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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 44 – 2019

November 2, 2019 No Comments

A recent episode of my Podcast –

Episode 15 – Venkatraman Pichumani (Founder of YouTooCanRun) – Cultivating uncorrupt behaviour, Providing world-class user experience and Coaching Cardiac patients! – In this episode, I’m talking to Venkatraman Pichumani who is the founder of YouTooCanRun, a company through which he provides a 360-degree platform to organise sports events starting from the registration process till the event wrap up. YouTooCanRun is leading the charts in the end to end-user experience it provides. He is also the Founder of the Zippers Club, which is a very unique club where he coaches people who have or had cardiac conditions, he trains them to run long distances and even Marathons. Venkat himself is a long-distance runner despite having a cardiac surgery years back.

In this conversation, we talk about his life journey, things and experiences from the 80s and 90s. How he surrendered his CA title after achieving financial freedom and started various ventures and found success in many of his entrepreneurial acts. All of this and much more in this episode.

My most popular Instagram post recently —

Calm! (A story)
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A small video I’m intrigued about and recommend watching —

Why Utah Drops Fish Out Of Airplanes Into Their Mountain Lakes – An interesting video I stumbled upon in last week which shares – Why Utah drops fish (literally) from airplanes into their mountain lakes. A very interesting fact to know and it’s amazing how they care about the related tourism by doing this.

But basically it drills down to this – “Humans putting fish in lakes for other humans to fish.” (taken from a comment from the YouTube video).

An audiobook I loved –

Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari – This is one of those books which will take you back to the ancient times and teach you so much. I recently read it and it just blew my mind.

There is so much knowledge about mankind’s history in this one book, I bet you probably haven’t learned about it in your school.

A must-read. (Click the link above and get a 30-days free trial where you can get this book for free in audiobook).

Quote I’m pondering on lately –

Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou

Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for reading.

Himanshu

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 44 – 2019

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#15 – Venkatraman Pichumani (Founder of YouTooCanRun) – Cultivating uncorrupt behaviour, Providing world-class user experience and Coaching Cardiac patients!

October 30, 2019 No Comments

Venkatraman Pichumani

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In this episode I’m talking to Venkatraman Pichumani who is founder of YouTooCanRun, a company through which he provides a 360 degree platform to organise sports events starting from the registration process till the event wrap up. YouTooCanRun is leading the charts in the end to end user experience it provides. He is also the Founder of the Zippers Club, which is a very unique club where he coaches people who have or had cardiac conditions, he trains them to run long distances and even Marathons. Venkat himself is a long distance runner despite having a cardiac surgery years back.

In this conversation we talk about his life journey, things and experiences from the 80s and 90s. How he surrendered his CA title after achieving financial freedom and started various ventures and found success in many of his entrepreneurial acts. All of this and much more in this episode.

So without further adieu, please enjoy this conversation with Venkatraman Pichumani.

Links and references from the episode –

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 43 – 2019

October 26, 2019 No Comments

An app I Found and pondering on –

Habitica – Found this app via this subbreddit. This app is a cool new concept for Habit creation or (bad habit) removal. It’s like gamification of Habit formation. I’m tipping my toes on this app.

Here are the mobile apps for this (if you wanna try out) –

My most popular Instagram post recently —

Between the lines
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An article (quora answer) I am pondering on —

Can someone break a habit without replacing it with something else? – Here is an answer I found on Quora this week, it shares a few important points on how one can replace a bad habit with a good one. It tells how neural highways work in our brains.

It’s a great way to come out of a bad habit. Like – Smoking, Drinking or an OCD habit.

A song I loved –

Waves by Jeremy Loops – I got to know about this singer via a YouTuber – Ben Brown. As he shot this video. But the track itself is so banging. I found myself listening to this track endlessly last Sunday.

Here is the Music video of it –

Quote I’m pondering on lately –

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for reading.

