{"id":595,"date":"2022-05-29T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T15:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2022-06-01T07:13:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T07:13:00","slug":"one-picasso-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/29\/one-picasso-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"One Picasso A Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"
If one were to ask what is the most loyal thing in the world, it would be the ‘ bodyclock<\/i><\/strong>‘. Time after time, day after day, it never lets you down in waking us up. I guess, that too, is a creature of\u00a0habit.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Being an old schooler, waking up and writing down the ‘ to do task list<\/strong> ‘ of the day is de rigueur. <\/i><\/strong>And on the rare occasion, the list falls shy of occupying a full A4 page, disappointment gets writ large. After all, ‘ M<\/em>en are from Mars<\/i><\/strong> ‘. And Machiavellian abilities\u00a0for Herculean tasks are expected to go hand in hand. How remiss!!<\/span><\/div>\n
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We have been hardwired to think that working is productivity. But,\u00a0is productivity working<\/i>?<\/strong> After all, the map is not the territory. Nor is noise, the signal.<\/span><\/div>\n
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“ Distraction is the only constant<\/strong> “. How things have\u00a0changed<\/i>!\u00a0In an on-demand, 24\/7 society, where distractions cost millions of people\u00a0<\/span>relationships, health , peace,\u00a0productivity and profitability, it\u2019s time to pay\u00a0attention\u00a0<\/i>to what matters most.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We are living through a crisis of distraction<\/em><\/strong>. Plans get sidetracked, family and friends are ignored, work never seems to get done. And that in the wake of first love and passion being firmly put long ago on the back burner, be it music or sport, travel or discovery, reading or writing..not worth it.<\/span>
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To create extraordinary lives, we can (re)learn to \u201cunplug\u201d from the constant barrage of disruptions and \u201cplug in\u201d to the tools, strategies, and mindsets that will allow us to harness our attention to reach our highest potential.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold. Story of our distraction fueled, notification driven lives.<\/span>
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If we can prepare ourselves to be as indistractable as possible, zero in on distilling the vital few from the trivial many, and be prepared to look in the ugly mirror, we can stop running on the treadmill of mediocrity.<\/b><\/i> Not just that. With high focus, extreme prioritization and unflappable emotional labour, we can all get to producing our ‘ one Picasso for the day<\/i><\/b>\u00a0.’\u00a0What do you uniquely do that matters the most? After all, you can only do one thing really well at a time. SIP by SIP. Engage in some Mutual Fun!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Most big, deeply satisfying accomplishments in life take at least a few\u00a0years to achieve. This can include cultivating a loving relationship, writing a book, getting in the best shape of your life, raising a family,\u00a0building a business,\u00a0and more. A few\u00a0<\/span>years is a long time. It is much slower than most of us would like. If you accept the reality of slow progress, you have every reason to take action today. If you resist the reality of slow progress, five years from now you’ll simply be five years older and still looking for a shortcut.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Where’s your paint brush? The canvas and the easel awaits. And your version of the Guernica.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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So, time to offer\u00a0a serenade to life, in all its terrifying and transcendent uncertainty, sung in ink, watercolor, and wonder.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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If one were to ask what is the most loyal thing in the world, it would be the ‘ bodyclock‘. Time after time, day after day, it never lets you down in waking us up. I guess, that too, is a creature of\u00a0habit. \u00a0 Being an old schooler, waking up and writing down the ‘ … Continue reading “One Picasso A Day?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[186,1025,55,197,1027,1033,1024,906,147,81,164,1032,1022,1031,1023,1035,1026,1030,1034,1028,1029],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-attention","tag-bodyclock","tag-book","tag-business","tag-distraction","tag-family","tag-focus","tag-life","tag-mars","tag-mediocrity","tag-music","tag-notification","tag-picasso","tag-potential","tag-prioritization","tag-progress","tag-prouctivity","tag-reading","tag-relationship","tag-sport","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sureshdinakaran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}