Okay, this is going to be your one take from the time. We press record. Okay, okay. Hey, what's up? Everybody? Welcome to another episode of Sketchbook. And today we're going to be talking stuff. I don't know what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk about the 40-day challenge we have here again or even reveal. Hi guys. I'm here with you all think sounds good. I'm just asking. Workshops for me. That's you're doing a good job man. I'll tell you that. Thank you. Good. Oh, yeah for those who don't know a lot of in this Arvin this part Akash Studios right now. He's working here. He's a business manager. That's this this position where you're literally just leave that right now. He's literally going around everything from like designing web pages to sales pages and like getting on email and phone calls and orders are amazing. Pretty much everything that you can delete it. Oh, yeah. So re-expanding we're expanding our team things are going but so far, you know, I'm learning business apparently. So yes, it will give to the topic of this episode. Okay? Yeah, so today, right? So I'm going to talk about what I call a checklist project or the checklist project and you know, I just came across this channel like I told you right we really mean have this conversation again. For the camera here, so we are very so yeah, I don't know I gave up because this challenge is so there's this guy called Andy, I don't know I don't miss exactly I think maybe while we're doing the show knows we will really give you the what is it you want so he's I don't know. He's some some self-improvement. Okay? Okay Fitness guy a something on that line. So he came up with this challenge called 75 hard challenge, right the 45-day 75. No, it's called 75 hard. Oh, okay. So the whole point of the challenge is I told you right so you need to do five things, which is you work out twice a day for 45 minutes. Then you eat exactly according to your plan. You don't cheat no cakes. No pizza. No this no sugar. No that so that's one and third thing is you need to I told you work out, right? Yeah, he needs read 10 pages every day. You need to take a picture of yourself every day that seems narcissistic word. So progress toward see the difference difference in your physique or something like that. So and what is the another thing ten pages? And drink a gallon of water every day. Yes. So so that was a challenge. I came across this thing and he had a very good reasoning to it. Right. So we've been working on since a hundred days is catching challenge, right? So it's all about the him. What was the goal of the challenge? Like why did he come to just simply to Simply build more worrisome mental fortitude? Okay. Okay, dude, really toughen things up or really? It's a sort of like Hearing yourself against something or placing some sort of resistance on top of you so that you will grow and get stronger. Right? I said am I right you remind me at 30 minutes because this fire started this is this completely and cut people so I'm going to keep this all in So, yeah, so the idea that I think he feels that you know, we even not just him sort of share the same opinion. We're all the we've sort of turned into a good big bunch of beautiful. He snowflakes culture, right? I think that's all we are. All right. Now, I feel so weak and everybody so weak and it's like God not weaken. The sense is not like physically. Yeah, you can say that things. We wanted to be the perfect picture of a vacation all the time. Yes Yes. Actually that's a good one. That's a good one. We constantly want to be in this vacation. Right? We never toughened things up and it is so I don't know if I feel I'm I feel I'm very soft right now, please. These days I feel like I've got definitely how sort of quote unquote hardened, you know over the years not for the sake of non-round the kind of fake Macho hardness say, oh that's the story sort of clarifies on that on his podcast. And this is sort of like we are being very sensitive these days to everything and I used to be very sensitive. I used to be the biggest VOC, you know guy who gets offended at literally everything I cannot live. It's someone who had a different opinion than me, right and when my grandma or my mom says something that's Politically Incorrect. I'll be in my mind, but how could they even say that then I'll fight with him for saying something Politically Incorrect. Right? Like now looking back at those things seem so fruitless. What are you going to use? It seems a stupid action or even food list. This is seems like whiny guy wanted everyone to sort of change according to my okay, and that's because that's was sort of coming from a place of you know me wanting being or something like being like you sort of on the universe to like you feel like the universe owes it to you. Ah, I have you know that I was your start up right and you're like figured out and universe is hold it I thought yeah, I thought I thought it over here. So yes, I thought I have the world needs to sort of did you know that I actually literally turned down? Freelance job a couple of years ago from popular chips company. Okay, right because it didn't align with my own value of eating healthy and at that point when I was turning that job down in my head the thought process was how could they even have this chip company there is doing so much damage to the world and it's like wait, it's not up to me to sort of decide whether that company should be that that isn't it man for that? Sure people can actually have their people are grown up. I'm sorry, they're adults they can make their own decision and they can actually probably live a life and have some cake at these side of things right to your right. So, you know, I cannot believe I used to be that person but sort of things have changed and I want to toughen myself up not for the sake of toughening myself. I want to be our have more filters for all the crap that's coming my way right on how better