Extract More out of Life

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Different people have different philosophies in life. One common philosophy I’ve come-across among many people is to get-up late on Sundays. Their logic is that on Sundays they would want to catch-up on the lost sleep, to compensate those hours of their siesta time which they have sacrificed on account of work, partying, etc. If for any reason they have to get up early on Sundays, it would spoil their mood. They will go to any extent to preserve their Sunday morning sleeping hours.

I’m reminded of a time when I used to vouch for the above philosophy. Even if I would get-up by habit, I would continue to lie in the bed to justify that I must get-up late since it’s a Sunday. Naturally as a partner, my wife would get influenced by me. Invariably after getting-up late, there would be activities for each of us where we would have to hurry-up. Somehow the whole of Sunday would feel like going away in completing some tasks, almost all of them in certain feeling of hurriedness. The basic feeling would be of lack of contentment on account of time being snatched away from us. As a result of this, Sunday evenings used to be gloomy and most of the Sunday nights would be full of disturbed sleep. All in all, the enjoyment of it being a Sunday was completely missing.

Many years back, more by a chance than conscious effort, we met a person who gifted us an idea which changed our perception of Sundays once for all. He shared his philosophy of ‘Extract More out of Life’, which was most possible on Sundays. He mentioned how for the last 25+ years, he was introduced to this philosophy by his mentor that if you get-up early on Sundays, which is absolutely in your hands, you can completely master your day. You can do so many things on a long day that before you go to sleep, you will be completely contented. It will automatically give you a head-start for Monday, which is so crucial for having a great week ahead.

We both were positively influenced by this beautiful philosophy of ‘Extract More out of Life’, especially on Sundays. When we started, initially it was difficult. So we had to encourage each other. As we started enjoying our early Sunday mornings chit-chat over a cuppa of tea, a dip in the pool for me, followed by a leisurely breakfast of choice, important household chores, a shot of Siesta after a sumptuous meal, catching-up on the important unread office e-mails, a repeat session in the pool (at times), blogging along with a nice drink, a light dinner and culminating the day with some physical and psychological preparation for an early Monday morning, and in fact for the complete week ahead.

Now it has been almost 15+ years that we both have been practicing this philosophy, I’m encouraged to share it with my readers as a gift, with the idea that hopefully they will also get positively influenced, as we were one day, to embark on a journey of ‘Extracting More out of Life’.

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