Take Breaks | #12
The secret to productive life
It’s not a great week. I was not willing to work. It was kind of an unproductive week. I was not willing to write this newsletter, but I thought to not miss it and be consistent.
So, at the start of this month, I was feeling drained and stuck in my life. I was kind of not enjoying the process of making videos on YouTube. A lot of things were coming up in my life. School exams (which I haven’t prepaid yet) and unwilling to do much work. I shared this in my 10’th newsletter of me facing self-doubt. I feel it’s because of that. When you do one thing for a long period of time, you sometimes get bored and don’t enjoy the process. It may not happen to everyone. So I decided to take a break from it for some time. I won’t be posting videos for about a month.
I feel we should also take a break from our work and just relax for some time. It may be 1 day or 1 week or 1 month, it’s your choice, but take breaks. It’s important to focus on ourselves and our mental health. We just keep working and dont focus on ourselves. I am not willing to write further, but just remember to take breaks from your life and give time to your body to heal.
I just want to end this with an example. I saw a YouTube Short by Abhi and Niyu, where they spoke about a YouTuber called Mr Beast. many of you might know him, but for those who know him, he is an American YouTuber doing some crazy things. He has over 88.5 Million subscribers and 718 videos. I don’t watch most of his content, but what he said recently, made me motivated. 2 days ago, he posted in his community tab of YT that, he will not be posting videos for 2 weeks because he was tired and not feeling energised due to covid. He was covid negative, still, he was tired. So, if big creators can take breaks, we can also take them.
Book I am currently reading
This week I started reading ‘DO EPIC SHIT’ by Ankur Warikoo. This book is all the thoughts and learnings of Ankur and it’s just amazing.
Weekly Recommendations
Here’s something interesting. I have created a Notion page- ( https://openinapp.co/url/cc578 ), and I have linked all my weekly recommendations since the start. So if you don’t have time to see all my weekly recommendations when you are reading my newsletter, you can save that link and later visit it whenever you have free time. You have to just copy and paste it yourself.
This is the link (same link mentioned above)- https://openinapp.co/url/cc578
How from not having an interest in studies to the founder of Career Keeda, a company that helps children find their career opportunities. He also creates amazing content on Linkedin, Instagram and Twitter. In Dr Sid’s podcast, they both have an amazing talk about Entrepreneurship, How to Decide What to Do in Life, Practical Exposure, Content Making and a lot more interesting topics.
A mentor is necessary for our life. Manish Pandey is one of the known names in Digital space. He mentors creators like Ranveer Alliahbadia, Prajakata Kolhi, Bhuvan Bam, etc. I know I almost always talk about Manish Sir, but what to do, he is great. So, here’s another podcast by Dr Sid with Manish Sir.
I learnt about Hans Dalal through Ranveer Alliahbadia. Hans Dalal is a wildlife expert. He talks about his experiences in this podcast.
Harish Uthayakumar is a Bits Pilani Student, he is a content creator and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of BlueLearn, a community of students who help each other. He was also offered funds for his startup, but he declined it. This is the podcast covering Harish’s story.
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