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Last Diwali festival season my office was closed for four days long weekend vacation. To make the most of my time I booked  Ashtavinayak Yatra  tour with one of many tour operators in Mumbai. The tour was of 3 days & 2 nights. So myself with my parents joined the tour of Ashtavinayak Darshan (means to worship 8 Ganeshas).  The tour bus picked us up @ 7:30 am & more families joined us on route. Our first destination was Varad Vinayak in Mahad village. We reached there @ 9:30am. It is one of the Ashtavinayak temple in Mahad  village near Khopoli & Karjat in Raigad, M aharastra. The temple also has a Shiv Mandir in its premises. The original Ganesh idol was found in a lake adjoining the present temple premises, but as time passed the original idol developed cracks & hence after proper rituals it was immersed in the lake & later was placed in a glass frame in Datta mandir near the present temple. The Datta mandir has main idol of Lord Datta & also ha

Pomodoro means tomato in Italian. The Pomodoro technique is a time management based productivity technique that uses set  time intervals for scheduling work and five-minute breaks afterwards as reward. T his method was  developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s  & it derived its name from the tomato shaped kitchen timer which he had used. Below are 6 simple steps used in this method which will help increase your daily productivty & focus : 1. Make a list of most important tasks you want to be done. 2. Set the timer to 25 minutes ( you can vary the time based on your focusing capacity like 15 minutes also). 3. Focus on the task by working non stop & switch off all distractions. If due to any urgent reason you are distracted then you will have to stop the timer & restart it all over again. 4. STOP immediately when the timer rings and put a checkmark on a piece of paper if the task is done. This 1 interval of time period is ca