hey guys, I have not been able to update this blog because of extra workload. Well thats really not an excuse to make. Actually I

tried to write but my mind was somewhere else so thats why I chose not to write. In the past few days I was thinking whether I should

really update this blog regularly with stupid things about my life or should I write good quality stuff. Well personally I prefer to

write just stupid things, in fact I hardly review whatever I write. I just write it in one go and post it directly. I guess thats

should be a personal blog should be like. I dont really have to review-edit-review-edit my blogs. No. Not atleast this blog. So I

guess I will continue to write stupid things about my life here.

As I mentioned before that I have been busy with lots of work. Frankly it was not the best time this week. I really hate doing extra

work, in fact I do not like doing any work especially if it is for some one else. In this case it was my office work. Well I have

planned lot of things and may be this won't happen for a long time. I am really sick of my office. No, it is not about my work, I am

doing really nice learning stuff but it is not something I prefer. I don't like my mind getting used by someone else. I prefer

freedom, complete freedom. Where I can use my mind in whatever way I like. Well I hope this year I will leave my job forever. Yeah I

am announcing it here for the first time in public domain that 2012 will be the last year I will work for anyone else. No jobs No

clients. Yeah. I suck in taking responsibilities of other. I hate someone giving me orders. I hate selling my mind. No more. I waited

too long for this, 10 years! yes it was tough. Does that mean I have lots of money or I have some other source of income. Well not

really but I will figure that out. I know I will.

Working for someone else is slavery. Yes, it is. No matter how much you earn, whatever position you hold. It is slavery. We are all slaves when we are working for someone. There is lot more to life. There are so many wonderful things in this world to do that to fuck yourself working for someone. Personally I want to explore this world, experience different things, meet new people, eat variety of foods, visit various countries, experience lot lot more than sitting on a stupid computer restarting apache server! What the hell this is slavery. I am not a slave. I will be free soon.

I am glad I have done lots of mistakes in my life, especially the last 10 years and now I have a rough idea of what I really want to do in life. Yeah still rough but believe me it is still much better than no idea at all. Most people, I guess 99% population in this world have really not idea at all about their life and what they want. They just follow what others ask them to follow. I guess we all do what our parents directly or indirectly want us to do. It is not their fault, they live in a society which is made in such a way that we all live a preprogrammed life. This has been happening for so many years, I guess things got worst in the past 200 years or so. We have lost the true meaning of life. If by hit and trial you can find what you really want in life than I think it will be the best thing you can ever do in your life. Don't hesitate trying new stuff. Atleast give it a thought. Change yourself, take new route to office, wear different clothes you never wore before, eat new kind of food. Idea is to break your usual habits and try something new in whatever area you can think of. I am sure it will enlighten your mind and you never know you can find your true passion. when you say you like doing something and it is your passion then doubt it. How come your passion is watching cricket and you work in a software company. I just simply hate the idea of watching cricket or any other sport. Personally I love playing cricket and I have no keen interest in watching it on tv. If you love cricket so much then just go out and play. People say their passion or hobby are different from their work. This is stupid. There should not be any difference between your passion and work. If it is not then you are not on the right track and your life has no meaning.

So what are you thinking now?

It is negative thing to say but yes there are many people I know whom I really hate. I can't help it. I have many times to not think about them but it is impossible to not hate them. Feelings of hatred are natural in humans and what can I do not to think about them? I really don't know. I am trying very hard to change this feeling but anyways lets see.

Today was just another average day. I am afraid that I might loose it. The first week of the year started really well and I was very happy about it but since monday this week I am back to my usual stuff. This is not good. I need to stay focused.

I have got some really important things to do and 2012 is going to be a life changing year for me for sure. I am just on the verge of achieving something I was trying for the past 6 years and this is it. Just few more months and I will be there. Yes.

