1. One way to avoid wasting all our time on social media, internet, YouTube etc. is to first do what we need to do and then check these platforms at the end of the day. This way we won’t constantly be checking our social media every minute.
2. In life, we need both skills and challenges. If we have too much challenges but lack skills, we may become anxious and stressed. But if we have too much skill and no challenge, we may become bored and depressed (derived from the idea of flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who I encourage others to listen to as well)
3. Some things to avoid: wasting time, illicit intermingling with the opposite gender, feeling arrogant, feel self-righteous and feeling hopeless.
4. One way to be happy is to live and be happy and content in as less as we can. Otherwise, we will need to maintain our luxuries and spend time, energy and money maintaining them.
5. Real joy in work enters us when we are completely immersed in our task and fully focus on it and do it for the sake of doing it, not for any other reason.
6. If we do something to get others attention, then we lose our own attention. So we shouldn’t work to get others attention, rather we should be focused on what we do.
7. If someone thinks that we necessarily need the most modern technology to make money, the we should remember that the market wouldn’t need something that a computer can already do.
8. My experience tells me that eating a lot makes us sluggish, lazy and the brain and body slow down and so does productivity.
9. Only heating and frying food makes it tasty. Gold is purified after being heated. Sword only sharpens after it takes the heat and the hits. So us humans also truly develop, grown and better ourselves when put in difficulty. Difficulties are an opportunity to grow and develop. They make us better. But the challenge should be according to our skill, otherwise we become anxious and stressed. Although challenges themselves develop our skills, but certain skills that we already have help us overcome several challenges. On the hand, someone with a lot of skill and no challenge is a bored and depressed person.
10. The desire of humans to organize: Our desire is not only to organize our physical surroundings such as cleanliness. We also like to organize things like our notes, our tasks, and on the larger scale our knowledge. As knowledge opened up and we discovered more, we organize them into subjects and each subject is further sub-organized. Some people are better at organizing events, others at organizing their personal life, others are organizing companies etc. Things are easy to access due to organization. Otherwise, we can’t find stuff easily.
11. Success will never be a big step in the future, success is a small step taken just now.” ― attributed to Jonatan Mårtensson on https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6470467.Jonatan_M_rtensson
12. Thinking and reflecting without knowledge and experience can be a thinking without the ‘tools’ and this means that although its good to think, but the more knowledge we get, the more streamlined our thinking becomes and we know better in what direction to think. But of course, our intentions also have to be correct to think correctly.
13. Human beings are a gifted creation. We have been given a unique body stature and a faculty of reasoning and thinking. And the entire universe serves us. We use the resources in the universe and our intellect to create ease and comfort for ourselves and we subjugate the universal resources and other creation such as animals and plants for our use. It would be really foolish for us to waste away our intellect and time and thus prove ourselves unworthy of the high position that we’ve been created in.
14. Man can forget his weaknesses during good times. Therefore, fasting is a good reminder that he is not independent. Fasting can help prevent him from forgetting this reality. This is because we feel weak and in need of food and drink.
15. Motivation can inspire from our interest in something. The end goals pulls us towards it and the hard work in between becomes easy when we imagine the end goal. So for example, if someone wants to become a heart surgeon, this will allow him to work hard for years to study medicine. If someone wants to become an athlete, he will train hard easily for years because he can imagine his end goal. Similarly, if someone is inspired to study space or earth, he will work hard to study mathematics and physics because he is wondered by the beauty of space and the earth.
16. Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending – attributed to Maria Robinson online.
17. The harder you go at a thing, the harder it reacts. Hitting a wall hard gives a harder reaction. The harder/faster you learn, the faster you forget. So if we are gentle to people, they will be gentle to us. And if we understand while we study, we will retain knowledge better.
18. Environment definitely has an effect on us. If we go in perfume shop, we will definitely smell perfume. So we should have good company. But we can close our nose in dirty area so we should be cautious in a bad company.
