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Monthly Challenge #2: WORKOUT THIS APRIL

Jayanthy Govindarajan — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 16:03:00 +0000

I finally finished my first 30-day challenge and I admit it feels amazing. There has not been one challenge in my past which I bothered to take up. This year is slowly becoming special to me in many ways. My very first 30-day challenge was a March Savings Challenge and this post is almost like polishing my skills to lead a better life.

Now, I am moving towards the next important phase of my life. I have ample time to make my life better! The next task that tops my list after marriage plans is FITNESS(Yes, all in caps, because I postponed it as much as I could and finally agreed to give up my excuses and start working out). I am finally gearing up to work on myself. My stamina is slowly improving and I feel lighter than before just after 2 weeks.

My challenge for this month is 30-day Plank Challenge.

30 Day Plank Challenge!

The various versions are as below:

Basic Plank

Modified Plank – Jumping Jacks

Reverse Plank

I am going to rock with this challenge! 🙂

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Monthly Challenge #1: MARCH

Jayanthy Govindarajan — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 11:47:00 +0000

This post is part of my self-improvement monthly challenge routine.
I practice one good habit and incorporate it. I eliminate one bad habit and leave it for sometime/forever – one step at a time towards mindful living.

Good habit : Investing Everyday
Bad habit: Addiction to browsing/gaming

Investing Everyday:

I have always felt March to be the month of Money!

MARCH = MONEY

I mostly make money decisions in the month of March. My mother is an Insurance Consultant in the LIC of India. This month is the financial closure month for her. I have observed her decisions over the past few years and finally come up with a monthly saving idea.

The idea is simple and that’s why I am following it! 😉

STEP 1: Put Rs.1 in your piggy bank on day 1.
STEP 2: Put Rs.2 on day 2.
Add money according to the days till you reach Rs.30 on day 30.

Follow this chart.

You can use this chart with varied amount per your convenience.

By the end of the month you will have Rs.465, if you follow my method.

Most likely you will have the change in the piggy bank itself. Happy saving!

Addiction TO browsing:

I browse without being aware that I am wasting my time on the Internet. I have cribbed a lot due to this in the past one month. I feel my attention is on the phone even when my family is interacting with me.

This has caused me headaches and severe deadline crunches in the past one month. Above everything, I have lost my sleep and my sleeping pattern is becoming pathetic. It’s very important to have a good night’s rest to have a good day ahead. It’s very tiring in the day when i miss my sleep and I play games on my phone non-stop to prevent moving out of bed. This has lead to enough stress and I have started to binge on food and snacks more in the past one month. I guess it’s time to change!

All the best to me! 🙂

I challenge myself and push me out of the comfort zone before someone else can do that to me.

I want to live life to the fullest at every opportunity!

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Marriage is an important life event!

Jayanthy Govindarajan — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 17:42:00 +0000

What happens when parents are forced to get their daughter or son married due to social pressure and a matter of status??

Not just the individual who is forced into marriage suffers later due to unnecessary pressure from family. But urging things only creates damage in the long run for both families involved changing the views on marriage!

For some people luckily its their wake-up call to stay aware of themselves before committing due to pressure or sympathy and take time to analyze about what can be and cannot be done by self! Rejecting someone does not mean you are rejecting the rights of the person to live, remember, you just save two families from creating further drama in the name of marriage and divorce.

Though divorce affects every one in the family indirectly, the person affected should practice smiling or being straight forward as often I guess.

Save yourself young woman! The world awaits you and you deserve better things in life!

Marriage is an important life event! Never let anyone stamp your dream!

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Life Lessons – 1

Jayanthy Govindarajan — Tue, 19 May 2015 08:57:00 +0000

Some incidents in life just make you forget that you really deserve to be happy. Those just brought you to the edge of your life and changed your entire perspective of life from being happy to you don’t deserve any good in life at all kind. This kind of incidents can clearly make you angry without a reason, and let you bottle your feelings due to fear merely of everything. It is that dread feeling that brings out the devil in you making you feel lost. This makes you lose faith and confidence that you have been struggling to hold on to.

This long gone feeling could trouble some of you till date; it’s like that one evening which has changed the entire lifetime for you and shattered your dreams and made you feel lost at sea. Till date, I have only taken this incident that shook my life as one of the worst experiences that ever happened to me. But now, after struggling with a mind which overloaded with others comments, finally gave up and understood, it’s one of the best incidents with the best outcome that has ever happened to me in my life. This incident woke me up and made me realize that I need to live my life, live my dreams, if not someone will clearly be waiting at the corner to stamp it and go away like nothing really happened.

