Srishti Kumari

Tag: self-improvement

  • One Day At A Time #2nd december, 2025

    The Day So Far …

    Photo by mk. s on Unsplash

    Yes, I agree that we don’t feel happy when we don’t get up early every morning, despite promising ourselves every night that tomorrow we will. Yeah, not a very inspiring scenario. I agree.

    Especially, when you have a certain idea and vision for your mornings that include meditation, exercises, workouts, having breakfast, getting done with all the cleaning and cooking you need to get done with, and after doing all those ten important things, you finally start your professional work, your business work at 9:00 am, after having your healthy breakfast.

    Sounds too much, no?

    Yeah, sounds like I am trying to finish my entire day’s stuff in the first few hours of the morning. And you know what, that is exactly my plan, my vision, for my mornings.

    My plan, my dream, and my vision for my mornings is to wake up as early as I can, quietly drink my lukewarm water and freshen up, arrange my bed and workspace, quietly sit and do my breathing exercises for a few minutes with full atttention, then some full body basic exercises, and a bit of moderate to fast paced walk on my treadmill.

    Yeah, this is the plan of my early morning/morning sanity ritual. Whenever I have followed this diligently, I have really taken care of my sanity and well-being with a lot of love and care.

    Then comes the second phase of morning, in which I need to make sure that basic cleaning – dusting, brooming, mopping – whatever is required on a given day, is done properly, along with the meal prep for the day – breakfast and lunch.

    And I am praying every day to god to bless me with a really good househelp who can help me very well in these two things – cleaning and cooking for the day. This will really be a huge help, and I need to make sure that I get this house help for my own efficiency, sanity, and overall well-being every single day.

    And then my friends, comes the third phase of my mornings, where I prepare myself for the day ahead. It includes bathing, bodycare, haircare, skincare ( not those 10 steps but simple everyday things), getting ready for the day, thanking the universe for the beautiful day ahead, and having my breakfast happily.

    Yes, these are the three phases of my mornings. Or, you can say, my dream mornings! And right now, I am far, far away from this dream.

    The first phase of my mornings requires my utmost honesty and dedicated discipline towards my present and future self. The second phase requires a really good investment, planning, and management skills, and the third one requires the self-love nudge to be ready for the days ahead, when literally no one is watching me build the thing that matters to me.

    Today, I am not there. Right now, in the chilly winters of Delhi, here in north India, I am waking up between 9 to 10:00 am. May god bless my mom with a lot of love, joy, happiness, good health, and fulfillment – because, only because of her, everything is taken care of in the home. I don’t need to stress about cleaning, cooking, grocery shopping, restocking supplies, and ten other things that one has to take care of.

    But apart from this help, support, and leisure, the truth is that my body and my mind, and especially my career, are asking me to reset my mornings according to my vision.

    It’s not about doing it perfectly every day, but to live, breathe, and experience another version of myself for the better. And I know, I can do it.

    I can, and I will. And I am happy that I am very soon going to beautifully live my mornings my way – peacefully, happily, harmoniously, and lovingly.

    Till then, my focus is to do better with anything and everything I can. Because that also matters. Right?

    So, for example, today I got up around 10:35 am. Yeah, super late, I know! And I knew I had to quickly start my day without much cringing, ranting, and feeling sad about myself.

    So, I immediately set an alarm for 12:30 pm – the alarm for finally sitting in front of my laptop and getting started with my work for the day.

    I had 2 hours. I quickly got up, folded my blanket, arranged my bed, arranged my study/ workspace, drank lukewarm water, freshened up properly, did quick brooming in the house, put an egg on the gas to boil meanwhile, took a quick bath, did basic bodycare and skincare, wore my clean clothes, combed my hair and applied my favourite lipstick.

    After this, I quickly made my hot milk tea and sat down to have my breakfast – 2 slices of brown bread, one boiled egg, along with a hot cup of tea – around 12:10 pm.

    And at 12:30 pm, I was in front of my laptop, scribbling my story on my blog. Yeah, very, very, very far from my dream morning. But I won’t beat myself up. I managed to do a few very basic and important things, such as freshening up, basic cleaning, bathing, getting ready, and having breakfast – within 2 hours, without any manic rush.

    It was focused. Yes, focused. Not maniac rush anymore.

    Meal prep and cooking are being taken care of by mom, and the exercise part will be taken care of in the evening.

    Yes, I am aware that I need to do a lot more for my holistic health and well-being, and waking up early comes with a lot of benefits for that. But that doesn’t mean that I should crib and develop self-hatred towards myself for waking up at 10:00 am.

    I am optimistic about my mornings. I have faith in my vision. I am thankful for today. I am grateful for whatever good I have in my life. And I accept that I am becoming. More clear, more wiser, more sharper, more smarter, more honest, more beautiful, more joyful, more peaceful, more ambitious, and probably, more human!

    Yeah, so that was the day so far. It’s already 1:30 pm. Now I am ending this blog here and going to check my LinkedIn updates.

    Well, that’s also a win. I managed to scribble my first blog post of the day.

