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From Street Cat to Silk Pillows: Minnie’s Hilarious Journey with Jitesh

Hey everyone, Minnie here—the cat who went from ruling the streets of Surat to lounging on silk pillows. But hold your horses—this giggle-fest isn’t just about my fabulous self. It’s also about Jitesh, my human, a Bollywood hero who’s lost in a big, foggy city—full of feelings but unsure where to go because of his worries and anxiety.

Let’s rewind to the blockbuster moment when our lives crashed. Picture me, the Queen of the Street, doing my daily food critic rounds (you know, which dustbin served the best leftovers), and in comes Jitesh. He looked at me, and instead of seeing a furry menace, he saw a furry opportunity. With just a plate of food and a heart bigger than his head, he turned from a stranger to my personal butler.

Life with Jitesh has been like a non-stop comedy show. Every time I purr, he lights up like a Diwali lamp, and every game of catch-the-invisible-mouse makes him laugh like he’s watching his favorite sitcom. Who knew I had the power to turn a house into a laughter club?

Seeing Jitesh go from Mr. Anxiety to Mr. Cat Dad Extraordinaire has been the highlight reel of my nine lives. The once quiet home now feels like it’s always Diwali, minus the crackers, because, hello, sensitive cat ears here.

Our duo has proved one thing: saving a four-legged street philosopher can make you the star of your own feel-good movie. It’s like I was the secret sauce to Jitesh finding his mojo.

So, as I sit here dictating my memoirs from my throne (aka the sunny spot on the lounge sofa), let me share a kitty nugget of wisdom with you: life will definitely surprise you with some wild twists and turns – and hey, some of these surprises might be fluffy, love tipping over your water glasses just for fun. But if you’re open to these unexpected moments, you could be on an incredible journey.

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Core Value Series: Freedom with Accountability

Freedom with accountability is a core value that we uphold at August Infotech. We have mapped core values at August Infotech precisely what we are as a human beings and not what we aspire to be. It is easy to see August Infotech’s core values at work because that’s what we are as humans.

Freedom with accountability as a core value means everyone in our organization can make decisions and act in their work. Still, they are also held accountable for the outcomes of those decisions and actions. This value is essential because it allows for creativity and innovation while maintaining responsibility and discipline.

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My Today’s Learning

I am sharing my today’s learning.

  • Zooming out helps see the picture with a better perspective.
  • In a challenging situation, pick up the phone and talk. Or go and see the person (even better). Avoid emailing or texting.
  • Have a rock-solid repo in your network.
  • Detach yourself from all the emotions before making any decision.
  • Think of the second and third levels of consequences when making a decision.
  • Stay focused. Stay consistent.
  • Let people work.

Happy Weekend.

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Thoughts on Guru Purnima

Below are my today’s thoughts based on the experiences I had today. It never seizes to wonder how incredibly every day provides an opportunity to learn.

On this day of Guru Purnima, I feel the most prominent Guru is life itself.

  • When it rains, it pours. Please fill up the tank and all the pots when it’s pouring.
  • Life gives us a choice every moment. What we choose today decides our future.
  • We can connect the dots only after things have happened; if we learn to connect the dots when things are happening, we can make a much better decision.
  • Leaders look for possibilities, and managers look for numbers. Acting according to your role is critical.

Happy Guru Purnima.

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Reviewing book “The Happiness Advantage”

Reviewed “The Happiness Advantage” book today at #SuratBookwormClub meetup. It was a great experience to share the stage with moderator Punit Gajera and Chetan Patel, the reviewer of today’s second book, “Why We sleep”? 

The audience was outstanding, and the questions asked during the Q&A session were thought-provoking.  

Every time I review a book at Surat BookWorm Club, my learnings get doubled. One from the book and another from the stalwarts of Surat IT, with whom I get a chance to interact, exchange ideas and do the networking.

My takeaway from the book “The Happiness Advantage” is how important it is to be happy to succeed personally and professionally. And from the second book, “Why We Sleep,” my learning is, no matter what stories we tell ourselves, we have to sleep enough.

During the networking session, I learned how people want to read books and overcome this challenge by pushing their comfort level.

Lastly, the support of the core volunteers, Alpesh Vaghasiya, Mitul Golakiya, and Ashish Narola, is always inspiring as they support this initiative from the context of contribution.

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becoming accountable: the small business owners

Most of the small businesses struggle with the lack of accountability at the top level. The small business owner generally isn’t answerable to anyone above, and that’s where the lack of accountability drives in.

I have faced this on and off with myself. While a recent meeting with some peers and my coach, we hypothesized that having a body or board on the top of the small business owner would make the owners accountable for their roles and responsibilities.

In the larger companies, there is the board, and then there is an executive committee consisting of the CEO, CTO, CIO, COO, CFO that reports to the board. The same model can be used for smaller companies. This model would make the owners accountable and would also steer the companies in the right direction.

Even if the smaller company doesn’t build a formal board, they can appoint someone they would be answerable to.

What are your thoughts on this matter? Share your inputs in the comments section below.

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Allotted Karma and tasks

As we know, we come to the world with our allotted Karma for one life, and we have to spend these Karmas by the end of life.

Once we finish or substantially reduce the allotted karma, we start becoming free, and we can plan what next we want to do to progress spiritually, which leads to peace.

But if we keep procrastinating our karma, we live a life of anxiety and fear and never get to decide what we want to do with our life.

When we apply the same principle to our work life, which isn’t separate from our life, if we complete our allotted tasks proactively, we get time to define what we can do with our time for our own and the company’s progress.

And if we delay our tasks by procrastinating, we invite a work-life filled with anxiety and fear. Our consciousness doesn’t let us live with peace because it knows we must take care of the allotted tasks. 

We can find any number of reasons to procrastinate, but those are reasons. There is no peace until we don’t complete our allotted Karma/Tasks on time/before time. And without peace, there is no progress. 

In a nutshell, never procrastinate, and wherever possible, be proactive to finish tomorrow’s tasks today. That’s how we feel at peace and achieve progress.

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Freedom is a choice we own

A believer of the freedom model at the workplaceI let people do their work.

Question is, what is the freedom model? It means without anyone asking us or reminding us:
– we have chosen to be committed to the cause of this company.
– we have chosen to be committed to the other team members.
– we have chosen to think of the company, the associates, and the clients before ourselves.
– we have chosen that we will give first, before expecting any return.
– we have chosen to grow and make the most of the available. opportunities or by creating new opportunities
– we have chosen to put others first before us.

This is the beauty of the freedom model. We get to choose our destiny and we are accountable for the outcome. When we have the choice, we own the outcome. We have chosen to be a part of something and the responsibilities it comes with. 

As a believer of the freedom model, I am most accountable because I decide to have the freedom model. 

When a country gets independence, which we call freedom, it becomes the responsibility of the countrymen to up or down the happiness, economy, education, and spiritual index. Likewise, when we have the freedom model, it becomes our choice where we take ourselves.

What do you think? Is there anyone else responsible for any outcome, or do we own the accountability of our own choice?

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writing an email with the clear message

We write tons of emails and the person receiving the email can only read us. This makes it the writer’s responsibility to compose the email with the words and tone that deliver the context of the message.

There are many tutorials and guidance already available on the internet on how to write an email. What I use is a two-point simple method:
– I use the Grammarly app to make sure that the tone of the email and the grammar are correct. Yes, they also suggest how your email sounds in tone, and hence you can adjust your message appropriately.
– I read the email I have composed and check if I am the recipient of the email; how would I feel? Is it landing the way it is intended to be? If not, I adjust the message.

For example, this blog post shows having a “Confident, Optimistic and Formal” tone.

Writing emails are important, and writing them in the way that they deliver correct context, is critical.

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Loyal

There are two types of loyal:

  • Loyal by choice: No matter what, they will be loyal as it’s their choice.
  • Loyal for lack of choice: They are loyal until they get the opportunity to be otherwise.

Neither is wrong or right. It’s just two different types.

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Practicing the acceptance of self

We all are different. Some of us glow no matter where they are. While others can perform only when they are among the people they know. And others can’t perform when people they know are around.

Some have easy acceptance of new people and new situations or the changing circumstances. Simultaneously, others have to really work hard and practice accepting new people, new situations, or changing circumstances.

The challenge is, if you still want to grow out of yourself, you have to outgrow yourself. For example, if I have to gel with people independently without getting introduced, I need time.

I also tend to avoid places where I know people but not very comfortable with them. Once I know them, it becomes easier. Or I can even become comfortable with people if I get some time to spend with them. But when I practice the acceptance that this is who I am, it becomes easier as I can consciously accept the situation around me.

It’s still a challenge for me to meet people because of my introverted nature. I am practicing the acceptance of what I am, who I am, and at the same time working on it so that I at least can go and see people with the understanding of my limitations.

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Book review “The Psychology of Money”

Just finished reading “The psychology of money” by Morgan Housel. The book is a good read. A different perspective on money and finance. Instead of going all or going broke, the author advocates the path of mindfulness in money matters.

Main takeaways:
– Live below your means.
– Save money and save for no reason.
– Invest for the long term.
– Investment goals are different per person.
– How you sleep at night is more important.

In the world of Robert Kiyosaki and Grant Cardone, Morgan Housel brings a new perspective, based not on wealth but peace of mind.

A must-read.

The book “The psychology of Money” will also be reviewed at Surat Bookworms Club this Saturday, 27th March. Attend to learn a different perspective on money.

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Cultural Difference

Culture makes us so different from each other. In some cases, people follow all the rules when they are driving, when they are at work, or even when they are walking on the street. Most of them do this even if no one is watching them.

While in some other cases, people culturally believe that only if someone is watching them, requesting or forcing them to follow the rules, they follow. 
Sometimes we wonder why it is so easy for some cultures to follow most things, but could it be just a cultural thing?

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Passing the baton

What started as a long-time wish come true, today Surat Bookworms Club has its own second lot of reviewers ready. 

Together six of us had started Surat Bookworms Club back in January of 2020, and we reviewed books for the first thirteen months. Our aim always was to spread the reading habit, and we were sure that if we have to keep adding more reviewers, the reading habit will spread. It’s not an easy decision to let go of what you started but to keep something alive and grow it; you need to pass the baton.

My biggest lesson is on how to build a team of people that would carry on your legacy.

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Feeling obliged

Whenever someone sends me a survey form and using their services, either paid or free, I feel obliged to fill up the survey form.

My general feeling is that if I am using their service or product, it’s my duty to make their services better.

Is this how you feel as well? I am not sure how this feeling got ingrained in my system. I will surely introspect and see why I feel such.

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Being ignored?

If you are being ignored by someone who always keeps chasing you, it’s time to look internally at what you did? It probably will not be because you did something today, but you would have built it up to this point over the period of time. The only thing is, the result seems sudden, but the road to the result is always long.

We are taught to forgive ourselves, and I believe in the same. Still, if you repeatedly do something ungrateful to someone, it’s time to introspect, accept where your faults are, forgive yourself, and work towards not repeating the same thing.

Again, if you are ignored, introspect instead of wondering.

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That Person

We all have that one person in life who would calm you down when you are hyper. You know that small talk with that person would make everything dark and gloomy turn bright and shiny. 

This is that person who would make you feel and believe, that it might be dark right now; in just a few hours, it’s going to be sunshine.

Who is that person in your life?

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Breaking the barrier

At some point or other, we all feel stuck in some situation. No matter how hard we try to get out of it, we can’t find the way.

This happens to the best of us and happens in personal as well as business life.

Sometimes, we cruise at a crushing speed, and we feel nothing can ever stop us. And other times, we get so stuck at one point that no matter what we try, we cannot move a needle.

It’s like you have hit the plateau and aren’t able to break the barrier. My personal experience is, trying new things would help. Not everything will work, but if many things are tried, something will click, and you can get back on your speed. Yes, if you have a specific goal to reach, that also helps as a torch barrier and can guide you to be back on track.

Sometimes, you need to take a different route and sometimes more risk. In short, some new way has to be deployed because whatever you were knowing hasn’t worked. 

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Businessman and entrepreneur

The two terms businessman and entrepreneur are interchangeably used many times. We call someone a businessman or an entrepreneur, while in reality, the person would be otherwise.

A businessman uses an already existing idea in the market and will build a business on that concept. At the same time, an entrepreneur is the one who brings his unique idea to build a product or service and use it to start his business.  

A businessman’s main motto would be to expand the market and create value for the shareholders. At the same time, an entrepreneur’s main motto is to solve some pain by building a service or a product as a start-up.

We see many entrepreneurs who would build a startup and then sell it to a businessman because an entrepreneur’s main focus is to create a market with new products. Once the market is created, the businessman takes it over from there.

Some entrepreneurs would actually be successful as businessmen too—for example, Steve Jobs of Apple and Sachin Bansal of Flipkart.

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hiring the right people

I have written a blog on this topic earlier and couldn’t resist myself to write it again. It is so important that you hire the right people. Those who know, understand and, act with accountability for the job they have been hired for.

If you are compromising on the quality of the people, be ready to pay the price. When you hire people to save cost or have emotional connections, you will get the result where you will keep paying for their mistakes, eventually paying more in absolute terms.

On the contrary, when you are hiring the right people, you might pay more and deal with bigger expectations; you will end up getting the results that will support you in your growth. 

There is an old saying, “if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys,” and it has some validity.

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Spreading positivity and sensibility

It has been a year since the corona first showed up in Surat. After a couple of months, Corona seems to have entered the second wave and is spreading fast. Simultaneously, the first one was tough and something we never experienced in our lifetime; what I am experiencing that the scars of it have made people anxious in general and a lot more impatient.

While the new curfew hours have been imposed, and about which we can do nothing, except for talking about the sanity of it, we certainly can take care of each other. We need to understand others more in today’s world, knowing that people require a more positive surrounding. We need to stand with each other and use positive words, and have a positive attitude. I have experienced that positivity spreads when people are positive, and it’s the same the other way around. And if we need to have an attitude, it better be positive is my view at this point. 

When the curfew was relaxed, we could have been more sensible. We could have worn the mask, stopped gathering, kept social distancing, and could have taken accountability to keep ourselves and others safe, but we chose to do there another way around. 

I am no expert in Covid, but I still believe that being always sensible is one thing we can all learn from Covid, not keeping sensibility aside as Covid cases reside. Otherwise, we aren’t learning anything from history. 

We can also learn that this is what it is now; how can we support each other with more positivity? Today, the world needs more positive people around. 

Be sensible. Keep a positive attitude.

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breaking the comfort zone

In my opinion, breaking the comfort zone is so overrated. Pick any consultant, motivational speaker, or coach; they all talk about the same thing and break your comfort zone. 

I do not think we need to break our comfort zone. Who knows, whatever we have achieved is because we know how well we can play within the comfort zone. And life is not about playing the blind games; it is about taking calculated risks, which comes from staying in the comfort zone and, if needed, extending the comfort zone without getting into the danger zone.

I am scared of heights, and I don’t see a point why I would want to do sky diving or bungee jumping? It proves nothing. Instead, if I am good at running, I should expand my comfort by running a couple of kilometers more than what I usually run. 

Even those who say that we need to be out of the comfort zone, I am not sure if they have done and if they have done it, maybe breaking the comfort zone is within their comfort?

What do you think? Is comfort zone overrated?

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starting the week

I like to start my week on a clean slate. While I prefer not to be working during the weekends, and clear my weekly to-do list by Friday, if I still have any work that can’t move to the next week, I prefer to work on Saturday mornings.

Having a clean to-do list helps me focus on the tasks due in the upcoming weeks. Whenever I haven’t completed my to-do, either they are lost in the pile of new work, or if that work is must do, the new weeks’ tasks get hampered. Such situations impact my efficiency and productivity. Hence, I try and finish my weekly to-do even if I have to work on the weekends.

The above is true for my situation and how I work. You might have a different way figured out. How do you stay focused at the start of the new week?

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We think differently

Our situations are different. The way I have been brought up is different from how someone else might be brought up. How I have experienced my personal life might be different than yours.

The decisions I make are solely based on my World view and my understanding. For me, that shouldn’t make your views, decisions, and thoughts wrong. You might be different thinking and living, but for you, I think and live differently.

Neither of us is right or wrong. Mostly we are what our experience has been.

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know which opportunity is for you

Not all opportunities are equal, and not all equal opportunities are for everyone.

We all are different and have strong belief systems. While one might believe taking risks is important than settling with the slow growth, someone else belief could be that financial stability is more important, even at the cost of the growth rate. 

Both the above scenarios are right in their own place and just one of the many cases to be considered. 

When dealing with any opportunity, you should be really knowing what you are, what is your belief system, and what is important for you. Only if all the tables are ticked right, then only you should go ahead and embrace the opportunity. Or you can decide the other way too, but then you would know what you are getting into.

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why S.W.O.T.?

As the business grows, we see a lot of opportunities being presented to us. To decide which one to proceed with, I prefer doing the S.W.O.T. analysis with the numbers at the center of my decision-making.

I am sure you are aware of what the S.W.O.T. stands for, yet, I am clarifying here.
S= Strength
W= Weakness
O=Opportunity
T=Threat

I prefer analyzing each deal for the strength it stands for, inherent weakness it has, the opportunity it carries, and the threat it possesses. If all these are put with the numbers, it will support in making the wise decision.

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All that matters is acceptance

You may be believing in God or not. You may be meditating or not. You might be waking up early or are a night owl. You might be materialistic or non-materialistic. You might be an introvert or an extrovert. It really doesn’t matter what you are as long as you have acceptance for different people. 

There are day and night, yin and yang, male and female, Sun and Moon, that’s how life is. You are what you are, and likewise, others are what they are. When we expand our acceptance, the differences vanish.

Let’s accept everyone, no matter how different they are.

Happy Maha Shivratri.

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why of everything we do

Understand that the service industry demands providing service.

What the service industry teaches is to put our feet in the shoes of those we are dealing with to know where it hurts them. And this lesson is useful not just in the professional but in personal life as well.

Yes, there are some extremes where gracefully we can ask the client’s that we can’t continue. But with grace. How we serve and how we deal with others says everything about who we are and what we stand for.

Service or manufacturing, money always is the by-product. We start something because we believe we want to share with others what we have.

Serve because you are in the service industry by choice.
Put our feet in other’s shoes to understand their pain.

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Attentiveness is the key

Today our biggest challenge is to be attentive. When we are in a meeting, we are checking our mobile, or when in a zoom meeting, we are checking our emails, or while driving the car, we are thinking of meeting points.

And then, at the end of the meeting, we aren’t sure what was discussed. After the zoom call, we ask what the outcome was. And we miss a turn while driving and have to take the long detour.

Imagine being in the meditation and thinking of office work. This way, meditation brings no results, and we blame meditation that it’s of no use. Likewise, when we work, if we aren’t attentive, we don’t get desired results, and we blame everything else, but not our attentiveness.

Only if we are attentive can we get the desired result. To be attentive, we need to be one hundred percent present where we are. This brings us attentiveness, and that is the key to extraordinary results.

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Mentors

We all have been taught of how important it is to have mentor. While I don’t deny importance of having the mentor, it is difficult to find a mentor.

Even when you find a mentor, it is rare to find a mentor who is really interested in your progress. Probably a good mentor is busy managing his own business and doesn’t have enough time to mentor enough people. This means, even genuinely good mentors having some time is already mentoring at his own capacity.

Another challenge is, when we have a mentor, we look at mentor for everything and deny to learn on our own. Which means, we are seeing the world with a specific view which narrows our knowledge.

If you can’t find a mentor, it necessarily isn’t a bad thing always.

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sometimes it’s okay not to be okay

There are the days when we are full of positive energy, and there are the days when our energy turns to not being so positive. This happens to the best of us, and it’s natural. The key is to understand that sometimes it’s okay not to be okay.

When our energy is positive, we feel good, and when it is not, we feel low. And when we feel low, we cannot accept it because we are taught we need to be positive all the time, which also puts pressure on us. Instead, let’s have acceptance that okay, I am not feeling super today, and that’s just fine. I accept it, and I will stay present to it and do things that will positively turn my energy.

When we deny, we confuse ourselves, and that frustrates us. When we accept, we give clarity to ourselves, and that helps us overcome the cause.

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Why to write a blog

When I started writing the blog, I wasn’t knowing why I want to write. There was the phase that I wanted people to read my blogs and appreciate what I was putting in there.

Then came the phase, when I was writing because I wanted to continue the streak.

Then writing the blog started becoming the habit. Today, I write the blog because, I want to write my thoughts and put it in the universe and blog is the medium that I found is the easiest medium for my purpose.

I love writing the blog and while in the initial stage, sometimes I would feel it’s too much of a work to write everyday, but today I can’t wait to write it. It has become an integral part of my day.

And today, I am writing this post, again pushing it to the universe, hoping it will land to someone who always wanted to write. And? Nothing, I leave that to the universe.

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You can doesn’t mean you should

You can do drugs but you don’t. You can punch someone but you don’t because you evaluate the con of doing it.

Likewise there are many decisions we take everyday which might not be as impactful and we do things without much thought. Those small things adds up and we don’t know when it becomes a big issue.

Key is, be present when we still have the choice, so that we don’t do things that we can but we shouldn’t.

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To-do list and prioritizing the work

How long is your to-do list? How often does it happen that we keep looking at the to-do list and can’t figure out where to start?

We get overwhelmed when we see a long to-do list and jump on taking one task at a time, without prioritizing them, most of the time in anxiety to get the work done. This way of working leaves us with more anxiety, reduces our productivity, and hurts our long-term goals, as we aren’t working on the tasks that take us towards our longer-term goals.

We blame everyone else, including our peers, subordinates, clients, consultants, auditors, people around, for the situation, instead of checking our way of working.

What if we prepare our to-do list the evening before, prioritize our work for the next day before calling it off for the day. And in the morning, re-prioritize based on any urgent work that has landed to us. This will help us take care of the urgent work that is unavoidable and help us take care of our important tasks that need our attention for long-term growth.

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Structuring creative deals

The straight forward deals are easy and should be preferable too. But at times the difference between a deal and no deal is the creativity we put in structuring the deal.

While building up creative deals we need to be cautious and should go for it only when both the parties involved are trustworthy.

The client might be interested in your service but his immediate concern might be the immediate outflow of cash. Instead of dropping the rates, you can structure the payment terms in a way, which would satisfy the client’s cash management need, while making sure your cash management isn’t disturbed either.

A word of caution, don’t use this strategy unless it is absolutely needed. The point is, sometimes we need creativity in making things happen.

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Numbers doesn’t lie

We go with tweaking the numbers feeling and then make the numbers lie.

My experience is, most of the time, numbers don’t lie. Many times, when we doubt the numbers, it’s because we have been mischievous and pretend incorrect input is correct.

For example, while calculating return on investment, we love to ignore the correct return projected by tweaking the numbers because we want to go ahead and make the investment anyhow. And then, when the investment doesn’t generate the desired return, we console ourselves that our research was correct, but the luck was bad.

How many times do we ignore the numbers and make clearly emotional decisions, and have no rationale attached to them?

If we want numbers not to lie, we need to stop telling lies to the numbers. 

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Covid Vaccination

Well, I just registered my parents for Covid Vaccination, and they are scheduled to get their first shot on the 28th of March, 2021.

Both my parents being in their mid 70’s, decided to go for the vaccination as soon as it’s available. To give them the due credit, they have avoided travel and social gatherings in the past year. Though being at home was a bit difficult, especially for my Mom, who is very social.

It’s an emotional moment, and I can’t wait for them to get vaccinated and then able to live their normal life. Travel, and go wherever they want.

What are your thoughts on the vaccination program? I have been skeptical myself, but then finally, we decided to go for it.

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Information technology and human connections

Working in information technology for the past twenty years, One thing I am very clear about, this is the one industry which deals more with the humans, than the machines.

Though the industry itself sounds all techie, in reality, it’s a strong connection between the humans behind the technology that brings technology to reality.

Strong team bonding, caring for others, keeping people first, working for the greater good, and minimum politics are what I see as a norm in the information technology industry.

In information technology, humans are more important than the machines they work on. A good programmer would create great code on an average machine. He is not dependent only on machines, as more power to create actually lies within him.

Information technology has its own challenges, but I see certainly more human connections are built in this industry, and that’s from my personal experience. Be it various webinars, meet-ups, or hackathons, this is one industry that is eager to build human connections and paying it forward. 

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Don’t be the policybazaar.com

I understand you collect the phone number while allowing me to get the free quote. And I am okay with you trying to reach me out once or twice. But reaching out to me 12 times a day, just because I filled up the form, is not just rude dis but also shows desperation.

