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Do Everything with a ‘MUST DO’ Attitude

What in your life you can tell me right now you are proud of. What makes you proud today.

Raise your standards. Difference in people is their standards.

When you convert your should do into ‘must do’ , you raise your standards. Amazing things happen when you decide you ‘must do’ .

If you decide to take an action on the basis of ‘should’ like you should do it, I should change etc., you might get stuck. There is a possibility of you finding an excuse to stop. If it just a should for you are just interested and not fully committed to the process and system of achieving the target.

If you decide to take an action on the basis of ‘must’ then you will do it no matter what.

MUST DO means – You will not stop. You are committed . You will not find excuses but you will find an opportunity to overcome the problems and a chance to improve. Because your cause is more important to you than the hurdles you face.

You need to have rituals not just routines. Whatever you are looking for you will find it. But you got to change your mindset and focus.

~Praveen Jada

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References:

Excerpts from various articles and videos of famous motivations speakers

We Know What and How to Do But Do We Want To DO IT

Most of us are fully aware of many commonsensical things we need to do in our best interest. Most of us are aware what is good and bad in this world. In this era of smartphones with easy internet connectivity, with little bit of interest to research online we get access to all the information to learn. So we obviously know what to do and how to do many things that enhance our daily lives.

However, the problem lies in moving, taking a decision and get started. There has be a plan to go ahead and be consistent in executing it. We have to stick with the plan and mission in any circumstance. In that process we will encounter obstacles, unexpected and uncontrollable factors may try to break our consistency, we will have personal and professional challenges to face, there will be innumerable forces that makes us give up.

BUT NO MATTER WHAT WE NEED TO STICK ON, GET GOING, KEEP BREAKING THE BARRIERS, KEEP FIGHTING FOR THE MISSION WE DECIDED, TAKE OWNERSHIP AND RESPONSIBILITY, LEAD, INSPIRE AND INPROVE PEOPLE’S LIVES IN THE PROCESS.

~Praveen Jada

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Habits of Successful People

  1. Set goals, Your ‘WHY’, purpose, mission
  2. Take responsibility
  3. Self-discipline
  4. Self-development, learn, grow, continuous improvement
  5. Read a lot
  6. Time management, prioritize the tasks
  7. Take risks
  8. Never quit, learn from failures and set-backs
  9. Will find a way to make things happen
  10. Do what they love and passionate about, their mission is their job

~Praveen Jada

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References:

Excerpts from various articles and videos of famous motivations speakers

Your Happiness is Your Responsibility

You can make somebody smile, joyful, you can please somebody, you can give exciting moments to others, you can give a thrilling experience to somebody . However, being happy is one’s own responsibility and it is not our responsibility to make somebody happy. It is completely out of our control to make somebody happy. You can give happiness from your perspective but others feeling happy is not in your hands. 

~Praveen Jada

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References:

Excerpts from various articles and videos of famous motivations speakers

Ways to Build a Great Brain – Naturally and with Supplements

  1. Avoid Anti-depressants – Instead exercise, meditate, deep breath, sleep
  2. Moderate stimulants like caffeine
  3. Avoid toxin exposure – use quality food, breath clean air and drink clean water
  4. Avoid sensory overload – stop being exposed to TV, smart phone, any other screen exposure, reduce exposure to loud audio.
  5. Fix your gut – Eat a wide variety of fermented foods. Add probiotic supplement to diet.
  6. Replace building blocks – Neurotransmitters are comprised of amino acids, vitamin B complex, minerals. Take a Multivitamin supplement.
  7. Supplement with Tryptophan for serotonin and L-Theanine for Dopamine
  8. Lubricate the nerves and neurons with healthy fats – Omega 3 fatty acids

How to avoid adrenal over-function, stress and anxiety

  • De stress – meditate, breathing exercise, yoga, physical exercise
  • Try to focus on the things that excites you and feel passionate about . Ignore the free information available on the internet or new or any other negative news. Minimize the access to amount of information and mainly negative info.
  • Don’t stress out too much on the things you want to do daily. Do as much as you can and best possible you can. Then do not bother too much about the other aspects that you missed out due to certain uncontrollable factors.
  • Avoid surrounding yourself with energy vampires and negative people.
  • Take vitamin C if your adrenal system is worked up
  • Take cold showers to reduce inflammation
  • Take curcumin for anti-inflammation and brain inflammation
  • Get enough sleep

For neuron health and brain health – Helpful Supplements

  • Vitamin D3 and K2
  • Fish oil , Omega 3 Fatty acids
  • Coffee and Green tea
  • Creatine Monohydrate
  • L-Carnitine or Acetyl L Carnitine
  • Alpha Lipoic acid
  • A quality Multivitamin
  • Magnesium
  • Choline
  • Zinc