Reading some of the slam books written during school and college made me see stuff about me that I have lost over time. This was definitely a wake-up call as to see what rotten habits I had without noticing them myself and the worst one being NOT KNOWING HOW TO SAY NO! I am a YES Girl for almost everything till date in my life. NO makes me, feel uncomfortable, especially when the other person is very much the dependent kind. But the good part here is when I clearly know nothing is going to work out I walk out or move away not being anywhere close in the vicinity. Out of sight, is out of mind clearly. But then I do feel guilty for the mistakes I did and I just pray to god and more than asking for forgiveness I have learned to present the other people involved with a life of their choice because best is not always the best for everyone. However, some bad mistakes are the best lessons they say. I agree so that I can put my past to rest and look forward to today and the days to come, though I must clearly say I feel better than anytime I have ever been and building day by day.

There is no mistake if you have learned your lesson from it.

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Daily Tools – Day 1 – Learn a new dish

Jayanthy Govindarajan — Fri, 22 Aug 2014 07:45:00 +0000

Slowly I am working on my energy level to last for a day. I know there were times when my energy never drained till before sleep. But that’s when I never concentrated on problems in hand and my only goal was to be happy today!

Gone are the best days and good things in my life. Well, I want to cut it out right here.

I’ve drained my energy levels enough and into the drains. Now my entire plan is to consciously work on it so that I can make it last irrespective of the problems.

Today I learnt a recipe with Tindora. It is known as Kovakkai in Thamizh. I choose to have very little of it if made at home till date. But now change of plans!! I shopped myself and cooked it myself today. I am planning for another recipe too with it. For today this is how it looks! 🙂 unable to share pic! 🙁 however will try and update the post with one soon! 😉

Have a wonderful day!
Do what you love but do it the right way! 🙂

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TED Talk by Elizabeth Gilbert

Jayanthy Govindarajan — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 03:46:00 +0000

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Favourite verse from Eat Pray Love

Jayanthy Govindarajan — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:32:00 +0000

Reading books is a way to calm myself and dwell in a world of my own. A place where everything is possible and can be accomplished with ease. Its also a way of clearing one’s mind at times and focus on the necessary.

Recently started with Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert.

I have this habit of noting down a few verses that I like. This is one such, loved it, so thought of sharing it.

Androgynous human figure

So when the old man asked me in person what I really wanted, I found other, truer words.

“I want to have a lasting experience of God,” I told him. “Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I lose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don’t want to be a monk, or totally give up worldly pleasures. I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights,but also devote myself to God.”

Ketut said he could answer my question with a picture. He showed me a sketch he’d drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer. But this figure had four legs, and no head. Where the head should have been, there was only a wild foliage of ferns and flowers. There was a small, smiling face drawn over the heart.

“To find the balance you want, this is what you must become.
You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it’s like you
have four legs, instead of two.
That way, you can stay in the world.
But you must stop looking at the world through your head.
You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.”

Testing moments come and go, the same with focus most of the times.

Eat, Pray,Love

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A week gone by

Jayanthy Govindarajan — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:11:00 +0000

Its already a week since the start of this new year!
This is my 2nd new year celebration after shifting to this new place!
Somehow I’m adapting to this place.
But deep inside I’m missing my very own place!
The place I lived for the last 23 years!
The place I’ve known since day 1!
Change is inevitable they say!
So this year I am going to enjoy my moments here in this place!
Hey you are not going to be new anymore! :]
Cherish them and add them to my memoirs of the already existing ones! 🙂

Also, about the resolutions I thought of writing one in each post! 🙂

Resolution #1: Keep in touch with my friends regularly!

I started it on the eve of New year! 😀
Not bad, everything seems nice and refreshing in the initial days!
But truly came to know so much in this 1 week.

Calllllzzzz!
I’m definitely missing my phone and the contacts in it much more. I messaged a few of my friends and also spoke with a few. Fought with a few and teased a few. But couldn’t really sleep much that day. There was something blocking my mind for most of the night. 😐 Way to start the ‘Fresh’ year!

An expected call but YES it came very late!

