The Daily 5 with Aurooba

A daily 5 minute podcast looking inwards. Topics are usually around productivity, tech, entrepreneurship, motivation, work/life balance, etc.

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Episodes

100

A small reflection, what I learned, and a thank you.

Apr 25, 2024•5 min•Season 2Ep. 100

On emotional perseverance

Some thoughts on processing feelings and emotions healthily.

Apr 24, 2024•6 min•Season 2Ep. 99

Decisions that default to no.

3 takes before I decided the episode was good enough. Also I pivoted between those 3 episodes dramatically. So that's a little meta decision making for ya.

Apr 23, 2024•4 min•Season 2Ep. 98

Add or remove for growth

I was pruning my plants a little today and giving them fertilizer and it got me thinking about why we do that and how that applies to other parts of our lives.

Apr 22, 2024•5 min•Season 2Ep. 97

One really great thing, maybe two.

If you want to do great things, you have to accept it'll just be a few.

Apr 21, 2024•4 min•Season 2Ep. 96

Default to kindness

The second part of the last episode. The missing piece of kindness.

Apr 20, 2024•5 min•Season 2Ep. 95

You are responsible for your own success (and failure)

I prefer to be in the driver's seat of my life. Do you? I've written out the notes for this episodes like 5 times over the last 5 days, and I think.. I finally figured out how to say what I wanted to say. The Push/Pull article I was talking about: https://kellanem.com/notes/push-and-pull

Apr 19, 2024•6 min•Season 2Ep. 94

We learn a lot by trying

An episode meant to be about experimentation that really did turn more meta, but still delivers the point.

Apr 18, 2024•5 min•Season 2Ep. 93

The question to ponder more often than not.

I've spent my days recently thinking really really hard. Asking myself questions. So I thought I'd bring the one that most often comes to mind to the podcast more explicitly today.

Apr 17, 2024•4 min•Season 2Ep. 92

Two Minute Hugs

Hugs are a kind of magic. Let's celebrate the power of hugs today.

Apr 16, 2024•4 min•Season 2Ep. 91

What nourishes you?

I'll share what was nourishing for me today, in hopes that you go do something nourishing for yourself. :)

Apr 14, 2024•5 min•Season 2Ep. 90

The vision isn’t set in stone

Our goals are aspirations not perfect pictures. They can't be, otherwise they wouldn't be goals, they'd just be things we do again.

Apr 14, 2024•3 min•Season 2Ep. 89

Supporting Hooks

Sometimes I just sit and breathe as I observe and trace the pothos plant in my house with my eyes. So today's piece is inspired at least in part by the pothos I have. :)

Apr 13, 2024•4 min•Season 2Ep. 88

What’s even more important than communication?

Do you sometimes wake up with questions that are burrowed in your mind and refuse to get out? That happens to me sometimes. And today's question has literally hounded me all day, I've evaluated and thought about it every waking minute, and it probably shaped at least half the conversations I had today.

Apr 12, 2024•6 min•Season 2Ep. 87

Some musings about fate.

We all have some underlying beliefs about fate wired into us from childhood. And I found myself think and talking about that with some folks today.

Apr 11, 2024•4 min•Season 2Ep. 86

On honesty

I'm back after being sick for a while! And today we're talking about honesty and how I interpret honesty.

Apr 10, 2024•6 min•Season 2Ep. 85

Let's talk about burnout

This is a longer episode. And a pretty personal one.

Mar 26, 2024•7 min•Season 2Ep. 84

On doing what needs doing; on leadership

Something about power, influence, doing what needs to be done, morphed into a pondering on leadership today.

Mar 25, 2024•5 min•Season 2Ep. 83

Flux

On experiments in real life.

Mar 24, 2024•3 min•Season 2Ep. 82

The day after

I missed an episode. Now what?

Mar 23, 2024•5 min•Season 2Ep. 81

What is the role of evaluation?

I started one place and got to another. Sometimes that happens. Today it was about the meaning of evaluation.

Mar 21, 2024•3 min•Season 2Ep. 80

There IS an ideal amount of stress.

Too much stress can make something snap. Not enough stress stops growth.

Mar 20, 2024•3 min•Season 2Ep. 79

Finish something everyday

The satisfaction of completing something, even if it's small, is perhaps underrated.

Mar 19, 2024•4 min•Season 2Ep. 78

The conundrum of approval

Inspired by a tweet that used the phrase, 'the courage to be disliked'.

Mar 18, 2024•5 min•Season 2Ep. 77

The Rally

Last quarter of the season, let's roll.

Mar 17, 2024•4 min•Season 2Ep. 76

The mental adjustment of habit formation

Come on a condensed adventure of how I arrived at a different hypothesis than I originally started with around the success and failure in habit formation.

Mar 16, 2024•5 min•Season 2Ep. 75