Sometimes You Just Gotta Let Life Be Messy (and Flow With It)

Okay so here’s the thing…

For the past few days, life’s been off.

Not in a dramatic, girlfriend broke up with me thing.

More like… a bit of life chaos.

The kind of chaos where you are just trying to do your normal sh*t but your brain is like “nope, not today.”

To make you understand the whole picture I will have to tell you a bit of backstory.

I moved to Delhi earlier in 2024 year.

Living alone. Cooking my food. Cleaning the place. Doing the work. Repeat. Everything was good and I was learning new stuff about cooking and management.

But then I realized that I am not giving as much time as I should to my agency and work and I thought if I want to build my agency and grow my stuff, I needed to stop doing monotonous tasks like cooking and cleaning and hire a maid.

So I hired a maid and we are back on with more time in our hands but I was kinda missing cooking, it used to give me mental space to thing but it’s alright.

Then my mom and sister moved in. Mom took over cooking. We off-boarded the maid (yes, we really said “you are off-boarded” like it’s a startup exit… haha no we didn’t).

Cut to now:

Mom’s back in our hometown.

The maid’s unavailable.

Which means:

I am cooking. I am cleaning. I am working. I am training MMA. I am just trying to wear multiple hats at once in one day.

It’s been a lot overwhelming tbh.

My days look like this:

• Wake up at 5

• Hit MMA

• Come back dead

• Post workout meal

• Try to nap

• Cook food

• Clean the kitchen

• Eat again

• Try to work… but oh hello afternoon slump

• Thinking about what to cook for dinner

• Feeling overwhelmed but still dragging to work

• Take a walk

• Cook again

• Eat again

• Realize the day’s over and I’ve done like 2 hours of actual work

• and repeat.

At first, I was confused. Like genuinely confused.

Why am I feeling so sluggish in the afternoons? Why am I procrastinating stuff I want to do?

So I sat down to write.

Not because I had a content schedule.

But because I needed to think.

And like always, when I write… I start figuring things out.

Turns out:

1. I am sleep-deprived (a bit)

2. My carb-heavy bulk meals and physical exhaustion resulted slugginess

3. Doing all the house chores is lowkey draining my will to live (okay maybe not live, but at least to open Notion)

So here’s the plan (that might work or might not):

• Sleep earlier (target: 10PM)

• Get 7-8 hours of sleep in one go

• Try meal prepping in the morning for whole day

• Add black coffee post-lunch to fight the slump

But also, here’s the bigger takeaway:

Sometimes life doesn’t go according to plan and you can’t always diagnose it right away.

You have just gotta let it flow for a bit.

Stop trying to fix it immediately.

Sit with it. Observe. Write. Reflect.

And then course correct.

Because life’s not static… routines and circumstances change.

If you want to win, you have gotta adapt.

Adaptation = survival. And survival = success.

*Survival of the fittest analogy ;)

Cheers from my mancave,

Mradul

(Currently: Tired but wise. Slightly overwhelmed. Still cooking.)

P.S. If you are in that weird “why isn’t this working??” phase… write it out. Talk it out. Or just sit with it. The answers don’t always show up when you chase them. Sometimes, they sneak up on you while you are cooking or doing the dishes.