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What Can You Achieve With Fifteen Minutes A Day

You can go wider, deeper and stronger

Ranjani Rao
6 min readJul 31, 2023
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When you begin something new, you can’t guess how far you can go.

Do you agree?

Let me share some stories from the first six months of 2023, a year of trying new things without setting any great goals.

Crochet? Me? No way!

When I received a crochet starter kit as a Christmas gift, my first response was, of course, ”Thank you”, followed immediately by “you must be kidding”. As someone who has not spent much time with arts and crafts, I was skeptical about my ability to put the three balls of yarn and the set of crochet hooks to use.

As the days went by, I saw the pink box around the house, silently beckoning me to pick it up. After a few days I finally gave in and decided to try my hand. Only for fifteen minutes each day. I set a timer and tried to follow instructions in the booklet beginning with learning how to make a chain stitch and then moved on to single, double and triple crochet stitches. My goal was to stick with this practice for 21 days, for exactly 15 minutes a day without missing a single day. That’s it.

No pressure to make something, or for it to be pretty or functional. A tick on…

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Ranjani Rao
Ranjani Rao

Written by Ranjani Rao

I write insightful personal stories about my scientist, immigrant, travel life. 4 books http://bit.ly/RanjaniRao. Share memoir journey -www.ranjanirao.com

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