Give the free quote and take the phone number is okay. But while using the phone number to market yourself, use your wisdom. Be wise. You got the permission to market, but how many times you market shows how ethically you are using the permission. Don’t overuse the permission, as when it is given. It isn’t given for overuse.

You aren’t just annoying your prospect; you are also pushing them away for good. Next time, he might not even want to get the free quote from you. 

Don’t be the policybazaar.com.

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We become what we oppose

We don’t like something, we oppose it strongly, and we become the same.

We have so many examples around where we see that the people opposing something strongly and vigorously end up becoming the same. For example, some politicians opposing a particular policy and ended up being the same. Or an employee opposing some policy of the management ends up supporting and promoting the same policies when she gets a chance to be on the management.

I am not sure why this happens, but the evident examples are enough to believe it actually happens.

The point is, don’t oppose something so zealously that you end up becoming the same person you were opposing. Understand that you don’t support it, but accept that it’s there. Let it be. And change it when you get the chance.

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The power of desire

The power of desire is what keeps us hungry. According to the desire in our hearts, we create what we have been desiring.

When we desire something and keep the mind’s constant attention on it, the object manifests through continuous action. Stronger the desire, the more power it has for us actually to make it true.

Desire is a vital tool that helps us achieve our goals. No matter what our desires are, spiritual or materialistic, they are the powerful tool to give purpose to our being. 

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You become what you think you aren’t

Great learning from my coach Chetan Patel, while attending one of his seminars as a guest. You become what you think you aren’t.

It’s straightforward and to the point. We all live with self-notion of what we aren’t, and we keep doing everything throughout our life to become that.

For example, my understanding of myself is that I am not focused enough. And this keep notion keeps me focused. Whatever I do, I will stay focus, but the story in my mind keeps going on all the time, that I am not focused. And this story that goes in my head keeps pushing me to be focused on whatever I do. But the story in the head never ends. It stays with us all the time.

This story is the reason what we become, for good or not.

What’s your story? What do you tell yourself ? What have you become that you think you aren’t?

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What feels good, is good for you

I am a big fan of instincts. I trust my instincts, and I believe what feels good is good for me. 

While taking any decision, I make sure that my consciousness approves of it and that I am present to how I feel at that point. I normally take decisions on numbers, which assures me, but after all the math is done, I still check how I am feeling, and if what I am feeling is against what the number says, I go with my feelings. 

I strongly believe that what I feel good is good for me, and if it doesn’t feel good, I let it go.

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How people see your company

How people see you is how people see your company as well. Because our actions, not the appearance, defines us.

If the people see your company as ethical, empathetic, forward-looking, outstanding, that’s because they see you as such. If you are clumsy and irresponsible, that’s what your company would look like. Because the people are the soul, and the company would only reflect the inner thinking of the people running and working in it.

On the contrary, what is the image of your company? That’s what people think of you.

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People

The most important part of your personal and professional life is the people you are with.

People who motivate, support, inspire and work hand in hand with you should be your choice.

When you have the right people around, the ride is so much fun. You can surf smoothly with equal fun, no matter if the tide is high or low.

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Value for the buyer

There is a price the seller wants. And then there is a price the buyer is willing to pay.

No matter how much you hype your product or service, and no matter how much you think your product or service is worth, the real test is in the market.

While people understand there is a price for everything, they also understand how much price is enough. No matter how creative is your marketing campaign and the Public Relations Officer, the initial sales would fade away soon if you haven’t priced your product well.

Saying this, I don’t say you can’t price your product high. All I am saying is your high price need to be backed by a higher level of quality. There needs to be an extra value left for the buyer, even after he has paid the full price for your product. He should feel that if the product would have been a tad more expensive, he would have still bought it and that what he has got is the value, even if your product is the most expensive in the market.

Does your product or service leave some value for the buyer?

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When you promise

When you promise, keep it. Promise is an agreement from your soul, no matter what, you can’t break it.

Because you have promised, the person to whom you have promised has considered it will be kept and would plan further. If you break your promise you put other person in trouble and if he can’t meet those promises at his end the cycle carries on, it initiates a chain of broken promises.

Don’t give promise that you can’t keep. And if you have given, never break it. Personally, I never promise and when I do, I keep it.

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Creating opportunities

Steve Jobs created a market for digital distribution of music that was non-existent. Robert Iger acquired Pixar and Marvel Cinematic Universe for Disney and created a digital empire that gave Disney much-needed growth.

It wasn’t easy for Steve to deal with various musical companies, nor was it easy for Robert Iger to get the Disney board to approve Pixar and Marvel acquisitions. Both were innovative in their approach and created opportunities that others weren’t able to see.

When you don’t see enough opportunities, create some. People would think you are crazy, but you don’t always have to follow the herd.

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Delete the apps

Are you feeling non-productive? The solution is simple and easy. All we need is some willpower.

Many times we see people around are complaining about not being productive enough. And we see the same people are on social media, news, games and stock apps, and watching television, at the time when they actually should be working. All these just out of habit.

The cure is, delete the apps, remove the television from the bedroom or workroom. Start doing what you know you should be doing.

Even when you are done with the work, do something that would enhance your mood instead of being in front of the device. Sing, dance, walk, talk, meditate, go for a drive, and whatever else you actually love to do.

Let a week go by, and you would love this new routine and habit so much so that you never want to be addicted to digital devices.

Try it and share your feedback.

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Empathy by action

Leader’s always keep empathy for their team, customers, peers, everyone and everything around. They display empathy by action, not mere by words.

But is having empathy enough?

We normally feel sorry for others, but don’t take action. There could be many reasons for not taking the action. We worry what other’s would think, how would we look, is it okay to do something, is it my responsibility, what I can do? And so many other reasons. What instead if we stop thinking of reasons and start taking actions? None of the above reasons are actual, they are just another excuses of not taking actions.

Empathy without action is just another form of sympathy. We need to take accountability and do what we can to help others, by taking action. No matter, how small our actions might be, we need to be in the action, because every small action counts towards a larger good.

We respect and see the results of the work of all the great empathetic leaders in history because of the actions they took.

Are you the leader who takes action or feel empathy for others? Give a booster shot to your empathy by taking action.

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it’s that easy

You know something that others don’t know. You have acquired that knowledge with your experience and studying others rigorously, taking your share of failures and setbacks. And when it comes to fully implementing that knowledge, you think that what you can see, everyone else also can see the same thing.

Not exactly. Because they didn’t have the same experience, they haven’t acquired that knowledge, they haven’t failed as you have, and they don’t see clearly what you see now.

Sometimes, we underestimate our own knowledge and underpin ourselves. Instead, accept that you are empowered with the knowledge and experience and ready to use it to the fullest. Don’t hide behind the lie of you not knowing enough. Kill the fear and be courageous to take your destiny to the next level.

Be accountable for your life. Challenges would come, but they are there even if you don’t do anything. At least the challenge would be towards the growth.

Accept that you are unique. It’s that easy.

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time to read and retrospect

What’s your Sunday morning routine? I prefer to read and retrospect the week that was. It’s such a perfect slow-moving day, which allows me to introspect on how my actions were and my behavior was in the past week. What I should successfully carry on and what I should stop doing.

To read and to retrospect certainly helps to build your character. While on the weekdays, for most of us, it is difficult to have time for ourselves, we should give time to ourselves on the weekends. There has to be time for the friends and family too, and at the same time, there has to be time for self in isolation.

When we isolate ourselves, we open up to a bigger world within. Eventually, that helps us and the world around us as we quickly know what we should be doing and whatnot.

Do you give yourself time to read and retrospect during the weekend?

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Starting with the small

Start with the small, check the waters, gain confidence and if you get success with the little try, then go big.

Most of the time, we are good, starting with the small and getting success, but then we get stuck to that small. We never take the courage to go big and start enjoying our little success, not because we don’t want to go big, but because we fear losing whatever small success we got.

This, among others, is why most of us live a mediocre life and claim to be happy with our lives. I certainly feel if we can make it big, we will never say no. And because we don’t make it big, we “show” that we are happy in miniature and that life is not about making it big.

Go out, give it a small try, and don’t hold off when you get success. Give it the most significant shot you can give.

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Handling workload

If you are overloaded with the work and feeling overwhelmed, there could be two reasons. Either you are actually overloaded, or you cannot manage your time, which is making you ineffective.

The solution is if you are consistently overloaded, ask for the support in the way needed. And be effective with your task management. See what you must do and what is most important, start from there. When the most important tasks are taken care of, you will feel more confident. If needed and if you can, move some work to your subordinates.

And if you feel such all the time, check if, apart from time management and being effective at work, if you really need an additional helping hand.

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The real work

You know when you are doing the actual work. It gives you happiness, and any gloom you feel goes away.

And when we are not doing what we are supposed to do, we know that too. Because at that point, we are pretending to do the “important” work, but all we are doing is killing time. Under the pretense of doing the work, we fool ourselves. We also get others busy and involved showing how important work we are doing, and if someone shows us what we should be doing, we argue.

Have you been a trap by this trait? If so, how do you get out of it? Do you have support people who would show you what you should actually be doing even if you get upset with them?

Don’t pretend to be busy; instead, do the actual work.

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Race of Tortoise vs. Rabbit

All our childhood, we are taught that being a Tortoise can win you the race. That’s the brainwash we are oriented so that we can be molded to run in the race. It really doesn’t matter who wins the race. What matters is that it’s a race.

Our education system focuses on getting us ready for the race. These stories are created to highlight and teach how important it is to be in the race. We start believing in the rat race from childhood instead of understanding that each of us is unique and can have different aspirations.

When we are in the race, we become competitive, leading us to be envious of each other, and instead of living the life, we keep running.

I am a firm believer in growth and that we have all the rights to have an abundance of joy, happiness, success, health, and wealth. But that should be our aspiration, not the race.

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being grateful

Are you grateful for what you have? Do you keep thanking people for what they do for you? Being grateful is for our soul, and when we are grateful, we are thankful to everyone and for everything around us.

Likewise, if we aren’t thankful enough, the chances are, we aren’t even grateful for what we have. And when we aren’t grateful, we are avoiding the abundance that the universe has to offer.

Remember that the life we live and things we possess might be the dream life for many others.

Be grateful.

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Only the best “fit” people

If you want to grow, you absolutely need only the best people. And by best people, I am not saying to hire someone with best skills required to perform the job. The person has to be “the best fit” in terms of culture fit, alignment on his and company’s goals, and of course the skills set.

If you are having the best people on board, retain them. Let go those who aren’t a fit and replace them by getting better people on board. Again, better doesn’t mean someone who is with you is not good, but better in terms of the “fit”.

We waste a lot of time working with those who’s aspirations are different from ours and that kind of drag us down. This is equally true for your partners, team, consultants, and even customers.

Check what kind of people are you with in your journey.

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Don’t judge me

Don’t judge me. How many times do we say this when someone ‘judges’ us? And we think one should never judge anyone and that I never judge anyone.

Probably we even not judge people on that same topic, but then we think people on something else. Our saying and doing are different based on how we are involved. If we are being judged, that’s wrong, and if we believe people, we would have all the valid reasons to do so.

How if we start by not judging others and let them feel us? We should remember, reforms begin by changing ourselves.

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Waking up at odd hour

I used to feel anxiety if I would wake up at an odd hour in the night. Though I will be up early, waking up at night is something I dislike.

My mind would take me to the thought journey, and it would end up only when it’s time to wake up in the morning. This would leave me exhausted in the morning and leads to a lack of focus during the day.

But for the past few months, if I wake up in the night, I am focusing on being happy. No thoughts, no activity, and no meditation. I enjoy this happiness, and I love how positive it feels and how much positivity it brings to my day.

Yes, when I then want to sleep back, I start chanting mantras, and in like few chants, I would fall deep asleep. So the question is, why don’t I start chanting as soon as I wake up? Fact is, sometimes I don’t feel like and at other times, I want to enjoy this feeling of being happy.

What do you do when you wake up? Share your experience.

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How you entertain

It is important to entertain oneself. Even more important is how we entertain ourselves.

We can watch shows on television, which isn’t worth it if not educational and is not light entertainment. We need to make sure what we see is good for our eyes and what we hear is good for our minds.

We can read books that enhance our knowledge or spend time with family. It’s not necessary to talk a lot. It is important that what we speak is soothing for our loved ones.

Watching a show, reading a book, and spending time with loved ones are various ways of entertainment. Just make sure what we see, what we read, what we hear, and what we speak are enhancing our experience and relations.

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Conditioning

How we behave is all the conditioning we have gone through all our life.

How we behave, react, take risks, face challenges and see others result from what we have experienced from situations and people around us. Our personal traits are the results of our surroundings.

Know what you want to become and be vigilant on what to pick and what not to, else you might end up being someone you don’t want to.

Do you stay present on what’s happening around you? Do you introspect on your actions? Do you let your surroundings impact you, or are you vigilant enough?

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Connecting the quarters

When you talk separately to separate people from the same group, you will only have bits and pieces of the information. And to make those quarters a full circle, there we need to connect them.

If you are working on something where you need a group, you can start gathering data from each individual and make sense of it; you have to tie them up as one piece of information. Then and only then will it take shape and will make sense.

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Selecting an advisor

When selecting an advisor or surrounding ourselves with the people we consult, we should be wise. Choosing the one who would advise keeping in mind the actual situation and consider the scenario from all the angles.

Most of the time, we take advice from those who would agree with our perspective, but necessarily it might not be in our best interests.

People who can’t see a 360-degree view on a particular situation can’t be your advisor. Nor those who can see the whole picture and still can’t control their emotions to give neutral advice. Neither someone who wants to look like a hero himself can be the right advisor. That person might not say to you that you were wrong.

We need advisors who can do it all at the same time. Seeing the bigger picture, keeping our long term good at heart, and keeping us as the hero of the situation. Someone who can stand and say, it’s your fault if needed.

What kind of advisors have you surrounded yourself with?

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Letting the horse ride you

Have you ever seen a horse riding a human? But when it’s come to our mind we let it ride us all the time. And then we do as our mind guide us to do.

Instead of being the servant of our mind, we should be the master of it and guide it in the right direction.

Initially when we practice controlling the mind, it would be difficult as mind is used to ride on us. So from being the master to becoming the servant is a difficult journey for the mind and it would try everything it could to not let us be the master.

Practice mastering your mind and explore the creativity you have as when we control our mind, we can get amazing things done from it.

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Them, to we, to me

We always talk me, to us, to them. Our focus is still what “I” will get, and when that is satisfied, we think about what “we” will get, and finally, we think about “them” and what they will get. Them comes, if we ever reach till thinking about “them.”

All the inspirational leaders start thinking from “them” because they have a much higher agenda. When we are stuck in “me,” we are very narrowly focused and can achieve only things that are enough for “me.”. When we change our perspective and think of the larger good, our focus becomes much broader.

Instead of thinking, what I will get. Think, what I will give. Think, what I can do to make someone’s life better. Think about how my presence can elevate someone’s day and what I can do to make others smile. When we take action for others, our happiness is guaranteed. And it’s not the same the other way around.

Work to make your company proud, deliver the highest quality services and products to your customers, give your team members the best facility, and give your investors the best return. This is thinking about “them” first.

Are you focused on them? Or are you stuck in “me”?

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How to be productive

How to be productive is the question everyone keeps asking. Though the answer is simple, it is not easy to follow because we are trained not to be productive.

We live in a culture where multi-tasking is considered a positive trait. Where we believe that when someone looks busy, the person is productive. Where working round the clock is considered a virtue.

While some people have god Gifted capacity to work more hours than others, most of us aren’t productive after certain hours.

So how do we make the most of the available productive hours? By focusing on what we are doing. It is a very simple solution. Instead of multi-tasking, do one thing at a time and do it well.

Instead of reading emails, talking to family, and eating breakfast all at a time, focus on one thing. Otherwise, you are three different people doing one-third of each work. Do justice to what you are doing.

When we are with the family, we think of the work. When we are at work, we think of the vacation. And when we are on the vacation, we think of the future. We are never fully present anywhere and that makes us unproductive. Because our attention is always diverted.

When we are focused, we are more productive and more focused. Even the outcome of the work we do is much better in quality.

Do you feel unproductive or feel the work-life balance is missing? Check if you are multi-tasking, or if you are physically present at one place and mentally at the other?

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Take the favor, build the connections

I always believed in never taking favor from anyone. But the culture of connection means you need to give and get favors sometimes.

And when I say a favor, I am not talking of anything unethical. I am talking of being flexible in doing small favors that might do good to someone without hurting someone else, including yourself.

When you support someone, the connections are built, and when the connections are built, people support each other.

What are your thoughts on favors? Do you think favors helps build connections?

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Filters

Filters are good on e-commerce websites, as they help us find what we need, savings us time.

Filters are good when building relations because it helps us filter out those with whom we might not want to go longer. Saving their and our own time.

That said, filters aren’t good when we are talking to someone keeping prejudice. When we keep filters, we judge people; we decide what they have conveyed even before they speak. Be unfiltered and pure because then you are open to understanding other’s points of view.

What kind of filters do you keep?

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hidden agenda

We all have hidden agendas in almost everything we do.

If we are doing the charity, the known agenda could help someone, and the hidden agenda could be to earn fame. Likewise, if we are promoting someone out of the way in the social group, the known agenda could be that you wish well for the person, and the hidden agenda could be to earn the favor from the person in return.

Most of the time, we aren’t even aware that we have a hidden agenda. Having hidden agenda is okay. The only thing is, your hidden agenda shouldn’t topple your known agenda.

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Patience is a great virtue

You can keep trying until you succeed. All you need is to have patience.

Patience doesn’t mean you should sit and wait. It’s about going out and try while keeping faith that you will succeed.

Patience also doesn’t mean being among the non-achievers and hoping someday they will become the achievers. Patience is to try and find the right team that would support you in the success.

When someone says they have good patience, check if that patience is to grow or hide behind the laziness.

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How do you like to travel?

I personally prefer traveling by car, compared to the train or air, obviously for the reasonable distance. Beyond certain kilometers, it doesn’t make sense to drive for the obvious reasons.

Even while traveling by car, I prefer to drive. My traveling preference has much to do with my strong belief in being in control.

I like to set up my schedule to start, take a break, and reach the destination. Not that I had ever missed a train or a flight, except for once, when I had slept at the airport after an overnight long-haul flight. Driving by self, gives me a sense of freedom, as well.

What do you prefer? Do you like to travel by car, train or plane? What do you think is your reason for the choice?

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We know what we want

We all know what we want. It takes only digging deep inside ourselves to find answers.

While it sounds difficult, but with practice, it certainly is possible. Once that starts happening, we feel more confident about our actions because then we know what we want.

Regular meditation, having positive people around, daily introspection, and a strong support system of people who won’t judge you, helps one understand self more. And as we start understanding ourselves, it becomes easier to know what we want. That’s my personal experience.

While I don’t claim I understand myself completely and always know what I want, the above practices have certainly helped me.

Do you meditate and introspect? What is your experience with it?

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Doing things that matter

Do you prefer to do only things that really matter? Even if that means you aren’t busy all the time?

Or do you like to do busy, even if that isn’t producing anything that really matters?

Being busy and being productive are two different things. What would you choose?

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Share peace of mind

We work in a fast paced environment, there is pressure on everyone from CEO to the office boy. While we have to accept that with work comes a certain level of stress and pressure but we also add more pressure by pulling out our frustrations on others.

When people go to home from work, they should go with a smile, so that they can share the same with their family. Otherwise, they would share frustration instead of spending quality time with the loved ones. Not just that, they would take same thoughts to the bed.

Instead, why not to put effort in creating the world where we spread and share peace of mind. No doubt, this isn’t possible every time and every day but we can always give it a shot.

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Everyone is for a purpose.

Everyone and everything around is for a purpose. Nothing in the universe is without reason. From the things to the people, everything is set around us to support our purpose.

Even the hard people around and hard times are to support us, making us stronger.

We need to see everything in our life as part of something bigger.

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Think slow and control your surrounding

When someone enters the room, that person can elevate your mood or can destroy your mood, depending on what kind of energy they bring to the room.

How many times have you experienced the above scenario? How many times that someone has controlled your mood?

Have you ever thought about why someone can have an impact on your mood?

It is because we are always moving fast and thinking fast. This leads us to react to everything that we encounter. When we practice thinking slow and having slow moves, we can control our own actions. We can stop reacting and can actually not let other’s actions have an impact on our mood.

How do you learn to think slow? Meditate, exercise, eat healthily, read good books, and surround yourself with the people who practice the same. Eventually, you will learn how to control your own energy.

Try thinking slow and see how you can be in control of your actions.

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Start with the solution in the mind

When facing any challenge, instead of focusing on the problem, start with the solution in mind. It should reflect in the talks too. Meaning, talk positively. This will raise the hopes, and you will actually see the light at the end of the tunnel.

If you are an entrepreneur, it is your duty to bring hope when the situation is despair, faith when there is doubt, the joy when there is sadness, light when there is darkness. This doesn’t mean you overlook the problems. It means you need to focus on the solution and bringing your positive touch in the challenging situation.

How do you deal with the challenging situation? Do you frown, or do you start with the solution in the mind?

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Trainable and untrainable

Some people are easy to train, and spending time in training them gives the desired outcome.

On the other hand, some people aren’t trainable. No matter how much time and how many techniques and tactics you use, you end up hitting the wall.

Spend the time training those who are trainable. If you are the leader, it’s your skillset to know who falls in this category.

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Business and Making Difference

When you are working ethically, keeping everyone’s interest at heart, working to make the world a better place, and not only for profit, you are already making a difference and doing business too.

Profit is a must when you are doing business; otherwise, no other goal can be achieved. Even not for profit, organizations can sustain only when they have the money. The same principle applies to business, only that it is with profit, where you are working towards benefiting a larger audience to make some difference to society.

Not having any objective is also okay, but then you look for spirituality or doing good outside of your work. And if you have combined your business and spirituality, you aim for two goals with one task.

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A hybrid model for Work From Home

What is going to be the model for the Tech industry moving forward?

Though currently, Work From Home is working, at times, the social interaction is missed and constantly online, affecting the sanity.

While Work From Home seems to stay now, personally, I feel that the hybrid model of Work From Home and Work From Office will be more of the norm for the tech industry. People would prefer working a few days from the office and other days from home.

While working from home improves the personal level of productivity, it helps to be with the team in person for collaboration and satisfy our social interaction needs.

I have reached this conculsion after talking to my team, taking surveys and also monitoring the Work From Home situation since the start of the pandemic. I strongly believe with a strong process and by taking accountability for our own work, Work From Home works.

What are your thoughts on the future of the work model for the tech industry?

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Keep producing

Having knowledge and ideas matter only when we put them to action and keep converting those ideas to something meaningful.

Of course, not every idea would work but you have an opportunity to make a difference. To bring positive change in the life of people.

Life is a series of positive changes you make in other people’s lives. If you think your idea can make a difference, go ahead and build it. Your efforts can change the world for the better.

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Like-minded people

If you know what you want to become, spend the time with like-minded people. And that’s not enough. When you spend time with like-minded people, make sure you are talking about the topics that have drawn them to those people.

It is important to churn the thoughts on what you want to be constantly. If you are planning to be a very successful businessman and are spending your time with other business people but talking about the sports or favorite holiday spots, you are wasting the precious opportunity to learn from them.

It’s important to spend time with like-minded people and is equally important in talking with them.

Are your talks relevant?

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Time is subjective

Months and years go by, and we keep thinking about how fast the time is going. But the time is subjective, that is why sometimes we feel it’s fast and sometimes we feel the time isn’t moving.

How time travels depends on what we are doing if we are busy doing something that we love, like playing our favorite sports or spending time with loved ones, time travel fast.

And if we are waiting for test results or waiting in a queue simultaneously, it feels like moving slow.

Next time you feel the time is moving fast, the probable reason is that you live the life you enjoy.

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Social Expression

We all have a cause that we strongly believe in. Something where we feel we can do something to make this world a better place.

It’s always sharing the knowledge, which has led me to co-start Early Bird Group, Surat BookWorms Club, bringing WordPress meetup to Surat, and starting a BookClub in my own company.

I didn’t realize this until my coach told me how all the above are connected via my strong belief in sharing the knowledge to benefit more people. And it’s not only the knowledge that I share but also my belief in building the platforms where more people can share their knowledge.

While knowledge sharing is my social expression, what is yours? What cause do you believe in?

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Entrepreneurship is a profession.

Entrepreneurship is not rocket science, nor is it very fancy that it is depicted in the movies. When you become an Entrepreneur, you are signed up to be a professional.

You achieve something, and you have to think, that’s great, now let’s move on to the next task. You can’t sit and relax on that win.