I worked just for few hours today with good productivity but I still feel the day could have been awesome. Anyways better luck tomorrow. No matter how hard I work I always get this feeling of you can do much better than that feeling. Today in the evening I quickly made a very small Drupal video. So far I have made some good videos but I am not really happy with the quality of it. May be I will get a separate webcam for this purpose. Anyways the day was nice. I am not very happy but satisfied. Initially during the morning time I didn't feel very good but I decided that I will do very small, misc tasks but I will not waste my day. I am glad I completed some small stuff and after finishing that video I felt nice.

I have always been early riser. I got this habit from my school days and I think it is one of the most important very good things in me :) For me if I do not get up on time I consider my day a waste. Seriously. If I can't do the first thing right then how can I expect the rest of the day as good.

There have been many times when I couldn't get up on time. The main reasons for this is lack of motivation or laziness. I usually get up at 4 AM every day and the moment alarm goes off I just get up and stand on my feet. Thats it. Rest of it is easy. Once I am up I never go back to bed.

I wish I could maintain this habit through out the year 365 days. I will try to do that this year!!

Al right the first week of this year ends today. The whole week was good overall and I am really happy that I actually spent time on various productive stuff. Today the day started well and I worked with good dedication till lunch time. Then things just got out of hand and I couldn't do much there after, that ok though.

It rained yesterday night and it is little cold during the day time as well. I wish the sun comes out tomorrow.

Yesterday I didnt do any work. It was my wife's birthday and I spent the whole day roaming around and planning the occassion. Finally I bought a barbeque and made paneer tikka in the evening. It was really fun, the paneer tikkas turned out really well. I know I should have made some non veg item but my wife is vegetarian and on her birthday I just ate what likes. Today I will make mutton kebab. I had bought some precokked kebabs from republic of chicken and I will bbq them today. Can't wait.

It was nice to take a break yesterday after so long. I felt little fresh when I got up this morning. Today there were lot of things pending and I just got little scattered in doing all the tasks. So far the day is just ok if not great. I still need to do lot of things and I know I shouldn't be blogging right now but working but I just took a break of few minutes for writing this blog.

From time to time I need some self motivation to keep me going. Sometimes we all tend to deviate from the right path. That ok, its human nature. We all need to control it. Staying focussed is very difficult and staying disciplined takes lot of practice and years of habit.

Let me just go back to work now!

So far I have been blogging everyday this year, except 1st Jan. Today is 4th Jan. Things are going on track and as planned so far. I have set some goals for myself for this year and this time I just have this feeling that I will achieve most of them. I am trying to get more disciplined now and more than anything else I am trying to overcome procrastination, which is the habit of delaying things, mostly things that are either boring or little difficult to do. Last year I did improve a lot in various aspects but delaying things is something I needed to avoid. This year I have not really delayed things yet and I am sure I will not procrastinate in the future too.

I wanted to share my goals in this blog but I prefer to keep it personal. Though I can share some of the new things I am trying this time. I have divided my Goals into 3 parts. First one is the short term goals which I intend to achieve within 6 months. In this category I have some deadlines of March and June. Second category is the medium term plans where I have put the goals that I will achieve in the 6 Months to 5 Years from now. The last category is the long term goals which I intend to achieve in the 5 year to 10 year period. While doing this exercise of putting my goals in these three categories I found it most difficult to put things in the long term goals and I think it is very important for me and anyone to visualize themselves what they want to be in 10 years for now. I guess I will do more brainstorming for my long term plans. The things that we really want should be very clear. When I see the list of things in my short term and medium term plans then most of them are tasks or steps that are really important for me to achieve to reach my tru goal.

I was moving my mails and I had few minutes to write this mail. I need to get back to work now!

Have a nice day!