filter. So that's what the challenge is for. Well, I think was right in that sound if I had challenge if you fail at things you like gone. Okay, we need to start over. I don't think I can afford that one. I'm definitely sure. Maybe I can do what I need to really plan on those 75 days beforehand. But if someone if we say go to a workshop right outside City and it's gone, right? So that's why I sort of wanted to create my own Challenge and the previous episode right? I saw talked about the five days. Yeah, five daily habits for artists and like I told you a lot of people resonated with that and others even this Person, I don't know. She made a video on Instagram. I don't know a handle. She made a video on Instagram saying that she's going to take care of as a challenge and she made this board but she's got a sort of Mark things out every day. Okay, and that was like I had the exact same idea. Maybe maybe you should solve to understand the challenge. So here we are. We have the 48th day challenge. It's called the check list project. You want to tell people why we came up with that name. So the checklist project is sort of named after the book. Checklist Manifesto. Yeah, so in the checklist Manifesto, this is the author is this surgeon guy who's like the is also sort of a manager who holds the manager position in a big hospital. So this gave were like wanted to do some research on how to reduce the number of accidents that can happen and the human error that can happen in surgery rooms and all high risk situations like flight flight cabin or something like that they use on the pile. As do I and a files also have a checklist. So what he found out was like humans, we always overestimate and Ro confident about our own abilities to remember things and be rational at all situations, but psychology research shows that we are not really that rational. So so the thing will be cleared so the entire so he conducted a lot of experiments and he got in some hospitals and surgery. Homes all over the world and he tested out this theory that people should actually have a specific checklist that they need to play go through and check off during before the start of any major project. So something like a surgery they will have to even like make sure that all the Knives and Tools that they use are in order and they are in the most cleanest conditions and everything and they have to make sure that each and every single detail of the Project is in order we even before they start and start with the first the first thing with your project. So even though it might seem very simple and it might seem that you may not even need a list to do these things. You can you can say that you will you can keep all this stuff in your mind and just check it off in your mind itself. But what we found out was with doesn't we are even overconfident about those things that we can manage in our own minds. So when you actually put it down on People and we need to check it off is when you actually completely make sure that you are in order to actually start the project. So with the checklist project for creating habits, what we are trying to do is this is to inculcate the same idea in building habits in your own life. So taking that five habits thing and I actually and until you told me today I will know the checklist Manifesto is all about having a sort of checklist. At the start of each project. I thought it was very maybe we could do that for say having good days. So I used to procrastinate a lot and say a lot of my 2015 and 2016. Right? A lot of time has just gone to me wasting days. So I thought of I I sort of had to come up with a system where I made Chao I save my day so that you know, get good tastes good we could months then hopefully good years and good life, right? So that's that's the reason I add then I It came across this checklist Manifesto book and I thought we we can apply this to my life. Then I put myself wrote down a project called the checklist project and noted it down at the start of 2019. I thought I told myself. No, I'll work on this then our here or that then the right time never came, right? Okay, but right now I think is sort of maybe I think we are very good place where we can sort of start that right now. So this is the checklist project, right? So it's about five things. We're going to be going through those five things. I try actually know what as better people listen to the previous episode of the podcast, but I'm just going to quickly go over say those five things because I will be talked about those things. So these are sort of like the five things that I want to sort of do on a daily basis to sort of save my days one is here's what I'm going to do by the are you going to take up this challenge. How put you on the spot right now. I don't think so. I don't think so. Do I have any on and all right? All right. I'll ask you why why I don't know. It's not for everyone I get that. Yeah, that's why I'm not forcing you to but I'm just I just want to know things is like I have my own routine that I stick to on a daily basis and adding something new to the routine and trying to make a change something is not what I'm looking at looking to do right now. Okay. So so this is this is a project which somebody should take up when they feel directionless when they feel that. The goals that they are trying to achieve in their own daily say you have a long term goal, but your daily actions are not like leadership role. Okay long-term goal. So this is like to break down your long-term girl into our daily actionable day. So what do you like doing on a daily basis? And how is that leading up to your long-term goal that is what will help you with. So I write know how schedule and routine that I work on and it works pretty well for you is ma so It's I wouldn't say it's perfect. Wow, I thought oh I'm used to it and I don't want to make a change right now. So so even if I do take up this challenge, I wouldn't have the same five