Got a call from an unknown number on 1st Jan. I was trying to recollect the number, but no hopes.
So I answered the call only to find the voice very familiar. I was so happy to speak to Deee after ages! My friend, brother and mentor! Where was he so long? But great to talk to him on new year! Took time to fill each other with lots of stories and updates from each other’s life. That’s when it all hit me! And at that, very hard! 🙁
He met with an accident before a year and suffered a minor head injury. He dint bother much about it then, trusting his helmet! But he suffered from severe head aches for the next few months and finally fainted one day. That’s when he made up his mind to visit the doctor. Very soon he came to know that there was a blood clot and a very critical one and cannot be easily operated on. He was 45kgs when I last met him – when he came home to invite us for his marriage. Even then, my father had warned him to drive home safe. Deja vu!
My evening was totally changed!
He is just 36kgs now. I can’t even imagine how weak he is now. The high dosages and regular scans are making him so damn weak. For all that he is going through now, I can just ask for one thing, God, please o please help him!

Engrossed!
We owe you lots!
What more should I say!
College days and bus moments were more amazing because of you bhai!
You’re casual manner and down to earth behavior has helped us learn much.
You were not just a brother but an excellent mentor.
A guide, a protector, a sensible person!
We are sincere admirers of your carefree attitude!

God, help him handle all the pains he is going through.
God, give his family the strength to put up with his tantrums now and then and vice-versa.
I don’t know how to align my prayer!
All I can ask you is to give him back to us in One Piece!

All we can say is Just take care bhai!

Sincere prayers for you from
M
S
M
and Me!

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Warning – Long Post ahead!

Jayanthy Govindarajan — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:27:00 +0000

The start of 2012 marks great events in the family. Well I’ve included this as an important thing for me! Till date I haven’t set resolutions because

1. I do not want to torment myself for the whole year if I don’t follow it – precisely cant end up feeling like a loser.

2. The more resolutions I make/take the easier I forget them.

3. A resolution as I’ve heard from others is difficult to keep up as it takes self-reminders many times and not a teeny bit of procrastination.

4. I’m not going to add resolutions like not-talking to this list as things have changed a bit over the couple of years. So looks like I’m already on it.

5. And my 1km smile as I am nick-named by my school friends doesn’t really appear that frequently lately. So, am not sure if bringing that back is on the list.

But this time I am ready for the trial-and-error to happen so that I’ll have something worthwhile to do for the whole year and also write about it by the end of 2012! :p Truly this post is a reason for the, ‘what did I do the whole of 2011?’ post. I am still thinking hard to jot down things that I did in 2011. Well, that’s definitely going to be a tough one (I have another post to talk about the past) nevertheless the excitement on planning my resolutions is keeping my mind occupied now.

The whole point of writing it – that’s to keep a check on what I’m doing. I visit my blog more often than I visit my, well other things! With new additions of so many things this year I think I need the whole of 2012 to sort them according to priority in-order to keep up with all the nice things happening around me.
The concept of losing ‘The Charm’– Well, did it exist? :p

Of late nothing seems to interest me. I can write loads of I wasn’t like this before a couple years blah… blah stuff. But I don’t want to start with that because I was doing all over well, 2010 and 2011. Being misunderstood is one thing that is such a pain in the …. Well, but to act like everything is at its best is no good either. But to take into account what my current mindset is about all the things happening around me that should make/give some sense.
People Person – Was I?Will I ever remain that?

I’ve been thinking about this for a reasonable time. Now really it’s the time to reason it out. I’ve loved people (damn! I am already writing it like it is over!). This could be because I’ve never had to do so much thinking before I started talking to them, any, for that instance. Unraveling mysterious people usually takes some-time and I loved it because I had met very few people of that genus. Most of the people I know were effusive, so it was always easy to handle such people because I was one among them and not really belonged to the over-sensitive crowd. Things changed over time though. Most of the people I met were so much of the talk-less kind and that they gave me a chance to rant and took the position of listening, which to an extent made me uncomfortable not only was it that way, the worst is this – I started taking responsibility for their mistakes. The great person that I am! :p It’s all so clear now. OMG, I was in outright turmoil for so many months that I did not give myself a chance to explore my problems even 10% chances that I gave for the other people who dint really give a damn about me. People giving me ‘Oh-so-you-did-it’ look and staring pointlessly – what the hell was I even thinking during all those times? OMG, I hurt so and so, I should clear it. Damn, how easily the other was ready to blame me and walk out of it like nothing really happened! To see all this with eyes wide open I can see me there wandering pointlessly with a different picture going on in my head!