Yeterday I went to Metro Walk, Rohini with my wife. The first day of the year was good. I got up on my usual wake up time, got ready and started working. Yesterday I made one site live. It is the last website that I made for someone else. So I am glad that there won't be any more client work. I will spend the next 3 months 100% on preparing Drupal training videos. Last year I made some plans for myself and I set some goals. I achieve some of them and I failed in rest. That ok with me. Atleast now I know what wrong things I did. I also made some goals really big that I eventually couldnt achieve. So this year my goals would be easy and small and I will gradually add the difficulty level of my goals. Achieving goals is more important no matter how big or small they are. When you achieve something you feel good and you get more motivated to do more. Big goals can be scary and difficult to achieve, infact I sometimes don't even try to work on those big goals and in the end I feel sad about them. So that was an important lesson and this year I will take care of that.

Once again I wish that this new year will be a great year for me and everyone I know!!

Alright so 2011 is almost over now, in just few hours 2012 will come. New Year yeah!! I really don't understand why people celebrate

new year. I have no clue and I really fail to understand. New year doesn't really change anything. It doesn't bring you more money or

some opportunity that will change our life then why do we celebrate new year? It is just another day!! May be it is just human nature

and we all need some reason to celebrate. New year is probably the only event that is celebrated all over the world in almost every

country.

I really never celebrated new year. I will not be celebrating this year. I mean to say that I dont really party on new year eve. May

be when I really feel the need then I will celebrate new year. Not now. Yeah I might sound boring here. Actually I try to enjoy my

life every day so I don't really wait for any special day to treat myself. My parties and enjoyments come on day to day basis when I

reward myself when I achieve anything small or big. It gives me encouragement to do more.

New year does bring some changes. I need to create a new folder on my computer where I keep track of my bills, bank statements, daily

expenses, mails and lot of other stuff. Nothing really much.

I don't really have any new year resolutions but I do need to do lot of things this year.

Happy New year guys. 2012 will be awesome year!!

I have been blogging from my mobile since last year. I have setup my flickr account in such a way that I can upload the photos I take from my blackberry to flickr by sending a mail to a private email id. Now once the pictures are uploaded on flickr I have setup Drupal Blog api module to post the pictures uploaded on flickr as a blog on this site. Cool!. So now I have started tagging all the blog posts that I post from my mobile with "mobile" tag.

Here is the link to my mobile blog: http://www.ravisagar.in/category/topic/mobile

I still have to tag the old blogs with the mobile tag. I will do it tomorrow. It shouldn't take long time.

Others updates
Just a while ago I though of blogging atleast once a day. Sometimes I post mulitple blogs in a day and sometimes I don't post anything for couple of days. Anyways these days I blog quite regularly and I like to keep it that way! I love doing it. I don't really care if anyone reads my blog or not. I blog just for myself :) It is my blog and I can post anything here freely without thinking twice. In the past I have tried to follow other blogs but I didn't really enjoy it. I just love to keep my blog the way I like it. Simple.My blog is very simple without any fancy stuff. The main focus is on the content.

I had been working on a website for wedding cards. It is for a friend who is into this business. The site is not complete yet but we are launching it on 1st Jan. We will do rest of the work later.

I am thinking of buying either a nano or alto car. Lets see. Nothing unusual these days. A day before yesterday I got a message from Vipul Sharma and now it is time to prepare for Aikya 2012, the annual alumni meet of our school. This time it is little late as normally Aikya happens in Jan but this time it will be on 18th Feb.

Overall everything normal. Tomorrow is 31st Dec, the last day of the year and I really want to finish this year on a good note.

2011 is about to end now, it has been a year of ups and down. Mostly downs. I have had tough time this year in every aspect of my life be it career or personal life. Though I never let my expressions and behavior reflect the real feelings of me. I am good at it :) This year also was the year of enlightment. I started seriously thinking about the future for the first time ever in my life. I came to know about few good blogs on the net and then I started following them. I started reading some books on self realization, time management and personal growth. I am glad that this year I spent considerable amount of time on all that. It will be an ever learning process and I am sure I will be more happy, successful person next year.

