Sameer Khadka

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We know everything (IM#112)

We know that we got to change the way we think to change the way we live, yet we emphasize on the negative thoughts.

We know that the suggestions we get from others might not apply to us, but we believe them so easily. Mostly, when that person is of high authority.

We all know that to become extraordinary we must cease all the average works, yet we spend must of our time on Netflix, Facebook and Tinder like an average person.

We all know we got to develop a new habit to refine our life, yet we don't give consistency. We consistently undermine consistency.

We all know our past problem does not define us, yet we get depressed because of the failures and the losses we had last month. Also, we know our present condition is just the shadow of our potential and our optimum limit, yet we bury our big visions before it is born based on the present condition.

We knew everything....but we lack driving force for action.

We know self-awareness is the key, yet we lack it...

We don't get paid for time (IM#111)

In reality, we don't get paid for time. We're get paid for building and creating value. If we're get paid for time then it's always short-term. In a long run, those who create value are get paid.

But here is the thing, it takes time for creating value. Most of all, we are not get paid for that time, we get paid for value.

So the important question that arise is - How to become more valuable?

The answer is simple yet requires lots of work. We got to:

learn to work harder on ourselves than on our jobs.

stop wishing for thing to get easier and start wishing ourselves to be better.

become more to get more.

Life is not a competition(IM#110)

Life is not a competition. It doesn't matter where we stand; all that matters is our personal journey. The only way to fully live our life is to focus on the path in front of us. Look ahead, establish our own pace.

Most of all we've to keep moving forward because as Bob Marley insisted, "The day you stop racing is the day you win the race."

Stop dwelling and complaining,

Don't say you can't,

Never settle for less. Instead make the most important decision now. Know where we are going; make a clear and concrete plan/vision and execute. Efforts with effective execution is what make life meaningful.

"If you don't know where are you going, every road will get you nowhere."

Henry Kissinger

Determination, courage and faith (IM#109)

We need determination to keep moving. We need courage to face difficulty. We need faith to keep believing in the unseen result.

These are not ornamental virtues. They are some of the most important strengths we should possess in life, because many worthwhile things do not come quickly or easily.

Without determination, we stop. Without courage, we retreat. Without faith, we give up before the work has time to bear fruit.

Is it true? (IM#109)

Is it true that the greatest fear of must of us is not that we aim too high and we can't reach it but we aim too low and we can reach it?

Is it true that we are not afraid of losing but afraid of protecting our loss?

Is it true that we aren't happy because of real happiness but to protect our self-esteem?

It's time to take a pause and think about it because it a bold action.

An unuttered truth (IM#108)

Most of us live by beliefs we did not consciously choose. We inherit ideas from family, culture, teachers, religion, social norms, and admired people, and then slowly begin to treat those ideas as if they were our own. What begins as influence becomes assumption. What is repeated long enough begins to feel like truth.

The difficulty is that other people’s beliefs are shaped by their own experiences, needs, fears, and circumstances. What worked for them may not work for us. What they call wisdom may only be perspective. Yet we often absorb their conclusions without examining whether those conclusions actually fit the structure of our own lives.

This happens with almost everything. One person says money does not matter. Another says money is everything. One person says stability is success. Another says risk is freedom. We hear both, and often believe both, depending on who speaks more confidently. But borrowed conviction is not clarity. It is dependence disguised as certainty.

The deeper problem is not that advice exists, but that untested advice can quietly replace self-examination. When we live by beliefs we have not earned through reflection or experience, we create tension between inherited truth and lived reality. Then, when the belief fails us, we may call ourselves confused or weak, when in fact the real issue is that we were carrying someone else’s map.

The way out is not arrogance or total rejection of guidance. It is careful testing. We must examine what we have accepted, ask where it came from, and see whether it holds up in contact with reality. Not every inherited belief is false. But until a belief is examined, it is not fully ours. That is the unuttered truth: much of what we defend most strongly may never have been consciously chosen at all.

Breakthrough and Transformation (IM#107)

Breakthrough is the moment when you overcome adversity. It is the point where the impossible begins to look possible.

Transformation, on the other hand, is the complete renovation of our physical, emotional, and psychological being. A breakthrough can happen in a moment, but transformation takes longer. It is what happens when that breakthrough begins to change the way we live.

Breakthrough is often triggered by frustration, stress, and pain. Transformation is the result that follows from that breakthrough. If we truly want to transform our lives, then breakthrough is crucial. But we must also take action to make that change last.

We blur large number (IM#106)

We make a vague assumption or approximation of large number. To be precise, we just unfocus on large number.

Let take an example: There is a surprising difference between a million and a billion. Let's be clear: How long ago was a million second ago? Answer is 12 days. But how long ago was a billion second ago? The answer is 32 years ago.

There is a massive difference between 16 days and 32 years. Similarly, a trillion second ago was 32000 (exactly 31709.7919) years ago.

We just blur the large number.

We're the problem (IM#105)

We are deeply shaped by their environment. From childhood, society, culture, education, media, and social expectations slowly influence what we believe about success, failure, identity, and possibility. Many of our assumptions feel natural only because they were repeated long enough to become internalized.

Because of this, people often believe their lack of progress is caused entirely by external limitations: other people, circumstances, systems, or bad luck. While external obstacles are real, the deeper barrier is often internal: perception, belief, fear, self-doubt, or learned helplessness.

Many philosophical traditions recognized this problem. Buddhism warned that the mind creates suffering through attachment and distorted perception. Stoicism argued that interpretation shapes experience more than events themselves. Existentialist thinkers believed people often surrender their freedom by accepting inherited beliefs without examination.

This does not mean society has no influence. It means we eventually become responsible for examining what controls us internally. A person who never questions their assumptions may spend their entire life living inside beliefs they never consciously chose.

Sometimes the greatest obstacle is not the world itself, but the limits we quietly accept within our own minds.

Failure is not same as losing (IM#104)

Losing reflects the score or the number, like losing a game.

Failure reflects our attitude. It reflects whether we can come back, learn, and keep going.

That is why losing and failure are not the same.

A person can lose once, or many times, and still not be a failure. Losing is often part of any real attempt. It shows that something did not go our way. But failure begins when we stop responding with courage, honesty, and effort.

What matters most is not only the result, but what the result does to us. If losing teaches us, strengthens us, and pushes us to return better, then it has not defeated us in the deepest sense.

Failure and losing are not the same.