    Thanks day! Thanks, 2nd December, for helping me so far.

    And thanks to you, my reader friend, for choosing to go through my scribble here. Thank you so much. Your attention matters a lot.

    If you have read this blog so far, I would really like to know about your mornings. I mean, how are you feeling about them? How are you living in those hours? Is it rush-rush? Or, an early morning meditation type? Is it a bit late, relaxed, and cosy? Or robotic? Are you on autopilot or intentional?

    Or, are you somewhere near where I am right now? I would love to know. Please share your experiences. I would love to read them.

    Will meet you in the next blog.

    Till then, take care.

    B bye

    • srishti

  • One Day At A Time #29th Nov,2025


    Photo by Look Studio on Unsplash

    Hmm..so finally here I am, sitting in front of my laptop to finally write something, create something, instead of just consuming endlessly in the name of learning.

    No offense to anyone who consumes a lot of media to learn; it’s just that I need to remember that my consumption cannot always overtake my creation. And that has to be taken care of very well.

    So here I am sharing about the day-to-day, or you can say that finally I am sitting and making sense of everything that happened today, just to not feel much chaotic, unorganized, lost, and maybe good for nothing kind of feeling.

    Oh, the morning was sweet! The morning started with a video call around 8:45 am. Hubby had called to wake me up! And a big sweet muuuuuaaaaahhhh to my darling for this.

    Honestly, when you yourself find it hard, really hard to do something as basic as getting up every day before it’s too late to start your day, and someone makes sure that they are going to do whatever best they can to help you, fully knowing that it’s not an easy job, they are gems. They truly are.

    So if there is anyone in your life – your friend, your best friend, your sister, brother, mom, dad, your partner – anyone who is helping you in your inner work and self-improvement journey in any way, send them lots of love right now. These people are angels in our lives.

    Though a part of me was thinking of sleeping again for half an hour while I was still in bed holding my phone in my hands, thankfully, I didn’t do that. I got up, made my bed, arranged my workspace, prepared lukewarm water, drank it properly, and then freshened up.

    After freshening up, I prepared tea and breakfast for myself, had it peacefully while watching Masoom Minawala’s podcast episode, wherein she had Mira Kapoor as her guest. And I am telling you, I really, really, really enjoyed that podcast.

    The conversation is mostly about mira’s journey from someone who was not at all a public figure to becoming someone who is the talk of the town, and then exploring herself through content creation to stepping the foot in the businesses as an investor and then progressing towards entrepreneurship with two brands of her own in the lifestyle and wellness space till now – all while being a full time mom and juggling multiple things at the same time with all the mess and grace one woman can.

    I think, for me, this interview with Masoom is the best one till now, where she has talked about her life, her business, her journey of not being sure what exactly she wanted to do, to coming to a place where she knows that her purpose is to create an impact.

    So yeah, a really good podcast. Especially as a woman who has done it after marriage and being a full-time mom, who is not someone who has studied MBA but has learnt everything on the job, her journey has so much to give a lot of women today.

    Sure, many will say that the privilege she comes from and has every day has made everything so much easier for her. And I get that. It’s one hundred percent true that she comes from a particular section of society that really enjoys the privilege of opportunities and exposure that not everyone can.

    But despite these things I will still say that if you are a woman, a middle class woman, an upper middle class woman, and simply a woman with dreams in your eyes to make your mark in this world but you are not sure what you will do, Mira’s story can make you think about the possibilities and opportunities you can create for yourself without losing yourself in the process.

    For me, it’s truly been the podcast where two businesswomen, Masoom and Mira, were talking about their real struggles and challenges of balancing the personal and professional life without beating themselves up and prioritising their sanity however they can.

    After that podcast, I watched another interview of Meera with MOS, and that was a very chill and relaxed podcast. A podcast where three young women were talking about their childhood, teenage memories, adulthood, adult friendships, and navigating life on their own by simultaneously building their brand and businesses with all they have got. It was nice.

    For lunch, I had roti, sabji, salad, and chutney – The wholesome, mummy ke haath ka ghar ka khana. Nothing can beat ghar ka healthy khana.

    After lunch, I went onto the terrace and enjoyed a bit of sunbathing.

    Then I had my afternoon rest for around one and a half hours.

    The evening started with our evening tea, and around 6:30 PM, I put on my shoes for my treadmill walk. A 30-minute moderate to fast-paced treadmill walk was good, though.

    Again, for dinner we had rice, daal, sbji – ghar ka hot served meal.

    I walked on my balcony for a few minutes after dinner.

    And then, here I am writing all this.

    Hmm…a day with a cosy, relaxed, and loving winter morning beginning with the video call with your love, breakfast with hot tea, mumma at home 24/7, ghar ka khana, power-packed podcasts, sunbathing, afternoon rest, half an hour cardio, and this scribble space!

    Thanks day! Thanks, 29th November. It was beautiful. I felt loved, supported, blessed, guided, inspired, creative, happy, and grateful from the bottom of my heart.

    Thank you so much.

    And thank you so much to you, my reader friend, for choosing to read this piece.

    Thank you.

    • srishti