Now I have stopped taking new projects or clients. I will continue supporting existing projects but I will not take new projects now. This will really affect me financially but after to be honest I didn't enjoy that as I expected. Working for client's is like just another job. I know it is impossible to run away from clients or bosses to survive in this world but until I find out something else I will keep on pursuing my passions.

So from next year onwards I will focus all my energy into things I really, deeply love and enjoy. No matter if I earn money from it or not but I will continue to pursue them. What are my real passions? In simple words it is Open Source, Drupal and Linux on the tech front and Photography, Travel on the personal front. So I will focus on these things completely. No more making stupid websites for other people. I will enhance my knowledge in these areas and spend lot of time on these. So does that mean I will live a saddhu life without earning money? No. I want to spend some time to learn more about these things and then I will figure out how to earn money :) In the past few years my primary motive was money and I was working so hard to earn more and more money that I almost forgot my real passions. Not anymore.

I have made some strict deadlines for the year 2012 and I have set some goals that are inline with my passions.

To give you a brief idea about my plans I am working really hard these days on creating free Drupal videos and useful tutorials that will be targeted to people who want to learn Drupal or want to switch to Drupal from some other technology. Also I would focus more on my photography. I never really took it to another level. I really want to learn various aspects of photography. May be I will join some course! Lets see. I am pretty sure that 2012 will be a great year for me!

I wish all my friends, family and well wishers a very happy new year.

This is brownie. I have known him since he was born 4 years ago. These days it is so cold that he comes to our house for dinner :) I prepared a bed for him and he sleeps here. I love him, very nice dog!

After ages I'm watching movie!

I feel I could do much more and much better. No matter how hard I work, no matter how much planning I do I always feel that I could have done better. I don't know if its good or bad thing. Anyways. Past few days were good, I have been doing my work smartly and doing good. I finished lot of tasks and I feel great about it, though for the past 2 days things are going out of track. Yesterday and today I got out of the bed late, I didn't plan my day, I didn't exercise. I forgot to do some important stuff. Not Good. I will not let this happen tomorrow. I hope tomorrow will be a wonderful day and so will the next few days. I really need to accomplish some really important tasks this month. I want to start next year with no backlog.

When I look at many successful people I know some of them are my friends, some of them are my clients and some of them are people I just happen to know, I wonder how they achieve all that success? Are they all lucky? Is every successful person lucky or they always had everything right in their life? I need to find out and learn that aspect. I think no matter what, no matter how hard things get in life, if a person smartly plans out well and keep going then he/she can achieve anything. There is lot I need to learn in that area. For the past few months, probably since June this year I am trying to find out or rather I should say I am trying to make it a conscious decision to improve things in my life in every aspect of life - Career, Family ans Social. I did start thinking seriously about my future, about my life 10 years ahead.

It is going to be a continuous learning process, but I am still looking for that formula to make every day better and happier than yesterday. Some days are good and some days things don't go very well. Not everything is in our control but what is the secret formula to not get affected by those external factors? I think it is all inside our mind. If somehow we can manage to keep it under our control then we can do anything in life. Isn't it?

Al rightie! time to log off now. Good night!

I reached office quite early today, I think I was the first one to enter the floor. Its been 1 hour since I came and now people have started coming. It's winter time now and today I am wearing sweater for the first time. For the past 3 weeks I am working on a task where I need to migrate around 7 projects from older version of JIRA to a new version. It is not really a difficult task but setting up mulitple servers and testing the Project Import takes lot of time, earlier I was setting up servers on my Laptop and my Desktop but these machines were not good enough. I encountered low memory errors most of the time. I finally got access to a Virtual Machine last week and since then things are smooth. Right now the server is almost ready for UAT and I hope if the test passes then I will do the actual Project Migration on production server.

I am grateful that my current job offers me new challenging things where I get to work on new technologies and it has really widen the scope of my skill set. Frankly speaking I still feel like a freshers and I really like to learn new stuff everyday. Even though I have more than 9 years of experience!! Can't believe its been so long.