as the things that you have in your list and I I will get it back. We'll get to that part, right but he has good one. Actually you actually sort of describing me. I'm sort of Direction respect. I am actually I'm not say directionless. I feel I need these daily pointers for me to see because for me I II need have say my brain craves a lot of certainty. This is a priority setting exercise like when you don't have the exact priorities listed out. Yes, you can exactly because we we like we were working on couple of projects right now right with just say varying deadlines and other fields too chaotic for me. So I need some sort of structure in my life that I and I thought I was so there are approximately 49 to 50 days left in this year. I thought you know what, they will make the actually a rat from starting from now before team. That is exactly 49 days. Oh, it's like you go up to that December 31st. This is how I thought it was exactly exactly so, you know, so that'll be a fun challenge. So that's the idea is the idea. So yeah, so here are my five things. Right? So one is to have a a what I call a morning Kickstart. So I am just going to wake up one have do something other than checking my phone. I don't do that anymore. But ever since we just started traveling for workshops that routine sort of completely broken down right once I start traveling just things break down. So I want to I want to wake up Spence a 5 to 10 minutes either meditating or breathing. I think I want to try that with Hof method and what is very you haven't heard of the Wim Hof method. No kidding. This is sort of like a breathing pattern. I thought you know Tim Ferriss like so big on that maybe ever Dead but I don't know. Okay Iceman when cough know Jesus. Ok. Ok. I want to either try that with Hof method or I'm gonna picking up a yoga Workshop. They teach all these crazy breathing thing which just really makes me feel like good to the end of it. So either do that and this place. I want a journal for five minutes the 500 General thing right writing down stuff. I'm grateful for things. I want to do today and say spend Safe 10 to 15 minutes doing some sort of Mobility man. I've been getting really before you go to the gym. Yes, yeah. Yes because you know, I sort of noticed that I'm not doing my cool down exercises after I'm done with my baby, you know, I do you doing okay. I'm skipping one those things right? I'm just like like the Pompa is walk over this like weird. So yeah, I need to do some sort of stretching and mobility in the morning to losing myself up and you know, maybe that or go for a walk now. Alright go for a walk get some sunlight or something like that. And so that's the idea. Morning Kickstart. So how long is this morning routine? I'm going to make sure it's no more than 15 to 20 minutes. Oh because I've found that if I have a say more than 20 minutes 30 even 40 minutes. I'll never do it. Right if it's not three things. I've learned about morning routine. If it's complex Angora Lord, if it's long in got to do it, right and if it's painful in going to do it, John Peterson would say just start with making your bed. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I already do that. Actually, I've been doing that for three years consistently right now II really I go to like hotel rooms and I'm like making my better hold that yeah. There was this one time when me and my cousin we shared a room and you know, I was making my bed early in the morning and that dude was like dude. Why are you making over we're going to leave this hotel like one are so used to the smell. So yeah, I make my bed and drink water every morning. So that's that's so The automatic function so number two is to again work out every day for 30 minutes. At least I work out every day, but do the traveling thing in the workshop thing completely threw me of and why wasn't I have over the itís like you got written the thing down as like workout right? He's written it down his move. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. So why is it not? Why didn't you like just cut it down to just lifting weights and something wise move. No Movin sense movement, I think. I think more than working on more than training the body craves movement, you know some form of movement in terms of walking running hiking doing slows crazy. What he said is the new trend. What is that animal movement thing, right, you know you doing doing all those things move in different fashion. Sometimes I like to walk just walk lately. I've taken a running on like continues running. I'm really bad at that like third training for 60 seconds then like walking for two minutes. Look for 60 seconds walking for 2 minutes 30 seconds. Actually to be honest. What is your weekly routine like is how many cocktails and this is the planets so I'll be I'm going to take up a yoga workshop on 21st and 22nd and 23rd. Okay. So what I want to do is I'm going to be lifting three times a week write our program. I'm not even exactly following this program just like using couple of compound movements like getting the lifting for that. Particular day and getting out like I did for that. I did OHP today and I did you know Rose and I did tricep pushdowns and I walk and some Facebook's and I walked out of this room. So it felt really good actually. So I'm going to do that and the other days I want to walk run or definitely do yoga after that Workshop, you know, let's say idea and even during that 10-minute morning stretching Mobility, then I'll probably replace that with the yoga things that I'm learning so Dan so that's the plan right now. Well, what do you do? What's your thing right now? Like I'm just following the king of body lower body routine routine that yeah. Okay cool that so that word is Eat Right according to my goals, whatever it may be. I've been cutting like for like so long I've dropped from 85 to 77 right now. Okay, so that's like a 8 kilo drop for the past six months, but slow, I feel