The Zorro circle. What is the zorro circle? "The Zorro Circle gets its name from the movie Zorro, where the elder sword master draws a circle in the dirt, telling his pupil that he can only fight within this small circle"
Similarly, we can create our own Zorro Circle by first concentrating our efforts on small manageable goals, gaining control before moving on.
These are not my lines. However, if you read the lines again, it's about concentrating our efforts on small manageable goals, gaining control before moving on. I feel it's extremely important for us to feel like we are in control. Stress does not come from having too many things to do. But it comes from not having control over the things that we ought to do. I understand that there are going to be days where we feel out of control. But this is also like any other habit, and we can feel in control only when we have had this idea of small manageable goals. So, the idea is to feel in control no matter what. So, the point here is to have small and manageable goals. Not big, huge goals. Feeling in control over where you are going is more important. Have clarity.
What are certain benefits of having small manageable goals?
First of all, it's going to be controllable. It's easier to have a goal that I will wear my gym shoes and my gym clothes than having the goal that I will do so many bicep curls, so many push ups, etc. So just have very specific and small goals. The next idea is that you need to know only the next step. Not the entire path. When you drive from point A to point B, do you care and only think about the destination or do you have to take care of the left turns, the right turns and the path that you need to take at this point in time. So have those small and manageable goals. That way your life will be easier and much better. Care only about the next actions list. Make that next actions list no matter what. Because that's your guide on what to do next and you simply care about that. The outcome will come by itself. I can ask the practicalities to chatgpt and let gpt figure out what are the practical ways to achieve all of this. But in terms of benefits.
Quotes:
Getting from point A to point can be daunting unless you remember that you don't have to get from point A to point Z. You just have to go from A to B. Breaking big dreams into small steps is the way to move forward. I understand this idea deeply. When we break the big dreams in life to small steps, we will be able to focus on the now and achieve goals much easily. We will be able to truly give our best to this goal. For an example, it's very easy to say that we want to construct the whole building, a whole desk, a whole table. But the truth is all of that comes together when we have one table and with 4 table legs. So you join build the 4 table legs separately, you build the table top separately and then build the entire table separately. That's how a table is formed. It's the small steps in life that usually count.
Big dreams and long-term goals often feel paralyzing because we fixate on the end result, the finish line, without acknowledging the path that leads there. But success isn’t built in giant, dramatic moves. It’s built in small, consistent steps. It’s built in the quiet decision to do the next right thing, even when the destination feels far away.
When you break a big dream into manageable, bite-sized actions, it stops being a mountain and becomes a trail. Each small step forward gives you momentum, confidence, and clarity. Going from A to B might not look like much from the outside, but it’s progress. And once you reach B, you’ll find yourself a little stronger, a little wiser, and ready for C.
Damn. Wow that's so good. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. If you technically think about it's the same table example. But what the writers says is that its a series of small things together. You make cat, rat, dog as words by putting in the alphabets together and making something meaningful. You win cricket matches by the contribution of each individual player. Small things put together. You make great software by bringing in great code together. You make wonderful work by making a lot small pieces of work together. Great art is made up of small things put together. Great writing is made of small things put together. So anything great is brought by the small things done together. For example, ocean is built by the small droplets of water. No matter how good or bad, the ocean will be brought by the small droplets together. The more we think about it, the better. If we make a wonderful piece of art, it's brought together by small pieces of art together. So what we really want to think is that we want to bring in the small pieces of anything to bring art together. The more we bring in small pieces the better. So think of anything right now in your room. If you see a light, light is also made of small things put together . If you see a bottle, think of each tiny little thing like a cap, the plastic, making it malleable, etc all of this when done that's what makes the bottle great. Observe the window to your left, that's made of glass. Think of anything, all of hit will be small things put together for making something great.
Now Tirth, why do you say all of this? What's the practical purpose, and how do we really get the small things put together.
1. Make a list: This is the first and essential step of the small things. Brain storm and make the list that's needed. No, you don't need to look at chatgpt, no you don't have to look at some books, you just build the list of what you need to do and then do that. Keep things as simple as that.
2. Arrange the list: Once the list is made for a final outcome, arrange the list in order. What's the first thing that you got to be doing right now.
3. Active listening: A lot of times in life we just go through life without any thought or idea or literally just random thinking. However, the most important skill I have found is active listening. When you actively listen to someone, first of all you are validating what they are saying. Second you are making them feel heard and seen. Third and the most important you are yourself understanding so many things while someone is speaking. Another thing is you don't need to interrupt while someone is speaking.
4. Design your life around learning: Now the list should contain atleast an hour or so of learning. Because the idea in life is that sometimes we don't learn anything else except for the things that we are learning right now within the moment. For example, you can learn guitar, you can learn casio, you can learn to play literally any musical instrument. You can learn spanish. You can learn cooking. The idea is to keep on learning in life, because trust me learning is a life skill. You might have to learn a cricket shot one day, a dance move the other. Apply your learning to real life.
5. Small things everyday are better than too many things on one day: The idea of learning is that when you do the small things, you will feel extremely satisfied in life. One idea is satisfaction. The other idea is that you will find a lot of joy in doing what you need to be doing. So have small things done everyday rather than doing great things everyday. Life is in the small little moments
6. Be in the present moment: I know this is easier said than done. But do things that bring you back to the present moment. If that's reading. Talking. Learning. Developing. Writing. Playing cricket. Laughing. Literally anything, once you develop a way to be in the present moment. There's literally no stopping you.
7. Have experiences : Once you start having experiences life will have a deeper meaning. You will enjoy a little more. You will see things that you have not seen before. You will hear interesting things. You will be in a space that's happy for you and the world. So have experiences, that make life deeper and richer. Talk to a variety of people. Lift the world up and then watch them lift you.
Summary, I know I said quite a lot of things that were irrelevant but I think they are necessary as I am getting my writers block out. Just putting everything out there in my mind. Anyways that's it for today's blog. Hope you'll have a wonderful and a happy day. I need to go and sleep and forgive the world now.
Go ahead and start living and not just reading or writing !
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