Yesterday I had a decent day, I was able to complete some tasks but nothing really great or exciting happened the whole day. I was kinda getting bored. Somehow the clock reached 5 PM and I felt little assured. It is time to go back home. I didn’t actually go home directly to my home. I stayed in the cab and got out at Model Town and took the metro to Civil Lines. Model Town metro station is little different from other stations I have seen. The entry to station is only from one side. If you are coming from Model Town then remember to take the stairs from the Alpna Cinema side. It happened to me once that I took the wrong stairs and had to come down. Although they have written it clearly “No entry” but frequent metro travelers will never notice the sign boards. Anyways I got in the station, put my backpack into the X-Ray machine and cleared the security check. It is funny to see your stuff in the X-Ray machine. It shows everything. I saw my bag and I can clearly notice my Laptop. I generally use stairs in metro stations but I was getting late so I took the escalator and reached the front side of the platform where Women Only coaches stop. I find it uncomfortable to stand there even for few seconds. Reaching the platform I immediately rushed passed the middle section. Metro came within 1 min and I stepped in. Luckily I got the seat too. Though I only had to travel 3 station but I preferred to sit instead of standing with my heavy bag. It is human nature to draw conclusions and judge others by just looking at them. Everyone does it. I do it but I don’t know if it is good habit or bad. May be I should control myself. The moment I sat, they guy next to me started starring me. He did that for atleast a minute. I knew that he was starring at me because I could see his reflection in the mirror opposite us. I too tried to look at him and when he realized it then he turned his face somewhere else. I don’t know what he was looking for? May be he knew me or has seen me somewhere. I don’t really know.

Soon a man came and sat between me and that boy. I have a strange bad habit of looking at people’s mobile. I feel jealous when someone has a better/costly phone than mine. The new guy who came and sat had a Querty keypadded Nokia phone. I stared at his phone ad that new guy also realized and looked at me, as if he is saying “You beggar don’t stare my fancy phone”. He then started browsing some site on his phone’s default browser. For a moment I didn’t do anything but I couldn’t restrain myself from pulling out my shiny but old Blackberry Curve 3G (with Enterprise Plan). I was sitting little behind him touching the back side of the seat. He didn’t notice my phone for a moment but then my phone’s screen sparkled I am sure he sensed the shiny thing behind him. He looked at my phone and may be said something in his mind “Kaise Kaiso ke pass ache phone hote hai”. May be I am just assuming all this but I don’t know.

I realized I reached Civil Lines Metro station. I got out.

I had to meet someone living on Under Hill Road. Civil Lines is a nice place with lots of trees around, thanks to the adjacent ridge, the area is generally colder. I walked all the way to the Under Hill road which is just at 5 mins walking distance. The moment I entered that road my eyes just couldn’t blink even for a second. I was amazed to look at the fancy houses. Big houses with mega gates! I just couldn’t believe how much money must be spent on these houses. May be something like 100 crores! Really. All the houses are big and grand. I don’t know what people do who live there. What kind of business they do. I felt strongly to have a house here someday. Imagine a place with lots of servants, swimming pool, 10 cars, servant houses and a big garden. Do I really need a house like that? I could be modest and say that no I don’t really need a place like that, I am happy living in apartment but the truth is that I do want to have a house that big and beautiful. I know living happily has nothing to do with big house but somehow I feel the need of experiencing the luxurious lifestyle. Why not? I then put a note on my ultimate life goals – Buy a house on Rajpur Road/Under Hill Road. When people say that they are not interested in earning lots of money and giving up materialist things. I feel that they are just big loosers. First achieve something and then give it up. When people give up without achieving anything and make excuses then and act like loosers. I know there must be many who read my blog will disagree with me but this is my personal thinking, don’t get senti :) Yeah I know if you are happy driving your Maruti 800 and living an average life then good for you. I feel that no matter how much you achieve, the hunger to achieve more and more should never go. That’s how life becomes fun.