good, but I think I crave more food these days and I'm so skinny and I feel so I don't know. I'm not feeling good. So I'm going to be like on maintenance. I haven't exactly thought this out but I need to make sure I need to put it down on camera so that people know what I'll be doing. So I here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to be eating around either doing some sort of recomposition thing. By the way, for those people who are hearing these terms don't guess cat. See I'm sort of deep into in a health and fitness, right? So I'm sort of used to it. So I track the food that I eat. And I am used to counting my calories, but but I'm thinking right. Okay, I need to make a decision right now. I'm thinking just probably I just not eat crap right like junk food like sugar, but I don't know 40 it is like too long. That's like the starting point like yeah, you can eat junk like once a week. Oh, I like you like you do. Okay, you know what? Okay, how do that fight? I'll I'll make sure you do say that. Did you start your like being conscious about what you eat? When you start paying attention to her, you know, it's been over a year and a half but I've been consistently tracking macros and calories and things like that for past six months. Okay, from what from a young age, you used to other staple Indian diet with a lot of yeah lot of rice lot of rice carbs. So I'm a vegetarian right less protein if I'm not careful with what I'm eating or the way I'm eating my food. Things go south very quickly because it was just too much carbs and too much but you do feel a difference real like when you're eating healthy, like you do feel a lot more energetic for sure is always feel like I just literally just cut out sugar, right? Yeah, why particular day I just feel sugar and combat simple carbohydrates even white rice barely works. So well with me if I just cut out say wheat and any other form of simple carbohydrates and just replay my sugar with fruits. It's with fiber right lot of fiber my days go really really bad. I'm figured you know what guys? Okay, I'll make my ACT final diet commitment in terms of what I want to do on an Instagram post and I'll make sure I follow that will make save some more like a sort of like a bi-weekly update on the whole challenge. So you do that so that so that's one deep work is the next one which is perform five to eight blocks of 30 minutes. Each of deep work for Madero, Pomodoro Technique, I think. But I find myself putting myself through a schedule like that. I find myself Purdue producing a lot of work on a consistent basis. So you can you can actually tell them about how we use the stopwatch in yes. Yes, so right so I don't I don't set a timer for 30 minutes. What I do is I set a what do you say or stopwatch? Yes stopwatch. You just turn it on and let that thing run and whenever I feel like taking breaks, I'll take break. I'll stop the watch then walk and things like that the other time I just do it. So I think the recommended thing is to like get up every 30 minutes do something right that's recommended. But and I'll probably do that but I'll make sure I'll say get same minimum of two and a half hours of quality deep work everyday fight above Stephen only four hours. So I think that's a good amount to shoot for every single day. So are not every single day every week day. I need to mention that every weekday. So Saturdays and Sundays are off. I want to replace that with say longer workouts walks drawing. So things like that, so that that thing alone I think sort of right deep work. What I have recognized. His work is a two-part equation where you want is doing and second part is interesting. Hmm, right? So you consider the resting part of our also is as part of my work. Yeah, you know like doing something say yeah, probably, you know, every other weekend, I'll allocates a two and a half hours to for us do something that's completely unrelated to work. I'll go out. Out maybe we'll see how that works. I don't have a hobby right? Maybe I should pick up a hobby do something else. Yeah, something like badminton. Yeah. Yeah, but that's so cliche. I'll probably take up a hobby because I read this book called Rest by Alex sujung Kim Pang. I think I'm murdering same so sorry, I guess books called rest the rest by Alex. Yeah, wonderful book where he talks. About the idea right takes 10,000 hours to sort of get good at a craft and he comes up with he says that it's a it's an incomplete sentence or an incomplete formula, which is it takes 10,000 hours of deep work $12,500 of deliberate dressed then some some 14,000 hours of sleep to actually attain Mastery. So that's what he meant. He says rest is actually a very big part of work, so That's the idea. That's the idea. And the first thing is very simple read 10 pages a day. And that's what I'm going to do three temper you have I've been slacking off on my reading thing have a lot of books which I've bought and not read so I'll be doing that. So that's that's what I do. You have Pages asked click the row is to either go on the Milestone one. Let's instead of time. Yeah one is its tangible time is okay and we love are you to read for 30 minutes? Sometimes you stay on one page 413 That events. I know I know right. I know that I don't want to do that. So I'm just going to like read 10 pages a day and just just make sure I focus on muscle though. There are no breaks in any of those things right the morning kick-start the moving the eating except for the Deep work, which is sort of like sort of like a 7-Day thing. But this we do it five days. The two days is sort of like a rest during ten Pages a day. I just told that from that 75 hater hard challenge, you know, I'll retain page City and we felt good though. No, I have a never schedule in learning right maybe this could be that thing. So that's the deal. So that's what are those are the things that I'm going to be doing. If you were to do it right? I'm not saying you should