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Personal Growth

2020 Year in Review

This year I spent most of my time with my family. I did many new things for my personal growth like starting this blog and a weekly newsletter. And there were some scary moments. In early December, all of us in our family tested positive for Covid. Luckily, all of us recovered within a few […]

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Personal Knowledge Management Productivity

My Information Capture Workflows and Tools

This post is part of a series I am writing about building a second brain course and how I am building my second brain in RoamResearch. Check out the other posts  Part 1 – Introduction to Building A Second Brain(BASB) Part 2 – My 12 Favorite Problems Part 3 – Project List Part 4 – My PARA setup in Roam Research Part […]

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Personal Knowledge Management Productivity

My PARA setup in Roam Research

This post is part of a series I am writing about building a second brain course and how I am building my second brain in RoamResearch. Check out the other posts 👇 Part 1 – Introduction to Building A Second Brain(BASB) Part 2 – My 12 Favorite Problems Part 3 – Project List Part 4 – My PARA […]

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Personal Knowledge Management Productivity

Project List

This post is part of a series I am writing about building a second brain course and how I am building my second brain in RoamResearch. Check out the other posts 👇 Part 1 – Introduction to Building A Second Brain(BASB) Part 2 – My 12 Favorite Problems Part 3 – Project List Part 4 – My PARA […]

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Personal Growth Personal Knowledge Management

My 12 Favorite Problems

This post is part of a series I am writing about building a second brain course and how I am building my second brain in RoamResearch. Check out the other posts 👇 Part 1 – Introduction to Building A Second Brain(BASB) Part 2 – My 12 Favorite Problems Part 3 – Project List Part 4 […]

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Personal Knowledge Management

Introduction to Building A Second Brain(BASB)

This post is part of a series I am writing about building a second brain course and how I am building my second brain in RoamResearch. Check out the other posts 👇 Part 1 – Introduction to Building A Second Brain(BASB) Part 2 – My 12 Favorite Problems Part 3 – Project List Part 4 […]

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Personal Growth

Small Wins – The secret behind sustained motivation

For years I struggled to exercise regularly. I could never do more than 10 pushups. Every so often, I used to set a goal to exercise and forget about it a week later. Now I can do 50 pushups, 50 sit-ups, and 50 squats non stop in a single set. I have been exercising regularly […]

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Productivity

My Time Management System

How do some people find time to do many things in a day while most of us complain about lack of time to even exercise? What differentiates one who gets things done from people who struggle to get anything done? I was in the latter camp of people who struggle with time management. I was […]

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Parenting

Being an Authoritative Parent

In the book The Self Driven Child, the authors describe three styles of parenting. Autocratic parents place a premium on Obedience. Permissive parents emphasize the importance of their child’s happiness and attempt to fulfill their child’s desires to make them happy. Authoritative parents are supportive, but not controlling. They want their kids to cooperate because […]

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Personal Growth

Meditation and Its Benefits

Online communities are a great place to meet like-minded people. Sara is one such friend I met in the nesslabs community. I reached to her with the following question about meditation. I have been meditating for six months now. I can barely sit without thoughts for a few seconds during meditation. At times It makes to […]