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Karma Of Success – KarmicFitness #3

posted by Anupriya September 25, 2018 2 Comments

For a long period of time, while my husband was a struggling aspiring entrepreneur, he chose to remain off social media (read Facebook). I often mocked him for his ignorance, yet probed him to understand his reasons. I mean, why would one decide to remain ignorant of one platform that was his only window to his social circle (at that time). One day, after 7 years of marriage, he finally decided to open up.

“Look dear! I am struggling with my profession right now. We havn’t been on a decent vacation for last 5 years. And I know that you are craving for one. With two kids, to take care of, life seems a little tough at this juncture. When I open my facebook, I see all happy faces having an awesome life. I know that’s not the complete picture. People mostly put up only the bright side of their lives on their walls. but it does make me cringe and wonder that I may not be doing enough for my family. Or feel desparate about ‘when will my time to enjoy life come’. It’s not a good feeling. I can feel negativity seep into my conscience. So, I’d rather stay away from it.” Continue Reading

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Be Grateful – Gratitude Begets Gratitude – #BlogAThon

posted by Anupriya July 15, 2018 2 Comments

And finally we land at the last and final post of the seven post series where I am sharing my experiences from the two Half Marathons that I ran last season and trying to draw some analogies from my experience to live a happier life. Hope you find these life lessons useful.

To Bring More Happiness Into My Life

So here are the seven relevant lessons that I have been able to derive from my Marathon running experiences, for a happier Me.

Things I Was Grateful About After Completing Each Of My Marathon Runs

All through the Blogathon, I thought of a different message for the last post. But as I approach the conclusion, Gratitude came across as a neglected aspect of the entire affair. Continue Reading

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Don’t Give Up – Happiness #BarAThon

posted by Anupriya July 13, 2018 0 comments

Here’s the sixth post of the seven post series where I am sharing my experiences from the two Half Marathons that I ran last season and trying to draw some analogies from my experience to live a happier life. Hope you find these life lessons useful.

To Bring More Happiness Into My Life

So here are the seven relevant lessons that I have been able to derive from my Marathon running experiences, for a happier Me.

Don’t Give Up – Cross The Finishing Line

I have shared in my previous post ‘ ‘ about how I almost gave up within 15 minutes of beginning my first marathon. And then I received an advice from a fellow runner that changed `a lot of things for me. What he had said was, Continue Reading

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Why You Must Cheer Others – Happiness #Barathon

posted by Anupriya July 11, 2018 2 Comments

Phew! My pursuit to balance various roles as a mother, home-maker, blogger is turning out be quite an adventure this month. Yet keeping my grit, here’s the fifth post of the seven post series where I am sharing my experiences from the two Half Marathons that I ran last season and trying to draw some analogies from my experience to live a happier life. Hope you find these life lessons useful.

To Bring More Happiness Into My Life

So here are the seven relevant lessons that I have been able to derive from my Marathon running experiences, for a happier Me.

Endurance
Plan Your Energy Expenditure
Be Better Than Yourself
Run Together
Cheer For Others
Don’t Give Up
Practice Discipline

The Marathon and Cheering

I often saw it in movies. The sight of artists exhibiting their talents on the streets in foreign lands made a very appealing sight to me. But nothing had prepared me for the adrenaline rush that it gives when you are privy to such a performance in real. Like live! These performers obviously have their benefits in mind while they cheer others, yet it all feels +very noble to me. Why? Becasue at that point of time, it made me feel important. Also it felt like I was a part of something big, something significant enough to make the morning a different one from routine. Continue Reading

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The Merit In Running Together – Happiness #Barathon

posted by Anupriya July 10, 2018 5 Comments

Ok! Amidst the kids and other family commitments over the weekend this Bar-A-Thon is turning out be quite a struggle for me. Almost like my first Marathon! Nevertheless, here I am with the fourth post of the seven post series where I am sharing my experiences from the two Half Marathons that I ran last season, and it’s been an amazing journey so far. This is my attempt to draw some analogies from my experience and see how one can use them to live a happier life. Hope you find these life lessons useful.

To Bring More Happiness Into My Life

So here are the seven relevant lessons that I have been able to derive from my Marathon running experiences, for a happier Me.

Endurance
Plan Your Energy Expenditure
Be Better Than Yourself
Run Together
Cheer For Others
Don’t Give Up
Practice Discipline

How Running Together Made A Difference

I have shared with you how I struggled to the finishing line during my first Marathon. But to my shock, my dear husband was struggling even more. While I was hardly jogging my way through, he was able to catch up with me only half way through. He was on the verge of giving up now. But I held his hand and led him ahead. Continue Reading

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Perks Of Competing To Be Better Than Yourself

posted by Anupriya July 6, 2018 9 Comments

Here we are, at the third post of the seven post series that is participating in Bar-A-Thon. I am sharing my experiences from the two Half Marathons that I ran last season, and it’s been an amazing journey so far. My attempt to draw some analogies from my experience and see how one can use them to live a happier life is finding resonance with so many of you. That’s really encouraging. Thanks to All of You!