do it. Yeah, if you want to do it if you picked up say five very simple things, you know, just to maybe even to motivate these people. What would you pick? I would surely pick something to do with my the skills that I'm working on. Not only so I would surely have daily practice of Well, I like working on my nerve actions. Okay, sketching forces or parents also getting closer look very important for animation production animation as well. So that will be one skill that I have to practice every day. So I will have a practicing figures. Yes practicing figure drawing software like not like very deep very serious figure drawings that yesterday. So I will build that into the practice and also I would I have a lot of tutorials backed up that I have not watched so I will have 30 30 minute block set of learning for watching the tutorial that I have that I have very high those tutorials on some on skillshare and some I've downloaded which is given right so those tutorials and so so none of them are pirated just say yeah bought and downloaded so I have some courses that It will show these two are part of the part of the skill development. But for one is practice. The other one is gaining knowledge. So so these two I will act and the eating part. I think I'm very happy with the diet that I haven't you already follow. The slow carb diet is still very stops low carb diet. So I wouldn't want to build an extra habit on my diet. So I wouldn't do that right, but I would show surely have my but since I don't know how why exercises like something new for you, but EX Sizes like always existed for yours or for me, right? No, I do slack off a lot. Okay. Okay when it was most days right I get like five ten fifteen minutes of just very light exercise and of Allah today. I know it's better than nothing. But it's this time. I sort of go from the simplest easy ways of doing things to slightly to the next level of say, okay, not the getting consistent any minute sir. I want to see how that affects my body composition. I wanna see I wanna see That thing works and one more thing about deep work that I wanted to say. Yeah Depot be also something that I've been fascinated by sincerity and Link. Usually what people think when they try to be productive and try to improve the productivity and they're always like try to squeeze every single second that is there in the 24 hours. So even I had the same notion until I read that book so and it was such a huge like it will reduce a lot of weight in your mind when you read that. At all you need is like three or four hours of your day. Yes doing the work, right and I see you also write like I've been working with you for few months right now and I've seen you up close how your work schedules and if you like, we will that like like other young age you achieve so much right and all that is like this. We will not like put you yourself like torturous over and singular like very cool and you work at your own pace and you build everything from scratch on your own from your teenage and you've been working on this so Also sets an example that what is achievable through like easygoing work. So properly structured work with say three to four to five hours every day. That's why that's just what I do write every single day just so I would say the best habit if there is at least one habit that you guys are take up in the challenge. It should be the deeper challenge VAR D work should be the most important part that you have to you guys should take up so read about deeper waters deep work. It's completely unrestricted work that has to be Be put in every day to make yourself do quality work right produce quality work actually. Yeah you even even I sort of had for a long time right? I thought I need to be working say for every day like yeah you in the chakra that guy. Yeah, a lot of things right we compare ourselves to this Collective idea of who everybody is so when we when we compare ourselves on Instagram, right? This is what I was thinking about today this morning. So when Comparing myself to my Instagram feed I'm not just comparing myself to one artist. Yeah, but I'm comparing myself to this Collective individual who is just a composition of all the artists out there on Instagram. So I'm literally me against the world. Yeah, correct. So I'm comparing myself to Gary Vee and couple of thousands of other people I care about and I thought we didn't even working 16 hours a day or you should you're not going to be building something. That's that amount no monster in anything in life, which was severely and are saying he says that and also he's very he's very good on clarifying those stuff like that, but I thought I need to be working 16 hours a day until you know, I sort of realized that you don't have to you just need to make safe progress good quality amount of progress every single. I think that kind of an ocean right that actually comes up with because we are very competitive and I feel to beat the other guy you you'll have to find Some extra time somewhere exactly and you start us start cutting down on your wrist stuff like that. Anything that is going to make a difference which actually works in the reverse. Oh, yes. Oh, yes, and and in terms of using time as a Competitive Edge these days I'm using myself my likes and dislikes a sort of the Competitive Edge. Okay, I'm asking myself. OK what are the things that I would sort of do the nobody else would probably do and that instant, you know is sort of like a better way instead of just putting in more time and more times like this is a never-ending. Your Unique Style Style exactly exactly something something something. I'm not sure. So yeah, why did we know what you talked about in your Workshop? Huh? Like you talked about this specifically rate. Oh, yes joining your thing. They are not asking you as a person for or what organized and all they dislike. Yeah, and then we yesterday we had a girl who likes dogs music pizza, right pizza or something