[Monalytix] Journaling Month #1

Last year April, after 12+ years in corporate as a Software Engineer, I decided to step out and build something of my own. It's been more than a year and after sorting out a lot of personal goals, including my own physical health and no compromise on emotional development of my now 2.5 year old son, the journey of monalytix finally gaining pace. 

As a software engineer, you are given a task and you execute it. As you grow up the ladder, your ownership, leadership, ideas starts to gain more value. But building your own business is a completely different ball game. And now that I have taken this decision, its more of "idhar kua, udhar khai" kind of a situation :D With that much experience in corporate, even job is not a easy place to be in. The resilence needed to keep and grow in a job will also come from having the capacity to build an end-to-end product and being able to sell it, and scale it. So building monalytix is an inevitable journey for me, atleast for next one year.

I have been wanting to journal and was not able to decide where to start publishing. I wanted the timeline remain intact. I had bought the domain monalytix.com for this purpose, but then I realised I want to preserve it as my business' face, and not mine. I also do not want to get another domain, as it will be difficult to manage. Linkedin in way too public for raw thoughts like these, atleast at this stage. So I thought this blog is perfect. It represents me, its private enough, and public if someone really wants to follow it.

The format I want to follow is, I will write monthly journals. I will keep updating the same article with my random thoughts/epiphany during that month. As I move into the next month, the thoughts move to the next month's article. [p.s: Wow, that's an amazing idea! [flying kiss]]

Over the last few months, I have been using AI to build applications. There are two ways I have been using it:

1. Building an end-end product using AI. This is useful only if, if I don't want to do any customization.
 Re-Writing prompts again and again, till AI hits the right spot, is something I really don't like. I don't       feel engaged and empowered enough release it as final product. Thats' me, others might feel           differently but that is definetly not working for me. And yes I used Claude paid version.

2. I have been using chatgpt to ideate application and it's writes snippets of code for me. I throw my very  random, raw ideas. Chatgpt provides structure and planning and code snippets. I do as it says, and voila, things run, I understand the flow. Win win! The challenge I face here is, with every next question it just keeps taking to a different tangent, and scope becomes way more vast than it was initially planned, making the project directionless.

So after every deep session, I have decided to spend a day to consolidate what I have built so far, take notes and write documentation so that I dont loose track of what and how I am building things.

Happy Building!

Heartfully. Mindfully. Lovefully.

This post marks the beginning of a new phase of my life.

The first two weeks of August 2026 were magical.

I got to experience the metaphysical world—and myself—in a way I never had before.

It was incredibly difficult to come to terms with what I was experiencing. At the same time, I felt deeply grateful and blessed.

I kept asking myself:

“Do I even deserve this?”

I tried to think of everything I might have done right in my life to have been given this incredible opportunity—to experience myself beyond my physical form, and get a glimpse into what God and this beautiful creation really are.

The answer came:

“Yes you do! You are being rewarded for the tenacity to be extremely honest with yourself.”

Suddenly, the struggles, the naivety, the curiosity to understand every little detail of life, and the stubbornness to keep listening to the voice within me… all started to make sense.

“So all that pain and confusion led to this?” I asked.

The voice within said, “Yes.”

“Then the journey has indeed been incredibly beautiful,” I smiled.

When I started this blog, its description read:

“A soul heading on the path of self-discovery.”

Today, I have crossed the first stage of that discovery. It feels like a graduation ceremony.

And what better way to honour it than to reopen this blog, thank it for being my reflection, and acknowledge that it stayed with me while I went deeper within—and, at the same time, kept expanding my branches into the world outside.

I had been working hard on this journey for a long time, even though I often felt lost and unable to find direction.

The rock bottom of my life turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

It led me to a beautiful soul.

Her guidance helped me navigate the confusions of life and become someone who knows her worth, is aware of the self within, and is more deeply aware of the world outside.

And now, I’m writing down the routine below as an anchor—to help me find my way back whenever I notice myself drifting away from the path I’ve chosen.

Heartfully. Mindfully. Lovefully. 🧡

Physical Wellness Routine

5:00 am - wakeup, freshen up, jeera ajwain water, work/prepare Arjun's Breakfast and tiffin

6.00 am - have fruits (small dotted banana, papaya, cucumber preferable, no citrus fruits) walk (barefoot to connect with earth element), exercise(lymphatic drainage, eye exercises, suryanamaskar, push up and rod hanging), pranayam (kriya yog), 10 min meditation

7:00 - wake Arjun up and rest of morning prep and send him to school

8:00 - bath, puja, trataka

9:00.am - breakfast

9:30a.m - sit for 2hr focus work shift, and have tea (eventual aim to move to herbal tea)

