Posts – Be Better At You

25Oct 2020 by Anirudh Mohan 3 Comments

The Pareto Principle – Work & Productivity

15Sep 2020 by Anirudh Mohan 1 Comment

The Pareto Principle – Relationships

Relationships

Before I begin here, I'd recommend getting a basic understanding of what the Pareto Principle is. I believe it can be applied to most situations in our life, our relationships being key among them. To be clear, when I say relationships here, I mean all our relationships, not just our relationship with our significant other. As we grow up we create and develop so many relationships in our lives including our parents, friends, significant other that it really becomes a task to juggle all of them in a healthy way. So here's a few practical things I make sure I do so I know for sure that the people in my life are getting the attention they deserve - 1. Remember the important days like Birthdays & Anniversaries I was…

08Aug 2020 by Anirudh Mohan 3 Comments

The Pareto Principle – Do less and Get More in Life

Mindfulness

As human beings, we all have a tendency or a need to do the bare minimum and get by. I'm not saying that's the right thing to do and I'm not even saying all of us think like that. I'm saying that we're evolutionarily designed to act that way. The human mind is designed to think of the easiest way to get things done. Why would our body needlessly put itself under extra stress to get things done when it can achieve the same results with less effort? Why walk 25 steps to get from point A to point B when there's an easier route that takes only 10 steps? Your subconscious mind doesn't care about how many steps you need to get in. Why prepare a fresh & nutritious…

08Aug 2020 by Anirudh Mohan No Comments

The Pareto Principle – Health & Fitness

Fitness

If you haven't read my article explaining the Pareto Principle, go ahead and read that first to understand exactly what it is. For the impatient, summarized, basically 20% of the things we do give us 80% of our results. I'd like to talk to you about how to best apply this principle to our health and fitness. When it comes to health & fitness, people really tend to overcomplicate things. They look to do entirely unnecessary things that really don't matter until you take care of what's actually important. Think of a person putting a fresh coat of varnish on a car that doesn't have an engine. All that accomplishes is that it looks nice. Instead of this approach, I believe we must focus on what's actually important first. From…

03Jul 2020 by Anirudh Mohan No Comments

Comparison is the Beginning of Your Misery

Mindfulness

As an Indian kid growing up in New Delhi, India, I had my fair share of battles with comparison. Most of these originated from my parents though. It's all still so fresh in my memory. It was the year 2001. A hot summer school day. I'd run home with the results of a test and proudly gave it to my mom or dad in hopes of appreciation. They'd look at it slowly. They'd say "well done, but how much did (insert annoying friend name here) get?" If I had done better than them, great. If I had done worse, I'd get a shrug with hope that maybe I'd do better than him next time. How would I combat this? Make stupider friends? While I tried that, that really isn't recommended.…

17Jun 2020 by Anirudh Mohan No Comments

Business Class Love: Manage your relationship like a CEO

Relationships

As my girlfriend and I sat down at our usual spot at this coffee house we used to go to, I remember feeling oddly calm. I say "oddly calm" because we had been through a particularly difficult period in our relationship and we had come here to discuss what we were going to do about it. I was calm mostly because I had an exact idea of how we were going to approach this whole scenario (I had also begun a meditation practice and I believe the benefits were showing). My girlfriend ordered a rooibos tea and I ordered a slice of pie. If I had to describe us based on our food choices, I'd call her fancy and myself a future diabetic. Regardless, as we finished ordering, I did…

25May 2020 by Anirudh Mohan No Comments

Guilt & Why it’s Useless

Mindfulness

My first understanding and maybe even an appreciation of guilt happened in February 2020, I was participating in this mindfulness compassion meditation retreat. It was my first retreat but I was there with a fairly open mind. I had been meditating for a while now & had started to see the benefits. This was my natural progression. It was during the first class where I gained a deeper understanding of Guilt. I later concluded how it's fairly useless as an emotion. All emotions are useful in some way or the other. Anger tells you what you don't like. Stress helps you identify when your mind & body are under attack. Fear helps you identify where the edge is. But what about guilt? What does guilt do for us? Absolutely nothing.…

20May 2020 by Anirudh Mohan No Comments

Meditation & Anxiety: My Journey Towards Becoming Less of an Asshole

Mindfulness

My main objective with starting this website was always to help people. The first post I actually did on the website was an 8 step meditation guide. The reason I actually got into meditation was to help me get through a fairly difficult period of my life. During this period, I experienced significant bouts of anxiety. This brings me to our topic for today. Let's discuss the relationship between meditation & anxiety and ultimately, how I became less of an asshole. Meditation is something that a version of me from a few years ago would've probably scoffed at. I used to probably shit on anything spiritual or hokey sounding. As a young atheist, I was really angry. I was so pissed off at everybody that had lied to me about…

13May 2020 by Anirudh Mohan No Comments

5 Diet Hacks For a Busy Lifestyle

Fitness

I remember back when I was in college and life was so much simpler. Since I didn't really drink or party a lot, keeping up with my diet was relatively easy. The first time I came back home after my freshman year in college, people thought I was on steroids because of the kind of progress I had made. Fast forward to now. Things are slightly more complicated. Apart from a full day's worth of work at my office, I also would like to spend time with my girlfriend, my family, my friends & read among other things. So, I came up with tiny adjustments to my life. Easy "hacks" to support all my passions. Here are my top 5 diet hacks for a busy lifestyle - 1. Meal Prep…

08May 2020 by Anirudh Mohan No Comments

4 Requirements of a Healthy Relationship

Relationships

While there are obviously more than 4 aspects of a healthy relationship, I consider these to be the fantastic four that we need. Not like the movie though. That was a disaster. Think of it more like the eventual Marvel studios reboot which I can't wait for. Without further ado, here are the 4 requirements of a healthy relationship - 1. Comfort Comfort is a huge huge factor in relationships that often gets overlooked. I've seen so many relationship where one person in the relationship feels that they need to put up a front for the other person. This could be completely superficial things like needing to dress up or always make an extra effort to get ready for your partner. This could also be something much more emotional or…