Himanshu

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 43 – 2019

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 42 – 2019

October 19, 2019 No Comments

A product I found out via a tweet –

Collapsible straw – Stumbled upon this tweet to find this reusable straw. How many times we go to the restaurants and are forced to use plastic or paper straws which are not reusable, impacting the environment and eventually causing climate change. As per a study, Straws make up about 4 per cent of the plastic trash by piece, overall. In the same study, researchers found out that there are nearly 7.5 million plastic straws lying around America’s shorelines. That means 437 million to 8.3 billion plastic straws are on the entire world’s coastlines. Which is massive. This is also cruel to the life in the sea as fish and birds eat these straws also and die.

Using this kind of reusable straw may seem like a very small step but nonetheless its collective impact (if we as nations start using them in scale) will be super massive.

A straw-like this scan be reused hundreds or thousands (if kept hygienic) of times. You can buy it here, in case interested.

My most popular Instagram post recently —

The Palace!
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Learned about a scary disaster which happened in 1993 –

BBC News – 1993 – Maharastra,India Earthquake – While working on a podcast episode research I learned about this 1993 earthquake happened in Latur, Maharashtra. It was gut-wrenching and scary. But the relief efforts were huge. This BBC documentary captures a bit of it. Check it out.

A book I loved –

Becoming by Michelle Obama – This book is a very intimate description of life of a US president and the first lady from the first lady’s point of view. It gives us a glimpse of how presidential life is. But moreover, it tells a story of a woman who had a humble beginning but eventually through her will, commitment and brave decisions became so strong that no one could ignore her.

I listened to the audiobook version and enjoyed every moment of it. Highly recommend this book. You can get kindle version here and audiobook version here.

Quote I’m pondering on lately –

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Mark Twain

Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for reading.

Himanshu

A couple of things I could use your help with:

Have a relevant topic, which I should be covering? Write to me directly or fill out this form and let me know.
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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 42 – 2019

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 41 – 2019

October 12, 2019 No Comments

A popular episode of my Podcast –

Episode 4 – Urmi Kothari Aka Coach Urmi – Living The Kinetic Life – Re-sharing one of the popular podcast episode with the Nike Coach Urmi Kothari.

She is the founder of Kinetic Living which is a fitness and wellness boutique in Mumbai. She has a lot of medallions on her jacket. She is IFAA master trainer, Nike Training coach and a certified trainer in STOTT Pilates, Kettlebells and Animal Flow techniques.

In this conversation, we talk about her story, her daily routine, lifestyle choices, her experience while staying away from city life for 3 years. Tackling PCOD and a lot-lot more.

My most popular Instagram post recently —

#tbt to the Munnar Trip
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An article I loved and recommend —

Travelling on the Firewood Express – Left with few livelihood options, Adivasis and Dalits from villages on the border of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh take the train to various towns to sell firewood and earn a few hundred rupees after a hard day. (Excerpt from the article itself.)

This article explores the travellers of the Firewood Express who sell timber logs for their livelihood. Great insights into their lives.

A movie I loved –

Interstellar – Directed by Christopher Nolan – After so many years, recently I saw the movie Interstellar again. It was there on HBO. I started in opening scenes and was hooked till the end again.

In the scenes where a human might have felt defeated, Matthew McConaughey keeps on going because he wants to see his daughter so badly.

This movie takes me to a different world altogether, always. Time, Space and 5 dimensions. This movie is mind-bending.

It’s pure gold for sci-fi seekers. Here is a trailer –

Quote I’m pondering on lately –

We remember only that which is meaningful, and all the ephemera dissipates into the ether.
Joshua Fields Millburn

Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for reading.

Himanshu

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 41 – 2019

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 40 – 2019

October 5, 2019 No Comments

An article I’m re-reading –

Taking the control of your own life! – Re-sharing an article I wrote in 2014. I recently was going through my archives and found this one. When I read it myself it got me thinking about the things mentioned in the article. People you meet, the paths you take, reassessment of life.

