Rasika

  Hello readers, I am on day 6 of waking up at 5 am. I am going to be honest for the past couple of days kaustubh has been waking me up at 6 am. so it sucks that this blog doesn't really clear the criteria of being day 6 blog but hopefully you'll forgive me and let me call this blog "day 6 of waking up at 5 am." But anyway, today was just as good as yesterday and we made it out of the house. We were so energetic today because We went to bed quite early last night. Who knew if you don't nap the entire day you'd be tired and end up feeling sleepy way earlier than usual! :D I put on rain sounds on our google home and slept like a baby. Today we met so many floofs that my day was bound to go happy and so it did. The Golden retriever we met today, her name is Joey. For breakfast today we were feeling a little extra so we whipped up a batch of  whole wheat pancakes and made strawberry compote ( is what i believe it's called) for the topping and...

Two years back i saw a Lily colins and Keanu Reeves starer movie called "TO THE BONES"  The plot is about this anorexic girl and her journey. The movie did not get much of a good review but this one scene of the movie in particular hit me hard. It's a scene where the anorexic girl has a dream where she sees herself from afar,  the state she is in and only when she saw it herself, she realized that she can not continue living her life like that and She decided to change her life for the better. I was at a very emotionally low point  when i saw this movie and this scene gave me a better perspective on life and my problem. And i truly believe that no matter how many self help books you read or how many podcasts you listen to if it isn't coming from your own heart you won't be able to sustain through the journey you start. Mid 2019 is the period when kaustubh and I started making videos with an aim of documenting our life. We knew that this could...

To be honest I lost track of how many days have passed by since we started this waking up early. Nevertheless its been a while since i have been torturing myself and calling it "self "growth." Last night ( after a lot of whinning about not being able to watch one more episode) we were all set to sleep at a reasonable time which would've allowed us a total 5 hours of sleep but our dogs had a different plan. A new dog decided to wander in our area and all the dog including wrin decided to bark their disapproval at the top of their lungs. Took us an hour and a trip downstairs by kaustubh to shut everyone up. After the dog drama settled we slept like a baby, I knew in the back of my mind that we had to wake up but in the morning for a split second my bed said "I know your brain wants you to wake up but your heart yearns for some more sleep, lie down while i nurture you back to the world of dreams where your teeth fall off and you keep taking sky high leaps....

Remember when i said i was writing the blog at 11 pm pm? read this if you don't know what i am talking about. (  https://rasikadahikar.blogspot.com/2020/07/day-2-of-waking-up-at-5-am.html  ) Well turns out you can not survive on a 4 hour sleep. 5 hour sleep is hitting it too close but 4 hour sleep won't cut it if you plan on waking up early. It just won't. ( thank me later for telling you this) If you are above the age of 24 you need a minimum of 5 hours of sleep if you plan on waking up at 5 am. Anyway, we both woke up late and we decided to postpone our shoot because i wasn't feeling confident about the idea. So we decided to just chill. I finished the korean series i was watching and filled my "to watch" list with 12 more kdrama series. Turns out kdrama has a lot of good story lines which i am super excited to binge. They don't have a lot of seasons as opposed to our regular american series which is great, the only downside is that i have to be...

I am writing this blog at 11 PM which is a huge symbol of how waking up at 5 am is going for me. Just kidding, Its not half as bad I thought it would be. But i am still struggling with the sleeping part and surprisingly enough i got up today way before my alarm went off. That could totally be because Wrin kept barking around 3 AM. Today instead of fighting our second hurdle ( If you don't know about the hurdles we have to go through before going out in the morning then you should read my previous blog before starting this one) here is the link  https://rasikadahikar.blogspot.com/2020/07/day-1-of-waking-up-at-5am.html we took wrin with us. Needless to say we weren't prepared for what was about to come our way. There are roughly about 10 dogs on the route we take every morning which means we had to tackle all of them twice while going on the walk and while coming back to our home. And all we had was a huge stick to try and scare them away ( FYI a stick in the hand ...

I am not here to tell you that you should wake up early because if you've read any of my past blogs you know i am the worst at waking up early. And to be honest i did consider waking up for a week or so to be able to write down my experience in one blog but i am very sure i wont remember a thing so I settled for writing a blog of my daily experience of waking up at 5 am and what comes after. Kaustubh and I and a friend of ours have been going out to run ( I walk mostly) every day. I joined these two a little late in their challenge but we decided to challenge ourselves to run for 21 days. I am not sure why the challenge is specifically for 21 days you can contact our friend Anirudha for more details he runs a gym called Ultra Fit in Nagpur,u here is the link to his website and all his social media details can be found there http://www.ultrafitgym.in/ Yesterday we didn't wake up early so we went for an evening run and we unanimously decided that morning runs are wa...

I am in the learning phase of blogging, learning how it works, learning how the SEO works, how do i niche down and how can i write things more efficiently in an easy to understand language and in a not so boring way.  I took up this 30 day blogging challenge with the same goal in mind. I have already missed one day but you know it's difficult keeping up, forcing myself to think of a topic to talk about.  And i guess that is why i leave it till the very end and then churn out my thoughts, don't get me wrong I never write just for the sake of writing. So when i do end up settling on a topic i would be interested in writing then  I write everything that comes to my mind very sincerely. And I love it when words just flow and i keep typing them down, much like when i'm writing in my diary.  Anyway, so i am going to be honest today i just didn't know what i wanted to talk about today and i didn't feel like writing a story, and all the ideas that i have d...