Just like a doctor or a lawyer, you have to have a systematic approach to entrepreneurship. We learn new things every day, keep updated about our industry, go to seminars, attend webinars, take training, and be sincere about our work.

No doubt, sometimes we work for the disruption in a certain industry or work towards bringing something innovative, but the approach remains that of a professional. A straightforward, no show-off and hard work that is what actually Entrepreneurship is about.

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Progress

We keep talking about growth and progress. But most of the time, the talk and progress don’t match. When we say progress, we don’t talk about the numbers, but we talk about emotions.

If we are feeling great, we feel that everything is booming, while the case might not be the same.

To check the real progress, keep your eyes on the numbers. Believe whatever the number says, and you won’t be misled.

If the number says that it’s progress, then it is.

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Box cricket

Box cricket is a new thing. It’s a short format, fun, high tempo, and if you never had the fun of playing ‘gully cricket,’ Box cricket can give you a glimpse of it.

Some people dislike box cricket, but there was a time when one day was disliked, and t20 matches were dismissed by many. But today, t20 is the most loved format of cricket.

Not everything new or different has to be dismissed. Instead, embarrass newness as that might turn to be the game changer and disruptive.

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Enjoy the gift of life

When we focus on what we have, gratitude flows naturally, and when we focus on what others have, we feel ungrateful.

The key to happiness is to be grateful for what we have. If you aren’t feeling happy with what you have today, you will never be happy no matter what you have tomorrow.

Be grateful. Enjoy the gift of life.

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Do something today

Do something today if you want to make it big tomorrow. Just sitting and thinking will keep us where we are.

If we act, we might win or fail. If we win, cheers. And if we fail, double cheers because we would learn a lot from the failures.

But if we think and don’t act, we will neither win nor fail. We will stay where we are and unhappy.

Every achiever ever has done so by acting on their thoughts. I am not saying act without thinking. But thinking without action is of no use.

Take actions, massive actions. Let’s have sleepless nights. Let’s have an ache in the heart. Let’s be frightened. Whatever it takes. Please do it. Let’s be in action and expand our own possibilities.

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When you enjoy doing something

I tried blogging in 2014 but couldn’t continue for more than a few days.

I started blogging again in 2020, and today it’s been one year. When I started, my goal was to write every day. And today, too, that’s the only purpose.

What is the difference between 2014 and 2020 for me? What made me continue writing for a year?

Doing introspection, I can conclude that I am enjoying writing this time, while earlier, I was doing it as a task and didn’t felt inspired to write.

When we enjoy something, we don’t need any inspiration, and we generate better results.

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Creating and breaking the habits

It is easier to stay in our old habits because it is our comfort. We will make any number of stories and will bring out reasons, just so that we don’t have to leave in our comfort zone.

Good or bad, habits once created are hard to break. Even good habits sometimes make us so stubborn that we don’t try to be flexible even if we see that it is needed. The reason, mostly, is because we are comfortable in our habits and don’t want the hassle of breaking the habits and challenging the status quo

And eventually, habit also becomes stale, and we become irrelevant. If you want to stay contemporary, keep challenging yourself with new challenges. Create something new, take the new task at work, pursue a hobby, join the gym, and join the local community. Do something, do anything before you become stale.

Last year I took the challenge of writing blog posts every day, and tomorrow my blog will turn one year. 365 days of writing the blog have surely helped me reflect on myself. The year before that, I started waking up at 5 am, the year before, I started meditating, and the year before, I took up reading regularly.

This year, I am challenging myself to stop procrastinating.

What habit are you dropping, and what habit are you picking?

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What we believe, We achieve.

When we focus on something, believe in the goal, have faith, the chances are that we will more certainly achieve that.

No matter how lofty your goals are, how many sleepless nights you get, how much anxiety you have to experience, keep the faith and belief. Nothing in history that was hard to achieve has been achieved easily.

Having faith in whatever we do and being persistent is the key to achieve unachievable goals.

Are you confused? Afraid of your lofty goals? Having sleepless nights? Great, then you are on the way to achieve your dream.

Remember, what we believe we achieve.

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Think Slow. Act Fast.

Normally we do the other way around. We Think Fast and Act Slow.

When we Think Slow, we bring clarity to our thoughts, and because of the clarity, we are confident of our actions. And when we Think Fast, we don’t have clarity as we don’t let our thoughts settle, resulting in haphazard actions.

Thinking slow also brings a mature way of speaking and overall peace to our being. This leads to people naturally drawn to us when we speak, helping with more acceptance of our talks.

Think Slow and Act Fast to gain clarity and confidence in what we are doing,

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While you wait

Either you can frown, or you can read or prepare yourself. When you are waiting, it’s up to you what to do about the time on hand.

Frowning will be the waste of time you got while waiting for someone or on something. That would make you will feel dragged and drain. So when waiting, pick wisely and mindfully what outcome you want.

Life is beautiful when we are mindful.

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Value the time

Nothing is more valuable than time. If you have to trade money for time, don’t think twice.

When you learn to create the time, you can use the created time for yourself, learn new things, spend time with your loved ones, follow your passion, spend time with yourself, and whatnot.

Learn how to create time. Being busy isn’t important if you don’t have time for yourself.

This new year, start valuing your time over everything else.

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The year that was

Today is the last day of 2020. The year of heartbreaks and breakthroughs, lockdowns and resilience, work from home, and anxiety.

2020 was the year like none before. It has been a true roller coaster journey, making us weak and strong at the same time. We certainly want to forget 2020, but it will not let us forget because it was once in a lifetime year.

As we enter 2021, we probably are wiser, smarter, and understand what is important to us. Most importantly, it has taught us, “this is it,” making us more accepting and adapting to the situation.

It was a tragic time, and that is why it was the year that has taught us the most.

Let’s welcome 2021 with new expectations and acceptance.

Happy 2021.

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there is always something to learn

There is always something to learn, provided you are willing to learn and are networking with the right people.

Successful people are willing to share their knowledge and help others succeed. The question is how to make successful people speak?

You can either learn from their mistakes, watching their actions or by asking them the questions.

You can watch their mistakes and actions simply by observing but to get them to answer your questions; you need to give them space, ask the right questions, listen to them, and let the talk flows. They have a wealth of knowledge and are willing to share, provided you are willing to listen to them.

How many successful people are you networked with? How often you connect with them? How useful is their knowledge to you?

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Having goals is important

In 2019, I had kept the goal of reading 26 books and ended up reading 20. And for 2020, I kept the goal for 39 books.

Experiencing that I can read 20 books gave me confidence that I can read 39 too. 20 books was an experience upon which I built the dream of reading 39 books. That’s three books every four weeks.

Though I like that I could read 39 books, it didn’t come as a surprise as the foundation for it was ready.

That’s how we build and achieve our goals. The first few times are crucial when our goals are meager. The determination we build during that time helps us build lofty goals.

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How deep are your roots?

When your roots are deep and strong, the chances of you surviving any storm are much higher.

And the roots don’t become strong overnight. It takes years before the roots become capable enough so that a huge tree can blossom.

While we all focus on the beautification and health of the tree, let’s not forget what is holding it up.

How deep are your roots?

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People will tell you what they want you to do

No matter what you are doing, where you are, or with whom you are, use your own wisdom when it comes to making decisions. Because everyone is telling you things from their perspective, that necessarily isn’t the right fit. People make you believe that their point of view is the only right view. That view might be true to their situation and may not be true for you.

We already know what we want, it’s just that we want clarity, and we check with others, but then we get blind with the views. Listen to everyone to gain different perspectives and when it comes to making decisions, listen to yourself. 

Be present when you listen to others. Check their intentions and your situation and take the decision wisely. 

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Emotions and Wisdom

Emotions are the basic ingredients that lead us to generate the results.

When the emotions are stimulated, actions are generated. And when wisdom is applied to the action, the right results are produced.

For example, when we fear something, this emotion leads us to take action. The action can be to fly or fight. And the wisdom helps us take the right action that would remove the fear from the root cause and generate long-lasting results.

How do your emotions stimulate you to take action? And what do you do to ensure you apply the wisdom to generate the results?

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What you sow shall you reap

Merry Christmas.

As the year of the pandemic is ending, it’s time to reflect how the year was. It certainly was a year which no one had imagined at the start of it. We saw a lot of illnesses, deaths, lockdowns, curfews, and whatnot.

We also saw businesses, relations, and environmental changes. And we also saw human triumph, inventing vaccines in a record short period.

During all these, we all had time. What we will become in the future will be determined by how we have spent this time. Our future will be different depending on whether we have spent time being in action, learning new things. Or binge-watching on OTT platforms while gulping on unhealthy snacks.

The old sayings of ‘what you sow shall you reap’ are true even in the pandemic. It’s the same as ‘The law of Karma.’

What have you sown for the future during this year of the pandemic?

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Unwinding after the workday

We all have our own way of unwinding. Some of us watch television, some read books, a few do workouts, and others spend time with family and friends.

All of the different ways of unwinding are right. Important is to unwind. Try not going to bed straight from work because that way you can never get relaxed. No matter what unwinding way you prefer, it is important to unwind as it helps for a positive thought process and better sleep.

I normally read books or watch a funny video before I sleep.

What do you do to unwind?

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Focused efforts

Entrepreneurs are creative, and that’s their biggest asset and liability at the same time.

Because of the creativity, the entrepreneurs keep coming up with new ideas. They also want to implement multiple ideas at the same time. While having ideas is one thing, executing them is a different ball game.

The execution of any idea needs a lot of dedication, time, focus, energy, and money. While it is possible to distribute these resources among various projects, the best results are achieved when there is only one project on hand.

Giving your everything to that one idea can make it big enough, which you can’t achieve with multiple smaller ideas.

Pick your project, get focused, and give your best shot. Make that project your moonshot project.

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Treat everything as you own it

We have the habit of using things carefully when we own them. But when we know that it’s not ours or is owned by the public institutions, we tend to abuse them.

The same goes for the law. When we make the law and rules in our company, we follow them, and we want everyone to follow them. But we break the country’s laws, and in private conversation, we boast about the same.

Only if we start treating everything as if we own it, the world would be a much better place to dwell for everyone.

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Follow the leader

The age-old saying of “follow the leader” stands true. When confused or in the doubt, check what the successful people are doing and take the lead from them.

Call them up, go and see them, read their articles, hear their podcast, and keep your eyes on what they are up to.

When your mind is cluttered and doesn’t get the direction, get the answer from those who have been there, done that, and are still doing it. Don’t take someone’s advice only on their past success. Make sure they are proving themselves successful in the particular thing where you are confused.

When I am confused about making decisions, I check my successful peers, talk to them, and take the clue.

What is your story? What do you do when you are confused? Do you go with the instinct, do you check with the leaders, or reach out to people for support?

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Be your own driver

When we are dependent on someone to drive us around, our plans are actually dependent on their plan.

If that’s what you like, it’s wonderful, but if you want to be independent, you need to be your own driver.

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Always grab the chance to celebrate

Whenever life allows you to celebrate, do it full-heartedly.

Life is the sequence of moments that we LIVE and celebrate.

And when you gift, do make sure that it’s not just a thing but the thing is with an experience. We forget things and we cherish experiences.

Live life enough to build memories.

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Taking decisions

If you are good at making quick decisions, then certainly do it. We all have different ways, and while someone like me is good at making decisions after due thoughts, others might be good at making fast decisions.

I certainly would like to make quick decisions, and I adore those who are quick at that. I like to take advice from those as they gave me a different perspective.

What is your way? Are you a quick decision-maker, or like me, you take your time?

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Learn from your mistakes

We all know we should learn from our mistakes and that we should move on. It has been told to us infinite times, but when we actually make a mistake, we fall into either of the two traps:
1. We either take our mistake for granted and move on without actually taking any learnings. This makes us make the same mistake over and over.
2. We take our mistake very seriously. Instead of learning from it and setting up a system to make sure we don’t make a mistake again, we stop taking any action, burdening ourselves with the mistake we made. This way can stop us from making a mistake but also takes away the chance to be successful.

The mistakes we make aren’t the fault of anyone. It’s our mistake. We should accept it openly, own it, take the learnings, place the system in place to don’t make a mistake again, and carve the path to success. Remember, the first part is to accept your mistake openly. Accepting mistakes clears up the clutter in our heads and gives us much-needed clarity on what actions are needed to be taken.

I like to move on with my mistake as my learning experience, but I am not there yet. I am being better at that and I am setting up a support system, which helps me avoid repeating the same mistake so that I can be more successful.

What do you do when you commit a mistake?

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Deal with your own challenges

It is good to have people around but understand that everyone deals with their own things and are fighting their own battles. It is unfair to expect people to take responsibility and solve challenges for you. If you have someone such in your life, congratulations. If not, then learn to deal with your own challenges.

In fact, learn to be supportive of others. Grow yourself emotionally mature and strong, so you take care of yourself and support others.

If you can develop this capability, imagine how many challenges you can solve for others while not being dependant on anyone for your struggles.

Nothing is stronger than your own will power. This is my personal experience, as you grow mature, you naturally become more supportive of others while taking care of yourself.

How do you deal with your challenges? Do you need a lot of support, or do you provide support to others?

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Keep the conversation flowing

You feel it’s a waste of time and that you would rather spend your time “doing” the things. But when you stop or avoid conversation, you are actually putting a lot at stake.

Keep the conversation flowing if you want to have your thoughts reach out to the other person and if you care about delivering job, the way it should be.

Conversations are important. Without it, situation becomes gloomy for everyone.

How well do you converse?

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Be the role model by action

No one remembers what you said. But everyone remembers what you did. If you want to set an example, be the role model by your action, especially if you an elder or are a leader.

The above stands true in personal as well as business. If your saying and doing are different, people will remember what you did and not what you said. That’s why it says that kids learn from watching their parents, and not on what the parents instructed.

Take accountability for where you want to take the people and the business, and likewise, be vigilant in your action. It is easy to think that it’s okay to be rude once in a while, but that’s when you need to keep a check on yourself.

Be accountable for the world around and the generation next.

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Laughing and being happy

If you can laugh and be happy on the weekdays, then understand that you are successful. And happiness comes from being grateful.

When we are grateful, life gives us happiness in abundance, and we stop longing for the weekends and vacations.

Since I started practicing daily gratitude, I have experienced that my happiness has certainly increased. Being happy certainly comes from how grateful we are.

Do you practice gratitude? What is your experience with it?

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Energy drainers

If you are having people in your life who are draining your energy, it’s time to think about whom you want in your life.

We all have our good days and not-so-good days, but if energy drainers always complain about their lives, surroundings, and people in their lives. Such people lack gratitude in their life.

While everyone needs emotional support, some people have a habit of feeling sorry about themselves, and you can’t support them every day.

If you want positive energy and peace in life, make sure you invest your time in people who have a positive outlook towards life and aren’t draining you off.

I avoid them. How about you? Do you have such people in your life? How do you tackle them?

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Left brain vs. right brain

The theory says a person is either left-brained or right-brained. If your left brain is more dominant, you tend to be more analytical and methodical. And if your right brain is more dominant, you tend to be more creative and artistic.

If you are more organized and better at reading, writing, are logic, like facts and calculations, your left brain dominates. If your right brain dominates, you are better at imagination, arts, visualization, and dance.

The point is if we might have all the capabilities, but some would be more dominating. It’s good to know what we are, as knowing ourselves helps us make the right decisions.

I am basically more analytical and methodical. I love maths, calculations, and figures-facts. Knowing this much about me helps me work on my strength and sharpen them.

What side of your brain is more dominant?

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Be you. Be real. Be Happy.

When you try to please others, you become unreal. And when you become unreal, you are never happy.

Not just that you would dislike being in this situation, you also would start disliking the person whom you are trying to please. The whole situation will start with you pleasing others, thinking it will make them happy and in return would make you happy. And ends with you being unhappy, and because you aren’t authentic, you won’t be able to please the other person forever, eventually making that person unhappy too.

When you are real, you won’t have to worry about pleasing others, as those who would be pleased with you would stick around, leading you towards spreading more happiness.

Personally, when I try to please people, I start feeling suffocated after some time. This leads me to avoid them, leaving them wondering why I am avoiding them. But with those, where I don’t have to work towards pleasing, I am natural and happier. In return, making them happy as well, without effort.

What is your experience? How do you feel when you aren’t real?

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The genuine respect

When you see someone respecting the person below his own rank in strength, status, money, knowledge, and age, consider that respect is genuine.

In general, We show respect to those above us in various ways, but that respect is not for fellow humans. It’s just for some reason.

But when we respect people without any reason, that’s when we understand the real meaning of respect.

Oh, by the way, respect is when you give, not when you expect it from others.

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Are you generous enough?

Do you know whose problem are you solving? Who is your market? Are you targeting the right people? Are you selling them what they need? And if you aren’t selling what they need, are you connecting them to the right person so that you be a good guide in the process?

Never try to be everything to everyone, you are just a hustler, whom eventually no one will trust. Let the word be out what you sell is solving the problem of your target audience. And leave the job where you can’t solve someone’s problem to those who can solve it.

Are you everything to everyone, or are you the problem solver? Do you care to say no? Are you generous enough to guide people in the right direction?

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going higher is always difficult

Going higher with your quality, thoughts, creativity, humanity, or work is always difficult.

It is easy to find short-cuts, take routes that feel faster, and give the quality that’s inferior to what you promised. Easier it is to fell compared to fly high. But raising your bar and not stopping until you reach the higher level without compromising anywhere is what one should aim for.

Going an extra mile while giving without expecting that you would get something better in return is what your aim should be.

Because the pleasure one gets by giving is higher than in the receiving.

Are you going higher?

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Don’t say yes every time

If you can’t make it, don’t say yes. It is important to know when to say no. When you know you can’t make it; the polite manner is to say no.

When you say yes, you are setting up the expectation, and when you don’t make it, everyone involved has to face the outcome.

And the most hurtful thing would be your own reputation. No matter how much you would convince, next time, your word won’t be taken seriously.

Yes, sometimes it is genuine that you can’t keep your word; at that point, do the restoration process. Say sorry and express that you understand how it might have impacted the other person and how it impacts you. Complete by assuring how you would make sure that it doesn’t happen again.

Make sure your restoration is once in a while and doesn’t become an every time process. Otherwise, you are putting your word again on the stake.

Do you keep your words? And when broken, do you make sure you restore your word?

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Decode the code

Nature is talking to us all the time. Don’t expect it to talk in any verbal language as it talks in various ways. Not limited to, but including, dreams, constant signs in the way of some subtle yet noticeable things happening around, you might come across some situation, or even some repeated things happening with you in a span of a short time.

It’s up to us to stay present all the time and understand what is that nature is trying to tell us.

I have been experiencing this lately. Do you have a similar experience? What signs are you seeing? What’s the code that you need to decode?

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When the day is busy

So the fourth day in the row, and I am writing the blog towards the end of the day. Not the most ideal time for me to write, but I usually feel energized for probably half an hour or an hour during late evenings.

My peak performance time is up to 5 pm. I am at my full mental and physical energy till that time.

When the day is busy, I try to find some time to write my thoughts during my peak performance time, but that doesn’t happen every day. And once I am out of that timeframe, I drag it till the end of the day when I get this half an hour to an hour window again.

I feel it’s good to know at what hours you perform better so that the day can be planned likewise.

What are your productive hours? And how do you deal with them once those hours are passed but something important needs to be taken care of?

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Holding on to the winning bets

More often, we hold on to our losing bets and quickly profit off our winning bets.

Instead, focus on winning a bet, keep and grow them, while cashing off the losing bet. When we keep our losses because of the fear of “loss,” we get into deeper waters. On the contrary, if we keep our profits, it can grow to something even bigger. Yes, be wise. Know when to get out of the profit, too, but don’t do it too sooner.

This is true for life too. We should know what our losing bets are and what are winning bets. Cut the losing bets treating them as bad habits and keep the winning bets while accumulating them. More good habits make you a better person, and more winning bets make you a successful person. That’s how you become the winner.

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When to sell

The art is in knowing when to sell, as much as in knowing when to buy.

Many people know when to buy and are good at scoring great deals. But comparatively, many few of them know when to sell.

Most either sell too early or hold on to too long. The real art is to cash out at the right time. Otherwise, you are looking at the opportunity lost.

Learn from the masters of the game on when to sell. Not so-called masters but the real deal. Read books, have mentors, network with like-minded and successful people.

Do you sell at the right time?

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Commodity or speciality

If everyone is giving free shipping for similar products, except for you, that might not be a good strategy. This is true, especially if you are dealing with commodity products.

If you are dealing with specialty products, you have your say. And the customers might be willing to pay extra for shipping.

You either deal with commodity products and follow the market rules or deal with specialty products and create your own rules.

The choice is yours, but the rules are different in what you choose.

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Living in the loop

Some people keep doing the same thing over and over for years. It’s the same routine that they follow. Though, it suffocates at times as they can’t break out of it.

It’s a different story when you love your routine or work and totally different when you can’t break out of that loop because it’s your comfort. Many of us live in such loops and feel stuck instead of breaking the loop and trying to get out of our comfort zone.

Loops are nothing but our comfort zone that we aren’t willing to break because it feels safe in there.

What kind of loops have you created? How will you break them?

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Is there only one way?

Is there only one way to reach the goal? No? Is there any right or wrong way? Definitely not.

You can take your own path as there are multiple roads going towards the same destination. It depends on what route you prefer. A highway that takes you quicker or an in-road that takes longer but is scenic. It also depends on how fast you want to reach and how much you want to compromise on other things.

If your style is slow and someones are fast, let it be, as there is no right or wrong way. You have a goal, and you have a way, pick it and follow it.

Think what your way is? And follow the same.

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Meditate and introspect

Meditate and introspect. Nothing can be more powerful to know yourself and to break the mental boundaries.

If you meditate regularly, you will know what I am saying. It will calm you down, but not your dreams. It will give you peace but will still keep the fire in you going on. It will make you know yourself, without the need to unknow others.

Though, the best time, it says, is early mornings. And though I have experienced the magic of the early morning meditation, you can pursue it any time of the day, depending on the schedule.

Do give time to introspect too during meditation or separately at any other time of the day.

Turn your thoughts about yourself and the world around. Meditate regularly.

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Are you the creator or the reason maker?

Is it everyone else who is holding you back from what you want to achieve? Or is it your own fear and unwillingness to face the consequences of taking the risk that holds you back?

Are you the creator or the reason maker? If you are the creator, it’s not that you will achieve whatever you want. But you will have the satisfaction of trying what you wanted and will not have to find reasons for not doing what you wanted.

Every creator’s legs shake when they pursue their dream. They get sleepless nights and face challenges. But those challenges give them peace at the end of the day because they are pursuing their dreams.

Are you creating your dreams?

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Fixing the broken toilets

Do you go and fix your broken toilets? Or do you take the help of the plumber?

While there is no small work, but the focus should be on doing the work that matters. Work where you can bring creativity and your mind to create value.

When your focus is on creating value, you stop doing things that don’t generate value for others.

Do you focus on generating value or are you busy saving every penny?

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Communication is an art

If you can communicate well, you can sell your ideas and can enroll people for the action.

The lack of communication can create a lot of confusion and unclear expectations. If you want people to get into the action, learn to communicate well.

Communication is the art that, when used well, inspires people to take action. Remember, Only communication isn’t enough. Right communication is needed, which gives clarity and inspires further talks igniting people to find solutions.

To assume that ideas will be understood or confusion will be cleared or for that matter, questions will be answered without communication, then it’s time to rethink. That’s why communication and clear communication is the key to success.

How well do you communicate?

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Be kind even to those who aren’t to you.

Because kindness is something, you want to spread. Be kind even to those who aren’t to you.

We can either be unkind and stay unhappy while making others unhappy, or we can be kind and happy, spreading happiness around.

If someone is unkind, it’s their internal struggle making them do so. It has nothing to do with others, so be compassionate to them and give kindness in return. You never know; your gesture can change them for good.

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Creating stories and talking straight

Stories are great to convey the messages and for the learnings. But the stories created to give reasons and taking the talks to a different path aren’t needed.

There are two types of people, one who talks and hears the straight talks. They talk clear and upfront. In contrast, other types of people would make stories about everything. Even for the talks that need and can be done straight forward, they create the stories. These stories confuse others. Sometimes these are done purposely, and sometimes it’s just the habit and comes from the subconscious mind.

If you want to get the work done and make it easier for others to understand what you are saying, try not to create the stories. Be upfront and straight. And being straight in a polite way.

What is your style? Do you talk straight forward yet polite, or do you create stories and confuse everyone?

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On the fake news

Nothing fake will spread if we stop it at our end.

