21 Day Go Green Challenge: Day 1

I want to go all natural to feel clean inside out, in body, soul, mind, and environment. So taking a drastic 21 day experiment to go green as much as possible. Will journal here daily to check in.

Goals:
Eat green
Exercise daily
Meditate and practise mindfulness
Natural products
Ditch plastic
Minimalism

Today:
Exercised with Beth Alexander on her 21 day booty core course
Removed makeup using coconut oil
Cleansed face with fullers earth
Moisturized face and hair with coconut oil

Tips learnt today:
Organic dryer balls for dryer
Keychain metal straws
Reusable cotton pads for face
Reusable produce bags for groceries
Cold to warm cycles in washer
Cold showers, use less water

Tomorrow's challenge:
Find shower alternatives
-body wash
-shampoo conditioner
menstrual products

Becoming a Doer

Jumping right in. Been reading up heavily on non-fiction these past 2-3 years, to understand the world around me better, and to improve myself and my life. There's always a fear, always some hesitation, always some procrastination, between me, my actions and the feeling of living a vibrant full life!

Becoming a doer is achieving everything I think I should be, and when there's the question of what I'd do if I had absolutely no inhibitions, it'd be writing. And that's what I'm now doing. And here's where I'll track how the rest of my does go. To learn from myself, and to keep tabs on myself.

1-week Goals:
IATF Audit documentation
Bank a/cs closure
7 days of stretch and 5k steps

Location: Vacationing at home in India
Currently Reading: Stick With It, Scrum, The Talent Code, A Mind for Numbers, Sapiens. Want to pick back up The Achievement Habit.
Currently Listening: My Top 2017 Playlist on Spotify
Current Sin: Mobile Legends and my Kindle, and Boredpanda/Social Media. And some other obsessions. And sleep.

Bombay, my love! Part 2

Having been brought up in Bombay all my life there's been obvious bias, but the past few years living away in Cincinnati have exposed me to more of my Indian counterparts from other metros. Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Vizag, Bangalore, Gurgaon, Delhi, Lucknow, Indore, etc. While every place brings an awesome flavor and cultural richness to experiences and stories, Bombayiites often find themselves stumped to claim any, I feel.

Classic example of us ever comparing the city to the feels you get when you first set foot in New York City. That's every big city! For me it was coming into a bustling city again post sparse expanse Cincy. Felt like home! Feels, people. Crowd and filth. Ain't nobody's talking about architecture (Ahem, though we'd love to, ahem ahem). But any such mention equals pride (coz NYC is the shizz apparently). You, Bombayiites!

Then there's the assumption of retail existence.

Scenario 1: Monginis has been my most favorite bakery since childhood (don't tell me otherwise if you've been here forever, fancy doesn't count). I genuinely assumed it exists everywhere else in India . Happy assumption to spread the joy, no? Why should the rest of us lack the experience when there's soooo many of their branches in Bombay? But nope, they exist nowhere outside, and I'm awfully short sighted to claim it be. You, Bombayiites!

Scenario 2: I thankfully do not remember which retail it was this time. I wanna say Costa coffee as an example, strictly as an example (traumatic experience follows). Having learnt from short-sighted-assume-everything-Bombay-is everywhere, I now begin statements with, like in this example (strictly), "This place, Costa coffee..not sure if it's in your city too?..is awesome". Middle clause is added to remove any suggestion that I assume you know what I'm talking about exactly, as also trying to reaffirm if you in fact do thanks to national branching of the franchise. Better taken? Nope. How dare you imply that franchise doesn't exist in our city? You, Bombayiites!

So while Delhi claims monies and Indore claims culture and Bangalore claims nightlife and Chennai claims tech and smarts, Bombay gets its Chaat, and Leopold Cafe (Gregory Davis?). Talk about anything else and you're either ignorant or proud. We're like the whites scared of saying the word black. Shut up, coexist, eat thy pani puri (oh wait sorry gol gappas of the north, Bombay bhel puri ok?). We, Bombayiites!