else and she likes to a she likes a surprise. Told and as to what a name was, she said I knew I knew I knew porno porno. I think I think I'm not shocked amateur. She and I told her that there's going to be there's never going to be a person in Indian girls 19 years old named on the phone. I was gonna like dogs cats pizza and guitar and my not supplies at the same moment so that it could be someone pretty close but not in that exact combination with the particular experiences of that person, which is going to make my make them completely unique. So this has to be or Khan Competitive Edge. Yes. Yes something really unique voice that yeah having sort of going all in on yourself like that dude. Are you sister? Okay as a very simple way to actually stand out right like you go all in on yourself, then all of a sudden you're not playing against everybody you're sort of creating your own category that sort of helping things out and I think that's what I'm trying to do these days. So, yes, let's talk about why we are doing this challenge quickly. To so one. I have noted these things down. I get like I told you right to save my days for procrastination laziness and just throwing things around this is I just waste a lot of my days and are forced to build discipline and character now I hesitated on putting this line on my Castle Post to build discipline. I don't think every even when I go to the workshop some people look at me and say dude, you're very disciplined us like cannot discipline and this being selective about things where I need to be disciplined at, you know, I read in a book called The one thing which he talks about how discipline is sort of self-discipline is sort of a myth rather people build selective discipline and things meaning certain people are good at safe. If I have to draw every day I can do that. But if I have to run every day, I cannot write I'm not built for that in a professional athlete who's a good runner might be able to do that, but he cannot draw everyday, right? So I'm good at one thing and I've built selective discipline and one thing but the other person have sort of build a selector discipline different things. For example, me and my trainer, right? He is good at tracking his food. He's good at eating very clean very need according to his calories and everything's every day. Right if I ask him to create something every day is going to struggle. Yeah, but me right Amber if I have to create something every day, I can do that. But if I have to say track my food eat my character is according. Tuna my thing my requirements I'll say okay. I cannot be perfect at those things. So, you know, that's what I meant by Bill selective discipline and character, you know good character and of course snowflakes snow whether this meme of the have you seen that Toy Story thing right where Buzz holes Woody on an altar. He says things everywhere, right so many everywhere being right. So I'm just saying snowflake snowflake. Dude, we're getting offended by everything and that pisses me off so much see even people getting offended. I'm being offended right? I need to stop that right? I need to sort of build the more Bill more mental toughness is what people say about shot, you know being able to handle more. You know tough choices in life. Some things are not things are not going to go your way all the time. Do not want everything to change around you always yeah, that is one thing and also some things you're just handed down, you know some some part of things are just those are the things that you are given in life and you probably cannot change them and you just have to deal with it and maybe instead of being whiny about it right? Maybe you can own that fact and just Move water, right? Exactly, right. So that's that's the idea mental toughness and fortitude. Is it sort of like people need to sort of clarify things between being tough and being Macho right being Macho is putting on a fake Outlook and just puffing up your chest and walking right? That's that's not on talking about rather. I'm sort of sauce saying brain Gym training for your brain right going to the gym making your brain lift. It's you know until your brain will get stronger something like that. That's the idea and of course to the ideas of this challenge to start something you learn to finish things. I'm on this mini quest of everything that I'm starting. I want to be able to finish those things put them out ship them practice the art of shipping. That's the idea behind this whole Challenge and why is it that's why it's so punishing about leg missing or tails and yeah. Yeah. Okay. I don't do that. Right so we don't have that. At strict of rule bit but I'm going to make sure I follow it like every 99% of it but there is going to be a hindrance right because this challenge starts on 14th. My mom's having surgery on 15th, right? So, I don't know how I'm going to get my deep work in that day home when I will get my workout in that day and I need to find something to you. Nobody on that particular day. She's gonna have surgery on the evening. Nothing serious. She's going to be okay though. So, I don't know how I'm going to do that dude on that day, but that's part of the challenge, right? It'll find a way to make that happen, but it's going to be actually that's going to be quite the character testing moment for me. Right? So yeah, probably probably that's what so the idea is to never miss a day. And once you set yourself some rules five rules, never break it follow those rules to a t so that means so you set some good amount of room for yourself to work with in that role, right? So that's the idea and never miss. It's a day if you miss a day, it's fine. But make sure you never miss two days on a particular habit. If you must miss a two days on any of the particular habit, that's it. You're done you start over some simple as that and it's supposed to be hard. It's so that's the idea behind this challenge. It's supposed to