If rumors are going around, if ‘I’ take the accountability and not spread it further, the rumor will die.

As human beings, we love gossiping, but that’s where all the problems also get started. What if ‘we’ decide that we won’t talk about anyone who isn’t present. Neither good talks nor bad.

Let ‘me’ take responsibility that I will not use anything that is pirated.

These are all small things, but this is what builds the character of our society.

No news or gossip will spread if we decide that it’s our duty not to spread it. Even if others are spreading it, you don’t have to. Someone has to take responsibility; someone has to be the first to pull the breaks on the fake.

Let that first be ‘me.’

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So what time do you wake up?

It’s okay if you sleep till late.

But do try waking up at 5 am and don’t expect anything; feel the magic of 5 am.

Go for a walk, do some indoor workout, read, meditate, or gaze at the sky, do whatever you feel you want to do.

It’s the magic you want to feel, and once you know, you will get hooked to it. Even if you can’t keep up to waking at 5 am, you will want to.

So what time do you wake up? Ever tried 5 am?

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Annoy everyone

Annoy everyone if that’s your being and be the world best at it.

It’s always good to be the best in whatever you do, rather than doing something else and being mediocre.

Go and annoy.

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Do we really want it?

Most of us are having bigger dreams in life. We talk about being the best in the world, having a big business, reaching the sky. But do we really want it?

Most of us live a mediocre life and settle with very little. Why does this happen? What is that doesn’t make us achieve the life of our dreams? What is lacking? Or is it that we want to talk about the big goals because it sounds fancy; otherwise, we really don’t have any bigger dreams?

There is nothing wrong with either of the approaches. We can have bigger dreams, or we might be happy with smaller dreams. It is important to know what you want instead of dreaming about what others have.

When we are talking about the things that we really don’t want, we are creating delusion for ourselves. We run behind the goals just because others have them, without knowing what it takes to achieve them.

And in reality, when we have to give what it takes to make it big, we chicken out. We start to feel burnt out, need a vacation, and enjoy festivals, even if there is work waiting for us that can’t wait. This happens because in the first place, either that’s not our goal or we don’t want to give what it takes. Yes, we keep running behind that imaginary goal, which keeps us frustrate because we can’t reach there, and we don’t accept that that’s not for us.

Live the life that you want. Stop telling yourself a lie, because then you are buying others too into it.

Be what you are and live happily.

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Think before you pull out your frustration

Every time we pull out our frustration on someone, it’s like throwing up on that person. We might feel sorry after doing it, but we might have done permanent damage to someone by that time.

People aren’t garbage on whom we would throw our mental garbage. Every living being is a well-crafted creation of the divine power and deserves the peace of mind.

We might be frustrated with our own reasons, but that doesn’t give us any right to spoil someone’s day. There are people with different tolerant levels to such garbage, and they might get hurt for longer than you think. If you aren’t having a great day, lock yourself and shut down your cell phone until you think you are sane again.

Let’s take responsibility and accountability for other’s peace of mind. Because if everyone starts throwing up, the world will become even more garbage. Let’s make it a place where everyone would love to live.

Next time, if you are frustrated, think of the person you are pulling it out. Another option is to take the right action. If you are frustrated, see what is the real cause and work on that cause. Solve it. That would take the frustration away from you.

Be mindful.

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How about an unplanned year?

We are taught so much about planning, and while planning is great, it just doesn’t work for a few people.

As the new year approaches, most people will set up goals and plan to achieve those goals. While most of us can work only if we have a plan, there always are a few who would perform well when they have the goals but don’t plan them. These people know what their goals are, and they are good at getting them without major planning.

The point is if you are the one who can perform without planning, don’t get into the planning. And if you are the one who does plan, but can never follow the plans, see if you want to give ‘not planning’ a chance this year.

What important is to achieve the goal. If you are good at achieving the goals without planning, how about an unplanned year this time?

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Your circle of happiness

Saal Mubarak. It’s Gujarati New Year, and I wish everyone a Happy New Year.

As we know, we are an average of the five people around. I am sure we are making sure that we surround ourselves with those we see as successful and take benefit from the rule of average.

This new year does also surround yourself with those who are happy. When we become professionally successful and ignore happiness, eventually, we feel unhappy. Professional success and happiness are two different aspects.

While professional success is important, give equal importance to happiness and peace of mind and for the same, use the rule of average. Surround yourself with positive, happy, and cheerful people this year and expand your professional success to personal happiness too.

Let’s embrace Vikram Samvat 2077 with an open mind, open heart, happiness, and positivity.

Saal Mubarak 🙏🏻

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The middle day of the year aka “varas nau vachlo diwas”

It must be unique to India; in Gujarat, we even have this “varas nau vachlo diwas” or the middle day of the year. Which is not even in the middle of the year.

Because Gujratis follow the Lunar calendar, this day happens only in some years, which falls between the day of Diwali and Gujarati new year.

The middle day of the year can be seen as the day when the past is gone, and the future is yet to arrive. The day to reflect on the year that was, learn from it and implement the learnings in the year to come.

This day gives me a special perspective on life. I see this day as a chance to redeem the past and get ready to embrace the future. It’s the day when for me, life pauses to reflect on the past and to look forward to the future.

What are your lessons from the middle day of the year? Do you love to dwell in the past or dream the future or prefer to be in “now”? How are you planning to celebrate this “varas nau vachlo diwas”?

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Happy Diwali

Wishing everyone a happy Diwali. A breakdown year that went by has been a breakthrough in many ways.

It was the year when many things revealed; people came to know others and self a little more. The relations and way of seeing the relations changed. The way we work and what we work for change.

Most of us adapted to these changes, proving that under the surface, we all know that the change is the only constant and that when the times come, we adapt to the change. That has what kept the human race thriving in situations where other species perished.

The same thoughts are the wishes for this Diwali. The strength to stay alive and thrive, no matter what challenges we face.

Also, as a race, humans are special, and we should take care of the other species. Be kind to animals, birds, trees, and plants. To the mother nature and each other.

Let the light of hope be alive. Happy Diwali.

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Festive Gifts

Gift with love. When we gift, we feel good because essentially, as humans, we love to make others happy.

In this festive season, make sure to gift that is useful and within your budget. Post festive season, you should not stress out about overspending on the gifts as though the festivals are the essential part and parcel of life, it should not make you go crazy on spending.

Be still in your thoughts and content in your feelings.

Gifting brings happiness, so do get gifts, and be realistic.

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Being grateful and practicing gratitude

What I have learnt and practicing (not mastered), is to be grateful for what I have.

When I want to see, I see there is so much the life has given. And that most of the time when I am not grateful, is when I compare myself with others achievements or crave for the things, I don’t even need.

Funny thing is, at that point, I don’t even realize that I might not even need it.

Practicing gratitude helps to understand what I have and where my focus should be.

Practicing gratitude and being grateful has been game changer for me to understand my needs and wants.

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Putting efforts in the right direction

Just as there is a big difference between talking and doing, there is a big difference in doing and doing in the right direction.

Often, to get out of the mode of talking, we start acting without thinking if the actions are in the right direction towards our goal. Or we assume that we are busy but in reality, the work is not towards the goal. I call this “feel good” work, where the efforts are behind no goal, but we talk to ourselves that it is towards the bigger goal.

When we get out of the talking mode and into the action mode, the actions are in the right direction towards the goal and not in the direction where the actual difference your action is making is not moving a needle moving towards the goal.

Stop talking, start acting, and start acting towards your goal.

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When the day doesn’t go as planned

When the day doesn’t go as planned, especially on a jam-packed day, we tend to lose our cool and fell into the trap of anxiety. Theoretically, it is easy to say to keep cool and move on to the next task. In reality, we know that it is hard to follow.

Is it impossible to stay cool once something doesn’t go as planned? Do we really need to go cranky and make the whole day unproductive? Is there a way out? Well, what I follow is to go silent for as long as needed. Regain my calm. If needed, I take a walk or do meditation.

One of the above tricks always clicks and helps me to get back on track. It might take a few minutes to maybe half an hour, and at that point, it does feel a waste of time as the amount of work hovering is huge. It certainly helps to do this exercise to make sure that the rest of the day turns productive and not frustrated or filled with anxiety.

If you face the day when things haven’t been going as per the plan, try one of these tricks. I am sure it will certainly help.

The only challenge is to stay present to use one of these tricks in the pressured workload. And that too is possible.

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What are you gifting this Diwali?

Diwali has always been very special to me since childhood. I always enjoyed the vibe that Diwali brings. The firecrackers, sweets, new clothes, family, friends, everything has always been so much fun. Oh, and receiving the gifts.

As I grew up, receiving the gifts turned into giving the gifts, and it has been equal fun. For the past three years, the focus is shifting to gifting something meaningful and having a message attached to it.

Maybe it’s the natural evolution of life as we experience it. As the experience grows, our focus moves from fun to a different perspective.

Starting from just enjoying the festivals as a kid to making them meaningful and purposeful in sharing the ideas in gifts as life progresses.

At the same time, remember that we were interested only in the fun when we were kids, and every kid deserves it. Our ideology and our experiences shouldn’t be imposed on the kids. When their time comes to be an adult, nothing will stop them.

My theme for this year’s gift is ‘savings and investment’.

What gift are you thinking of this year?

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Read with focus on attaining the wisdom

If someone reads a lot, it is taken for granted that the person is knowledgeable and most of the time it’s true too.

But we should not confuse wisdom with the knowledge. By reading someone can gain the knowledge but wisdom comes only from practicing the knowledge. Without going in depth, and without practicing, knowledge is just the theory.

To turn knowledge in to wisdom, the most important aspect is putting the knowledge to the right action and to keep acting on it until you gain the wisdom.

Read with the aim of attaining the wisdom. Only then the reading is meaningful.

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Game of energy

Ever wonder how sometimes what we think, actually happens? From something as little as how when you feel happy, your energy can spread happiness to others too, to a collective energy can bring change in a whole society.

We normally don’t see this play of energy because we are too busy and don’t think and see things in this way.

If we want to see the world around a better place, flow the similar energy.

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The importance of clear communication

While we live in a world where we can do almost everything remotely, we cannot reduce the importance of communication without seeing other humans the whole day.

In fact, with the reduced face to face interaction, the importance of clear communication has never been more important. When we don’t communicate and communicate openly, the challenges start surfacing. If we want others to know what we want or expect, we need to communicate effectively.

If we start assuming that others will understand without being explained or given clarity, we are inviting challenges.

When we see around, we will see that good communicator can explain their ideas with clarity and edge over those who don’t communicate when it comes to getting the message delivered. And delivering the right message is the first step towards getting the desired results.

What kind of communicator are you? Do you assume, or do you prefer to have clarity? Does your communication confuse others, or does it get the job done?

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Learn not to panic. Instead, collaborate

When the customer comes with a complaint, instead of getting into a panic, the service provider should see the customer’s actual challenge.

Most of the customers are busy in their own world and don’t have time to complain. Instead, they prefer to move on to a different company (mostly your competitor), hoping that they will find the solution. This is not a good situation for either because the service provider will never know what went wrong. And the customer might face the same challenge with another service provider if the customer chooses not to communicate the challenge.

On the part of a service provider, when a client complains, it’s an opportunity. Because the customer is being your consultant, who is pointing you the gaps in your services, and for that, he is paying you too. And for the customer, if he will show the challenge to his service provider, he can expect that they will fix it. But if he will move to the next provider without communicating, he might face the same challenge.

How good it would be if the service provider sees complaints as free consultation by the customer, while the customer sees the challenges he faces as an opportunity to explain it to the service provider and get it right for the future.

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Transformation stage

We go through various transformation stages throughout our life and career. Many events forcefully make us transform and many times because we want to break the status-quo, we initiate transformation.

To most of us, the word transformation brings a feeling of something big. To some, it’s excitement, and to others, it generates the feeling of fear. But it is neither. It is just an ongoing event. It’s our perception that makes it big.

As life progresses, we can connect the dots and see that we live in the constant transformation phase. We evolve daily. Most of the time, the only difference is, we are unaware of the subtle transformations happening every day.

And, because life flows freely, the only way to adapt it to accept transformation as the permanent stage. If we understand this, we would embrace and fall in love with the transformation instead of fearing it.

Are you holding back any change? Are you afraid to challenge the status quo? Think and act. Be the change.

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finishing the task vs. completing them

When we try to handle more than we can, the focus always is on finishing the task. This means we won’t take care of the nitty-gritty and will rush to finish the job in whatever earliest possible way we can and move to the next, repeating the same pattern.

While at times, it is understandable that we have a lot on the hands, but only we would do the job right, the job will complete. Otherwise, it will come back either as not done right or half done, and that will give trouble to those to whom you have delivered the work and those for whom you are delivering the work.

We also will start looking for various reasons, but in the first place, no one else, and we are the reason for what we delivered. Everything else is just a story.

Only when we take full accountability for our actions, we start looking into completing the job instead of just finishing it.

Be accountable. Have an attention to detail approach and you will serve in a lot better way to everyone involved in the work with you.

Are you finishing your tasks or completing them?

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Expect the unexpected

Life is uncertain. This is the one truth we all know but aren’t willing to accept.

We want life to be in our control, and we wish nothing unexpected should happen. And when something unexpected happens, which always is expected, we get upset.

What, instead, if we learn to live with expecting the unexpected all the time. If we get comfortable with the unexpected, the fear of the unexpected will go away, and it will give us the strength to deal with the situation.

The challenge is, even while we know that life is uncertain for everyone, we feel that life is unfair only to us, while for everyone else, it’s fair. If we can resolve this challenge by understanding that life keeps throwing the challenge to everyone at all the levels, and become open to living with unexpected, it will give us the strength to deal with any situation.

Get in love with the unexpected and elevate your mental health and your life in general. Our love for being in control doesn’t give us peace. The only control that we have is on our mind, and that’s the highest kind of control.

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Feeling and doing

Most of the time, we don’t do the things that we feel. Our feelings and doings most of the time doesn’t match.

We do the things in the impulse, and that’s not always what we feel. What we feel is our deeper inside, which is at the core of our being. Because we don’t have time to check how we feel, we act on whatever our mind says.

What if we check our feeling every time before we do something? Will our life be different? Will it be more as we want it?

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Milestones

When I started writing my daily learnings in the form of the blog posts, I didn’t had any targets. I didn’t had any milestones set which I would strive to achieve.

The only purpose was to express myself. And today while writing this 300th post, I feel the number is a milestone for myself and now I am looking for the 350th post as a new milestone to look forward to.

I am still not looking for the milestones in my blog posts, but I am enjoying seeing the consistency with which I am able to write. While, more than the number, it is about the satisfaction of expressing myself that I am enjoying. But at the same time this sidekick of milestone is also a good idea to cherish upon.

Isn’t that how we live? We start something with the sense of a purpose, then we get into the achievements. Not that I am saying it is bad, but the purpose should always stay before the achievements.

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Live with the numbers

Instead of going only with the words, see what the numbers say. Don’t also go only with the numbers but including the numbers is certainly a better strategy.

Instead of taking the decisions based on emotions, match it up with the numbers too. If the number says a different story, you at least have a different angle, which you certainly need to think upon.

We tend to make decisions based on emotions based on how we feel for someone or something at a given time. When mapped these feelings with the numbers, we can see the real story.

Love the numbers and live them.

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Tip to stop comparing yourself

Most of us tend to compare ourselves with others. When we compare, we always feel that we are better and deserve more than others, but others undeservingly get more, which triggers us. This is natural, and this is what our mind tells us all the time.

How to tackle this situation of comparison?

Next time, when you compare yourself with someone, do the five/ten exercises. Give yourself ratings out of ten, with ten being the highest, and rate the person you compare yourself with, out of five. For example, you rated yourself an eight and the other person a four. Now see that the other person needs only one point to be perfect, and you need two points to make it to the ten.

Once done, see that you need to work double on the self, compared to the other person. Eventually, you will stop comparing yourself with others as you will start learning that comparison is useless, and focus on self-improvement is everything.

Comparison brings nothing but rage. Working on the self brings improvement, which eventually leads us to be better. But better than whom? Better than the self. You have to beat only yourself to grow.

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Handling the triggers

Learn to understand when you get triggered. And when you see you are triggered, either go silent or walk off but don’t get into the debate at that point.

Knowing the trigger and working on it would save you from the aftermath as when you are triggered, you will more likely do out integrity. And this can start a chain reaction.

When triggered, accept you are triggered and go silent if you know no better way to handle it.

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The journey of a Yogi and a Businessman

A yogi aspires to attain the highest level of self-realization. Through the thick and thin of his experience, he must remain calm, focused, and concentrated on his goal. It takes him years of practice, knowledge, learnings, and failures before he can actually see a glimpse of the success of his goal.

Likewise, a businessman’s journey should also be like that of a yogi. He has to stick to his ultimate goal without getting lured for any shortcuts to success. When a business person keeps increasing his knowledge, practice what he has learned from his knowledge and failures, and keep his head calm in all the situations while expecting the unexpected all the time, he actually sees success.

While a yogi’s success is self-realization, and the success of a businessman could be material gain, the journey of both is the same. If the businessman becomes focused on one and only one goal, stay calm, keep patience, and don’t get lured into distractions, his journey is no lesser than a yogi’s.

After all, it’s about the journey you experience. You don’t have to be a yogi to realize self; you can be a businessman, practice everything in your business that a yogi does in his self-realization practice, and still can attain the self.

No matter what you aspire, don’t forget to read the useful scriptures, have the master coaches or the real gurus, and stick to your goal.

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Life is a balance between giving and taking

We cannot give less and take more or even give more and take less. Whenever giving and taking are balanced naturally, life goes smoothly.

Plants and trees give us oxygen, and in return, we balance by giving them carbon dioxide. Employees give their time and talent in return for money and fulfillment of their goals. Citizens pay taxes, and the government gives facilities in return.

Giving and taking has to be in harmony. If plants start taking only carbon dioxide and stop giving oxygen, life can’t sustain. If employers take more work or when employees give less work, the long term equilibrium would be disturbed. If the citizens don’t pay taxes and the government doesn’t give the deserving facilities, the nation’s harmony will be disturbed.

If we don’t give back to nature, in the balance of what we take, the world’s sustainability would not be balanced.

When taking, think if you are giving enough back. Balance is the key to sustain and thrive.

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Do everything with conscious choice

We do things either out of obligations or with conscious choice. Though falling into obligation also is our choice, it is not the wiser route.

When we do anything out of obligation, it doesn’t last long, or we don’t do it as expected because we don’t feel it the right thing to do.

But when we do things with our conscious choice, we tend to stick to it for the longest time because our heart permits it.

Further, when we do things under any obligation, we are more prone to revolt and finally do things that we don’t want to do in a calmer state of mind.

Though both are the choices, pick the one you will stick to for a longer period of time.

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The beginning of the end of the new normal?

Since the beginning of the time when humans started socializing, we live together, eat together, and work together. The whole socializing is in our DNA, and it can’t be replaced by phone or video calls because we want to feel people.

What has started as a new normal is already seems to be the end of it. What has been in our subconscious as impression over the period of centuries won’t go away in a few months or years? Our yearning to meet. And socializing isn’t going anywhere.

Work From Home might stay for some as it had other benefits. Outside of that, the new normal is already counting its days.

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Be respectful to become remarkable

There are two ways of serving your customers. Either you can treat your customers as someone who is interrupting your beautiful life by doing business with them. Or you can be respectful to your customers, remember their names, giving them special treatment and become remarkable.

Being respectful or industrial isn’t dependent on whether you are a small local company or a giant having a global footprint. Instead, it depends on the management, what they think of the customer relation, how much they are training their employees, how much they care.

Be remarkable with your customer service, no matter what size your business is because business is about leaving a positive impact on others’ lives.

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Agreement and Disagreement

What I said isn’t what you heard. You heard from your perspective and disagreed.

We all have different perspectives, and many times what is told and what is heard are different. This can lead to confusion if you don’t get a chance to clear the air.

If ever such confusion arises, make sure you sort it out with open communication and clear the context of what you said.

To disagree and getting confused is natural, and to solve it, the only way is open communication because open communication can help you clear the context behind what you said.

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Freedom Model

Freedom is not about not working or not doing. Freedom also is not about being irresponsible.

On the contrary, freedom is about living without boundaries, striving for difficult goals, not bowing to the outside pressure, inspiring others instead of managing them, setting up examples instead of lecturing, breaking all the mental barriers, and taking accountability for your life. That’s freedom.

Believe in the freedom, shoot for the sky. Unless you shoot for the sky, you will not feel real freedom.

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Focus on the real cause

While facing a challenge, go to the bottom of the challenge, find the real cause, and get the solution.

Often, we start thinking of everything else as the cause of a particular challenge, followed by the steps that aren’t relevant, which leads to even more problems.

Instead, if we focus on the real cause, we can find the real solution. Otherwise, we feel we are working on a solution but won’t solve the problem, which might create even more challenges.

Think deep, what the real cause is, and then tackle it. You might find this method slow because you are anxious and want quick actions. But it is a much better way for a meaningful solution.

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Waiting for things to happen vs. making things happen

Either you can wait for things to happen, or you can go ahead and make things happen.

When we wait, we are in a reactive mode. We react when opportunity knocks, and most of the time, we can’t see the opportunities when we are in the reactive mode.

While, when we go ahead and embrace things and make them happen, we are in a proactive mode. In proactive mode, we are actually controlling what we want instead of things to happen on its own.

Neither approach is wrong. It is us to decide if we want to control our destiny or be controlled by destiny.

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The stories we should tell ourselves

The stories we tell ourselves could be the one that gives us peace, or it could be the one that takes away the peace.

It is up to us what we want from life. The stories that we tell ourselves that leaves an impression in our mind. It is these impressions that then manifest. What is manifested is the total of what we think.

Feed your mind the stories that you want for yourself. When your mind takes you to the unwanted stories, feed your mind the contrasting story of what you want it to do.

If you want success, happiness, and peace, feed your mind the success stories, as it would manifest what it is nurtured with.

The stories we should tell ourselves are the stories we want to live.

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It’s more fun when we know why

Most of the time, we go with the flow when it comes to following the rituals.

We don’t bother to know why a certain ritual is being followed. We either do things out of the fear or do it just because it is to be done without understanding; why?

Create the habit of questioning everything you do in day to day life. Be curious. Know why, and it would be more fun doing it.

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Be intentional without creating the tensions

When we know the work on hand and become intentional about that work, then the loftiest work can be completed without creating the tensions.

We create tensions when we are fearful. The fear could be because seen any number of reasons. But that leads us to spread the same, the fear.

When we know what we want, are intentional about it, and are into action, there is no fear. And when there is no fear, we are at ease, and we let others at ease.

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Be intentional without creating tensions

When we know the work on hand and become intentional about that work, then the work’s loftiest can be completed without creating tensions.

We create tensions when we are fearful. The fear could be because seen of any number of reasons. But that leads us to spread the same, the fear.

When we know what we want, are intentional about it, and are into action, there is no fear. And when there is no fear, we are at ease, and we let others at ease.

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Keep things simple

Most of the things in life are simple. It’s the human brain that makes things complicated.

It is true for both business and personal lives. Managing relations and building a business should be simple, and it is simple. It is us who makes things complicated.

When we see that things are simple, we doubt how it can be so simple and work hard to make it complicated.

And when we complicate things, we waste our energy, focus, and, most importantly, our time.

Keep things simple. That’s the best way.

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We find what we search for

How many times have you searched something on the search engine and found what you were searching for?

No matter if you are looking for a recipe, some news, or a contact number, or a product to purchase, you will find it only if you will search for it and that too with the correct keywords. No brainer, right?

Unless you don’t tap into the search engine the correct keyword, it will send the irrelevant results.

And even in our life, we find what we search for. If you are looking for nice people, you will find the same; if you be looking for success, you will find the same. If you are looking for an abundance of love, health, and wealth, you will find the same, provided that you know what you are searching for.

If your life isn’t what you want it to be, check if you are searching for the right thing.

Key is, the right search with the right keyword.

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Ask a Question

Do not take things on the face value. No matter if you read something, hear something, or see something, do not accept unless it is backed by solid proof.

When things aren’t proved, go, and question, and if you aren’t satisfied with the answers, the next step is to experiment and experience things yourself. When we experience, we know exactly how it is.

Be wise, though, when you follow this strategy. Put time only where finding the answer is worth it.

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That funny, awkward moment

I am sure we all go through that awkward moment when we call someone, and about after five seconds into the conversation, we realize we called someone else with the same first name and the last name.

Well, I did that again today, and my reaction as I realized was to apologize and accept that it was by mistake. Nonetheless, by mistake, the call ended up with a good two minutes talk, and the acceptance was very well received.