First thing I will say is that I have been extremely busy for the past couple of weeks and I think it will stay like this for some more time. I work all day and attend conf calls all night. I travel in the evening and weekends are no different. I generally don't say this but now I am saying this that I really don't have time these days. This is not a good thing to say. It basically means I screwed up my work so badly that I need to spend countless hours to fix it. Yes we all have 24 hours in a day and if we plan our work well in advance then this situation may never arrive. Anyways I live a very disciplined life but from time to time I let everything loose and thats what happened. In the month of September I enjoyed the comforts of life and let the things go out of hand. A pile of pending worked built up and now I am suffering. Lesson learnt here is: that delaying the tasks won't make them disappear, it will come back to haunt to with more strength. Small Tasks are like weak soldiers, you kill them first you encounter them. If you let them live them live they will come back with much strength and may bring couple of their friends too but remember they will never kill you, they are meant to give you sufferings.

So, Tasks will give you suffering, kill them early and move on.

No, this is no gyan to anyone. I am just sharing what I learnt.

BTW I am going to get a Hair Cut today. This is unusal and something new for me. I am all charged up. I have decided that now I will get a nice cut, buy some decent clothes and act like a good matured man :) No more kidding now, I am a gentleman!

In the last 2 years I have been meeting many people for work. It’s been great learning experience for me. I met all kind of people and worked with many. My experience overall is good but yes I met people who later turned out not to be very nice. One thing I always feel and many have also mentioned it too that I don’t really look matured enough! I don’t know may be it is because of the clothes I wear or may be my face is like that. Sometimes I feel nice but I also feel that from time to time you need to look mature too. People say that on phone I sound very matured but when they meet me they think that I am a college student :) Yeah it feels nice but it is not good to loose business just because of your looks.

I do wear formal clothes when I meet new people, it is very unlike me but I enjoy wearing nice shirt and pants with clean shave. I always wonder whether wearing plain glasses add some years to my age? Or at least make me look serious. Of course people think twice before giving business to someone who looks just like a college boy. I am now thinking seriously to buy some fashion eyewear that look very formal yet trendy. I will get glasses with UV filter so I can wear them when working in front of computer too.

Anyways, yesterday was Diwali and its Vishvkarma day and today all the temples will have “Langar”. The kadi chawal they server is delicious!! I also need to get an important task done today, so its gonna be hectic day.

I hope you had a wonderful Diwali. BTW it is really cold today. In fact last night when I was on the terrace watching the fire crackers I felt kinda cold. It is good though that winters are here.

Chalo, have a nice wonderful day ahead!

Every year during Diwali I remember the things I did in past years. I guess it is not good to remember old days or should we only think about future? I dont know but it feels really nice when I think about past years. I know I shouldn't do it but I can't control the thoughts coming in my mind.

Last Diwali was my first Diwali after my marriage and we decorated the whole house and I made rangoli! yeah. Before marriage I always used to do some stuff every diwali, like go for a long walk, or sit in park for couple of hours, I miss that now. Life is really busy with lot of thing and I know it is not worth it. I am giving up lot of things now and planning to lead a simple but happy life. It is not that I am not happy, I am happy but I have made my life very occupied that sometimes I realize that I am not really enjoying the life the way I should. No matter how much money I earn or how many materialistic things I buy it can't replace the joy of simple things in life. Now when I look at my daily schedule I am always running and doing one task after another, it is like a robot or a machine doing mechanical work. I have deceided that I will not let things go like this.

As I have been saying repeatedly for so many days now that I will not be taking any more projects now, I mean client work. All I will do now is I will work on my own portals. So Sparxsys will not be taking further projects. I prefer working for myself only.

Coming back to Diwali, I like this festival like most Indias but I feel that things are not like it used to be in the past. Anyways lets talk about positive things.