be hard and learning to be able to do hard things and being okay with that fact is sort of that that values something that I'm not of To train myself to do on this Challenge and one question like is necessary that it should be five habits in voting or can it be like for actually five is good. Okay, it should be fine. It should be five seven five things. It doesn't or not. All five should be big drinking a gallon of water is very simple here, right so it can and taking a progress picture every day is very simple that's doable. So I think any any any five things that you saw it's sort of a good thing and there's even this thing in In in in in our culture right where we there's this thing called. I open diksha, you know that the Malaga right? So there's this thing this is ritual support e8d original and they've added this this OD same beads. Okay these bees and this is sort of like the religious thing. They do it for a particular God and during that phase of 49 days. They practice certain virtues, which is the Wake up at 4 o'clock and they sleep on the floor and they write the simplest of goats. They're not allowed to say bad. Like very complicated. They can the work they do needs to and they never fat food for and you know, they that they do certain other things that were there will be strict and control no meat right you you just go full full vegetarian right there. And and what else you you you pray? Every day write something like that. So it's a sort of okay that idea is not turn yourself into this religious Kyle, but the idea is to sort of prior to practice certain virtues and values and at the end of the 49 days. They walks a couple of hundred miles, you know and climb mountains to go to that particular Temple and you know pray for that day and the idea is you're sort of building yourself a character the you know through the process of going through And I'm also I usually do that every year, you know, I usually do that every I couldn't do it last year, but I'll be doing that this year too. So that's where I got that 48 Day idea from so it's called one month Allah in our culture, right Mantra is a period And I think it's a good time frame between say 30 days and 60 or 90 days to form some sort of a habit. So I felt good last time when I did it. So this was the idea behind it sort of like a non-religious version of that particular, right? I mean, so that's the idea. So that's what I want to do man. 48:40 48 days. Yeah 48 days of yeah. This project is called the checklist project. You guys can actually know do it along with me. Are you gonna do it? I'll take a particular things and dude. Don't don't let me sort of a and not let you slam. Yeah, no not least now. I don't know. I'm not going to start off. I'm telling you don't let me force you to take the shot. Okay. Okay. Well, I don't know I don't do it alone. Yeah, I don't like even if I take a while not take up like five things I think. Okay. I'll try like I have I think it's a very good say a structure for you to take up any kind of habit. Yeah, we have it. So yeah, I have certain things that like the sketching happened today talk to you about brush a not very consistent at all. So I would like to take that up and how do you use any of this? Are you gonna take it up? You're going to comment or What are you gonna say? What are you gonna do? I think I need a little bit more thought but I don't have the five things. So I don't know if I can take it up heisting a checklist project. So if you do take it up Arvin you guys go for our Revenue will announce it on his Instagram if he takes it up - right and you can follow also see how I handle a decode ER K DK ODI. Okay, Harry Corey art on Insta. So if he takes it up, he's gonna announce it over there and make sure you guys that he you know, he commits to it and boo does it but you asked other sauce. Report straight to that. Yes, guys. Yeah. So if you are taking up this is the primary idea behind the challenge is for me to do it. And if you are going you guys are going to take this up post it under the hashtag the checklist project on Instagram. And you know, this is going to be fun right the checklist project on Instagram and an arrow had the end of 49 days. I'm sure I'm going to get a good feeling out of this thing I used to do is challenges right me and my friends quietly self-improvement nuts. I wanted to friends attending college friends apparently two people doesn't want to just drink all day and fool around the whole day. They won't actually make something out of things. Right? So don't we all ganged up together? And we did do this challenge you are we sort of walk everyday do some deep work and it went horribly bad, but we did something I something is better than nothing. Nothing exactly. Exactly. So yeah, this is going to be I'm going to hit this are immoral of this. So it's going to be fun. It's going to be fun. All right, cool and anything else that we want to talk about nothing else. So you just challenge starting on the 14th. Yes. We're starting on November 14th, November 14th. This is the more the merrier. So the more the merrier. Yeah and you guys can keep each other motivated stay and to stay in the project together, right? He is his land it. Right here right in a lot of us a lot of us. I'm talking mostly about myself actually, you know a lot of this sort of, you know, not do things. We tell ourselves that we do things. We set ourselves goals plans projects that we want to do and we never follow through on them. Right and then the and also we slack off a lot. We're lazy we procrastinate and when we are To be doing something we're not doing that without doing something else definition of procrastination, right and for us we need some sort of a slap in the face. And I know I'm being very not very nice about it. Right but I don't I don't lie. We all want things to be nice. Right? We all want things and expect things to be nice. We want the world to be this happy-go-lucky place with