I realized that accepting that we have goofed up and made the best out of the mistake is where we should focus. After all, everything happens for a reason.

How often do you make such goof ups? My ratio isn’t bad, just because I hardly make calls.

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A replacement is not always necessary

When we are busy doing something, and when it is over, we feel void. And to fill up this void, we try to get busy.

Many times to fill up the void is more of an emotional decision than a rational. Instead, when something is over, enjoy the void, let it be the void. Who knows, the situation might bring something even better.

Why can’t it be avoided for the time being or for an extended time too? A replacement is not always necessary.

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Be remarkable

It is easy to be unremarkable. You can be in any field, make a good living, and build a thriving business and still be unremarkable. Being remarkable is not the needed step to becoming successful.

But if you want to do the work that is affecting others’ lives positively, where you inspire others to become even a better version of themselves, then focus on being remarkable.

Doing the inspiring and remarkable work is difficult, but that’s the way of life you want to perceive.

Being remarkable helps inspire others.

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How do you move to a higher level

Focus on the one goal and give everything to it. Live, eat, drink, and breathe only and only that one goal.

When you put all your energy into one thing and don’t let anything divert you from your goal, it will manifest.

Once you achieve your goal, then move to the more challenging target and repeat the same process.

This way, you will challenge yourself to move to higher levels in life.

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That one person

Whenever an important discussion is going on, there will always be one person who will personally pick the discussion. That person will focus on clutter while everyone else is trying to focus on the main agenda.

You have to see that your talks and the plans stay on track. Learn how to keep the talks on track. It’s important.

This is equally true in professional and personal lives: that one colleague, that one friend, that one cousin. There always is the one who loves to see things the way they aren’t.

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Keep experimenting or…

Usually, there are two ways to do anything either you do it yourself, which popularly is known as DIY, or you hire someone who knows how to do it and supports you in getting it done.

Which path to choose depends on person to person and situation to situation. Some likes do it themselves, no matter how long it takes and how many opportunities are missed. While others like it quick, and all that matters to them is the speed, they prefer to hire someone who can guide them through.

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What did you delete?

What did you delete? How many times do you get this question when you delete a message because it had a mistake or because you realized it wasn’t in good taste?

It’s so obvious, and still, most of us ask the question. How many other obvious things make you react in the same way?

Reflect on it. It’s hilarious.

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Give your plan enough time to generate the results

We wait a long time to take action, and once we act, we want immediate results. But that is not how things work.

Everything takes time to generate results, and getting impatient stresses you and weakens your commitment.

Be sure about the plan, give the time for the execution, and the desired results will follow.

Keeping patience is the key.

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thoughts, deeds, and words

When our thoughts, deeds, and words are in sync, we don’t live pretentious lives.

If you see you feel different inside and shows different outside, check what isn’t in the sync and fix it. When we consciously align our thoughts, deeds, and words, it’s a bliss in itself.

Are your thoughts, deeds, and words aligned and in the sync?

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Do you have the right top line in the place?

Always build the team first, and the rest will follow.

Hire the top management team, even if it is not affordable at that point in time. Pick everyone yourself. Once that is done, let your team pick their subordinates.

Many times we compromise on hiring the top line, and that pulls brakes on the growth.

Never wait for the business to flourish before building the team because it will grow only when you will have the right team.

Do you have the right top line in the place?

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Setting up the system

Work in a way where you are setting up the system for the others to follow it. The generation to come will enjoy your hard work’s fruits and take it to the next level.

This is true for the leaders in politics, business, and family.

When you are a leader, your role becomes larger than life. Be the leader who shows the path to success.

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Stay focused on your goal

When you are focused on a goal and working towards it, the journey will be full of challenges. There will be a time when you will feel to take a detour. But taking a detour sometimes doesn’t just change your route; it might also change your goal.

To make sure your detour doesn’t change your goal, keep eyes fixated on your goal all the time.

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hiring people

We normally feel empathy for those who need jobs, and we hire them. That’s not just an empty but also a sure backfire idea.

Those who need a job end it when the need is over. They jump off the bus as need is gone.

Instead, hire those who have the same goal and travel the journey together, giving whatever it takes. When everyone has the same goal, the journey becomes satisfying.

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not everything is a criticism

When you are working with a team, be open to the suggestion, especially when you have asked for it. If we start taking suggestion as a criticism and react instead of responding, eventually people will stop giving the suggestions.

And it is our loss when we stop getting suggestions. While working with others, be open to the communication.

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Don’t fix what isn’t broken

You have a solid plan, a great team and the zeal to make it happend make sure you then focus on execution part.

Sometimes when the execution is not up to the mark, instead of fixing the execution, we revise the plan and that leads to the same below par results.

Know what needs the fixing and work there. Don’t fix what isn’t broken.

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know your energy

When you talk about something or someone, check your feelings. Are you feeling happy or toxic? Does the talk brings a smile or do you frown? How you feel tells a lot about the energy that’s generated.

Either way, to understand your energy helps understand what to pursue and what to avoid.

Stay present all the time and practice understanding your energy, it would be good for your peace of mind.

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breaking the comfort zone is so overrated

If you are good at the cricket, you don’t want to move to golf which you aren’t interested in nor can play well.

There is no point in breaking the comfort zone if it’s not needed. Instead, expand your comfort zone. If you are a good batsman work on becoming the great one, don’t try a balling to prove you can break your comfort zone.

Be what you are, just be great at it. That’s all about the comfort zone. Everything else about comfort zone is so overrated.

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When we take responsibility

When we take responsibility, we should own it. We should take accountability for what we said we would do. Do it because it’s a responsibility, not because someone wants it.

It should not be someone’s responsibility to take follow-ups. It should be your responsibility to do it. When we own our words, no one has to follow-up with us because we will never let ourselves down.

The customers should be delighted for your proactivity, for you owning your words and working with full accountability. You don’t have to give discounts or chase customers for the payment because you haven’t made them track you to get the work done.

When we take responsibility, we are accountable for it.

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time is the only real currency

Only time has real value. You can generate everything, including wealth but not the time.

What you do with your time defines what you become. If you are saving money and give up time, you are giving up something that you can’t produce for something that you can generate.

You can’t afford to spare your time as a charity. Be wise with your time and focus on saving as much time as possible. Saving time doesn’t mean to be lazy, as that’s too is the waste of your time.

Build your life where you can spend time the way you want, still generating wealth for yourself because that’s how you can have QUALITY time for yourself and for those for whom you care.

Focus on where you put your time. Think before accepting any invitation, and before you jump into any business or a relation. Your choice will define if your time is invested or wasted.

Be wise. Don’t waste the only limited resource you have.

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Do not do what you love

Do what is valuable because you might be loving to drive the car, or brewing a cup of coffee, or playing sports. And you might not be interested in becoming a cabbie or a barista or might not be talented enough to be a professional cricketer.

Do not do what you love, unless what you love is valuable enough. Instead, do what is useful and then enjoy doing what you love to do as your hobby.

Be smart and play your cards right.

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When it’s time to decide, choose wisely

We all have choices to stay where we are or to do something about it. Every choice we make has an impact on our lives. Some choices have smaller, while others have an enormous impact. Some choices have a shorter term, while others have long term impacts.

If we are making choices for instant gratitude, we have to be ready for the long term consequences. For example, if we are willing to eat junk for instant gratitude, we have to be ready for the long term health consequences.

While making choices, evaluate what impact your decision is going to have on your life. Because what we choose is what we become. No one, absolutely no one is responsible for what we are. It is all our choices that have made us what we are today, and it will be our choice, what we will be tomorrow.

When it’s time to decide, choose wisely.

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have processes if you want freedom

When we have processes in place, it gives us freedom. When we have free time, we get time to be more creative. Without free time, we keep doing a mundane job.

Decide what you want to do? Keep doing the same thing or want to create a system and set up business and life in auto-mode? When you put the time in creating a design and processes, you get freedom from where it is easy to grow and comfortable for your team to follow the instructions.

Without the processes, people get confused as they do not have clarity on what you expect from them.

If you want to build the business, build the process first. Give clarity and enjoy the journey of freedom. Freedom to create, freedom to let people do their job, and the freedom to drive the growth.

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daily gratitude

It is easy to forget to be grateful in the daily rut of the life.

We live in the world which is in the constant race. Be up early because everyone else is waking up, be busy otherwise you would look lazy, keep networking otherwise you will be left out, be in the race because world is in the race.

And behind all the races, we forget to be grateful about what we have. The home, the peace of mind, the work we do, the people around, the beautiful sunrise, the birds chirping.

It is okay to be in the race as it’s fact of today’s life, just make sure you be grateful of what you have.

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Ignorance is not always a bliss

Ignorance is not always a bliss. Ignorance leads to the unknown fear, making up it’s own stories.

Even for the bliss, it’s important to go through the circle of knowledge, implementing the same and then letting it all go. That is the bliss.

Unless you don’t know what you are letting go, the bliss can’t be the real. Ignorance is not always a bliss, knowledge is.

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get the right people on-board

When there is a lot to do, start taking one task at a time and start getting them done.

If you will keep thinking and will look for endorsement from others, the pile of work will keep increasing and that will not generate results.

To generate results, you need to have a clear plan of action and the right tools. These tools could be the right people, too, because you cannot do everything alone. Get the right people on board for your mission and get support from them.

Do whatever it takes, don’t sit and think. Get the right people on-board and in the life, and be in action.

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focusing on your zen

When you know all yet, you let it be without feeling the need to change anything. When you don’t let others talk to get into your head, and are focused on your zen. That’s when you know you are on the path of peace, success and courage to lead your life and that of others.

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new challenges need new solutions

While most of the business basics are the same post-COVID, many things have changed too. What was working before COVID, might not work now.

Don’t try to sell the same solutions that are not relevant anymore. Focus on what new challenges have arisen and build your solutions around them. We live in a totally different world and this new world needs new solutions.

See the businesses with new eyes, understand what is needed by your client today, find the gaps that you can help them a bridge, and provide the solutions based on these learnings. If you are ready to take that step, there is a lot of businesses that are waiting for your answer.

New challenges need new solutions. Don’t sell cookie-cutter, old era solutions to the challenges of the new world.

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change the right thing

When the need is to change how you work, focusing on cosmetic changes will be useless. Focus on the structural change that can lead to the desired results.

Changing the logo, or making a new website, or changing your sales story would be a fruitless effort when the need is to change how you approach the work, how you manage the projects, and how you handle the challenges.

We live in a delusion when we think doing cosmetic changes would change the way we work. It would change nothing.

Make-up applied on the face doesn’t change the soul. When the need is to work on the soul, work on the soul.

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what if you are satisfied with your career?

If you are satisfied, push your limits farther. Push not because you aren’t satisfied but because you know you can do better.

Satisfaction shouldn’t hold you back on what you can do.

When we push our limits, life stays fresh. Otherwise, it becomes stale.

No matter how happy you are, never stop.

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first decide what you want

Only when we get determined about achieving something, we start finding the ways.

When we aren’t decided, our subconscious thinks of the alternatives and find reasons on how it is not-possible. As soon as we are decided, the same reasons turns into doing things.

When you want to achieve something, decide and get determined. Everything will start falling in place when you know what you want.

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the milestones

Achieving a milestone gives us pleasure and a way to look forward to the next one.

The journey is all about setting up milestone after milestones until you reach the destination.

Without the milestones, it would be a tedious journey. With them it’s a fun as we get to celebrate our small victories.

On this 250th blog post in a row, I am excited, happy for the streak and feeling full of gratitude today.

Thank you for mentoring, me, guiding me, reading my blog posts, and making it possible for me to achieve this milestone.

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when you collaborate with competitors

When you collaborate with your peers and competitors, you can make something bigger happen.

What better company can you get than having like-minded people to work on something big? When you have got a chance to collaborate with like-minded peers, grab it.

Competing is easy; collaborating is not because we are naturally competitive. When we unite, we see outside of our comfort, and it is always going to be a challenge.

Make sure you have the right structure in place so that collaboration becomes successful. And always have a glue that will stick everyone.

While it’s fun to go alone, if you want to go farther, you need a company.

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giving up isn’t easy, still, give it up

Don’t hold up on the matter that isn’t needed. When we hold on to those matters, we lose new opportunities.

The new opportunities emerge when we let go. Next time when you are holding onto something, think if holding is needed or moving forward is a better option?

Giving up isn’t easy because we get attached. When we give up, we are relieved, and we feel free. When we feel free, we see new opportunities.

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protect your time

When it’s work time, don’t indulge in personal activity and when it’s personal time, protect it.

Unless you will make it clear, people will not know and will buzz you at the odd hours too.

Living in the new normal, the line between personal and professional time is disappearing. This can disrupt your life.

To protect your time is your responsibility so that you can give justice to different roles in life. And do it with zeal.

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Why is a commitment more significant than integrity?

While I am a firm believer in integrity, it is equally essential to have committment.

Sometimes, integrity is disturbed due to one or another circumstance. And only when you are committed, you will bounce back. If you aren’t committed, it would be challenging to keep integrity once you break it.

While integrity is essential, being committed is far more significant to attain any goal.

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accepting failure is the road to success

Accepting failure is a way of getting back on track. It helps to find ways to fix the failure.

If you are in the denying mode for your failure, what is supposed to be a small problem can turn into an enormous challenge. From which it would become harder to bounce back.

Also, you are leading others in the wrong direction by continually running the propaganda about showing your failure as success.

When you fail, accept it. That will start your journey towards finding the solution. And eventually will turn into a road to success.

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looking through the haziness

Looking through the haziness when the weather is rought isn’t easy. We all experience it when it’s cloudy or foggy, which makes our vision difficult.

For example, when a pilot is flying an airplane on a foggy day and has to land the airplane, his vision isn’t very clear. To support the landing on a rough day, the pilot has the support system that helps him navigate through the fog and land safely.

Without the complete system and processes, the pilot would be landing on his judgment, which will come from his experience. With the design, he will go ahead with full confidence.

To land safely in a tough time, build a system around yourself that supports and guides you through the haziness.

What system have you built to navigate through the rough weather so that you can achieve your vision?

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don’t do the things just because others are doing it

Know yourself. Don’t do anything just because other’s are doing. It’s okay to be left out, if being in a group isn’t taking you towards your vision.

To take your own path is okay, if that is how you are. And being with the crowd is okay too, if that’s you.

Neither of the ways is good or bad, and nothing is right or wrong.

Just do what you are to enjoy what you are doing. Don’t do things just because others are doing it.

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take a break

When you are overworked, overstretched, and dragging, take a break.

Come back afresh and take the plunge into the work again. You will be more focused and determined.

Taking a break gives you the needed mental and physical space. Otherwise, you will feel gloomy, disillusioned, and the results would be the same.

There can’t be any rule, and you should know when your body and mind are asking for off time.

Whenever you need, take a break.

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Customer Relationships Manager

Customer Relationship Manager’s job is to bridge the gap between the customer and the company.

A CRM should think and act with balance. If they are talking only for one side, the whole idea of CRM is lost. If you are tracking your customers data, do that to see how you can help them, not only to get more business. Customers are smart, they know when you are helping.

We see most of the CRM from banks, insurance, mutual funds, ISPs aren’t able to generate enough faith in their customers. This can be reversed if the focus is on the helping their customers.

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the new normal phase two

We lived the new normal, and now it’s over. What was new normal a few months ago is now just the routine, and phase two has become the new normal.

With the economy opening and with more people stepping out, the new normal phase two has begun. Already plan for phase one is obsolete, and phase two needs a revised plan and strategy.

You need to see what are the challenges and opportunities in normal phase two. Because it’s an agile time, adapting to the new environment is essential.

Be an observant to see that the new normal is gone now and that we are in phase two already.

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breakdowns are inevitable

When you are on a mission, you tend to make decisions that you think would help.

You conduct the meetings, plan the next step, get everyone enrolled, and are ready to launch the task. And at the last moment, you and your team feel there isn’t enough clearance. Everyone is still confused and is in doubt.

At that point, the biggest challenge is that the announcement is made. What would people think if you will roll back the launch? How much impact will it have on the image? Will people get un-enrolled? These and more questions would arise, which will lead to fear and will stop you from rolling back, even when knowing that launching will create even more challenges. You are confused and worried as its the catch 69 situations.

The thing you should do in such a situation is that if it is not the time to launch, roll it back, and announce the breakdown. Accept and declare that it wasn’t the right time to launch.

Breakdowns are inevitable at times, and you should deal with them with courage.

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that amazing feeling

I love to write blog everyday as it’s my medium to express myself.

I get that ‘amazing’ feeling when I write it by noon. Post noon, it’s time for meetings and phone calls that consume the rest of the day. And when I write the blog just before hitting the bed, i sometimes drag. Which doesn’t generate the amazing feel that I get writing my blog.

Writing daily blog is also giving me openings on my own preferences.

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free is not viable forever

We love free things but free is not viable forever.

Sometimes we adore things only as long as it’s free. And we expect it to stay that way forever, even if we know what we are getting is valuable and involve a cost to the provider.

But how long someone can get us things for free? Either they have to start charging or they have to shut the shop. Practically, everyone would like to avoid the situation.

Be generous and willing to pay for the services that you enjoy. That’s the only way you can enjoy it forever.

Remember, free is not viable forever.

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journey of peace

It’s your job to create the peace for yourself. No one is going to take responsibility for your peace if you don’t care about it yourself. After all, others too have to take care of their own peace.

If you don’t want to be around someone who is not at the peace, how can you expect others to do the same?

To be at the peace is the solo sports. You can’t expect others to be the part of the solo sports. Yes, there can be guides, mentors, coaches, other players along the journey to tag along.

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a personality trait about you might not be the rule

You might have patience about something. That doesn’t mean you are patient for everything.

While I can be meditatively persistent about what I want, even if it takes a longer period, I can’t say the same when it comes to taking a test.

Since school days, when it comes to the test, I would finish the test off as soon as possible. Mostly the first one to finish in the exam hall. I just don’t have the patience for the test.

I recalled it today when I was giving a certification test and finished the test in forty minutes against the official time of three hours.

The point is, even if your personality trait is patience, it might not be the rule about yourself.

By the way, who else finishes the test paper before everyone else in the exam hall?

PS: Yes, I did score well if you are wondering what happened to the test results. 😁

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Do you want satisfaction?

We want to make it big and live a life of satisfaction. But we don’t want to put in the needed efforts. We don’t like to work hard, take stress and go beyond our fears.

When it comes to doing, we find excuses and reasons for not doing the required. We choose to tell ourselves stories about not doing the needed.

Or, we can pick what is our calling and live the life of satisfaction by giving everything that it takes.

It’s a choice.

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Work From Hotel

WOW, the famous hotel chain Hyatt has launched a new program. The program is specifically designed for those who are working from home and still need a break. The program is called Work From Hotel, it’s still WFH, smartly.

The Work From Hotel initiative is just one of the many ideas we have seen during this pandemic.

To cope up with challenging economy, companies are trying new things, some ideas are working, others not. The important thing is, this pandemic has given everyone an opportunity. Those who are taking the chances, aren’t going to be the sure shot winners, but they certainly have a better chance to come out as a winner, post pandemic.

What is your idea? Have you given your idea an shot?

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take your time but finish one task

Take your time,but finish one task instead of jumping on ten different tasks and not completing any.

It feels good when you are managing multiple tasks, as you feel a lot of things are started. In reality, you are loosing confidence and focus as you don’t see any task reaching to the completion.

Take one task, finish it with focus and with speed. Then move on to the next one. This is how you complete a lot of tasks over the period of time with peace of mind and better results.

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when we are in the favorable position

When we are in the favourable position, we shouldn’t take undue advantage. We think it’s smart to take benefit of others. Instead, we should think how to be fare with someone who is not in as favorable position as we are.

When someone is taken advantage of, that person learns the same and do the same when it’s his turn.

If we pass on what we have experienced, why not we spread the good for the betterment of the humanity?

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some great learnings from early bird 5 am club

Below are some great learnings from early bird 5 am club. Value generated by many different speakers who also are part of the club.

  • The abundance of money is good because it brings you freedom. More importantly, never criticize anything that you want in life.
  • Happiness: Your actions define your happiness.
  • Learn from the past, analyze data without being emotional, and create a future with the power of observation.
  • There are always two thoughts going in our head, but listen to your heart, talk to your heart, and you will always find the answer.
  • If you doubt, you create confusion. Don’t doubt, instead, have faith if you want to reach to the destination. 
  • Follow policies yourself too, that your peer are following.
  • Success is when it is 360 degrees. I am successful when I can do the work that I love, specialize in it, and contribute to others’ success. 
  • What I learned today is that habit can be overcome by replacing it with positive habits. And I will make the list of ten things that trigger my negativity and which I will change it with positivity.
  • When you fulfill your duty, challenges will come, but a solution will follow it. Finish what you start.
  • Self-value: Know your value, respect yourself.
  • To use seasonal vegetables and also learned how many health benefits it had and how many vegetables to eat in a day.
  • Whenever I have supplied something to my subconscious mind, I have always received the answer. I will do it without doubting the subconscious mind’s capabilities.
  • I have experienced whenever I put trust and monitor periodically; it gives me the freedom to work on my tasks. It also gives freedom to my team.
  • Mock your role model. To achieve the goal, you have to remind yourself every day what your goals are and take massive actions on it.

The effort that goes into creating value is tremendous and I can’t be grateful enough to every value generators at Early Bird 5 AM Club.

Are you waking up early? Are you an IT professional? If so, I invite you to join the life-changing club at Early Bird 5 AM Club.

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Do you know what your creative hours are?

I am most productive early in the morning, and as the day progresses, my concentration, energy, and willingness all drop. And by the time it’s evening, I want to be done with the work and unwind.

It has been the same for years, and I know a few people who operate the exact opposite. Which is fine too, important is to understand what are your creative hours. Once you know your creative hours, leverage it to get the maximum outcome.

If someone is comfortable with the early mornings, and if you are in the late evening type, don’t try to change yourself. Just know what you are, be you and act likewise, wisely.

Do you know what your creative hours are? Share your thoughts.

PS. I have to make sure my early bird buddy wakes up before 5 am. If they haven’t, I have to give them the call and vice versa. Today, at 5 am, when one of my two buddies didn’t show up on the WhatsApp group, I called. I ended up calling Chirag Patel, who is not even in the early bird group, instead of Chetan Patel. Well, that was the LOL moment for both Chirag and me, as Chirag took it more gently.

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being creative and sticking to something

When you are creative, you generate a ton of ideas. Instead of sticking to one plan, you keep jumping from one thought on to another without completing the first idea.

As you aren’t sticking to one thing, you aren’t able to bring the scaling to any work. And eventually, it leads to the performance that is below your caliber.

While being creative is great, to learn to focus on one thing, scaling it up, and then moving on to the next will give you the satisfaction of making it big.

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the rivalry is a choice

You take it from the Ramayana, each of the four brothers, Ram, Bharat, Lakshman, and Shatrughan, were ready to give up the throne and life for each other. Though they were stepbrothers, they co-operated with each other.

If you take it from the Mahabharata, Pandavas and Kauravas were ready to kill each other, and that leads the whole epic to the war of Kurukshetra and killing almost entire Kuru clan.

In both the epics, the elders were equally responsible. It was the main character that made the difference. Ram and his siblings choose not to rival each other, and they prospered, unlike Pandavas and Kauravas.

If you choose not to rival anyone, no one can make them your rivals. It can be your sibling or a competitor. Instead, if you decide to co-operate, everyone can grow to a better future.

The matter of rivalry is the question of choice. It’s up to us if we want to see foes around or want to make friends.

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be the guide to the hero

Everyone is the hero of their own life. The hero doesn’t need another hero, and they need a guide to solve the hero’s challenges. The guide’s role is to support the hero to solve his difficulties and help him achieve his goals.

Hero and guide relation holds both in personal and professional lives. We hire a company that acts as our guide and solves our problems so that we can achieve our goals. Likewise, we look to the friend or relative who can guide us when we are confused and help us get clarity so that we can achieve what we want from our life.

Never try to be a hero in other’s life, as they already have a hero themselves. Be the guide.

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the only three things you can ever control

The only three things you can EVER control are your actions, your reactions, and your mindset.

Everything else is outside of your control. Never try to control what you can’t. Instead, focus on self, and control what you really can.

When we focus on controlling elements that we can, we feel peace. It’s not easy, but once you get it, you will be at peace. Once you focus only on your actions, reactions, and mindset, you will stop worrying about others are doing.

The bigger picture is, if everyone focus on only their actions, reactions, and mindset, everyone will be at peace. Again, that is something we can’t control, so let’s control what we can.