To Bring More Happiness Into My Life

So here are the seven relevant lessons that I have been able to derive from my Marathon running experiences, for a happier Me.

Endurance
Plan Your Energy Expenditure
Be Better Than Yourself
Run Together
Cheer For Others
Don’t Give Up
Practice Discipline

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Plan Your Energy Expenditure – Happiness #Blogathon

posted by Anupriya July 4, 2018 7 Comments

So yes we are at the second post of the seven post series that is participating in Bar-A-Thon. I am sharing my experiences from the two Half Marathons that I ran last season. Most importantly I am making an attempt to draw some analogies from my experience and see how I can use them to live a happier life.

Marathon Lessons To Bring More Happiness Into My Life

So here’s a peep into how after running two Marathons I was able to derive seven relevant lessons for a happier Me.

Endurance
Plan Your Energy Expenditure
Be Better Than Yourself
Run Together
Cheer For Others
Don’t Give Up
Practice Discipline

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Marathon Lessons for Happiness – Mental and Emotional Endurance

posted by Anupriya July 2, 2018 10 Comments

I participated in two half marathon’s last season, which were also my first and second marathons of my life. I realised that running a marathon entails different meanings for different people. For professionals it’s about the competition. But for most runners, a Marathon brings about a gamut of life lessons. In this seven post series I am going to draw your attention towards these very life lessons.

My finish time for my first Marathon was 101 minutes. I was just glad that I crossed the finishing line. While for the second Marathon, I clocked a finishing time of 91 minutes. Yes, a straight 10 minutes reduction from the first one. The two Marathons were only 15 days apart, yet there was a sea change in my running experience. Continue Reading

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Killing Time – #AtoZChallenge

posted by Anupriya April 12, 2018 2 Comments

Varsha went about her home chores in a mechanical manner. Since the birth of her younger daughter, she had left her job to be a stay at home mom. Every day she packed off her elder son to school and then prepared breakfast and lunch for her husband. Once he left, she turned her attention towards her 20 month old daughter, Labdhi.

Varsha had managed to continue with her job after her first child, Niru was born. Varsha and Prateek had agree to have a nanny for Niru so that she could pursue her career. Life seemed to be going smooth for the small family. But arrival of Labdhi, changed the ball game altogether. The couple was unanimously of the view that it wasn’t possible to raise two kids by depending solely on a nanny. Niru too was growing up to be an extremely aggressive child. As a natural course of action, Varsha decided to leave her job. When she started being at home, she realized that raising kids was an extremely exhaustive and a full time job. She had never spent such undivided time with her elder son, and now as she did it, she realized why and where they were going wrong with Niru’s upbringing. As a child he needed an emotional anchor, which the nanny failed to be.

Also a lot of her time went in taking care of the house. Even though Varsha hardly got any time from her duties as a home-maker and a mother, she missed her work. On most days when she had no time to even sit back and enjoy a cup of tea. It was a task relay throughout the day. Even on those days, Varsha wondered if she was doing justice to all the hard work that she had put in to become a Chartered Accountant. For 28 years of her life, she had held her education and her work as of utmost importance to her. And now all of a sudden, her life seemed to have taken a summersault and her priorities had changed. What amazed her was that even her parents, who had always pushed her to perform well professionally, now thought that her prime responsibility was the upbringing of her kids. Continue Reading

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How many lifelines do you have? I have many! – #LetterOfLove to Friends

posted by Anupriya February 7, 2018 11 Comments

I’m thrilled to be participating in a five day ‘LOL-a-thon‘ organised by ‘The Momsteins’. Join us to read some wonderful letters written by 26 cool bloggers. Stay around to read some amazing letters coming up.
Today’s prompt is ‘Letter to Friends’

If someone asked me to define what importance does friendship hold in my life, this is how I’ll put it –

I really don’t fear falling anywhere…. That’s because you my friend will be there to hold me and pull me back to my feet.

Everytime, every single time I am about to go into the dungeons of self-doubt and holler in self pity about difficulties of life, I have someone hit me on my butt and get me going. That someone is you my friend.

There are times when I do not wish to do much and just chill, have some good time and enjoy. At such a time I do not have to do much. I just call up someone, make a plan and we both get going. That someone is you my friend.

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