Lifestyle.....

The other day I was discussing with one of my friend and we started talking about afford ability.

He had absolute number (well he is a financial and risk Management Analyst) like a person having x salary should be able to afford a house of around 4.5x cost. We had a lengthy discussion on the numbers etc and how it is being calculated.

But now when I look back at it I think the whole concept of afford ability is relative. You can see people with the same salary having a different life style, driving different kind of cars and so on.

I think the lifestyle can be attributed to certain personal traits...like Family upbringing and impact of that upbringing, personal constraints like earnings and responsibilities, passion and risk taking capabilities etc.

I have been watching a lot of people and thinking how they analyze afford ability of certain thing. My realizations is afford ability is a concept, which people try to apply on day to day expenditure, long term investments, big expense items but avoid to consider it when human emotions like passion, love, envy are involved.

I guess I need to analyze more and understand in deep how people spend, what are those things which tick people to consider something as affordable or not...!!
If you have some interesting theory or observation, let me know.

WiFi...!!

I don't think life with out internet is possible now...whoever disagrees please let me know why are you reading this blog.

Well think over just a decade back information was something which was acquired, written or passed on to selected ones. Now it is something which is readily available, can be googled and every one has the power to get it.

My thought is not actually on internet it is the way we get it.....WiFi. Look around everyone is just doing WiFi. Cafes, markets, streets, home, offices, mobile phone(http://www.technewsworld.com/story/58377.html), Automobiles. I mean every one is selling, creating or marketing on single functionality WiFi. Isn't it amazing that how seamlessly all these things are moving into our lifestyle. You are lost on a road you used to ask directions, later on you started using maps on google, now your cars navigates you. Your cell phone, your car everything seems to be having access to infinite wisdom (Internet)

I loved this whole idea of having everything WiFi, every appliance, equipment should have WiFI, Bluetooth, internet access.
And soon this whole world will be integrated with no boundary. I am woken up early by my alarm clock" because I have an early meeting or I have gained weight and I should go to gym. My bath is ready and my breakfast is getting ready while I am soaking.
I sit in the car it navigates and drives me to office, where I WORK. My refrigerator orders for all the supplies I am running low, to my grocery store.
It might seem like watching a sci fi but I am sure wi fi will make this a reality pretty soon.
read these interesting articles
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-strangest-gadgets-of-the-future

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.04/fetishwish.html

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/12/19/9_military_tech.html

MFT......

Cryptic title isn't it...
Well MFT means MOST FEARED TASKS.

I am not sure about the rest of the people but I always have some tasks I want to do and I really have to do them but I just can't finish them. Those tasks can be as simple as sending some post or replying to an email but I tend to delay them. I call these kind of tasks, which are simple yet I am not able to finish as "MFT"

I always think about these tasks like "oh that thing ya I will do it when I will be free" Well amazingly even though I sit idle in front of TV flipping channels, lazing around, checking random websites I never get time to finish those tasks.

So I came up with a solution "MFT first thing in the morning"
I choose some tasks and whatever happens I try to finish them first thing in the morning. And you know what, as soon as I am done with MFT the day is wide open.... I feel like I have done most of my day's work. It relives the stress for the whole day.

Try it out and let me know if it works for you !!

Think for a second.....

Sometimes don't you think , why do I do a lot of things I don't enjoy at all.

I am always afraid to dwell upon this subject "why do we do something we don't enjoy". Today I am going to fight my daemons.

I am sure you must have gone to numerous parties you don't enjoy or talked to people you can't stand. So the question is why we do that...is it the social responsibility, is it something we do because we never really gave much thought on it or we do it in hope we might start enjoying it.

Well here what I think....(you might not agree so go ahead and send me your thoughts)
We do a lot of things just because they are inbred in our mind since we are born. I remember being told to be polite, suppress my freedom of speech & thinking because it might offend some one. Initially it was just a matter of our parents, teachers, relatives, friends telling us how to be normal in this society.
Guess what, time passes and you are one of them, you loose individuality. You can't do something which is against the social boundaries. This thinking grows so strong that It is difficult for us to break the mold. We stop thinking about if there is any other way...
We do things we don't like and we keep on doing them.

I am not saying we should be a rebel and start breaking all social rules. I think we should seriously look at the things we don't enjoy and still have to do them. You might find a way to make it enjoyable or may be get out it.

All we need is "think for a second"