11:30am - transition continue work, attend maid, attend Arjun who is now back from school, 
            [no oil cooking, preferable masoor dal, rajma, any other dal, anything fibre rich, no oil/fat, soup, steamed veggies]

2:30-3:00pm - yog nidra

3:00pm - sit for 2/3hr focus work shift, lunch when hungry

6:00pm - puja, trataka, 1 bhajan

6:00pm - time with family, dinner, play, entertainment, misc tasks Arjun's homework, play, clothes organization, digital cleanups, cooking, kitchen prep for next day, light dinner

8:30pm - family moon gazing

9:30pm - be grateful, yog nidra (if possible), sleep 

Notes: 
1. Avoid deep fry, spicy
2. Once in a week massage with coconut oil/castor oil

Mental Wellness Routine

1. Pay attention to your intuition(the voice of your soul). Listening to it will help "you be the flow"

2. Above routine is only a prototype structure, every action above or otherwise in life needs to be done Heartfully, Mindfully, Lovefully

3. Practice patience, a lot of it.

4. Don't be moody or loose control over emotions. Emotions needs to be processed internally (or in safe spaces). 

5. Forgive others and yourself. No incident or person, should trigger anything within. If it does process it, acknowledge it, forgive them heartfully knowing not everything is in their hand just like you. Forgive yourself.

6. Do not come in path of other's divine journey by giving unnecessary advice until asked for. Also let them face the consequences of their actions, as that is the only path to growth. 

P.S. The purest form of healing and awakening is our Karma—the sincere effort and actions we put into life. Our thoughts and actions are the magicians we have been waiting to appear in our lives all along.

Lots of Love into the universe.

Happy Growing ! 🪴

Mornings and moments of epiphany and deciding to quit Facebook

Mornings and moments of epiphany and deciding to quit Facebook ( not that it matters but I love writing :) )

I took about a 2 year break from social media from 2018 to 2019

I needed to reflect back on myself and look inwards. I have always been an extrovert by nature.. but I started to realize that some of my extrovert traits are doing more harm to me than good. I looked within and did a lot of soul searching during this break time and these two years were the most transformational years of my life.

But then I itched to get to back, connect with the world and see updates from people that have once touched my life.. and finally decided to come back on social media.

However,

Facebook

as an application is not able to give me that experience anymore (and that's also what a lot of people are saying too).

Instagram

's blog format appeals a lot more to me.

So I have decided to quit Facebook starting tomorrow.

If you want to check my life updates (well I am a pretty interesting person you see ) :

You can follow me on Instagram :

https://www.instagram.com/monika.livelovelaugh/

If we met through our work, you can add me on linkedin if we are not yet connected :

https://www.linkedin.com/in/monikaagarwal165/

and youtube : my small little dance dairy :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnYAzvb7VjhTWJL5unzq8HQ

Since I do have a lot of beautiful memories documented on Facebook. I will not be permanently deleting my account and will sneek into them once in a while

Take care and have a beautiful life.

Now that I am quitting Facebook, I have a feeling that this will be my station of expressing myself. 

Lets see. This is a casual post will format later :)

Sher-o-shayri - collection in the making

निगाँहें मिलाकर बदल जाने वाले,
मुझे तुझसे कोई शिकायत नहीं,
ये दुनिया बड़ी संगदिल है,
यहाँ किसी को किसी से मोहब्बत नहीं |

दिल

अजीब सी दशा है दिल की,

बिना पिंजरे का कैदी हो गया है... 

उड़ने की ख्वाइस थी हमेशा 

अब जब मिला है आसमां खुला ...

सहि -गलत कि बेड़ियों से बंधा है  । 

 पी.एस : आज मन हुआ हिन्दी में लिखूँ :)

 पी.एस : लिखने कुछ और बैठी थी, लिखा कुछ और :D

 पी.एस : घर कि बहुत याद आती है आजकल :(

 पी.एस : वो छोड़ो ये सुनो पश्मीना धागो के संग कोई आज बुने ख्वाब :)

Life Mantra.

Happy Life! :)

p.s : take a chill pill : 8-morning-habits-to-improve-your-life :)

On Cycling

I have been cycling all around in Bangalore on my khatara-pyaara second-hand over-priced cycle. Its been an elating experience to own such a perfect means of transport. The best part is that it can keep up with my energy level. I love when we criss-cross our way through the jammed traffic. On a cycle, you don't stop.. you figure new paths out. Have been missing on such a heavy dose of everyday happiness all these years. Its now that I realize :

Cycling is a joy unparalleled. :)

p.s : Not putting much effort in my posts. On a mission to cultivate the habit of being prolific. Will soon merge the two.
p.s: song of the day : Wo Sikandar he doston kehlata hai :D
p.s: because i love aamir ;)