A very sleepy hello ! Finished reading and summarising 4th chapter of this book called IKIGAI. 

CHAPTER IV 

Find Flow in Everything you Do When you like something , you get completely immersed in the experience without being distracted by anything else, that is the point when you know There is no past no future , there is only one thing & that’s your present . 

Certainly there is no magic recipe for finding Happiness, but there is this one Key Ingredient : ABILITY TO REACH THE STATE OF FLOW & through this flow to have an optimal experience. 

There are few conditions for Achieving this FLOW : 

1. Knowing what to do 

2. How to do it 

3. How well you can do it 

4. Where you are taking it to 

5. Perceiving significant challenges 

6. Significant skills 

7. Being free from distractions 

8. Knowing your reward at the end 

Few strategies that might help to achieve your flow : 

• Choose a difficult task – Add a little something extra ,that takes you out of your comfort zone & encourages you to do anything beyond that limit. 

• Have a clear, concrete objective – It is much more important to have a compass to concrete an objective than to have a map .(If you don’t have a clear objective, it is like heading out to a sea with a map but without destination ). • Concentrate on a single task - Because you are not a computer to do multitasking by processing billions of commands at a single time , mon petit croissant !! 

• Have a distraction free environment – May be turn off your phone or at least notifications , Keep reminding yourself about the task your were supposed to do, Set an alarm to finish your task . Get yourself a good reward by the end of your task , Have small breaks ( called POMODORO technique , although it does not work for me, may be it work for you, give it a try ). 

• Clean & nicer environment – I personally recommend this . Having a neat and clean space to work with is way more less distracting than a filthy one. So from now dig deeper and list down all those things that makes you forget the time and you achieve your state of flow ( Except Instagram reels ) . 

For me its Cooking and Writing, Reading a good novel . Hours pass by..and I get no idea of this… I cook without getting tired or bored. Because I love it.  

Thank you for reading this.