Do Epic Shit

by Ankur Warikoo

Using technology for everything possible.

Sharing my calendar with my wife.

Create a group on WhatsApp with someone. Once done, delete that someone else. Now it’s just you in the group. Pin that group to the top. And use it for easy sharing and access. 1. Docs/Images Which is where I store my important images (PAN Card, License Copy, passport copy, etc.) and documents for easy access (tickets, etc.). 2. Thoughts Which I use to just type something on the run, or click something, or record/shoot something.

Setting the right environment is super-important. I never work from my bed, always on a table. I never read lying down, always on a chair. I never eat while watching something. I never work in a dark room. Always natural light.

Do not underestimate your surroundings while trying to create flow!

I use my senses to drive action.

Keep your phone in another room while sleeping.

Keep the book where you can see it easily.

Apply your favourite deo/perfume when starting the day.

These things work!

Set your life in such a manner that you can measure this progress. Even a tiny improvement in your productivity will yield results over time.

‘Make sure decisions in your life are made from a point of view of awareness and not ignorance.’

If everyone did it, it wouldn’t need to be said. Not everyone exercises. Thus, it needs to be said more often. Not everyone spends time with their team. Thus, the best leaders say it more often. Not everyone spends time journaling. Thus, the wisest minds help us to get into the habit.

The things that are the most important and the least practised, are the things that are said. Doing the things that are the most important are the things that make you important.

Decisions are not for decoding destinations. Decisions are for deciphering the path you want to demonstrate next.

In a world filled with people living their lives for someone else, a truly well-lived life, is the one where we stay true to our own selves. That’s difficult. But not an inch more difficult than living someone else’s life.

Picking one, teaches. Picking both, confuses.

Being calm is a skill. Being calm when you are ridiculed. Being calm when you are left alone. Being calm when you are questioned. Not because they were right. Perhaps they were. Perhaps they were not. Because, if you lose your calm, you compound the unpleasant further instead of correcting it. Anyone can be calm when things are calm. Being calm despite the storm is a powerful skill.

Just because someone carries it well doesn’t mean it isn’t heavy. Everyone carries a heavy load. Be kind to others.

Fear has led to more procrastination than laziness ever will.

You don’t procrastinate because you are lazy. You procrastinate because you are scared.

You aren’t lazy. You simply aren’t ready to meet yourself on the other side. Because you won’t have those reasons then, and living a fearless life isn’t what you are used to.

Finding security in your own achievement is the biggest achievement.

no matter how much success you achieve, if you are still envious, are you truly successful?

satisfaction is the most powerful skill to have.

Do not confuse calmness with a lack of fire.

Calmness doesn’t mean lack of drive. It rather means having the power to turn that drive into actions.

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Your self-talk determines your self-worth.

We are all the stories we tell ourselves.

If I take small steps, I can do it! I am enough! I have handled more difficult things in the past!

Every morning we wake up. To live a life that runs through our stories. While looking at ourselves in the mirror. We can change the story we tell ourselves.

Not making a decision because you are scared of making the wrong decision? If you don’t move, you would’ve already made the wrong decision.

Movement brings momentum. Stagnation amplifies sadness.

The best mental model for taking tough decisions in life? 1. Ask yourself, ‘What’s the worst thing that can happen?’ 2. Close your eyes and vividly imagine it happening. 3. Then ask, ‘Will I be okay – mentally, socially, financially, physically, emotionally?’ If yes, go for it.

If you are not having fun while doing it, people will see through it.

Happiness (and fun) is a language that communicates through your face and your eyes.

That thing that you still haven’t finished and you are mad at yourself for not doing so? It is simply because it is not a priority. You think you still have time.

You think you have the time. However, the only thing you don’t have is time! Priorities get published prima facie. Procrastination gets promoted to problems.

Most decisions in life are reversible. But we assume they are set in stone. The second we think decisions are reversible, we start giving serendipity a chance!

Knowing when to say no and saying it is a life skill.

If you are authentic, if you are truly yourself all the time – you don’t have any competition! No one can ever beat you at being you!

Money, success, worldly pleasures – everything follows the person who chooses to be who they are.

Money, success, worldly pleasures – everything but happiness follows the person who follows inauthenticity to make others happy.

Merely knowing what you need to do is not enough for you to do it! Awareness is the start of the decision. Not the end of it. Step 1 is Awareness. Step 2 is Execution. Step 3 is Rinse and Repeat. You won’t go anywhere if you are aware but don’t do anything about it. You will go everywhere if you are aware and take actions from that awareness. You know. You act. You learn. You know better. And you continue.

It is better to be busy in the chase of finding yourself instead of being busy in the rat race and never know yourself.

Better to be lost for something worthwhile. Instead of getting lost in everything worthless.

Comparing yourself to others is the biggest waste of time.

If you truly want to compare, compare yourself to who you were yesterday.