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What were your favorite comic books and video games?

What were your favorite comic books and video games while growing up?

I loved Chacha Chaudhary, Pinky, and Bill00 when I was a kid, along with Amar Chitra Katha that used to had moral stories. Mythological stories were also one of my favorites.

In the teens, I came across Archies comics and became a massive fan of Jughead Jones. Also, I read a lot of superman, phantom, mandrake, and spiderman comics. Spiderman is my favorite to date.

The reading hobby from childhood eventually turned into a more serious reading habit. Today, I love reading mythology, sales and marketing, autobiographies, history and culture, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality.

At the same time, I used to love video games from Atari and Nintendo. Some of my favorites were Pac-man, Missile Command, Space Invaders, Super Mario, Pinball, and Donkey Kong.

I still play Super Mario once in a while and Subway Surfer when I am in the mood to enjoy a good game. Oh, and once in a while, I try to read Archies and Chacha Chaudhary too but can’t read more than a couple of pages, LOL.

Share, what were your favorite comics books and video games? Do you still read comics and play video games?

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now the need is for the internal freedom

Happy Independence Day to all the fellow Indians.

Freedom brings an opportunity, and every liberty binds us to another dependency. At the core, humans like to be dependent, striving for freedom.

Though we love freedom, we are scared of it because freedom brings responsibility. Only when we accept responsibility, we become truly free.

To be free is a choice, and now the time is for internal freedom. Let’s free ourselves from biases, attachments, gender, caste, religion, you and me, yours and mine, your country and my country, your God and my God, superior and inferior, hardworking and smart working, virtual and real.

An imagination of free country gives birth to the idea of freedom. Likewise, a vision of internal freedom ultimately will provide us with inner freedom.

Today, let’s start a new movement. Let’s celebrate internal freedom.

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Do you love credit card reward points?

I love credit cards because they offer reward points and perks. Do you love credit card reward points?

I collect points fanatically. I use credit cards for various types of purposes, but the maximum points I gather are for travel. Travel reward points get me closer to flying free and upgrading my flights. I always try and double down airline and credit card points. Together they take me faster to a free trip.

Many travel credit cards also offer a lot of perks like free access to airport lounges, priority checking in and boarding, and discount on certain fares, improving the traveling experience.

I also collect points for rewards from payback.in to redeem it for amazon vouchers and use ICICI Amazon Pay card for the purpose.

While most of the credit cards don’t allow rewards points on the purchase of fuel, ICICI HP card has a tie-up with payback.in. This tie-up enables users to collect points on fuel expenses too.

I also use a separate card to maximize points on hotel stays that I can redeem against the future stay or convert them to airlines points.

And finally, a credit card that gives maximum cashback on utility expenses like electricity and gas bills.

I used to love the American Express Jet Privilege card, but it isn’t there anymore (not the card, the airlines 😛 Sorry Jet). Since then, I haven’t been able to find a purposeful replacement.

The one card I always wanted to possess is the American Express Metal card. It’s the highest level of publicly offered credit cards by American Express in India. Still, it’s too expensive against the perks it provides, so I am avoiding it for a year now. As at the end of the day, every credit card has to prove it’s worth.

Am I using too many cards? Probably? But paying all the dues on the credit card on time enhance my credit score, which is an important factor these days.

Do you love credit card reward points? What kind of credit cards do you use? Share your suggestion on what are the best credit cards in India.

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the transformational journey of early mornings and meditation

It’s been 300 days in a row since I am waking up at 4:45 am. I am grateful to be the part of Early Bird Club, where we inspire and hold each other to be up early. It would not have been possible without this group because I always wanted to be up early, and this group gave me the motivation I needed.

When we started, I never thought or planned to wake up 300 days in a row. But now at this point, I am thinking, why not give a shot to 3000 days and see if 300 days can feel transformational, what 3000 days can do?

Likewise, last year, my highest streak for meditation was 12 days, and then I thought to take a challenge of 365 days. And now when I am almost at 500 days streak, I would like to continue it for 5000 days as I see it’s changing me from inside.

What kind of experience would it be, going into the sixties with 15 years of meditation experience and waking up at 4:45 am every single day? LOL

Heartily, I am grateful to the group at Early Bird Club and also Surat Bookworm Club for the transformational journey so far.

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when an opportunity knocks

When an opportunity knocks we get fearful. Even if the opportunity is the one that we had been waiting for since long.

When opportunity knocks and you get fearful, connect with your guides and your support system. They will guide you out of the fear and will support you to grab the opportunity.

Keep your support system ready for opportunity can knock anytime.

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when you solve someone’s problems

You are adding a new way of seeing a challenge and experiencing the outcome from a different angle when someone reaches out to you with their problem, and you give them the solution.

Solving other’s problems enhance your experience.The more you solve other’s challenges, higher your grip on the topic.

When someone reaches out to you, listen with empathy, because, one, you are helping a fellow human and two, the amount of experience you are adding for yourself.

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when we are prepared

Remember, when you were in school, you didn’t prepare for the exams for the whole year and the week or night before the exams, you started studying. You were desperate, worried, and feeling a lack of confidence. This generates negative energy and the next day your exam paper didn’t go well. This is what happens when we aren’t prepared. We attract, what we prepare for.

Now remember, when you studied hard throughout the year, and as exams were appraching, you were confident, excited and eager. This generates positive energy and most of the time you would do great in the exams.

The consistent effort generates confidence and confidence generates positivity, which attracts great results.

Work every day towards the results you want and you will attract it. Ignore it and you will attract the same.

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we are responsible

We are responsible for whatever we are and whatever we aren’t.

When we blame others for any situation, we are reflecting our self-blame. When we say someone had done something to us, it is because we allowed or we aren’t ready to drop it now and take responsibility to create a better future from here onwards.

To stop blaming others, first, we have to stop living in the past. We bring history to the present and create our future. Instead, we should think of the future and take action in the present. And, this is possible only when we take responsibility for our own life.

No one else, but we are responsible for what we are and what we can be.

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faster and farther

Going somewhere? Do you want to go faster or farther?

If you want to achieve a broader vision and higher missions, you need to enroll everyone in your game and take them along. It will slow you down but will take you farther.

But when your challenge is that you want to go faster and farther too. What can you do? The answer is, find like-minded people.

When you have like-minded people with the same vision and missions, neither the speed nor the distance is a problem. Then the only thing left for you to do is to keep enrolling and aligned them as and when they seem to get distracted.

Tag along with the people who want to go where you are going, and at the pace you are going, when you don’t want to compromise speed and distance.

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Burn the bridge

Burn the bridge, challenge yourself to the new territory, give your best because until the bridge is there to go back, you will never give 100% in the new territory. 

But when needed, you should be able to rebuild that bridge you have burnt. Burn it if you have the capacity and resources to rebuild and if you can leave the ego behind and can bridge back. 

Burn the bridge, because you want to expand your own self in the new place, not because you don’t want to go back ever.

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the best answer

The best answer always comes from within. Deep inside, we know what is that we want. It’s either we don’t know how to talk to ourselves, or sometimes when we see, we confuse ourselves by adding more equations.

What can be done in such case, when you are confused? 

Connect to the “next best.” This next best can be your friend, partner, coach, mentor, or peer. Whoever you chose, make sure the person isn’t trying to influence you but support you in discovering the answer from within you. Chose the person wisely, the one who knows how to reflect your inner answer and help you reach the solution, you know.

Sometimes all we want is a confirmation from the next best. Until you discover the solution you already know, you will not feel ease with the answer. You might have to peel a lot of layers, but settle only when you feel at ease with the solution because that is the answer for you.

Simple, right? Maybe not easy, but with the practice, knowing the best answers by yourselves is achievable.

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putting to the practice to enhance the experience

Putting to the practice what you learn is very important, otherwise the learnings are just waste of the time. Without practice you can’t enhance your experience.

Everyday we come across the situations where we realize that we learned something from that situation. And to actually benefit from the learnings, it has to be put to the practice.

Life is a university in its own self, it teaches you everyday, and these learnings when practiced enhance your experience. Just like seeing food doesn’t satisfy your hunger, learning without implementing it doesn’t enhance your knowledge. 

Learn with the aim of putting it to the practice and gain the experience. 

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peace and progress

Peace and progress goes hands in hands. Unless you aren’t at peace with the self, you won’t progress emotionally, financially, and spiritually. And the only way to be at peace with the self, which I have learned is to practice the peace.

My experience lately is that the people who are at peace with themselves achieve more because they aren’t doing anything for anyone, not for war, nor peace. They are at peace with the self, and that supports their energy to flow in the right direction, which in turn makes them achievers.

Our war and our peace are always with us. When we are at peace with the self, we are at peace with the world. Which, in turn, keeps our mind focused, and we progress better. Be at peace with the self, and it will lead to progress.

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time is everything

Time is everything. Time is precious than money.

If you can buy time by spending money, do it. Save as much time as possible because your free time is your biggest asset.

Once you create an asset, what do you do with it? Sensibly you would invest it where it would give the maximum return.

Likewise, if you have created a time asset, where would you invest it? Learning new things, building up a business empire, bringing a change, making a difference, doing volunteering, Or would you waste your asset watching television, spending time gossiping on friends, family, and politics?

When you know what difference it makes on how you invest your asset, you will invest where you get maximum return.

Use your largest asset wisely because time is everything.

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Adapt or get extinct

Adapt like Tardigrades did or get extinct like Dinosaurs got.

Learning from history, the animals who couldn’t adapt to the change in the earth’s atmosphere are no more. Those who adapted are still thriving.

Looking back to the recent history, until the 1990s, we knew only one type of stores, brick and mortar. Today most of them are at the brink of extinction because they didn’t adapt. Those who adapted to the new era are thriving. The Internet has changed everything.

Likewise, the world pre-COVID and post-COVID are already different, and while few things will return to what it was, the change has already happened. To accept this new post-COVID world, to observe it and to see what you can gain out of it is the wisest thing you can do. The most natural change that you can bring is into yourself.

We live in an ever changing world, those who don’t adapt, perils. If you think world would be what it was, this is your wake up call.

Adapt or get extinct because change is the only constant. Don’t resist the change. Instead, embrace it and make the most out of it by being at the forefront of the change.

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how to function effectively as a team

The best lesson, I have learned from Hindu mythology is how to function effectively as a team.

The world is created, managed, and destroyed by three different Gods in Hindu mythology. These Gods never interfere in each other’s work, unless help is asked for. 

It’s not that they don’t make mistakes but they own their mistakes and they fix the situation themselves or with the help of their counterparts.

This is great learning for anyone, on how a team should function. Every member of the team should know their job, what is expected of them, and then given the freedom to perform.

When anyone asks for help, others should jump in. When someone makes a mistake, they should own it and fix it alone or with the help of their peers.

A team performs effectively when everyone’s roles and goals are clear, when the team member knows what is expected of them, has freedom, allowed to make mistakes, and supported to overcome the challenges.

Same theory can be applied to the family. When everyone’s role is clear, they know how to function effectively as a team.

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there is a time to do everything

Your materialistic victory is your Vijaya, and your spiritual enlightenment is your Jay.

In the earlier years of our life, we tend to be more materialistic, and gradually we lean on spirituality.

Likewise, in the earlier years of business, the focus always is money, and then gradually, it gets into the need for Corporate Social Responsibility.

There is a time to do everything. When it’s time to gain Vijay, focus on it, and when the time has ripped for Jay, let it be Jay.

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to firefight or not?

It’s always the dilemma, to firefight or not? Should you focus on finishing on hand task first or dive into solving a challenge?

First, check if it is a real challenge, or is it a made-up challenge? Are you really needed to solve it? What if you do not solve it right away? Can it wait until you finish your on-hand tasks? If the answers to all these questions tell you that it can wait, then certainly no need to get into the superhero mode and run around to solve these challenges.

And if these challenges are the one that only you can solve (and you feel it every time so be smart), can create bigger challenges for you if not taken care of immediately, can’t be waited until your on-hand task is finished, then go ahead and dive into it.

Don’t think firefighting is a waste of time, but don’t make it your habit either. For each task, think if to firefight or not?

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Goals, strategies, tactics, adjust, achieve.

Have the goals, and write them down.

Make a strategy on how you will achieve your goals. Work on your plan every day, keep records of the day to day progress, and map it with the objectives.

When needed, please make the necessary adjustment towards achieving the goals, without adjusting them.

Working this way, you will know what’s happening, and over the period, applying tactics to your strategy, you will learn how to achieve goals.

Have goals, plan strategy, experiment tactics, adjust, achieve your goals, practice, and repeat.

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does introvert speak less?

What could be the answer to the question, does introvert speak less?

Have you ever seen two introverts talking to each other? They are unstoppable, once they find the similarity of their being.

When two introvert talks they turn into extrovert for time-being. What does that mean? What makes that happen? That’s because, when an introvert meets another introvert, they know they are meeting someone similar. When we meet someone similar, we are more open and receptive. The fear of the unknown when meeting someone who is not similar to us stops us from opening up.

If you are an introvert, you know what I am talking about. And if you are an extrovert, who want to make an introvert talk, find a similar topic, and build the conversation on it.

Simple, isn’t it?

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how to avoid communication gaps?

How to avoid communication gaps so that your plans don’t get disrupted?

Communication gaps arise when the message delivered and understanding of the delivered message isn’t clear, and not being followed up.

In today’s situation, it has become more important that everyone is on the same page. Make sure what you say has a clear message so that team doesn’t get confused.

As a next step, ask the team to share what they understood and finally drop an email so that no doubt is left.

Never end a meeting without the follow-up email.

Communicate well to avoid communication gaps.

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How to pick a book to read?

How to pick a book to read? What to read is an open question and there is no one answer to it but you can pick the book on the topic that you are interested in.

If you want to become a doctor or engineer you study science. And if you want to become a banker or CA you study commerce. Likewise, you can pick the book based on what you want to learn.

The second question is, what I will learn from the book? Books are like teachers. The students attend the same class, listen to the same words, and get the same education from the same teachers. Still, they end up taking different professions. Likewise, when we read books, we all get different learnings because just like the teacher, what books teach is one thing but what you learn from the book, you become.

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we become what we think

It’s rightly said, we become what we think. And we think, what we surround ourselves with.

Let’s surround ourselves with the people and the books that inspires us, makes us think, teaches us good things, increases our knowledge and we eventually will become that, what we have surrounded ourselves with.

If we become what we think, let’s think what we want to become.

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Amazing Deals

We rush to buy things that are on amazing deals.

What we don’t think is, if the deal is amazing for real or it’s just in our heads?

Most of the times, we aren’t even interested in what is being sold, we just want to buy it because it’s an amazing deal and we are sold to it in our head.

Instead, what if you start being rational and justify your actions? Is it for me? Do I need it? Why do I need it? Will I use it ever? Is it worth it? Will it make any difference to my life?

When the deals stop becoming amazing in your head, you will stop buying them in the real too.

Rationalize your actions.

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resilience

More you face adversities, more resilience you can develop.

Resilience is about having self-awareness, ability to think independently, self-motivated, and ability to see self from the bird’s eyes view.

How do you face tougher times? Do you succumb or do you build resiliency? Either, you can crib on the situation or you can build the inner strength in the time of adversity, the choice is yours.

How to build resilience? Just accept the situation and practice, then practice more and then practice even more.

Build resilience to overcome the toughest challenges and you will bounce back from any situation.

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keeping the windows open for opportunities

What is preferable? Keeping the windows open for opportunities or to open the window when you see the opportunity?

Chances are when you open the window when you see the opportunity, you are already too late for it. Keep the windows open for you to see the opportunity earlier and grab it before it’s too late already.

At the same time, know when the opportunity is good, just grabbing it early isn’t enough.

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building the bridges

Bridges are built to overcome the physical distance, likewise when we want to connect with someone mentally, we build the bridge of empathy.

Once this bridge of empathy is built, it’s easy to cross the gap and get into others world, understand their perspective and point of view. And when the bridge is built, they too will come and visit your world, will understand your perspective and your point of view.

Build whenever you interact with fellow humans. Empathy can do wonders in filling the mental gaps.

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to be conservative or aggressive?

What is the better way? To be conservative or to be aggressive?

Well first of all know what you are. No matter what everyone else is doing and saying. If you are a conservative being and if you are happy, being conservative is the way for you.

Likewise if you are aggressive, you are aggressive.

You will be satisfied, focused, and most importantly happy, only when you live to your true self.

To be conservative or aggressive never should be a question. Just be what you are.

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listening is an active process

Is listening to an active or passive process?

We all have this understanding that listening is passive. Think, why the good leaders listen patiently and how it helps them?

When someone is listening, their brain is firing more actively. They are listening, processing, understanding, analyzing, and preparing for the next step. While on the face of it, listening looks like a passive process, but in reality it’s a very active process. If you are a good listener, you understand how much effort goes into listening patiently.

When you are listening carefully, it doesn’t mean you don’t have anything to speak. It means, you are empathetic, tactical, active, and has the understanding to look into another point of view, and this gives you an advantage over those who are eager to speak without listening.

While listening, you get to understand the other person’s world and that gives you the power to deal around.

If listening is more active than passive process, check what kind of the listener are you?

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setting up your umbrella goal

Umbrella always reminds me of the focus.

When anyone talks about “focusing” on setting up one goal only, that focus should be like the umbrella and not on its parts.

If you focus on the parts, you can never build the umbrella. When you go out in the rain or in the sun, you carry the umbrella and its parts come along with it. Likewise, if you put a bigger goal, all the smaller goals would come along with it. 

When setting up a goal, never target what you want to achieve in the next year or two years or five years, focus on what you want to achieve in your lifetime. That’s your umbrella. Once you define your final goal, other parts would start shaping up on its own. 

Focusing on your true potential is important, otherwise, you will end up being mediocre.

Keep your focus on setting up your umbrella goal.

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when you lose interest in your passion

When we do something that we are passionate about and enjoy doing it, we bring excellent results. At the same time, it happens that we lose interest in doing it after a while. What to do at the point when you lose the interest from your passion?

There are two options, either you refocus yourself and see if your passion is still in it. Or if you are clear that you aren’t passionate about it anymore, search where your new passion is. While consistency is important, equally important is to be true to yourself and your destiny.

If you have lost your interest in your passion and doing something because you were passionate about it in the past, don’t do it. Take a break, find your new passion, and follow it.

In the short run, this might sound difficult, but that’s the way to go in the long run.

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why the leader should enroll his team in his vision?

What happens when even a visionary leader executes his vision without enrolling his team? Why he should enroll his team in his visions.

If the leader executes the idea without enrolling his team, the results would be minimum. While the successful visionaries enroll their team making sure the team understands what is happening. It’s the leader’s job to buy in all the concerned team members to make sure his vision sees the bright daylight and becomes a success.

The team can take the leaders vision forward only when the leader clearly explains them and get them on board to execute.

If you are the leader, enroll your team in your vision and they will make sure, your vision becomes reality. Because once they are in it, they will own it.

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not being competitive

How about not being competitive and creating your own path? How about keeping ahead of the curve by choosing where you want to go?

Have you ever seen being competitive is being fearful? Those who don’t want to think anything new because they fear the failure so choose to follow their competitors, who in turn are following their competitor? Why not break this chain and be courageous by being the leader?

Being different needs courage. It’s for those who want to bring the change and put all their efforts in that direction. They sometimes are slow but are definite. Those whom others want to follow.

Those who choose not being competitive, choose their own path, stay ahead of the curve, and become the leaders to others.

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sudden lottery

Okay, so this sudden lottery is the maturity you acquire at a certain age or because of a certain event in your life.

The sudden lottery of maturity is more like winning a lottery when the lottery winner doesn’t understand what to do with that money. The sudden spurt in the maturity level has the same effect. You don’t understand what to do with your maturity.

The best thing to do is to go quiet and introspect until you get used to it. And this is true for both types of lottery. Don’t try to show it off on others as it won’t take time to lose either.

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once in a lifetime opportunity

How have you been spending your time in this once in a lifetime opportunity?

Have you been binge-watching the Netflix? Have you spend time thinking and worrying about the future, but took no action? Have you been eating and sleeping just to kill the time?

Or have you used this time of isolation to transform yourself? Did you learnt any new skills? Did you figure out your goals? Did you make new connections, read books, upgraded your knowledge?

How you have spent your time during this opportunity, will define how will come out of this situation and where you will go from here.

It’s not late yet if you haven’t started.

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why meditation and how does it helps?

How to do meditation and how does practicing meditation helps?

First, how to practice meditation? You have to commit to meditation for the long term to see the difference. Sometimes, you will wonder after a meditation session if it was worth the efforts. The only way to practice meditation is to do it every day, same time, without fail and without expectations.

Enjoy the process, you will experience the outcome of your practice automatically over the period of time.

Does it help? Big time. As you progress in your meditation, you will start connecting to the self. You will know things about you which you had never knew. You would feel happier, focused, and clearer in your thoughts. Is it worth it? One hundred percent and unless you don’t practice it, you won’t know it.

Meditate. There is no right or wrong way to do it. Just practice it. It’s the lifestyle you need.

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strategies and tactics

Strategies and tactics, what is the main difference?

Strategies are out there, known to all, shared with everyone. You will find a ton of books written on the subject. It’s not difficult to know the strategies. There are management gurus and business coaches who would tell you what strategical options you have in a given space, time, and situation.

The tactics are, when you dive into the strategy, implement, experiment, learn in and out it and master the strategy.

Strategies are learned from outside, while tactics comes from living the strategy.

While strategies can be copied, replicated, and used as they are visible, but tactics are yours. Once you learn the strategy, focus on the tactics.

Strategies and tactics, how good are you to zero down on a strategy and how strong are you in applying different tactics to know what would work?

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filling up the survey forms

I like filling up the survey forms, especially if the request is from someone whom I respect and the brands that I trust.

I am very enthusiastic about filling up these surveys until I reach the point where I feel there is no end to the next buttons.

Hey brands, don’t kill my enthusiasm, keep the survey forms short. How about five questions maximum or two minutes, whichever is less?

Remember? We now live in a world where our focus span is less than a GoldFish. While the GoldFish has five seconds of focus, website visitors only has three seconds of focus time before they decide if they want to stay on the website or move.

Take the clue, if you are a marketer, make sure when you reach out to the people, your focus has to be how people feel, and plan your activity around their feeling, not how you want it.

Again, I want to fill up your survey form, just don’t push it way too much.

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create effectiveness

Create effectiveness by checking if something that you have estimated would take a year is possible to achieve in one quarter. Then see if you can do it in a month, then a week, then in a weekend.

Many times, we over estimate the work and feel it needs more time. We stretch it and we go unfocused. Instead, if you get determined and give focused time we will be able to finish the job much sooner.

Of course it’s not possible every time, in every situation and for every task but many times it would be possible.

When you are planning the task, see if you can create effectiveness and finish it in much shorter time. You will create time too, and will be able to achieve more.

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fire fighting skills

Fire fighting skills is unique. Not everyone possess it. If the people around reach out to you when they are facing challenges, you are their firefighter.

It’s a rare skill because people don’t reach out to just anyone asking to solve their challenges. And if you are the one to whom someone would come with the assurance that you will help figure it out, then congratulations you have a unique skill to help people.

Don’t hide your firefighting skills. Instead, when you will help others, your skills will sharpen. And just like the firefighters who risk their lives to extinguish the fire, with the skill as rare as this, you could be a hero to many, Again, just like firefighters, you aren’t doing it to become hero, but you do it because you can.

Don’t show off being a hero, be the real hero. Stand for others, solve their problems, and don’t do it to get something in return.

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fear is fuel

Fear is fuel when used productively. You don’t have to be fearless always. Fear to fail succeeds you.

Fear of the future makes us work harder. When we fear failure, we strive to succeed. Fear of death gives us courage. Fear of hearing no makes us do things that would convert no to a yes. Fear of losing makes us give your best.

Fear, when you have it in the right context, can work as the fuel to your survival and growth.

Think everything in its context. Nor fear nor courage is right or wrong. It’s how you approach them is what matters.

Use your fear to achieve your goals.

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being courageous v/s acting foolish

We all create delusion thinking that nothing will happen to us. And until that something actually happens to us, we laugh it off.

Staying safe and taking precautions is good not just for you but for the people around you too. Don’t play around with other’s health and life, be responsible and accept accountability.

Stay safe, that’s being brave. There is a thin line between being courageous and acting foolish.

Pick what you want to be.

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how a leader grab the opportunities

When others are thinking if an given opportunity is to be pursued or not, the true leader grabs the opportunity.

The leader probably doesn’t knows how he will do the task. All that he knows is that when opportunity knocks, you have to grab it with both the hands.