~Praveen Jada

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References:

Excerpts from various articles and videos of various health experts

Brutal truth of success

  • Success costs you, it costs us more than our money and time. Achieving success costs us more than anything we can imagine. However it is worth our effort and sacrifice.
  • The path to success could be a lonely journey. But go on, don’t stop. You might have to fight alone but go through it. You have to be strong to lead by example and take others along with you.
  • Success is more than gaining popularity on social media, reaching financial heights, business deals, claps and accolades.
  • Success is more than all the materialistic and abstract enjoyments in life.
  • At the final stages of our journey we realize success is more about where we stand with our physical and mental health, our valuable personal relationships, pursuing our passion, number of people we touched, the positive impact we have on others and number people we inspired in our success story.

~Praveen Jada

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References:

Excerpts from various articles and videos of famous motivations speakers

Exercise – A Natural Brain Boosting Drug

According many researches, it was found that exercising daily or doing some kind of physical activity has more benefits mentally than physically. Think of exercising as a brain pension plan. Since we are IT employees we do not receive pension when we retire. But we can have this amazing pension plan for mental health free of cost.

Effective exercise produces all essential hormones in the brain to mitigate the mental and emotional issues. Sometimes man brain disorders can be completely cured.

Many researchers suggest more the movements, more flexibility, newer challenges and more muscular-skeletal usage would lead to better brain muscle activity and development.

During exercise Brain releases a protein called Brain derived Neurotrophic factor (BDNF) during exercise. This protein enables strengthening and development of neurons and prevents brain cell death.

Exercise and physical activity releases Dopamine along with other neurotransmitters serotonin and noradrenaline. These are all feel good and happiness related hormones that activate reward center of the brain. They give you post workout HIGH enabling you to give high performance.

Exercising properly reduces the level of cortisol(stress hormone). Regular exercise can have a profoundly positive impact on depression, anxiety, ADHD, PTSD and more. It also relieves stress, improves memory, helps you sleep better, and boosts overall mood.

Finally it improves the overall wellbeing of an individual.

~Praveen Jada

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How do we Build Courage and Confidence

Face Challenges head on and do not back step

Leads to

Changes in life, unexpected things happening in life

Leads to

Discomfort and Suffering – Go through it

Leads to

Struggle in life – Deal with it

Leads to

Character Building and becoming stronger during the process

Leads to

Courage and Confidence

~Praveen Jada

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References:

Excerpts from various articles and videos of famous motivations speakers

Show Up – No Matter What

If you have taken a decision to transform your fitness levels, then the first step is to SHOW-UP. Show yourself up daily in the gym at the same time you decided, no matter what.

If you decided to spend 1 hour daily in gym, show up in the gym and be there for 1 hour doing some exercise and activity. Let’s not worry about what you do in the gym for the first few days. You just need to be present in the gym. Do not miss it for any reason. That’s it, if you can do this without compromise, then you passed the first hurdle.

Showing up consistently for something you resolved is the most important step. Once you are steady with this step, you are going to work out in gym automatically. With this you would gradually build seriousness daily and keep on improving yourself in gym. Regularly we get into a mode where we will realize that if we have to do something every day, then we better do it correctly and seriously.

After getting into this mode , at some point you will be start noticing the physical and mental gains due to exercise. After that, there is no stopping you. You gain momentum and there is no stopping.

This mindset development not only helps you in your fitness goals but also in other aspects of life as well. Showing up and being present to honor our commitment resisting all distractions around us needs a stubborn and focused mindset. Without this mentality, you could easily deviate from your objective.

So decide now and kick start your fitness journey by SHOWING UP EVERYDAY.

~Praveen Jada

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Importance of Morning Routine

Get yourself in a powerful state.

Great mood – Great results, Greats day.

Better attitude – better results, better we can handle, overcome and thrive the challenges.

So build a morning routine. Wake up, meditate, exercise, feeling gratitude. With these we are set for the day. We are ready to face the world. We could do the best we could for this day with the positivity we filled us early in the day.

When we start our day with a clear mind, When we face challenges with a clear mind, challenges lose their power. We can convert the obstacle to a opportunity.

Most people have difficulty in having a consistent morning routine. Don’t be most people. Try to become minority . In this day and age minority who starts the day with winning attitude  has a greater potential to achieve unbelievable things.

Ensure that you are going to make today the best day possible and the next day even better. This is how we are setting new standards for ourselves every day. Give it all each and every day.

Change your thinking , change your life.