I am going to shut that over-time voice inside my head which is constantly annoying me and getting the worse of me pretty easily. I’ll punch you right on the face if u dare show yourself again!

Let go of people– Sometimes this is needed.

Whenever a person who has hurt me in the past or a person who I’ve longed to talk with appears, I so damn rewind everything and am playing all the tracks of what happened. Can be called common, that’s what mature people (respect) call it but trying to still hold to that people without their interest is definitely going to hurt me more. In this period where people come to you only when some work has to be done and nothing else but you have a pretty good liking for that person who do you think has the problem here? See people with what they do only for that day. But still I do not prefer to be with people who don’t show respect to other people’s feelings and will continue to do so. Reason – gradually you will become a senseless person who is ready to say things for the sake of it. Withdraw from them if you don’t encourage such behavior. People who want you in their life will definitely make efforts to keep you in their life.

Do what you like – Anytime, Every-time! Don’t expect applause and recognition immediately.

To achieve what you want you have to be consistent in it for it to happen you should not be pressurized. Expectations tend to grow every-time. To cope up with achieving it, we have to do all our tasks with the same outlook (ready to receive credits and criticisms) we started out the first time. With added experience discover the elements that can please the audience for standing by you during all times. Start expecting and you’ll be mentally disturbed and will not have the fun in completing the task.

Reading this after a few months maybe even after a few days may make me think I was in suspended mode for I don’t know how long.

Supposedly you were looking for Resolutions – well, got a week’s time and I am yet to decide the one’s I’m considering taking.

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R.A.N.D.O.M.N.S.T.R.E.S.S

Jayanthy Govindarajan — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:51:00 +0000

I’m dreaming!
I’m dreaming big!
People often say one should work hard to get what they want
I’m here
Physically present – staring at the monitor
Mentally present – in my world, planning to get what I want in a way I want.
Does this at all indicate something! That I don’t know.
When I think i’m working hard on getting things right,
I only know I’m draining myself for what I wouldn’t want otherwise.
I want to explore.
I want to photograph even the smallest of joy and beauty of my world.
Well, I almost explore the joy and beauty in the 55 seater bus everyday.
I love(d) travelling. But never once did I think I will be sitting with other hens in a cage!
Day dreaming!!!!!!! :S
Okay I am just damn tired! I dont want to fall asleep in the next few mins. Hence a post!

I know i am supposed to finish my set of checklists by the end of this week,
I am already feeling sleepy the moment I see them!
To complete the whole list within tis week’s time, I’m going to forgo so many good things that life has to offer!

1. My mom’s nicest preparations!! Should distribute it tomo and friday! Just a tupperware of well made lunch is making me dose like anything!
2. 3Psychs.com’s wordzapp – Well, I wanted to be a part of the daily score list! That’s not gonna happen for the rest of this week! I know people will touch new horizons by the time I’m back to the app. Tat’s ok!
3. Long lunches – when not the same amount of lunch why the same time for it!
4. Messages – My phone met with an accident last week and went into a coma. So I am currently in the process of bearing with borrowed mobiles(though i am fortunate to get a good touch phone as borrowed! :O but still I am not very interested) and not so patient to copy all nos to sim. Anybody who msgs me, don’t worry if u dont get a reply. I just dont possess a phone which i am comfortable enough to use. Anything I try to do with it, it calls my parents. 😐 Its worse than my sister!
5. Never drink coffee, it doesn’t work for you!

Good things that I have to include to make my weekend pleasant

I had to think for quite sometime to write this down.
1.But the very first thing that has come to my mind and the one thing I should not give much thought about for the next 2 working days..
Long leave for my sis from tomo. And she called up before a few mins just to highlight it more than required!
2. Work and write down notes that would help me to finish my work rather than gazing at the Windows or outside the window.
3. In order to deal with the talking part, I have to start listening to music. Set a reminder to charge the mp3.
4. No cosy conversations or simply no conversations over the phone for the two days. Don’t think you can tempt me, I’m not falling for it! Not this time, definitely!
5. Drink water, it works better! 🙂

5 is enough!

Coz I never miss on my sleep! So fine time to stop the post!
And this is random rambling to stay awake!
Sorry reader, if you happen to read this as my first post!
I am crazy! But this is the craziest post!
Well atleast I am awake now!
Got to finish!

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