I read. I think. I write. I speak. I teach. I learn. I seek. On a journey to become my best self. Documenting the lessons and resources along the way.
How I find a balance between order and chaos
Hey guys,
Do you often find it hard to create a balance of things you ‘must’ do and things you ‘need’ to do? A balance between order and chaos in life? A balance between desires and needs? Between staying disciplined and having a wild streak? This is definitely something I struggle with in life and have done so for many many years. I tend to gravitate towards disorder and chaos very often. I recently asked all my Instagram followers how they manage this tendency in order to get a better insight into the problem. And further research into the topic gave me some context around a practice that I had already started doing not long ago.
I summed up all my findings and my practice in this article; **How I find a balance between order and chaos**.
Check it out and let me know if you can relate to this?
Stay awesome and have a great week ahead 🙂
Naimat
♥️ My Favourite Things This Week
📚 Book - The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage by Mel Robbins. Can you transform your life in 5 seconds? Well, you are almost always 1 decision away from a completely different life. At first, I was very sceptical of this book and the 5-second rule. But as I progressed into the book I realised there is a lot more to it than just a clickbaity title. Mel has done a good job explaining the psychology behind it and personally having tried it for almost a week, I can testify too it actually works.
🎧 Audiobook - The Practice: Shipping Creative Work by Seth Godin. As someone trying to create and ‘ship’ creative work all the time and often falling prey to imposter syndrome and self-doubt, this book helps put all that into perspective. Don’t let ‘creative work’ misguide you, we are all creative in our right - it doesn’t necessarily mean writing a blog, making music or videos. Anything you do in life is a form of self-expression and a form of creative work.
🎙️ Podcast - This was a good week for podcasts, I had the opportunity to listen to plenty of good ones. Here are the favourites for this week.
The Tim Ferriss Show
#475: Mr. Money Mustache — Living Beautifully on $25-27K Per Year.
#473: Naval Ravikant on Happiness, Reducing Anxiety, Crypto Stablecoins, and Crypto Strategy
✍️ Quote I am pondering
Naval Ravikant
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Naimat Ahmed
I read. I think. I write. I speak. I teach. I learn. I seek. On a journey to become my best self. Documenting the lessons and resources along the way.
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