How do you optimize your body , you feed it with healthy and nutritious food, you work it out to make it stronger and fitter.

How do you change your mind and thoughts, fill it positive affirmations and believes, work out your mind with motivational books, audios  videos, challenge yourself, go through self-development. keep doing something new in alignment with you passion, learn, share, contribute and keep adding to value to you and others.

  • Workout for 30 minutes,
  • Meditate and deep breathing for 10 to 15 minutes
  • Show gratitude for what you have now and how you are going to show respect to the gifts you have in life
  • Do something to learn or share or contribute or teach in the area of your interest and passion

~Praveen Jada

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Live Quality Life

There is no way we can be happy or do what we want to do or be where we want to be without having physical, mental, emotional health.

Living 90 years does not mean you lived a healthy life, happy life and a purposeful life. Because of the technological advances in our generation, people might live longer but are you living a joyful and purposeful life.

A person who had an unhealthy lifestyle or who smokes/drinks or who do not care about exercise or diet could live a long life, sometimes may be longer than one can imagine. But most probably it may not be a pleasant journey. That person could live on medicines, may go through surgeries or may have to live on some other support.

When it comes to life, quality matters. How many quality years did we spend in our lifetime. How many quality years did we add due to our lifestyle choices. A person having healthy life choices would most probably be able to enjoy the life with minor glitches. A quality life enables us to realize our dreams at any stage of our lives.

~Praveen Jada

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We Must Control Our Mind and Body

Anything in our life is unpredictable, uncertain and constantly changing. Be it our society, be it our relationships, be it the people, be it our work life, be it the environment – All of these are not in our hands and have dependencies. Even if we try our best in all these aspects, these are all dynamic and uncontrollable beyond certain limit.


BODY and MIND are only two things that we are in complete control of. No one or nothing else can influence our body and mind except us. We are the master of ourselves. We may not master or change the other aspects of our lives but we can definitely face the life proficiently when we are strong inside.

We can develop, change, adopt, improve our body and mind continuously so that we are prepared for the challenges that life throws at us.

~Praveen Jada

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Focus on Progress and Journey More Then the Goals

Being consistent, learning and growing continuously is more important than hitting goals. Goals are good and they are necessary to start with. We need to be little cautious as goals may stop our improvement when goals are achieved. However, focusing on process or journey would enable continuous improvement.

As a famous lifestyle coach James Clear said “Goals can restrict your happiness. Fall in love with the process. If you want better results focus on system rather than goal. Goals are good for setting a direction, process and system is good for making continuous progress”

A healthy lifestyle and well being is a life long process. Having a target to loose so much weight and building so much muscle is good to start in that direction, but focus more on the process of dedication, learning and continuous development.

Journey is more important than destination. Who you become during the journey is more important than what you achieve at the end.

Value healthy lifestyle which involves good habits, healthy diet, regular physical exercise and a proper sleep schedule. Identify yourself being healthy and fit both physically and mentally life long. This would make us stick to continuous progress and improvement even after we reach our goals.

~Praveen Jada

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Actions that Make Us Feel Great and Positive

  • Start moving the body, start exercising, eating healthy food. If you are already do it, then set some higher fitness goals.
  • Feel grateful and be grateful. Have gratitude towards everything in life.
  • If you already know you need to improve your habits, do it
  • Believe that you can do anything
  • Move away from negative people and negative sources
  • Limit mobile and TV usage and read more books, inspirational and motivational books
  • Take responsibility and come out of victim mindset. Stop blaming and complaining about the stuff that is happening to you and take control of how you can turn them into opportunities to improve yourself.
  • Do not try and do multiple things. Be good at few things. Perfection is not the goal but progress and consistent growth is important.
  • Always think what you can do in any situation. What best you can offer. How can you take charge and control yourself in any given situation.
  • Think positively and fill your mind with optimism. Keep improving and keep working towards your goal consistently, good things start to happen.

~Praveen Jada

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References:

Excerpts from various articles and videos of famous motivations speakers

No Matter What Happens It Is Your Responsibility

Just because you are in a mess because of someone else fault, does not mean that they have to fix it. If it affects you then you need to make sure that you do something about it to make your life better. By just saying that it is their fault and they have to fix it, they need to pay, they need to be punished would not solve the problem. At least it would not make you better in any sense. Take responsibility. The power of not feeling like a victim is taking responsibility. We need to get out of the victim mentality. Limiting beliefs will drown you slowly.

It is your life, your body, your mind, your family, your relationships, if something is messed up in life due to some uncontrollable person or event, do not sit and go into blame game. See how you could use that trauma and improve yourself. Try to see if you could become stronger than before.

~Praveen Jada

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