calm.
I think you ought to be able to emulate them a bit. You ought to stay calm, unfazed, rock-solid in the face of your tumultuous emotions. One way to do that is to understand that your emotions are not you. You and your emotions are separate. You are always (and always have been) calm, rock-solid, unfazed but you get engrossed in your emotions and that makes you unsteady. Just observe your emotions and they’ll pass through you in time.
Have a lovely day my friend
Akash
Hey Akash, how are you doing today?
Sometimes when you notice negative feelings bubbling up in you, your brain tries to find a coherent narrative to fit those feelings. But feelings are ephemeral by nature, and so your brain will often miss-attribute your feelings to certain things or aspects about you. And that causes you a lot of problems. For example: “negative feelings bubbling up cause something happened”, “it’s because you’re ugly!”, “it’s because you’re unlovable”, etc.
Next time you see negative (or even positive) feelings bubbling up, try not to think, rather just observe those feelings inside your body, breathe them in, feel them, let it flow through in and around you.
Have a productive day my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Time is really weird. We always perceive it in relation to the present. But if we step back, without this relativity it has no clear meaning, it just is. And yet, this relativity gives us such a profound meaning. I think sometimes things only make sense in relation to something. Try to find those productive relations between things/people.
Have a lovely day my frined
Akash