It was great to re-read my own writing and feel anew. Give it a shot, you may get a little dose of inspiration.

My most popular Instagram post recently —

#tbt to a beautiful sunset timelapse from my old apartment
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An interesting fact I stumbled upon —

The Only Man On Earth Who Was Dwarf And Giant In The Same Life – An Interesting piece of knowledge. Adam Rainer, an Austrian man who could call himself Dwarf and Giant in the same life.

An interesting practise I’m excited about –

INTRO TO HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK – Having done meditation from a few years now, when I stumbled upon this podcast of The Tim Ferriss Show with Dr Stansilav Grof who is a psychiatrist with more than 60 years of experience in research of “holotropic” states of consciousness. I became super curious about the non-ordinary state of mind which can be achieved via Meditation and more specifically a breathing work which is called Holotropic Breathwork.

Stan Grof is the founder of this method. But this breathwork is done in a 12-hour workshop in physical presence mostly.

But while researching and trying out a way to find how I could practice it without another person. I found out about Neurodynamic Breathwork which was founded by one of Stan’s Disciple – Michael Stone. This practice is shorter usually 1 hour to 90 minutes and can be done in webinars which Michael and his team hold online.

Check out this video to found more about this amazing practice to reach your inner conscious –

Quote I’m pondering on lately –

Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein

Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for reading.

Himanshu

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 40 – 2019

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 39 – 2019

September 28, 2019 No Comments

A recent episode of my Podcast –

Episode 14 – Aditya Shroff (Author of the book “The Best Life Ever”) – Taking the road less travelled, being a writer and living the best life ever! – In this episode, I’m talking to Aditya Shroff popularly known through his blog as “The 5AM Guy” who is also an author of the book “The Best Life Ever”. He is also a competitive runner and frequently gets podium positions in various running races. He leads quite a simple but interesting life at a farm in a village of Gujarat. After doing his engineering from Mumbai, he got a high paying job in Germany but eventually dropped that job and came back to India to work on his passion which is writing.

In this conversation, we cover a wide variety of topics – how he took the brave decision to drop the job and work on his passion and live on a farm, his creative process while writing the book. How he got the book published and even got a forward from a celebrity whom he didn’t directly know. How someone, who has a passion can convert it into a profession. All of this and much much more is in the episode.

My most popular Instagram post recently —

Underneath the air traffic control!
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An article I’ve been pondering on —

How to Tell If You’re Talking to a Bot – A good article explaining how to tell if you are talking to a bot. MIT Technology Review writer shares – The five best ways to detect fake social media accounts. An informative Read.

Music I loved –

Hans Zimmer – Day One (Interstellar Soundtrack) – I heard this soundtrack in 2015 i think while I saw the movie Interstellar. It entirely changed the mood of the film and made it so much immersive. It reminds me that how important the audio factor is for a film. Hans Zimmer totally nailed it with this move.

Check it out.

Quote I’m pondering on lately –

The only way to learn it is to do it.
Archimedes, “Sword in the Stone”

Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for reading.

Himanshu

A couple of things I could use your help with:

Have a relevant topic, which I should be covering? Write to me directly or fill out this form and let me know.
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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 39 – 2019

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#14 – Aditya Shroff (Author of the book “The Best Life Ever”) – Taking the road less travelled, being a writer and living the best life ever!

September 22, 2019 No Comments

Aditya Shroff
[Image Courtesy – Aditya Shroff]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:30:11 — 82.6MB)

In this episode I’m talking to Aditya Shroff popularly known through his blog as “The 5AM Guy” who is also an author of the book “The Best Life Ever”. He is also a competitive runner and frequently gets podium positions in various running races. He leads quite a simple but interesting life at a farm in a Village of Gujarat. After doing his engineering from Mumbai, he got a high paying job in Germany but eventually dropped that job and came back to India to work on his passion which is writing.