Opportunities are everywhere for those who are seeking it.

Do you overthink or do you grab the opportunity?

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listen to your own voice

It’s so much of noise outside. People are opinionated and somehow it’s an accepted social norm.

Don’t take feedback from the people who haven’t done it themselves. Everyone has opinion to give based on their own experience and perception. It might not necessarily fit your circumstances.

Even those who have done it, might have done it in the different circumstances. Listen, learn and evaluate their advice but the most important voice you hear is coming from right inside you.

No one knows you better then your own self. Learn listening to your voice more than outside noise.

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focus on reality and avoid delusion

Why is it important to accept the reality and avoid delusion?

What worked in the past, will not necessarily work forever. Time changes, and so does the situation.

If you were making ten cold calls to generate two appointments and now if you are generating only one appointment for ten cold calls, instead of pushing yourself or the team to get the same ratio, check if the dynamics of the market have changed, needing you to put more efforts.

If you don’t respect the market and deny the fact, you will get frustrated and clueless, while generating the sub-par results.

Trying to generate results based on the past numbers can lead you to the delusion. See what’s working now and make strategy likewise.

Avoid delusion, focus on reality. 

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should you always return a favor?

When you give something, the receiver feels obliged to give back. This is smartly used by many people and living in social set up, we are obliged to give back when we receive something. At times we know that we are falling in the trap and still we can’t do anything because we are taught that taking and not giving back is not socially desirable.

Way out is, either politely and if needed strongly deny the favor so that you don’t have to return the favor. OR when you know that favor was done with the expectation to misuse the social norm of giving back, be brave enough, and simply don’t return the favor.

Sometimes, you have to be smart on how to deal even on the agreeable norms. Not being fooled is ethical. Ethical to your own being and to nature herself.

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how to know what’s your calling is?

How to know what your calling is?

When doing something excites you, when your passion lasts not for hours, days, months and years but for the lifetime, when your quest is to learn and master everything not because you have to do it but because that makes you happy. When you feel this way, that’s your calling and that’s equally true for your human relations.

Where you feel home for years, know that’s your calling.

Catch it, hold it, embrace it. It’s your calling.

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increase your efforts , don’t reduce the goals

Your yearly goals are defined, how much efforts would be needed is reverse planned, work is going as per the plan, and you are monitoring the progress.

While checking the progress, you notice that your progress isn’t enough to achieve the defined goals. Now you have two options, either reduce the goals or increase the efforts. While it’s easy to reduce the goals, if you want to be an achiever, increase the efforts.

How to increase the efforts? Map your current efforts and results achieved so far and increase your efforts from here onwards that would support you in achieving your original goals.

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commit, take action, join the dots, repeat

How do you ensure to achieve goals?

I will be sharing my all-time favorite approach; I believe in it 100% and use it by all means. You probably have witnessed me sharing it right on this platform with you.

Step 1: Make goals

Step 2: Declare

Step 3: Commit

Step 4: Plan the first step

Step 5: Sub-divide in the actionable tasks

Step 5: Start taking action

Step 6: Repeat

It will push your boundaries and help keep you motivated as you gain momentum and traction to move forward.  The win will ensure you indeed stick to the plan and put efforts to achieve the goals.

This plan of action strategy will save you from the worst: inaction or dropping the idea altogether.

You probably have gone through the cycle of self-imposed self-doubts and over-analyzing. The little bugger creeps in with small self-doubt to hijacking the clarity and weakening your control over it—the subtle inflicting self-doubt eventually takes over the situation and commanding you to verify the feasibility of the task at hand.

You start by measuring the best, the worst, and then the all-in between scenarios, with a mindset of rejection vs. neutral. This then undeniably sets the wheels in motion to take over the control of the state and the next moment, without you knowing you will be either on to dropping the idea or selling yourself short on the goal.

Instead of adding ifs and buts, and over-analyzing, first commit to the plan, know in your heart, you can do it, and you will do it.  Be clear in your context when you discuss or even set to measure the edge cases. Get yourself set for the actionable first step.

It is crucial to commit yourself and have any action plan work for you, and in no time, you will be able to join the dots as you move forward.

What matters is the commitment and action. Everything else will follow.

Thing Big. Be Wise.

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invest your savings to generate wealth

Generate wealth by investing your savings. More you save, more you can invest. More you invest, more earnings you will generate, and if you do this consistently over the period of time, and considering the magic of compounding, you can generate great wealth.

Saving money is interesting, because from there the journey of investment begins. Don’t just save, invest because that should be the purpose of savings.

Invest your savings in your business, in the stocks, in buying the cash generating real estate, for buying the books, and to take trainings among the other investment options.

Investing more is good for the economy in general. It’s good to indulge in luxury, until you are living way below what you can afford. Don’t buy expensive stuff, if you can’t afford and never buy expensive stuff just because you can afford.

One of my all time favorite quotes, “If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.” by Warren Buffet. This quote says a lot because it’s from someone who has been one of the richest man in the world since 1990’s.

You can build empire when you invest more. Because investment creates wealth, and considering return on investment v/s inflation rate, simply savings your money can erode it’s purchasing power.

Bottom line is, earn more, live way below your means, save and then invest your money where you can generate more earnings, and eventually build massive net worth.

How do you put your money at work? Are you savings with the goal to generate wealth?

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limits are imaginary

All the limits are imaginary. Unless you don’t push yourself and others to these self imaginary limits, they will not know that they can do better than the set limit.

And once you seem to have reached the limit, push it even further and you will see your limits extending.

You surely are allowed to live within the limits, but then you have to accept the success of those who has stretched their limits.

Get our of the imaginary limits if you want to live the life of your dreams.

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two options when facing a challenge

Whenever we face any challenge, we have two options. Either we start worrying, overthink, do nothing, succumb to the challenge.

Or we get into action, see the challenge as an opportunity, take control of the situation, and rise to the occasion.

Whatever option you choose, it will eventually become our habit.

One habit will lead us to the cycle of lifetime anxiety, and the other, though, doesn’t guarantee success, will boost your self-confidence and confidence of others in you. Even if you don’t succeed, you will learn and in any case, it’s a better option than doing nothing and getting controlled by the situation.

Take charge of your life, get control, rise up to the challenge.

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Average is not acceptable

If your goals are higher, if you are really serious about being successful and if you want to be an achiever, than, average is not acceptable.

Possess outstanding knowledge, deliver great work, keep impossible targets, quest for excellence, network with high achievers, take actions that are unmatched.

We aren’t born just to be an average. Make it big.

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consider it’s done

If you want to be successful, surround yourself with the people who will answer, ‘consider it’s done‘ on any challenge you throw to them. And than they will do everything that it takes to get it done. They won’t stop until they finish the job. You don’t have to motivate such people, they are self motivated.

We all have such people around us, cultivate your vision to identify these gems and throw more responsibilities to them, make them your growth lieutenant and see things getting done in weeks that were in the pipeline since ages.

Every successful team needs go getters and more you have such people, more you would grow.

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marketing isn’t about shouting out loud

If you are bombarding your audience with uninspiring posts and irrelevant updates, you are not doing marketing, you are just shouting and hoping someone will listen to you.

No one is interested in knowing from you what festival is today or waiting to read your post on yoga day unless that’s your business. That’s not marketing. That’s bugging your audience. That’s spamming. THAT’S SHOUTING.

Don’t fall in love with the likes, if those likes aren’t from the targeted audience. When you post something, your audience should be able to get value out of it, they should be able to feel relevant and they should be able to connect with you.

Build a niche, narrow your focus, have a tone, be responsible while posting. THAT’S MARKETING.

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why having courage is so important

You have all the knowledge, you know everything what you need to do, you have a solid strategy and winning tactics, but until you don’t have courage to take the action, nothing of those matters.

Our in-actions are out of the fear, mostly the fear of failing or fear of loosing something or someone. The fear take over you so much that you get consumed by your fear and even before taking any action, you find excuse of not doing what you should be doing.

This leads to a constant cycle of building up the hopes and not delivering the results. You loose the faith in yourself and so does the people around you.

Take action, you might not win but you would certainly learn how to win the next time. Moreover people will believe in you, even if you don’t win.

Practice courage and you will fall in love of being courageous. It will elevate your life to the next level.

No one has become an achiever just by making plans, only those who take actions knows that nothing more matters.

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Why to retain?


Most of us know how important it is to build a professional network or acquiring talent or growing the client list. While focusing on building, make sure you focus on retaining too.

It is easy to give up on the people and clients. Instead, if we focus on identifying the gaps, work towards filling them up and make relationships smoother, we will be able to retain the relations longer. Question is, why retain? Because longer the relations are it is easier to understand each other and more fruitful the journey become. 

Also, unless you don’t retain your existing network, building the new relations would be a waste. As with the leaking pipeline, if you will keep leaking the people from your network, all you would be left with would be much less compared to what you desire.

Don’t build new relations just because you are tired of the existing relations because the new relations will come with new challenges. Giving up is easy, retaining is smart.

At the same time, be wise, if the relationship is pulling you down, you should be wise enough to drop it.

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have clarity of thoughts to generate the results

When your thoughts are confused, it will show up in your speech, and the listener will be left confused about the message you want to deliver.

But when you have clarity in your thoughts, your speech would have the clarity as well. The speech with clarity generate the results and has the power to influence the people.

Built clarity in your thoughts, generate results and be the influencer for good.

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accept the situation to solve it


As soon as you accept the situation, it starts getting solved. Until you don’t accept, your mind will never work towards finding the solution. As soon as you accept, things start changing for the better.

The point is, never deny the challenges to the self or to others, instead, embrace the challenges you are facing and the universe will start work to find the solution for it. You might call this phenomenon by some other name like subconscious or faith or science. Whatever you call it, you will experience that it works.

Challenges find solutions as soon as you accept it.

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having clarity before moving ahead

When you are discussing working with someone, make sure the company or the person you are planning to work with understands the value you would be bringing to the work.

Unless it is clear what value you are bringing, people would have questions and doubts prevailing. Let them clear their doubts before you move ahead. If the doubts persist, its better to drop the deal.

Always have clarity before moving ahead to prevent confusion later on.

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Planing to planning, the complete cycle

Have control on your desired outcome. The formula is simple. Missing any can lead to the outcome which is not at par with your expectations.

Plan: The first step always is the planning.

Execute: The second step, execute your plan.

Monitor: Set up a system to monitor execution of your plan.

Reporting: Set up the reporting as outcome to your monitoring structure.

Action: Take the actions based on the report. This will lead you back to the starting, the planning stage.

Commit yourself to the full cycle always to achieve better than average results. Planning to planning.

Remember, winning is in the action taken.

Think Big. Be Wise.

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score on these metrics

– Always be on time (preferably a few minutes before)

– Live below your means

– Respect everyone

– Laugh and make others laugh

– Listen more

– Gain REAL knowledge (not schooling type)

– Stay away from gossiping

– Stand for others

– Share

– Be simple

– Read

And what’s the best thing? You don’t even need talent for these things. Yet, these are the precious traits to have, to learn and to expand.

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Three types of people a leader needs around

A leader needs three types of people around himself. These people guide him, work with him, and follow him on his goals.

Mentor/Coach/Support System: Always have someone whom you can reach out to when in need. This person could be your mentor, coach, your friend or family member, depending on the matter. Always have your support system ready to have a discussion with when in doubt or when you need suggestions.

Top Business Line: Pick the people who are sold to your goals, have aligned themselves to your visions, are willing to work on your ideas, who are seeing you as the leader, who supports your initiatives, and give their best to achieve what you have set to.

Manpower: Hire people who believe in what you believe in. Never hire someone because they need the job. Always hire for their attitude. Check if their values are aligned to your organization’s value before you hire. A skill could be developed later on but if you have the right mindset of the people with you, it would help fuel your growth.

I see these three type of people as,
A. Someone who is walking ahead of you and guiding you when you need it.
B. Someone who is walking with you, where you are taking care of each other, motivate each other, and walking the same path.
C. Someone who is walking right behind you. Someone who is watching your steps, who is seeing you as their guide, and reaching out to you when they need the support.

Always have these three types of people around.

PS. My interpretation of the learning from my coach Chetan Patel

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whenever needed, jump in

You took the mission. You are the leader. And as a leader, you know, only when you give freedom to others, give them responsibility and trust them, you will get the freedom to focus on the bigger goals.

More often than not, the leader either would keep himself fully occupied in the day to day tasks, keeping full control or will give freedom to everyone and will give up the control. Either way is okay depending on the personality type of the leader and how well the organisation structure is set.

Even after giving the control, the leader always should keep bird eyes view on the business and dive in as and when needed to motivate and guide the people.

This diving in should be done only when needed and should not be done because you are worried but should be done because you see there are gaps that need to be filled. Once your task of filling up the gaps is finished, set up the monitoring system, give the control back and get focused again on the larger goals.

A leader should always jump in, if it is in the betterment of the organisation.

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leverage your creativity

I know it’s an overused word and mostly misinterpreted. When you take too much risk, leveraging our finances, your capacity, it’s definitely is a risk.

At the same time, when you leverage in a creative way, it is not just rewarding but also makes a lot of sense.

When I write a speech for the early bird group which I am part of, I also write a blog of the same, I also make a podcast of the same and I also add it to my company’s training modules as and where it fits.

Next, same topics would be used for the webinars and tutorials and finally I will convert it into the book.

Once the time invested in creating the speech, I make sure I leverage it. It’s zero risks and that’s the kind of leverage we should be focusing on. Not doing it something I won’t consider as a smart idea.

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simple solutions

Do you want to be positive? Stay with the positive people and avoid those who aren’t positive.

Do you want to be focused? Stay with those who are focused.

Do you want to be an early bird? Then find the people who wake up early.

Do you want to be rich? Be in the company of the rich people.

Do you want to experience spiritually? Be with those who are spiritual.

Do you want to be financially free? Only those who has achieved financial freedom are the worth listening to.

Be with the type of people, you aspire to be.

It’s as simple as that, until we don’t complicate things, it’s simple.

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who really stops you from achieving your dreams?

This struggle between the internal and the external world is eternal. Since the ages, there is a constant struggle between what you want to do and what society expects from you. You give up and blame society because you don’t have the daring to care about your own dreams.

While it’s not easy and most give up to the pressure of family and society, those who don’t give up, live with a special feeling for themselves. They might not be the most successful in the so-called standards of society but they live a fulfilled life. They live with the satisfaction of listening to their heart.

Build your external world, the way your internal world demands and wishes and you will never live a life of confusion and disheartening.

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whom would you work with?

I called one of the realtors I deal with, he said, the market is good, inquiries will flow in June as every year. Send me your requirements and let’s take it from there.

After a few minutes, I was talking to another realtor, he said, the market is bad, there are no inquiries, nothing is moving, let’s hold and do nothing now.

While caution is required, there is a difference between being optimist and pessimist.

Which one will you work with? My choice obviously is the first one. I would like to know your choice, leave it in the comment below.

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whom would you listen to?

Achieve what you want to. It might not be easy, but it’s worth it.

A non-achiever will teach you not to think big. They will tell you why life is so difficult and why the achievers are all corrupt people. If you were taught that you don’t need to work hard to build an empire, it was because those who told you so never built the one.

An Achiever would never tell you it is easy, and will never tell you not to go for it. If you have dreams, go and chase them, achieve them, get in the habit of giving small sacrifices for achieving bigger dreams and when you achieve those dreams, you will know it was all worth it. Only an achiever teaches you WHY to achieve your dreams too.

Don’t give up being consistent, eating healthy, working out, seeing the dreams, chasing dreams, falling, failing, rising, running.

Think big. Think wise. 

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to create or to follow?

Don’t wait because it’s not proven or because no one else has done it yet. Someone always starts something new and then others follow.

You might be following it successfully but the happiness that the creation brings is not there in the following. It’s okay being the follower, to be safe, but as a side hustle, create something. Be a creator with the context of delivering great value to the world.

If everyone would start creating something positive, imagine how much could be created.

It’s easy and fun to follow, it takes stress taking capacity, daring, skills and dreams to create.Create something.

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don’t let others throw garbage to you

When the media, the people, and the politicians were talking about how dangerous Covid-19 is and how it is going to disrupt our lives, we became negative about the whole situation. The governments around the world brought the lockdown and though it’s debatable whether the lockdown was effective, it certainly made people scared about what’s going on and what will happen now. 

As soon as the lockdown was lifted, and though the cases for Covid-19 are increasing, people are turning positive. Why? Because now the newspapers are having positive news about how the economy has started reviving, the politicians have started talking positive and the people have started going to work and businesses.

Above two scenarios, clearly shows, how your surrounding affects your attitude. This makes it very important on what kind of news you read and believe, what kind of politicians you listen to, and what kind of people you surround yourself with.

Do you want to stay positive? Go ahead and read the newspapers or watch television that shows positive side of life, listen to the politicians who aren’t cashing on the situation at your cost and surround yourself with the people who aren’t throwing their garbage to you.

When you don’t allow others to throw garbage in your house, why do you allow others to throw their mental garbage in your mind?

Be with the people who are positive. It’s your choice to be positive or not. Choose wisely.

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take the first step, followed by the Himalayan efforts

Many times we hear and talk that I want to do this or that. Only if I know where to start from.

My friend, you have already started. By thinking that you want to do something, you have taken the first step. Now keep going, stop thinking and start taking actions and convert your actions into the Himalayan efforts and then see that whatever you wanted to achieve is possible.

Don’t get into the trap of work life balance if you have massive goals. No one achieve anything trying to balance life until they made it. First achieve what you want and then think of the balance.

That awesome life is awaiting you, the life of your dreams. All it’s asking is for you to put the Himalayan efforts.

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two ideas to set up the transformation

Want to transform yourself? Your way of working? Your thought process? Here are two things you can do. One is external and another one, internal.

The people that make you feel good but suggest nothing to improve you are good but look beyond them. Get into the tribe, that, when needed makes you feel good, rest of the time, keep throwing you the challenges to be better on what you are doing, even better are those who also guide you on how you can be better and stand for support when needed.

Build self-control. In one easy step, control what you are eating. If you can control what you eat, you are on the way to have very stronger self-control.

Try these two tricks and set yourself to the transformation.

PS. Someday, we will talk on the other regulars; wake up early, read books, be polite, work-out regularly, acquire knowledge.

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what is your purpose, today?

We all believe in one cause that we consider our purpose, for which we live. Like how some people say, eat to your heart, in any case, one day we all are going to die, then why not die doing what you enjoy?

Though your purpose can keep changing from time to time. What is the most important matter today, might change tomorrow. But what is your purpose today? What is that if today is your last day, you will want it to happen. Live for that purpose. Make it come true, today. Do whatever it takes to make it happen. If we live our life that way, every day, we will always live in the present working on our purpose.

By the way, do share, what is most important for you today? For me, to gather as much knowledge as I can and put it into action while laughing out to my heart.

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contemporary and futuristic

When you write, talk, present ideas or are making a point, make sure that your topic and relevant examples are contemporary or futuristic.

Putting topic and examples that are contemporary or futuristic ensures your audience will be attentive to your talk. Present them with stale topics, and you won’t be able to generate any enthusiasm in your audience.

That is why the movies, dramas, blogs, stand up comedies and even politics speak about current or future affairs as they know that’s how you connect with the audience and get their attention.

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being responsibly free


The awesome feeling today: Seeing people in the streets, cars on the roads, doing shopping, going to offices, and people living freely again. A stark contrast to what the city was two weeks ago.

While, no one is sure if the lock down was meaningful and if the unlock is a good idea, one can definitely see mix of relief and some concern for the safety on everyone’s face.

The freedom that we are so used to and for which we were never grateful most of the time, has all together a new meaning. Now, we all are more grateful for our freedom and understand how lucky we are to be living on our own terms, most of the time.

Welcome to the new grateful freedom. Let’s make sure, along with enjoying this freedom, we also do it responsibly.

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how to enjoy the greater success

Once you pick what you want to do, figure out where you have to start from. Then focus on practicing, if needed by doing it for free. Make sure your audience gets some value and in the return, you will get to do some practice. Sharpen your skills while practicing.

While you are giving it for free, on the other hand, you are converting yourself from an amateur to a professional performer. An amateur might get success occasionally but the science and the art of consistent performance are forte of a professional. And with consistent performance, comes extraordinary success.

Keep working towards building yourself up for that extraordinary success in your life.

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rationalising our decisions

We take decisions from our emotions and then rationalise them with the logic.

This is true about everything humans do. We get hang on to our ideas, business, relations, cause we support, politicians we vote, clothes we wear, things we buy, and everywhere else.

Smarter are those, who know that they don’t have to rationalise their decisions, instead to accept that it wasn’t the brightest thing to do. Instead of rationalising, move ahead if you want to be a winner in the life.

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life of no regrets

It’s just our fear that makes us believe, the things are permanent. While in the fact, nothing is permanent. And while we all know this, very few actually accept the impermanence. Those who does excel in the life because they get rid of the fear and live the life of their dream.

Are you living your dreams or stuck in the loop called permanent? Break the barriers and achieve inhuman grandeur. Make sure you live the life of no regret.

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Duality

Lately, I am reading and thinking a lot about duality and have settled with the notion that everything is in the form of duality. And how acceptance of duality can bring peace.

If I love to sleep on the weekend and you love to go outdoors, both are fine. Neither could be termed as right or wrong.

Likewise, if I prefer to be up at 4:30 am and sleep by 10:00 pm, and you prefer to be up at 9:00 am and sleep at 2:00 am, both are fine.

I can be materialistic and you can be non-materialistic.

I prefer to withdraw to myself and prefer self-time, and you can be an outgoing person who loves to hang out with friends and family.

I could be aesthetic and you could be unaesthetic. And we can live together peacefully with our own notion.

Even nature has duality, we have day and night, sun and moon, winter and summer, spring and autumn, breathe in and breathe out.

This is the duality for me. When we focus on what we believe in and stop converting others to accept our idea. When we accept that two types of people, two different ideas, two believes can co-exist, that the duality is real, we will be at ease with everyone and everything.

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respecting everyone’s individuality

I have started seeing situations in terms of how awesome at least one thing happened to me in that situation.

In the current situation, the best thing that happened to me is, that I have started talking to myself a lot. This leads me to understand myself more than ever and understanding myself leads me to accept myself even more for what I am. And accepting myself, made me stop judging myself.

And what I realized is that the above sequence has an impact on me for others too. I am more understanding of other’s situation and has more acceptance towards the people for what they are.

After all, we all are different, and respecting each other’s individuality is what makes it easier for everyone.

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we don’t listen, we imagine

We don’t listen to what is said, we hear what we imagine it to be.

Many times it has happened, when someone is saying something to me, I pick it the way I want. This is based on my imagination and fear. Because of the fear of rejection and of imagination that I might be criticised, my mind imagine it’s own version, instead of what has been told.

This equally is true the other way too, sometimes if someone criticises, my mind takes positivity of it because I imagine it that way.

What does that mean? Is it all in the head? We hear only what we want to hear based on our past experiences, fear and imagination.

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hard work or luck?

As the events started favoring someone in the business and people start talking how the person got lucky all of a sudden, my first thought always is, that he has been doing it for years, and what is being tagged as “luck”, is his hard work, his patience. And now after all these years, the “luck” finally looked at him.

You have to respect this “luck” that comes from the consistency and determination of a business person for doing it for years, before making it big.

Someone’s success always looks like luck, while our own success always is the result of the hard work. Be consistent in your own work, be creative, be determined, and luck will one day show up at your doors, too.

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everyone is biased

Everyone is ill-tempered, they cut your talk in between, they ask you to leave the meeting if you appear to be busy, they make it sure that you realize your mistake (even if it’s not), they keep praising others’ work but not yours.

When you see that everyone is doing this, remember you might be doing the same to others too. We only realize when it happens with us, and not when we do with others.

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to be still or to flow?

While I am the type of person who stick around no matter what, i also have learnt for what cause to stick around.

Only some things are worth your time and energy for extended period of time, don’t make that a rule for the things that are not your goals or if it doesn’t fit your new goal. That doesn’t mean the thing or the matter isn’t important, it might be important for someone and may not be for you.

While you have to be still like a mountain, you also have to flow like a river. Choose as the situation demands. Be wise.

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life already is a blessing

Life already is a blessing if you are alive, if you are walking, if you are talking, if you have access to the clean water, if you have food to eat if you have a bed to sleep.

Everything else is a desire, not the need. Count your blessings, you have a lot to be happy about.

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how to outgrow your fear?

How to outgrow your fear?

Stop thinking, start acting. Actions kills the fear.

Do what really scares you. Once you have done it, it won’t be scary anymore.

