Is it just sufficient to be in the 4:15 zone doing nothing else?

No, being in 4:15 zone is not all about it. It is a preparatory step in doing anything. This is just a perfect state of mind that I felt brings out the best in me in anything I do. This is useful in making any positive progress or in inculcating a habit or in the development of a skill. Execution of the actual work item has to be done. If done in this state of mind I will be at my best that's all. Being in 4:15 zone, feeling good and doing nothing will not progress me on any front. The success of this only counts when I am working and delivering work items continuously in this state and being in this state. So I do all my things in this state - be it playing badminton, giving an exam or romancing with Pups. Say for example giving GMAT in this state of mind could give a score closer to 800.

McKinseys’ stands for this. The company is in this state always. The people it deals with are in this state always. I think the hierarchy in any field of excellence and achievement, the standings in the Olympics, dictates the category you will fall into. It’s decided there itself.

Doing all my things in the 4:15 zone is the way to make it a habit in me. I think it has been a very important reason for my failures in executing things on a number of occasions. I seem to be a good thinker (not well directed thinking though!), a decent planner but a poor executor & a poor finisher as well. I need to complete the entire process successfully in order achieve things. This should be with zero resistance in me, coming naturally, savouring the journey rather than feeling lethargic and having to force myself into doing things.

I think this thought exercise seems to be what I have been searching for. I have found my formula of success and happiness. It just seems that I need to execute this and finish well. How effectively and successfully I do this will decide how successful and possibly how satisfied I will be with myself.

This captures all my desires – being in a positive frame of mind, being suave and composed, being in control of situations, with good levels of EQ and IQ, giving critical reasoning and cogent analysis to things, competing with myself and the field I chose to work on, making rational and pragmatic decisions and able to realize self actualization, the highest state of one’s motivation.