My Actifit Report Card: July 31 2025

Hey guys, this is Imran Soudagar and I'm gonna write about the amazing day that I had today. I had a good day and I'm gonna tell everything that I did today.

Yesterday I slept early, and one of the best things I can do for my mental health and physical health is to get to bed as early as possible. One of my doctors suggested this a long time ago — that I sleep at night and wake up as early as possible — and I have been doing that since the last five years. I'm happy with my progress, but as a human, I am never consistent. It takes a lot of effort to be consistent. It takes a lot of effort to wake up early. It takes a lot more effort, to be honest, to go to bed at the right time.

I think I started sleeping early way back in 2018, but I was not successful during that time. Eventually, in 2020 and early 2021, I made a pact with myself where I promised myself that I will sleep as early as possible. Many days I go to bed at 8pm. If I have nothing to do, if I am not at the nursery, if I have no other commitment, then I make sure to have my dinner by 6pm or 7pm, and within an hour or two, I rush to bed.

This has been one of the highlights of my life and I enjoy that a lot. Whenever I sleep early, I wake up between 12am to 2am. I know it's very very early, but then there were years when I didn't sleep at night, so this is comparatively much much better. Nothing beats good health, good sleep, and a fresh brain.

Talking about yesterday, I slept early and then I woke up at 6am. I had to do some stuff, and then I was ready to just relax and lay on my bed for the next few hours. I do that a lot because a clean mind, a rested mind is good, and I make sure not to force myself to do a lot of stuff. I do not want to go into stress. I do not want to get depressed or burnt out because of too much work or too much thinking or overthinking. One of the best things that I can do for myself is to rest, relax, and recover.

I had my breakfast early in the morning, and then I took my bike and came to the nursery. I had asked one of my workers to come to the nursery to help me with rearranging the plants and taking care of some of them. I have been all alone at the nursery for the last few months because, obviously, I need to cut costs and save some money and grow the nursery — both in terms of having more plants and some reserve money for future growth.

At the nursery, I gave my worker a few tasks and he completed them by the time I was there. I got a call from a guy from another nursery and he wanted to sell some of his stock. I had agreed to buy some of his stock because he is planning to shut down the nursery. Like I said in my previous post, the nursery business in my city is suffering, and a lot of nurseries have been shutting down. Last year alone there were four nurseries that had to close. This year, as far as I can remember, there have been two nurseries that shut down, and there are a few more that are on that path.

I hope my nursery is not on that path because I want to survive in this business and keep doing what I love the most — that is, taking care of the plants and selling them to my clients. I hope my business will survive for the next 20 years or so, at least, so that I can have a source of income from this and add some of my contributions to my city and to the environment of my country.

We loaded a mini truck full of plants. And there were some plants that were really, really expensive. The poor guy was ready to give them away at a much cheaper price. I felt a little bit sorry for him. I did increase the price on his advice and on his request, and he was happy that he got a little bit more money from me than what he would have got from others.

It was sad to see him leave the nursery business because his business had been around for over 10 to 15 years. He was probably one of the earliest ones where I started buying my plants for my home, and kind of like an inspiration. But anyway, this is how the business world works, and this is how economy works. Right now, there is an unofficial recession going on in India, which no one seems to acknowledge. I don't want to talk more about economics because I'm not an expert.

After we brought back the trees to our nursery, I asked my workers how to arrange them and where to keep what plants. After all that happened, I rested for a while and then I took some liquid fertilizer that I had prepared from organic waste and poured it on all of my rose plants. We had done that a few days ago, and the rose plants have started to sprout and they are putting out new leaves.

I was really happy to see that. I was really happy to see some growth on the plants because this is the second time I have done this experiment and I hope it will be successful. The first iteration was very simple. The second was a little bit complex, and I will be conducting a new experiment — a third phase — in the next few days, and I aim to write a post about it.

Eventually, it will take at least three months for me to complete this third iteration of the experiment. Once it is completed, I am going to write a very long post and make a few videos out of it so that people can watch it and learn from my mistakes or my positive experiments.

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