you know, puppy dog. Eggs and tootsie rolls and stuff like that and and I think maybe maybe that we need to probably wake up to certain realities instead of expecting others to be nice for us. Maybe it's our armor. That is too weak to you know, handle the realities of things instead of maybe trying to change certain realities which cannot be changed due to be better if we sort of work on ourselves. And create better filters for things to come in and go out maybe that that might be helpful. So that's the biggest reason I need a slap in my face and and I need to wake up wake up and do things that's the idea. That's the idea behind this whole Challenge and if people relate to the that particular feeling they can do like you said, I do sort of feel directionless most of the time but I'm getting used to it. Is it like directionless because of there is a lot of choice in the direction that yeah, the club is a lot of choice. There are there's another kind of direction list where they have absolutely no choices. I know I know I know I'm very lucky right? I'm so grateful. He's is weirdly I do have my problems in life like or Encore problems, but I'm thinking like damn those are not like problems. If you look at the grand scheme of things, right? Those are good problems to have good problems. Okay. Certain things are not exactly trust me. I will talk to a certain things, right they are not current good good, but there are good challenges for me to have they have really shaped me as a person in terms of the my thinking abilities and and things like that. What was I saying? Yeah, so so I've been very grateful these days for stuff that I have. I do have a lot of directions lot of projects that I want to do, but I don't have say I get because of the way I Built I get really really icky when things get uncertain rest. So I need to build my habit of being okay with you know, being uncertain at the things then I am I am. I have a very hard time sticking to one particular project for a very long time. That's why we do these courses and say in a short span of time and this print of fashion because it's hard for me to sort of have a very long deadline and go through the whole thing. So I need to actually You be okay with that if I want to put out good meaningful work because those things I want to take time and he'd be okay with the uncertainty that loop with the roller coaster of that project. So, yeah, so yeah, that's the thing. That's the thing school. What is the day after the 48? They supposed to be like oh like you decide so so you had a taste for 48 days of winning days your you know, what the 49th day is supposed to be like is it like yeah. Is that how I don't know actually go through this thing. Someone told me rice / Mentor told me you know, this is regarding this Indian thing that I opened the sure thing. He'd see set don't mind if I get a bit religious are not trying to do that right now, but he's a God is not a person God Is A Verb not a noun it's a verb. So what are you doing during those forty eight days is not you're trying to pray for God. You're trying to be God. All right, so that's what you sections. Yeah you Your actions define who you are godliness is they say cleanliness is Godliness life something as little as cleanliness can be godliness. Then the good qualities of human being can we got it, right? So that's the idea and if you do dinner five times, right, you do those 48 day thing enough times over a year's over say 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 20 years eventually that will that will be a point where you would be like, I don't even need to do the 40 mph. HIV is a new normal. Yes. Exactly. That's the good word right The New Normal then you do something else. It's a project has a lot. It's a lifelong project. Yes. So this is went really deep godliness. Hashtag got so far. Taking the myself great then hopefully I hope you all had a good time listening to us talking about deep deep subjects. Hope you guys take this challenge. No, actually no, I don't hope you guys take this boot if you want to but I don't care if you do it or not. So so yeah, I'm going to do it. I'm going shopping documenting it. Yes. I'm going to be documenting. I'm even thinking of I just decided this morning. I want to be I'm going to document it literally on video, right? You know, I should probably do that. Oh, yes. It's on video. I know already right so I'll probably make a mini documentary out of it pull up on YouTube because we have a new YouTube schedule, right? Yeah. So yeah cool. We'll do it. So at the end of the first week or second week of January, there will be a documentary called or the checklist project. Yeah, very nice little we nice super awesome. Great day. See you guys after 48 days, bye-bye.
Alrighty! Time for another challenge. We have approximately 48-50  days left this year and I'm going to make the most out of it. . . My post on '5 daily habits for artists' resonated with a lot of people. And I felt I needed something to make this into something actionable. Hence 'the checklist project'. 5 habits, 48 days, starts Nov 14th. The goal is to build a sustainable daily ritual that helps my practice and to give myself a challenge that tests me. This podcast explains my reasoning behind this whole thing. . Aiming for a productive end to 2019. I'll be sharing my journey through  Instagram and if you want to do this yourself. Try it out and see if it works for you :) .................................................................. Skeshbook is a podcast on art & creativity where we explore interesting everyday ideas,   gain new insights and grow a little better every  day, one step at a   time. Brought to you by Kesh, with friends dropping in every now and then. Join us in our sketching expedition on this audio canvas to make something meaningful! Links: Website YouTube Instagram 100 Days of Sketching Instagram Page - Curation of artworks from those who take up the challenge. 