Hi folks. I am excited and sad at the same time. I can’t believe the challenge is over. Time flies when you are having fun. But all good things must come to an end unless as Natalie suggested, we continue. That is what I plan to do. All of sudden I am getting ideas for my blog. I think instead of singling out one daily challenge that I liked, I would say that I liked the whole challenge. To be honest, I got my WordPress account in October 2014. I read books about blogging, saw videos, but never really felt like blogging. Not sure why. But this challenge sort of gave me a reason to try my hand out at blogging. I loved it. My blogs were not long or loaded with content, but it was a start. I could not believe how easy it was. But if I think about it, there were two daily challenges I liked most. They were the feed your mind body and soul and be a tourist in your local city or town.

Hi everyone, have you ever met someone who lives near a tourist spot but never visited that spot. I have come across many people. For example, I met a couple of people in New Jersey who have never been to the statue of liberty or back in the day when I was a graduate student in West Virginia and I had visited Niagara Falls which was about a 6 hr drive but my adviser had not, I traveled a lot when I was a student. I had time but less money. Now I have money but no time. Anyway, we recently moved to a house in the same city. I had heard about this powerline trail. This trail is actually following the power lines from one part of our town to another. Our new house is close to the powerline trail and one day my family and I went on this trail. Our kids had a lot of fun. Also I live close to Philadelphia. There are many up and coming areas of Philadelphia, which used to be run down but are going through a renaissance. So that is what I would like to do: visit restaurants and places in these up and coming areas of Philadelphia.

Hi all. Today I am going to talk about fueling my mind body and soul. As I have mentioned in my previous posts, I meditate in the morning and then also read religious books. I exercise before lunchtime. I guess one thing I would like to do is eat a balanced diet. I am not very good at sticking to that principle. Especially when I go to parties or when I go to professional meetings etc. In the past eating more protein and reducing the amount of carbs has definitely helped me lose weight. I also noticed that it has an effect on my confidence, my attitude and my image. So that is one thing I am going to do to fuel my body.

Hi everyone. Today I would like to talk about decluttering. I have to confess that I am a pack rat and I tend to keep everything. But you realize how much stuff you have when you have to move. We recently moved to a new house and packing everything was a nightmare. I had so many newspaper clippings, magazines, statements etc and I was overwhelmed. This is one of the things that my wife and I fight about. She wants to throw everything away, and I want to keep everything. But I am determined to declutter. When we were moving, we had a deadline and so I tried to look at as much stuff as I could, but we just ran out of time. So ended up moving a lot of boxes and totes that still has junk in it. But now I don’t think we will move. Yes, I know, never say never. I also want to declutter mentally. I think all of us are guilty of hanging onto too many memories and old grudges etc. We have to start living in the present and plan for the future. That is my plan. Let us see how things go.

Hi folks, I guess it is our nature to make sure that we take care of our family, our work, our friends and then finally ourselves. Especially if you are a parent. It is tough to get some time for ourselves. In my routine, I do spend some time in the morning meditating for about 15-20 minutes and then about half an hour in the afternoon when I work out. But since 2007 I have been doing something just for myself and that is attending my 10th grade reunion. There are about 30-40 friends from my 10th grade class who live in the US. Every year in the fall we meet in a city where one of our friends lives and spend the weekend reminiscing about our days in 10th grade. It is a lot of fun. This year on the weekend of October 24-26, I will be in Columbus, Ohio. Looking forward to it.

Hi everyone, when I think about outsourcing, I think of the movie Multiplicity. In that movie, Michael Keaton is a stay at home dad and is overwhelmed with the day to day activities. So he goes to a scientist and clones himself multiple times. But as the movie progresses, he realizes that the clones are not his exact copy, but some of them have one of his original qualities enhanced. For example one clone is very romantic, one clone is very organized and so on. I currently don’t have business, but if I did, I would definitely outsource the administrative stuff to an assistant. Anyway, cloning has its drawbacks just like they show in Multiplicity. One of the biggest is me and my clones cannot all go out at the same time. The other is what if my wife doesn’t recognize me and has a tryst with the more romantic me? Assistant is the way to go!!

Hi folks, don’t you wish there was one tool that you could use to streamline your life? So do I. Although I think we may need more than 1. But if I were to use only 1 tool, I think it would be coming up with Standard Operating Procedures for everything I do. I currently don’t have a business, but in my professional life, I am a pharmaceutical scientist. In our industry things are very highly regulated. Also in order to be consistent across sites and people, we had SOP’s for everything. We even had a SOP on how to write SOP’s. We had to constantly train on new SOP’s about equipment and record keeping etc as well as retrain on some that were older than 2 years. But the big advantage was that all my colleagues approached every unit operation the same way, because they followed the SOP. Also, this way you can be sure that things get done in a systematic manner and continuity was maintained. The other tool that I would like to use and I think would be fun to use would be Asana. I am going to check it out.

Hi folks. To be honest, I am not very good at coming up and keeping my goals, but I am going to try. One of my first goals is to finish an e-book about things to do if you lose your job. I am almost done with the majority of wiriting. I just need to put the finishing touches. I would like to finish the bok by end of this month. By October, I want to have a framework for creating my info-product and by December, I want to finish another book. I have couple of topics that I have started, but I am in the very early stages of writing. Let us see if I can accomplish those goals.

Hi everyone, today I would like to talk about the one thing I would like to focus on. I really want to replace the income from my job. But I want to do it gradually. Every year I try to make that my focus, but things happen and I lose track of my goal. I also get distracted by different ideas that come to mind and I feel like I should pursue them. I have been able to pursue some of my ideas and take them to completion. I want to have the choice to work on what I am passionate about. I need to prioritize what I want to work on and then only work on one idea. I think that idea is to create an info product. So I am going to focus on creating an online info product that can replace my income.

Hi folks, this is where I get stuck. Identifying the business model. I currently have a good job, but our industry is in a flux right now. So I want to find a business model that will help me replace my income and provide me with a lot of free time. I realized that I like to help people by sharing my experiences. For example, I have experience with international adoption and I have already helped two people in their own adoption process. Similarly being in the healthcare field, I understand a lot about diseases, the current treatment options, drug development etc. So I think that is another area I can help. I would like to create information products around those two areas and then be able to sell them on autopilot. I think I will start with the adoption area first and then create some products of varying value. As my customer base grows, I would like to add new products to existing ones.