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HOW TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE: Get more done Studying Online / Working From ... 

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A second lockdown isn't what we expected! Hopefully this helps!

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Oh Yes I did. I made one of these. Yup. I’m now #Official 😂 #MotivationalSpeaker #Quote #Inspiration #DoWhatYouLove #LoveWhatYouDo #MakeItHappen (at Lord Somers Camp)

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Beach Tingz #Williamstown #Beach #Sillouette #Tingz (at Williamstown, Victoria, Australia)

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We still have a whole month left in 2017.. more than enough to make this the best year of our lives.. and even better opportunity to set an amazing tone for 2018 and beyond 😬

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✏️ @skybanyes

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Beware the Bakasura #KMOW @krishnamasterofwonders #Bakasura #Krishna

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With it all over I thought I'd feel empty. If anything, I feel nothing but love and as whole as I ever could be. Thank you YLP! #TrinityCollege #YLP4LYF

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Why does studying suck so much?

I have been studying/schooling for a long time now to be exact it’s been 2 years of kindergarten, 12 years of school, 3 years of bachelors and 3 years into medical school making it roughly 20 years of studying back to back with pretty much no year off in the middle.

Some days, it becomes really hard to study. I just cannot get my brain to read the next line, cannot get my mind to absorb, think and process information any longer. Not just mentally but physically my body gives up as I slouch over the desk and ponder over the meaning of life.

Then pushing to get back up but only to get into a mode of study where every 5 minutes I jump on Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat and just stare even if I am not enjoying being on social media, I am there just to escape from the guilt of having to study.

I am sure there are many of YOU reading this now who feel or have felt the same? I know it is something every student feels. You can go through the gazillion procrastination memes on 9gag to find out how common of a sentiment this is. It’s a common feeling among young people as well like how the other day my younger brother texted about how he felt hopeless about his upcoming exams and he is just not able to study anymore.

I wanted to reflect on these feelings and try to understand why do we feel this way when on the other hand we have people in this world who had to sacrifice, struggle and give up so much just to do what we all often hate so much doing — Study!

They would give up anything to get what we have — the opportunity to gain knowledge and have an education.

One such person is Syeda who tells her story here Syeda got married at an early age in a traditional family, they not only physically and emotionally abused her but would not permit her to study when that is one thing she wanted the most of everything else in life. After years of abuse she managed to escape and the shine she has in her eyes when she talks about how badly she wanted to study inspires me. The same studying that makes me, you and many others often sick.

Or like my dad who tells us stories of how he had to study under street lamps or on the farm while he was expected to do farming since our grandparents did not care if he got an education. He did not have the opportunity to do multiple degrees or be a full-time student or buy expensive stationaries. He had to knock on the door of his neighbors to ask for chipping in. money so he could pay his exam fees.

I guess this is a classic example of the old human adage of us humans not being grateful for what we have and realise the value of things only when it is too late.

I am close to finishing my formal education (or maybe not given I am in medicine) but for however long I do I want to enjoy studying like Syeda or my dad or the plenty others who only see joy, happiness, and fulfillment in studying and not feel sick or constantly procrastinate like my brain does. I wish the same and more for your brain, fellow procrastinator.

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#2017 #Secrets #ItHasOnlyJustBegun @humblethepoet

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Click link in bio to see the full vid! #HandlingFailure . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #Motivation #Speaker #Failure #Feedback #motivationvideos #PersonalDevelopment #SelfDevelopment #Motivate #Inspire #Success #WorkEthic #Grit

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50 flowers for Mum's #50thBirthday #HalfACentury

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Brilliant write-up! Love these thoughts.

Why do we ask ‘How are you’ when we know the answer is going to be a lie?

During my winter break, I was working at a camp, as I am during most of my holidays, I am sure a lot of you would know. This gave me a chance to meet a lot of new people but also catch up with heaps of old friends I had last seen ages ago.

One thing that normally always pops up when you see your old friends, or even upon meeting new people, is the question ‘how are you?’. But this isn’t just limited to them, we get asked this by people we see every day, those we know and even those we don’t know like the barista at the cafe I just tried out yesterday.

But there’s something about this question that’s been bothering me so much lately and it’s the fact that we all have mechanical replies to this question;

I am fine, thanks. How are you? I am well. How are you?

And more often than not, it is a lie. We say it even if we are not fine and we have tons of things going wrong in our life but day in day out, we blatantly lie when asked this question without even realizing it. Why do we do it? Is it because we think asking how you are is just another way of saying hello? If so, isn’t it a poor use of such a beautiful question because think about it, the next person wants to know how you ARE. They care enough to ask what’s going on in your life and how you are dealing with it. Why do we disrespect them and ourselves by lying in answer to it?

To make things even worse (and possibly more dramatic), I heard a friend of mine respond to someone who asked how she was,  with one word: amazing. When in fact, just hours earlier I had spoken to her about how messed up things had been for her. It made me sad to see as humans, how we rarely open up and give the real answer to such a simple question.

And this is hard for me because those of you who know me know I absolutely love talking.  So whenever I am asked how I am (given time permits), I love giving a detailed answer updating the next person on all that’s going right, and that’s going wrong.

But lately, I have been feeling guilty about my answers. I find myself wondering if I’m complaining too much and putting all my troubles on the next person. Or I think to myself if it is my life that has so much wrong going on while everyone else is seemingly living a good, healthy and a perfect life? Or maybe I shouldn’t tell the next person everything because they wouldn’t care to know and start wondering where they got stuck.

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New article is up on TQ follow the link! http://thequintessential.org/articles/2016/7/11/mindset #WroteThisOne #OpenMindset vs #CloseMindset (at Trinity College (University of Melbourne))

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