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 ?
Sometimes you’d have to make hard decisions. Decisions where there is no right or wrong answer but making any could have repercussions that you might not like. That’s when your principles can help you. They can guide you in times when you feel a bit uneasy about making any decision. Let your principles make the decision for you.
Thanks and have a lovely evening my friend Akash
Yo Akash how are you doing today?
I think finally figured out why you’re not making progress, It’s kinda obvious in hindsight and you probably knew it already, but the reason is that a. you lack focus, and b. you lack intensity. I want you to figure out your number one priority, literally whatever it is, and then crank up the intensity on that thing. Can you promise to do that for me?
Have a productive day my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash I feel like sometimes you say you want something but really it’s just that you want to want that thing because that’s what other people want. Does it make sense? For example, you see that other people are earning lots of money and you feel like you should also earn lots of money too. But you never really wanted to earn lots of money. Normally all of this is just fine but I feel like you kinda punish yourself for not achieving said goals but the reason you didn’t achieve isn’t because you’re lazy, stupid, incompetent or whatever, Nah it’s that those goals were never really your goals to begin with. So I want you sit down for a minute and just think about what you want out of life you know?
Have a lovely evening my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
You know you’ll never be ready right? Like I know that you know that you’ll never be ready yet it seems like you still don’t viscerally feel it. If you look back at your life and try to connect the dots you’ll see that you were never ready when shit hit the fan, and yet you survived somehow (and are doing pretty good actually). So why don’t you take a leap of faith next time you’re afraid of something cause you’re not ready?
Cause it’s all that is, Akash—a leap of faith.
Have a lovely afternoon my friend
Akash
Hey Akash, how are you doing?
I see that you desperately keep trying to get rid of your bad coping mechanisms but seem to fail miserably. You know, you don’t have to be so harsh on yourself over it. Put the gun down. Being harsh perpetuates the cycle that you seem to want to get out of. You gotta realize that these coping mechanisms, however bad it may seem, served a very real purpose for you. You can’t just wake up one day instantly get rid of it cause you no longer like/need it. You gotta be gentler, sit with them, and slowly cultivate better coping mechanisms. But they can never come from the place of hate, they should come from the place of love.
Have a lovely evening my friend,
Akash
Hey Akash, how are you doing today?
Akash you gotta meet yourself where you’re at. Sure you wanna do these grand things but you gotta start small, take baby steps, and celebrate your wins no matter how small. This generates momentum, and helps you build trust in yourself (that-casual-confidence-in-oneself-kind). This is the way.
Have a lovely evening my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
I see you fall into this trap of controlling things, aspects of your life, but we both know they never work and never have. Tragedy is that you seem to blame yourself for not making it work. Dude you can’t fight the wave, you can only surf it. Go learn to surf!
Have a lovely evening my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash you know the reason you’d been feeling down lately? You were severely lacking in vitamin D! As soon as we fixed that up, you were back to normal. What does that teach us? That you’ve got to be in-touch with your body. It’s always signalling you if there’s something going on that you should be aware of, but you’ve got to listen for it otherwise you might miss it. For example, notice how you feel pain in certain parts of your body when you’re pushing it? your body is telling you to back-off lest you injure yourself. You get the idea, your body is sending you so many signals every. single. day.
Now, your body is always sending you signals but it’s not foolproof. It might misfire, that’s why it’s important to listen for it! Like, notice how sometimes when you’re in a party, you feel a bit anxious and your heart starts racing? Yeah your body thinks it’s in danger and is preparing you for fight-or-flight response, but we both know it’s misfiring. And you can’t know and mitigate that if you don’t listen!
Have a lovely day my friend
Akash
Hey Akash how are you doing today?
Akash you keep trying to let go but alas you seem to fail miserably. You see, you can’t let go by trying, trying is doing. No you let go by allowing yourself; Allowing yourself to feel your emotions, your breadth, the world around you, the leaves of the tree you’re just looking at, to be here in the moment, and more importantly, to see the pain of holding on. Just allow yourself man, don’t try.
Have a lovely evening my friend
Akash