In this conversation we cover a wide variety of topics – how he took the brave decision to drop the job and work on his passion and live on a farm, his creative process while writing the book. How he got the book published and even got a forward from a celebrity whom he didn’t directly know. How someone, who has a passion can convert it into a profession. All of this and much much more is in the episode.

So without further adieu, please enjoy this conversation with Aditya Shroff.

Links and references from the episode –

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 38 – 2019

September 21, 2019 No Comments

A recent episode of my Podcast –

Episode 13 – Kuntal Joisher (First vegan to climb Mt. Everest from both the sides) – Living a life of compassion and Summiting the highest mountains!

In this episode, I’m talking to Kuntal Joisher who became the World’s first Vegan to scale Everest in 2016 and now in 2019, he has summited Everest again from the North Side becoming the only vegan on earth climb Mt. Everest from both the sides. Kuntal’s expeditions are driven by compassion as a Vegan and he also spreads awareness on Dementia. He has also been on the cover of multiple international Vegan magazines. Apart from his mountain expeditions, he works as a technology professional and also speaks at various events throughout the globe as a public speaker.

In this conversation, we talk about his story, how the early exposure to the idea that “it’s ok to do crazy things” seeded his life with the sense of adventure. How his journey as a mountaineer started and the moments when he was first awestruck with the magnificence of Mt. Everest. His training regime and advice for people who are aspiring to summit Mt. Everest. It’s all in this episode.

My most popular Instagram post recently —

Sunsets are proof that endings can be beautiful too.
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An article I’ve been pondering on —

Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead – This article changed my perspective about goal setting to achieve success in areas you desire. Instead of goal setting, James Clear suggests a different strategy – Fall In Love With Systems.

This change the way I approach any problem or something I want to achieve. Now following the suggested purview, I started designing good systems and implementing them in my life which could take care of the goals automatically.

Great Read.

A song I loved –

Nipsey Hussle ft. Steve Jobs – Who Detached Us – This American rapper was assassinated (this year) on March 31, 2019. That’s when I first stumbled upon his music and found a somewhat weird kind of energy in his music. This particular song which has a short “stay hungry stay foolish” blurb from Steve Jobs, is filled up with lyrics of everyday life and yet is so deep.

Check it out.

Quote I’m pondering on lately –

When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Until Next Saturday!

Thanks for reading.

Himanshu

A couple of things I could use your help with:

Have a relevant topic, which I should be covering? Write to me directly or fill out this form and let me know.
Join my reader’s list – It helps us a lot when you become a subscriber, it smoothens you experience on Lifestyle Architecture Lab. Being on the email list provides you additional benefits like some exclusive content, webinar’s, free goodies and all of it will be FREE. Please click the link above to join now or put your email address in the below box and hit subscribe.

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Saturday-Pentacle – Week 38 – 2019

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#13 – Kuntal Joisher (First vegan to climb Mt. Everest from both the sides) – Living a life of compassion and Summiting the highest mountains!

September 15, 2019 No Comments

Kuntal Joisher
[Image Courtesy – Kuntal Joisher (Instagram) ]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:38:44 — 90.4MB)

In this episode I’m talking to Kuntal Joisher who became the World’s first Vegan to scale Everest in 2016 and now in 2019 he has summited Everest again from the North Side becoming the only vegan on earth climb Mt. Everest from both the sides. Kuntal’s expeditions are driven by compassion as a Vegan and he also spreads awareness on Dementia. He has also been on the cover of multiple international Vegan magazines. Apart from his mountain expeditions he works as a technology professional and also speaks at various events through out the globe as a public speaker.

In this conversation we talk about his story, how the early exposure to the idea that it’s ok do crazy things seeded his life with the sense of adventure. How his journey as a mountaineer started and the moments when he was first awestruck with the magnificence of Mt. Everest. His training regime and advise for people who are aspiring to summit Mt. Everest. It’s all in this episode.

So without further adieu, please enjoy this conversation with Kuntal Joisher.

Links and references from the episode –

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