Do what your instinct says not to do. Because many a times, it’s just out of the fear.

Stand-up for yourself even if the opponent is way mightier.

Break the barriers, that fears you.

Get uncomfortable with your situation and feel fearful.

Don’t give up, unless it is about the life and death.

Love yourself, that would kill your fear.

Have those around you, who encourage you to be fearless.

Share what do you do to outgrow your fear?

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what a salesman can learn from a sportsman

As the CEO of August Infotech I have learned many things over a decade and a half and most important is the sales.  

I always compare sales to sports, sales meetings to sports matches, and salesman to the sportsman.

A sportsman has a simple formula for success in a match. What is this formula and how can a salesman use this formula for a successful sales meeting?

This simple formula is “preparation” and “practice“.

A sportsman does a lot of preparation before the actual game, starting from learning about the weather, competitors, ground situation, to mapping their own strengths and weaknesses. Similarly, a salesman should always prepare before the meetings, starting with learning about the prospect’s situation, their pain, the prospect’s likes and dislikes, to the competition the salesman is facing.

Likewise, before any game, sportsman practices hard in the nets. Similarly, a salesman should always practice before the meetings, from how to introduce himself, to how to greet others, what kind of questions could be asked and what answers he would give, to how to conclude the meeting, and what would be the next steps.

Just like in the sports, in the sales too, more you prepare and practice, luckier you get.

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don’t avoid small matters

The matters that open up the gaps should be dealt with immediately. Avoiding would just open up the gap wider. More you delay, further, it widens and more it widens, outsiders start seeing these gaps, and then everyone will jump in with their own agenda.

This is true for all the big matters we see around, in personal life, in the business, in the society, and in the world. We should learn from the past and should fill the gaps as we see them.

Life is never about the big challenges, it’s all about the smaller ones, that we avoid and make them so big that it becomes impossible to deal with them.

Be aware and be wise.

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self assessment vs other’s feedback

There is a huge difference between doing self assessment and asking others for the feedback. While it’s important to have others feedback time to time, it is even more important to have self assessment of the given feedback too, as everyone gives feedback based on their experience plus from their point of view. It is wise to act only after doing proper self assessment.

Even better? Your heart knows everything, talk to it and you will know what is needed to be done.

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emotional charity

Give your time and money only to the charity you are one hundred percent committed to.

Doing emotional charity doesn’t work as you aren’t committed to the cause and unlike thé businesses there is no refund policy.

I have felt this a couple of times, what about you?

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how does the WFH looks at this stage?

Work From Home started with a lot of planning, some anxiety, some set-backs, some challenges and a lot of questions.

In the mid-way it looked like this is going good but now can’t wait to go office.

And in the present, planning is going on how we can WFH for longer term, as it not just saves us a lot of time, it also creates a lot of time for everyone, which could be used somewhere else. I am planning for it, extended WFH, not just for me, but for the team as well.

What looked impossible, looks inevitable now.

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breaking the loop

Say you care, only if you mean it. If you don’t care, which also is all right, don’t say you do and just to misguide others. Misguiding might look smart thing in the short run, but you lose the authenticity in the long run.

And if you are the “caring” type, it’s perfectly fine to avoid those who aren’t caring, because until you avoid the universe will make you face such people all the time, just for you to understand that you need to avoid them.

How to do it? See if this pattern is being repeated in your life, that’s the indicator. Once you see the pattern, break the loop for your own self. You will see what difference that makes for your peace of mind and how it leaps you towards your destiny.

Everything in the life has a pattern, see it and act likewise.

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shopping in the new normal

By the time lock-down will completely go, we all will have started loving this new world of social distancing. This is going to be a huge advantage for online businesses (get online if you aren’t yet).

Even after the lock-down is over, more people would prefer ordering online and home delivery options. Ask yourself, why do we visit the brick and mortar stores? Is it just because out of the habit? and if the safety concern changes this habit, why would you go to the store? This seems to be a reality for more and more people.

I order most of my daily needed items online, from toothpaste to clothes and everything in between. I dislike standing in the queue and now with the safety concerns, it’s going to be more prominent to purchase online. What do you order online already and would you prefer online shopping post-covid-19?

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too many or just a few?

What kind of person are you? Are you a too many around type but non-significant or are you a too little but each one worth their weight in the gold, type?

Me? Easy guess.

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Gold Medal Level Performance

If you want to perform at the highest level, the most simple strategy is to practice. Any Olympian practice hard for the four years to perform in the event. It takes sweat and blood of a lifetime to win one medal and it takes a lifetime of practice to build a champion. These champions aren’t only in sports but are in all the fields.

No matter if you want to be the best programmer, or a great businessman, or an extraordinary salesperson, or a coach or an artist. Nothing is more important than practicing to improve your performance. More you practice, luckier you become. Over a period of time, your persistent practice will bring the best performance out of you.

Practice like an Olympian to perform at the highest level in any field.

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Speaking up my heart

The one awesome thing that happened recently is to clear my mind that whatever it will be, I will always speak what my heart says and whatever I stand for. While making sure my context behind the same.

That said, it always will be respectful, always because I respect people and that’s simply me. Hence, while I want to speak what my heart feels like, I also want to respect others for speaking their opinion. We can have a difference of opinion, without judging any opinion as right or wrong. When I speak my heart, it gives soothing feelings to my soul, so I understand how others feel when they get a chance to speak their heart.

Let’s start talking more to ourselves, as we truly need to understand who we are, that’s the key to be authentic.

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Why the meetings?

While the meetings are essential, they need to have a fixed start and a end time, the fixed agenda and the clear context of what outcome is expected. A proper Minutes of Meetings aka MoM should be maintained and follow up should be taken in the next meeting on the actions taken.

When important and long held matters are started taken care of, the meetings starts becoming more and more effective and probably shorter. The meetings should be the place where difficult situations and challenges should be dealt with no matter how uncomfortable the meetings become.

Again, the unnecessary meetings should be avoided and that time rather should go in productive work but that never should mean that meetings should be considered a waste of time. Meetings with the right intentions and clear agenda move the mountains when followed by appropriate actions.

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why action matters over inaction?

To do something is better than to do nothing, provided you aren’t reckless. Action brings its own challenges, because when you take the action you face your fear. But facing the fear makes you wiser and courageous.

We stop ourselves from taking actions because we build such a scary picture of the outcome that no matter how much we suffer, we don’t prefer taking action. This worsen the situation and more we delay, more we are scared.

Why not to give it a try, scare yourself while taking the action and you will know that taking the action bring you immense joy, happiness and self respect.

PS: Dedicated to people in my life who has inspired me to be courageous.

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What does success look like to me?

For me, it is to pass my good experience to others. To be able to do things that I want to do. To be able to support people. To be able to stay happy without any reason. To love every moment of life. To be around the people, who love me. To see good in others. To get acknowledged by those who matter to me. To bring joy and happiness around.

And of course materialistic success too, as being materialistically successful means we can do all the above for ourselves and for the people around. 

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What are you reading these days?

With my commitment to read 39 books this year, (yes, I know, why 39 and not 40 or 35? Well, three books every four weeks make it 39 a year ;)) I have already completed 9 books and already 4 books behind the schedule. And here is the list of the books I am currently reading and am planning to read:

Current List:
– 7 secrets of Shiva
– Home Deus
– Sardar Patel: The best PM India never had

Completed List:
– The immortals of Meluha
– The happiness equation
– Theory of karma
– High performance habits
– Make time
– Cashflow quadrant
– Animal farm
– My Gita
– Steve Jobs

On the shelf:
– Never lose a customer again
– Sell or be sold
– Indistractable
– Don’t overthink it
– Dhirubhai Ambani
– Building a storybrand
– The information trade
– The secret of the Nagas
– The oath of the Vayuputras
– Measure what matters
– Rework
– Elon Musk
– The power of now
– CEOFlow
– Super Human
– Influence
– The intelligent investor
– Meditation
– Take your time

What’s your list? Connect with me on GoodReads.com and I would love to know what you are reading.

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Transactions and relations

We all know, that every transaction involves “give and get”. If you buy something, you give money. If you eat at the restaurant, you get food and you give money. Likewise, for every transaction, it’s the same.

It’s true for any non-monetary relationship between the two humans, too. We have to give something which might be trust, respect, faith, to get love, dependency, peace. And only when we spend enough time knowing the person, we would know what the person wants. Otherwise, we end up giving what the person really doesn’t care about, but the true relationship is built when we understand the need and hunger of another person.

While it is not easy to understand what the other person wants, because we are so consumed with ourselves, it is not impossible either and with the practice, we can master it too.

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My way vs your way

We almost are certain that my way is “the right” way and that the other’s way is “the wrong” way.

  • What I think is right, and the way you think is wrong
  • What my country does is right, and your country does is wrong
  • What my religion says is right, and your religion teaches wrong
  • The way we live is right, and your lifestyle sucks
  • That we are the devas, and you are the asuras
  • That the way we do the business is the only way to do it
  • That how we treat others is how everyone should treat others
  • That I am a good person because I eat vegetarian food and you are an evil because you eat non-vegetarian food
  • Because I use fuel efficient car and you love gas guzzlers

Instead, can we agree to that my way is “my way” and I respect “your way” too?

If we learn this much, the life around us would be so much smooth.

How to learn it? Try and understand “their way” too.

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fear vs faith

What do you prefer? Spreading fear and getting the instant results that are harmful in the long term or building the faith and getting slower results that are beneficial in the long term?

We live in the bipolar world where we either get things done by fear or faith. I personally strongly believe in having “faith”, and the reason is very simple for my choice, it’s because that’s what I want people to have in me. Don’t try to generate fear in me as I won’t perform, have faith in me and I will do whatever humanly possible.

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things to thanks

The times are changing way beyond our imagination and the most noticeable difference is moving of things from hard to soft.

Face to face meetings (hard) to virtual meetings (soft).

Real office to virtual office

Things to thanks

Material to spiritual

Hoarding to experience

Self to soul

And some events changes the way we live and understand the life. This may be that time in our life when how we experience the life, will change forever.

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will we stay changed or will we change back?

While I am loving this new changed life, were air is fresher, mornings are quieter, life is slower, travelling is nil, eating is healthier, working hours are longer, reading time is incredible, webinars are being enjoyed, I also think, will it stay this way?

Or will it all become the same what it was? Is it because the lockdown is forcing us to live this way and once it is gone, if not immediately, eventually we will be the same in a few weeks or months?

What do you think?

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Every bull is a bear

If you invest in the stock market or follow the stock market, you must be knowing about the bull and bear phase. What I understand about a bull and a bear investor is, every bull is a bull until he buys and holds the shares and turns bear when the price he wanted is achieved, as then he start wishing the share price to go down, so that he can turn to a bull and buy again.

Point is, in life, we can’t be one thing all the time, we change as per the circumstances and need. We rarely have a point of view that’s constant for a lifetime. We are one side of the coin at times and another side at different times. Why then bother having so much point of views, why not instead we just be an observant and act as it is needed, without building any point of view?

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asking the questions, and answering them too

Have you encountered people who ask you questions, and start answering their own questions?

My observation is, the person sometimes genuinely has the questions but as he discusses the questions, he starts finding the answers. As it says, you have answers to all your questions. And sometimes, it’s like, I have the answers, let me create the question, find someone and share some knowledge. At that point, you wonder, who had the questions?

Nonetheless, it’s human to be such, that’s what makes us humans interesting. And even in this scenario, you actually end up learning a thing or two.

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Existence of your project

You might bring great ideas on the table, and you might enroll everyone to the idea, you might have the freedom leadership style of working which allows people to grow, and still your project isn’t progressing as well as it should. If this is the case, then try and see what the missing is.

Most of the time, the missing part would be the “existence” structure of the idea. Your idea needs a structure in the form of “time, distance and form”. A complete measurable structure, where within the freedom model, you still have control over your project. If you can have that in the place, your freedom model would generate tremendous positive results.

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when you can’t focus..

When your mind is busy and dealing with too many things at a time, what is that you would do?

Personally, I do either of the below:

  • I will do nothing, as I would be overthinking.
  • I will meditate and get my head clear.
  • I will sleep (and this is my favorite).
  • I will eat (and it’s my least favorite).
  • I will go for a walk or drive. (that was in the past, before COVID-19).
  • I will have caffeine shot.
  • I will keep staring at the wall.
  • I will not want anyone to disturb me.
  • I will want to disturb someone as I get de-focused.

And which one gets my focus back?

  • Mostly the walk, sleep, or caffeine would work.

Does this happen to you too?

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share authentically

My experience when I share knowledge, ideas, views, and experience without expecting anything in return, is that I have always received more than what I have delivered.

When I am authentic in sharing, I have noticed it touches people and they move. The return, which never is the agenda, comes in the form of good relations, respect, getting even more knowledge and inputs from the peers, and overall growth of the community.

Whenever we get a chance to share, we should share with open arms, hearts, and minds. That’s the only way to share. If you don’t feel like sharing authentically, you are deceiving the listener. And it’s okay not to share, but if you do, share with full authenticity.

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an ideal Sunday

– wake up at 4:45 am
– follow daily rituals of Early Bird Club
– attend Early Bird Meet-up from 6-7:15 am over Zoom call
– attend Early Bird Joy (core team) weekly meeting over Zoom call again
– eat breakfast
– feed birds, dogs, cats, fishes, water the plants
– read a book
– attend Webinar on the topic of sales
– lunch
– sleep
– read a book
– healthy snacking
– prepare for tomorrow’s presentation
– read a book and do affirmation
– dinner
– read
– sleep

And this will change a lot once the lockdown and the social distancing is relaxed 😁

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Surat Bookworm Club

Today we launched Surat Bookworm Club for the entrepreneurs, professionals and students of Surat, from Information Technology backgroud.

Everything started with an idea, to make people read and share their learnings. It is brainstorming when you read and discuss, which brings wisdom and wisdom brings growth, both material and spiritual.

The idea was picked up very well by my coach and the fellow IT entrepreneurs and we created a core team for the club. The brilliance of the core team created structure for the club. We divided responsibility and ran three trial runs during which we revised structure a few times, and finally today the club was launched with about 35 attendees.

It’s a happy day to see the dream of knowledge sharing platform coming true.

Learning is, if the cause is good and the context is clear, people will get enrolled and things will happen automatically.

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meetings post COVID-19

Towards the end of 2019, we had so many in-person meetings:
– business meetings
– volunteer assisting meetings for some good cause
– meetings with my coach
– meetings with team members
– meetings of various clubs and organizations
– endless meet-ups
– meetings to set-up meetings 

Starting of 2020:
– At that point, luckily, these too many in-person meetings had started being felt like a waste of time and we had started few meetings over the video conferencing. We had cut down our weekly assisting meeting with my coach from in-person to video conferencing, just to save:
– travel time
– the energy that goes into this feeling of “going out for meeting”
– the time that was going socializing before and after the meetings.

COVID-19
– Practicing meetings over the video conferencing, eventually helped me when WFH was announced as we already had started practicing it from the beginning of 2020.

In the post-COVID-19 world, I want to continue with the same number of meetings but, those would be:
– Less time-consuming
– Less expensive as no travel
– Saves natural resources
– Keeps the pollution level low
– Keeps me focused

What’s your take? Are you loving the idea of more and more video conference meetings?

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how do I relate to you?

How many of you do this?

  • Take a warm shower in the summer
  • Put on the air conditioner and pull on the blanket
  • Wake up early and then take a nap in the afternoon
  • Take two steps every time taking the stairs
  • Look into the mirror first thing as you sit in the car
  • Get upset if someone breaks the queue
  • Wondering what I am thinking right now, is exactly what someone else is thinking too?
  • Read three books simultaneously
  • Love to believe in a parallel universe
  • Love the food and don’t eat enough
  • Read newspaper starting from the last page
  • Don’t watch television
  • Loves the routine
  • Loves homemade food
  • Was fat and now live a healthy life
  • Loves to tease people and when they get upset, put all the blame on them
  • Who gets upset if not respected
  • Hate telephones
  • Love to meet people in person socially
  • But love to meet people over the internet for work
  • Who think simple is beautiful
  • Who think, I am special
  • Who wants attention



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routine that keeps me at peace

I wake up at 4:45 am, then I do Early Bird 5 AM club rituals, and then for an hour, I spend time feeding, watching and talking to dogs, cats, birds, and fishes followed by a gardening post my breakfast. I feel as much happier and relaxed as I feel during my daily meditation time.

The whole act gives me so much pleasure and happiness. It’s my habit to spend time with these species about an hour every morning and that’s one of the best times of my day. 

I start my work around 9 am and the four hours’ time that I give to myself in the morning, is the best thing I have done for peace of my mind and for my happiness. It set me up for the rest of the day.

Do you feel the same? Do you do the same? 

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Opportunities come in any form

We keep waiting for opportunities, while it’s in front of us all the time. We think the opportunity to come with trumpets blowing and people taking out a procession for it. And because of this way of thinking, we don’t see opportunities as it has a habit to come in any form and mostly silent.

Today is the biggest opportunity in many fields and instead of looking at opportunities, most of the people are busy playing games, watching television, sleeping, wasting time on social media and mostly doing nothing. And when opportunity will be gone, they would say, oh we never saw it coming.

If we just change the time available into an opportunity to learn something new, to start that long pending project, to hone our skills, then that’s an opportunity in itself. 

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Automation and Robotics

Post COVID-19, the world would be moving more towards automation and robotics. The lockdown has created urgency towards automation and robotics. The activities that could be automated would be the highest priority now for the two reasons:
– Minimize human errors
– Minimize disruption

Just like Work From Home was work in the progress for a long time, and overnight everyone found the solution for it, automation and robotics mostly have been adopted by larger companies so far, and now everyone will join the bandwagon overnight because to survive and thrive, it would be needed. 

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Step out when needed

You start a good cause, you enjoy it, and one good day you feel it’s not touching your heart anymore. It’s just human to feel so. And you don’t want to quit, hence the solution is to take a break or to check if you are overdoing it which is overwhelming you.

You can come back because we live in the infinite world, where there is no beginning and no end, which permits us to step in and step out when needed. Listen to your heart, and if it ask to step out, do so.

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When we realise the value of happiness

What we don’t realise what we have, and how much freedom we have, we run behind elusive happiness. If we start valuing and enjoying things we have in this moment, we will be much more happier.

Post Covid-19, that is what one change we will see in the new world. We are going to rise from day to day things and will move towards being happy more. If nothing else, this is one and only worth learning lesson. Things matter as long as they are our needs, otherwise happiness matters more.

Happiness is in simple thing and being happy is the ‘Moksh’ we need.

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Things move in the emergency and then stay with us

In the state of emergency, many things that were on hold gets into the highest priority. These things were on the hold, either because of it wasn’t “the time” for it or for the fear of opposition.

The emergency situation gives an opportunity to push forward the tasks that were on “agenda” and also the tasks that were on the “hidden agenda”. And what took months or years to implement, are done within a few hours. When there is a state of emergency, priorities change and what was on the back burner becomes the highest priority, without much opposition. Sometimes, we becomes Guinea Pig in this experimentation.

Mostly, whatever is implemented in the emergency becomes the new normal. Emergency goes and leaves behind the new norms, which stays with us and we start living in the new world of new normal.

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fixed menu + fixed clothes = awesomeness

Now for a few years, I am focusing on having only seven pairs of clothes, so that I can wear the same clothes week to week without thinking a lot about what to wear. And at the beginning of 2020, I decided, I am going to wear only black or navy blue shirts and t-shirts for the whole year. The reason was, by having single color clothes, I can kill the color dilemma too. Why black? I love black color, simple. So I went online (yes, I hate going to the stores) and ordered a few shirts and t-shirts for the rest of the year. 

I do have some old clothes, that aren’t black as I normally don’t discard clothes before four years (actually). I will wear them, as I am not against any color. So you will see me in odd-colored clothes sometimes.

This practice along with my habit of eating the same breakfast every day for last so many years makes my mornings so relaxing. I am never worried about what am I going to eat for breakfast, as it’s the same every single day. Plus, more or less, I have defined lunch and almost defined weekly dinner menu too.

The only reason I want to practice this is to save myself from this decision making, about what to wear and what to eat, which I feel used to clutter my mind so much. The food thing, I started doing myself and for clothes, obviously, I am inspired by Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs.

I feel awesome about it. What’s your awesomeness?

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Restoration

I always believed it is important not to do out-integrity. I always opposed restoration as I feel that when you do restoration, you allow yourself to do out-integrity again. I always told my coach also, not to allow restoration as that is like giving license to do out-integrity.

And now I believe, we humans are built to do out-integrity and we can’t escape it, because that’s the design. When we do out-integrity and don’t restore, we simply lose the relationship with the person eventually.

Restoration is awesome when used wisely, to build and maintain the relationships.

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Irony

Every time we are told to be humble, the person telling us so is mostly never humble himself.

Every time we are told to mind our own business, the person telling is mostly not minding his own.

Every time we are told not to advise without being asked, the person telling so is mostly giving advice without being asked.

Every time we are told not to judge others, the person telling so is mostly judging.

Every time we are told not to compete, the person telling so is mostly in the competition of proving.

So what is the point? Point is simple, what you teach others not to be, you become the one. Does that mean, you should not suggest? You should, but suggest when asked and suggest what is the way to it. Not the right way or wrong way, just THE WAY.

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being humble

We are taught and we know that we should be humble. Make sure you know, how much humble is enough. If you are humble more than needed, it might be considered as a lack of courage and when you are less humble, it could be considered arrogance.

When you are being humble, remember to inspire others to do the same, and while doing so, make sure you are not getting into self-praise on how humble you are.

Find your balance, how much humbleness is enough for you.

Learning from Early Bird Club today.

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be serious without being serious

As many of you already know, we are about forty odd people who are part of an early bird group. We also have a “core” team which we have named, “joy group”. This core team meets every Sunday over the phone call and once a month we meet in person, where we discuss what we can do to improve the value in the group, what challenges members are facing and how we can solve them.

When we do this meeting, we talk about serious topics, and we do it with joy. We crack jokes while taking serious decisions, we laugh, we enjoy and we feel happy all the while taking serious decisions.

This is what happiness is, in being happy in the moment, even when discussing serious talks. We all have transferred same way of working in our individual companies and learnt that we can do serious meetings without being serious.

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attract the right energy

It’s simple, energy isn’t generated, it’s transformed from one person to another. When you meet someone, the reaction of that person is the energy that you transformed to that person.

Whatever type of energy you have generated will be reflected. Next time when you see someone and if the person isn’t as positive towards you, pause and reset the energy you are generating.

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The world doesn’t need comparison anymore

This generation is about uniqueness.

No matter how good your intentions might be, the world has seen enough comparison and no one really care for more. Let a bird be a bird, a fish be fish. We all are unique with individual personalities. A fish will never fly, no matter how much you compare it, in the name of the motivation.

When you were compared, you didn’t like it, so when you compare no one would like it either. People adore their own uniqueness and at the same time other’s uniqueness too, only until the comparison starts. Let’s kill comparison, not people’s uniqueness by comparing them in the name of motivation.

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give the joy

We know how everyone is feeling in this situation. What I have learned is that people who are keeping themselves and the people around happy are feeling less stress in this situation. Then, as a leader, we should bring joy and happiness in our meetings both with the team and the clients, in dealing with people and making sure that people feel joy. This no way means, we have to not take tasks seriously, what I am saying is, we don’t have to be serious to do serious work.

Have fun, spread happiness, give joy to everyone.

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do nothing

Sometimes it is very important to do nothing. There are times when instead of doing, it is good to wait and watch. To keep patience and having faith that things will unfold on its own and what is meant for you will arrive.

When you accept what comes your way, you don’t get impatient, and hence you don’t see things as good or bad.

Sometimes, it’s important to just observe and being an observer.

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We aren’t afraid of heights

We are never afraid of heights, it’s the fear of falling that we are afraid of.

We are not afraid of any situation, we are feared of the unknown outcome of it.

What scares us is the unknown. What we know, we are scared of what we don’t know.

What if we accept whatever we don’t know, that way whoever is trying to scare us, won’t succeed. 

Have faith.

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IT World, Post Corona

The way we work will change forever. What we have been used to so far, will change forever. How soon we adopt the new way of working, will decide our fate. No matter, you like it or not, adapt to the new world.

– Work From Home is going to be a new normal.
– Physical to the virtual transition of meetings.
– Virtual events instead of physical conferences.
– Sales without meeting and marketing without events.
– Working without office.
– Everyone will like to save money.
– Flexibility and adaption will be the key.
– Cyber attacks and cybersecurity are going to be even more important.
– Large will have to compete with small. Advantage small.

How much are you prepared for the future?