On the other side, Vinod and I have been discussing about an idea these days that we were thinking for the past one year. That idea has something to do with our real passion. We have not yet formalized on that yet but pretty soon we will decide about it and hopefully in couple of months we will announce it :) I am also now thinking seriously of writing a book. I always wanted to document my life, experience in some form. This blog is certainly a place where I write about my day to day life but I also want to write some book, I have not decided whether it will be fiction or autobiography but it will be influenced by my life. I am not really a writer but Vinod asked me to write a book. I do write a lot, mostly on this blog and other places. I am a bad writer for sure but that doesnt matter as long as your readers get the message! Or may be if not a book I will write collection of short stories, may be that will be easy. My problem with writing is that, i hardly read back or revise whatever I write. I find it too boring to read your blogs again :) so if I write short stories I will have to spend less time revising it :p lazy me. I have not decided on that yet and I have not decided whether I will write a book or not but I am giving it a thought! I know there are many people who will laugh when they hear that I am writing a book :) so am I!

Happy Diwali guys! and thanks for reading my blog.

Yesterday for the first time ever in my life thoughts of old age scared me. What if I get sick in old age. Even in the young age when we get sick with cold or any small disease we get so helpless and need someone to take care of us. In the old age it is very tough. What if I am unable to handle the pain of old age. These scary thoughts came in my mind but I quickly diverted my attention to something different. I guess we should not worry at all about it and enjoy every bit of today. Yeah I know it is easy to say but very hard to follow. How can I stop my mind from thinking about future. Not possible. So what is the solutions. Old Age and Death is an inevitable truth. Delaying it won't stop it from happening. I really want to know now how people in very old ages manage their lives. How do they convince themselves that there is lot more in life than knee pain, diabetes and regular medication.

Exceptions are everywhere around us. I have seen many old people enjoying their lives to the fullest. I guess I and everyone else should start doing something for their lives no matter how old they are. As long as we are alive we have many years left to live. A 40 year old man may still have another 30 or 40 healthy year ahead. Which is lot of time to do new things, travel the world, start a new business or correct their mistakes. Thats the spirit. Everyone should have a mission in life, as long as we have a desire to achieve something we have every new day with some new challenge and a very good reason to live.

I know lot of people are stuck in complicated jobs or situations where they are not really happy with their lives, my message to them is to make a plan first and write down all the stuff that you want to do in life. It could be any thing and you can write down even the craziest things that you want to do in life for eg - climbing Mt. Everest!! Yes why not. If you have ever watch Discovery channel and seen climber reaching the peak of Everest, I am sure you must have imagined yourself in there place. I have. So what stops us from achieving our goals and desires in life?? I think everyone has some desires but they don't try to achieve them because they are not confident in themselves to even try to achieve it.

So I am just listing the things that we can do to achieve our goals and dreams
1. Make a list of all the things we want in life - this could be a high level list, not a micro-level list.
2. Keep this Main list handy, paste it on your desk!
3. Review the list everyday without fail. This will remind you about your goal in life.
4. Make a sublist for every unique goal. The sublist should have the action points of things that are needed to be done to achive that goal.

By now you have done a wonderful thing. You have just created your life plan. You dont have to follow these plans rigidly, you can do modifications in it from time to time as long as it contributes to your goal.

Now comes the difficult part to follow your plan. The main problem is that people back out when they encounter any obstacle in life or they are discouraged to follow that big dream. My suggestion is to keep yourself motivated remind yourself everyday about the goal. Everyday in the morning, close your eyes and imagine yourself achieving your goal. Lets say you want to buy a big house with lawn and swimming pool, then imagine it everyday without fail. Collect pictures of your dream home and paste it everywhere you can. So the next time any obstacle comes in your life just think about your goal and you will feel little better and you will get some energy to stay on track or find a deroute :) yes if you fail once, try again, you fail then try again, but don't get emotional, you can always make little adjustments in your plan and find a different route to your goal.

I am not writing thing post as a Gyan :) I am also trying to following the above things and I will surely write more on this topic in future. If you have some ideas or suggestions then please share them in the comments. I would love to hear your thoughts on this!!