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Taking my life apart and rebuilding it.
Every experiment becomes a tool you can use.
Test subject: me.

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Bangalore’s little pocket of green. 🌿🍃
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#naturephotography📷 #cinematography #instagram #green #foryou taken in Cubbon Park, Bangalore by @fromsurabhi

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This is where the plot thickens.
27 chapters of figuring it out — and the main character is finally showing up.
the best stories don’t peak early. they build.
📸 thanks for capturing this moment, @_vaishnavi.d

#27 by @fromsurabhi

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Art of unlearning

#lessonsunlearned by @fromsurabhi

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5 months ago

Destiny doesn’t feel like a fixed outcome.
It feels more like a pattern that forms over time.

The choices you repeat,
the habits you default to,
the environments you stay in —
they create a kind of operating system for your life.

And over time, that system starts to shape your direction.

What looks like “being stuck” is often just
the same decisions playing out on loop —
an execution loop you haven’t interrupted yet.

But the moment you change your inputs —
your routines, your standards, your environment —
the trajectory shifts.

That’s what intentional living actually looks like.

Not one big decision.
But small, consistent ones that compound into a different path.

Lesson 12 of 25 lessons I’ve learnt till 2025.

Is this path shaping the destiny you want to live into?

IntentionalLiving
#LifeByDesign
#SelfAwarenessJourney
#lifeinprogres by @fromsurabhi

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5 months ago

What we often call inconsistency
is sometimes just a mismatch with our biological baseline.

Women don’t operate on a 24-hour cycle like men.
We have an infradian rhythm —
a monthly pattern that affects energy, focus, and creativity.

When you try to apply the same productivity system
to every phase, every week,
it starts to feel like you’re the problem.

But maybe the system is.

Cycle syncing isn’t about doing less.
It’s about aligning your work with your energy —
so you can focus, create, rest, and execute
at the right time.

That shift alone changed how I approach
productivity, energy management, and consistency.

Lesson 9 of 25 lessons I’ve learnt till 2025.

Have you ever noticed patterns in your energy across the month?

#cyclesyncing
#infradianrhythm
#systembuilding #lessonslearned by @fromsurabhi

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6 months ago

Not all exhaustion is solved by sleep.

Sometimes it’s cognitive fatigue.
Sometimes it’s emotional overload.
Sometimes your mind just hasn’t had space to slow down.

That’s where the idea of different types of rest changed things for me.

According to Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith,
there are 7 types of rest —
and each one restores a different part of your system.

Taking time off — what felt like a pause,
even a career pivot at the time —
ended up giving me clarity I couldn’t force through effort.

Sometimes stepping back is what allows better ideas to come forward.

Lesson 11 of 25 lessons I’ve learnt till 2025.

What kind of rest have you been missing?

#burnout #typesofrest #congnitivefatigue by @fromsurabhi

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6 months ago

You can’t force a flow state, but you can engineer it.
Relying on willpower just leads to burnout. To actually lock in, you need better environment design.
From creating a dopamine menu to managing cognitive friction, these 7 behavioral shifts turn deep work into an automatic system.
Swipe for the blueprint. Save this for the days when focus feels heavy. 🏗️
#FlowState #DeepWork #BehavioralPsychology #DopamineMenu #EnvironmentDesign by @fromsurabhi

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6 months ago

Flow isn’t just “loving what you do.”

It’s what happens when your mind enters a rare balance —
where the work is challenging enough to demand you,
but not so difficult that it overwhelms you.

Not too easy to feel bored.
Not too hard to feel drained.

Somewhere in that space, attention sharpens —
and focus starts to feel effortless.

What I’ve realised is that flow isn’t random.
It’s built — through consistency,
deliberate practice, and protecting your attention.

In a world of constant distraction and doomscrolling,
rebuilding your attention span becomes a skill.

Small systems help —
like a dopamine menu that lets you reset
without losing momentum.

Because when you experience true flow state,
even briefly,
it gives you a kind of clarity that validation never can.

Lesson 3 of 25 lessons I’ve learnt till 2025.

When was the last time your focus felt effortless?

#flowstate #dopaminemenu #attentionspan #lessonslearned by @fromsurabhi

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6 months ago

Building a life
while still figuring out who you are inside it.

Not fully who you were.
Not fully who you’re becoming.

And realising the in-between
is a construction zone, not a waiting room.

#adulting #paradoxicallife #inbetween by @fromsurabhi

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6 months ago

Boundaries aren’t just about other people.
They’re about what you take ownership of — and what you don’t.

A lot of us learn boundaries through blame first.
Cutting people off. Calling things toxic.

But at some point, the work turns inward.

That’s where radical accountability begins —
recognising what’s yours to hold,
and what never was.

This is especially real if you’re a recovering people pleaser.

Over-functioning, over-explaining, over-owning —
those aren’t personality traits.
They’re behavioral patterns you’ve learned.

And patterns can change.

Not through shame,
but through self-trust —
built by keeping small promises to yourself, consistently.

That’s what setting healthy boundaries actually looks like.

Lesson 7 of 26 lessons I’ve learnt by 2026.

Where are you taking responsibility for something that isn’t yours?

#HealthyBoundaries
#PeoplePleaserRecovery
#SelfTrust
#PersonalGrowth #lessonslearned by @fromsurabhi

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6 months ago

We’re taught to fix negative emotions.
But rarely to listen to them.

What I’ve learned is this:
most uncomfortable emotions are signals — not problems.

Anxiety can point to uncertainty or missing structure.
Envy can reveal direction or unrealised potential.
Anger often highlights a boundary that hasn’t been honoured.

This is where emotional intelligence begins —
not in avoiding discomfort,
but in understanding what it’s trying to communicate.

When you start seeing emotions as data,
cognitive reframing becomes easier —
and your patterns start to make more sense.

The shift isn’t from negative → positive.
It’s from reaction → awareness.

Lesson 6 of 26 lessons I’ve learnt by 2026.

What is your mind trying to signal right now?

#EmotionalIntelligence
#CognitiveReframing
#SelfAwareness
#Lessonslearned by @fromsurabhi

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6 months ago

Before we built modern systems to manage our chaos, we had tradition.

Grateful for the roots today. Back to building the blueprint tomorrow.

#traditional #saree by @fromsurabhi

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