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Motivational Ideas (Part 11)
1. It’s best for us to not be frustrated when results don’t go our way. Our job is just to do the hard work and try our best. We should know that we may or may not receive the results, but we should have enough insight to realize that along the way,we have learned and acquired many other skills. Also we have been taught us many other morals and values such as patience.
By Basil5 years ago in Motivation
“He Kept Going When No One Was Watching — And That Changed Everything”
No one ever noticed the days he almost gave up. There were no messages asking if he was okay. No one wondered why he became quieter. No one asked how much effort it took just to keep going. To the world, he was just another ordinary man. His name was Ayaan. Ayaan’s life didn’t collapse in one dramatic moment. It slowly faded. Missed opportunities. Rejected ideas. Silent disappointments. Every failure was small, but together they became heavy. He had dreams once. Big ones. Dreams that kept him awake at night, imagining a future where his hard work would finally matter. But over time, those dreams began to feel unrealistic—almost embarrassing. People around him seemed to move forward effortlessly. They celebrated promotions, achievements, and milestones. Ayaan watched from the side, smiling politely while feeling invisible. At work, his efforts were ignored. Among friends, his voice faded. At home, expectations weighed heavily on him. Slowly, a dangerous thought settled into his mind: “Maybe I’m not good enough.” That thought followed him everywhere. It followed him on crowded buses. It followed him into sleepless nights. It followed him every time he tried again and failed. One night, after scrolling through endless success stories online, Ayaan closed his phone and stared at the dark ceiling. His chest felt tight, not because of pain—but because of exhaustion. He whispered quietly, “How long do I keep trying?” There was no answer. But that night, Ayaan made a decision—not a loud one, not a confident one. A tired decision. He decided to keep going, even if nothing changed. The next morning felt the same. The same routine. The same doubts. The same fear of wasting his life. But Ayaan showed up anyway. He worked when no one praised him. He studied when no one guided him. He practiced when no one believed in him. Some days, motivation disappeared completely. On those days, discipline took over. He reminded himself: “I don’t need applause. I need progress.” Weeks passed. Nothing dramatic happened. No sudden success. No recognition. No miracle. But something subtle began to shift. Ayaan became calmer under pressure. He learned to sit with discomfort instead of running from it. He stopped comparing his journey to others. The silence that once scared him now became his training ground. Months later, a serious problem appeared at his workplace. It was complicated, risky, and easy to blame on someone else. Most people avoided it. Some pretended it wasn’t their responsibility. Ayaan didn’t announce himself. He didn’t seek attention. He simply started working. Late nights. Mistakes. Corrections. Learning. There were moments he wanted to quit. Moments when fear whispered, “You’re not ready.” But he answered back, “I’ll learn.” Slowly, the problem began to disappear. Not perfectly—but steadily. People noticed, quietly. One afternoon, his manager called him into the office. Ayaan expected criticism. Instead, he heard a question that stunned him: “Where did you learn all this?” Ayaan paused. How could he explain years of silent effort? How could he explain working when no one cared? He simply replied, “I kept going.” That moment didn’t change his life overnight. He didn’t become famous. He didn’t suddenly become successful. But it changed something far more important. His belief in himself. For the first time, Ayaan understood that life doesn’t always reward effort immediately. Sometimes, it watches. It watches who continues without praise. Who improves without recognition. Who grows in silence. Years later, Ayaan looked back at the version of himself who almost quit. The man who felt invisible. The man who thought no one was watching. And he smiled. Because he finally understood the truth: Life was always watching. Not to judge. Not to rush. But to see if he would keep going when it was hardest. The world doesn’t reward those who only work when they’re seen. It rewards those who build strength in silence. And sometimes, the moment that changes everything doesn’t come with applause. It comes quietly. After patience. After effort. After consistency. That is when everything finally begins to change. Final Message Keep going—even when no one is watching. Especially then.
By Inayat khan2 days ago in Motivation
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