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Maybe you figured a PM fit that worked.
Maybe you wanted to try things on this side of the world.
Or perhaps you were just happy doing it.

Whatever it is, that reason is important.

Your “why” is important.
Your root cause matters.

The reasons hyped by the media, the Twitteratti, competitors, don’t matter as much.

When you know why you became an entrepreneur in the first place, the only story that matters is the one between your two ears.

The world runs on instant gratification today.
The instant like, the instant comment, the instant live.

However, this quick dopamine boost does more harm than good.

The reality is, all good things take time and effort.

True love, true relationships, true friendship, true meaning and fulfilment in work, true well being - physical, mental, emotional.

The quicker we realise good things don’t come quickly, the more we will enjoy the daily small actions towards the long journey, even if they don’t give instant rewards.

There is always a reason behind how we feel.

If the reason for that feeling is someone else, why blame ourselves?
It will pass.

If we are the reason, why blame someone else?
It's time to fix it.

The key is to find the source.

Our feelings are self-imposed. If we can create them, we can end them too.

Creating content is less about new ideas on a random day.
It’s more of a process.

Showing up each day.
Documenting what we did.
Being ourselves.

Creating content even when we don’t get the muse.
And listening to the audience about what lights them up.

If we keep on doing it consistently without worrying about it to monetise, the power of compounding will take us places even we couldn’t imagine.

But the universal caveat remains unchanged:

Creativity shows up when we do.

"Work for them before working for them".

Instead of showing what you can do, or have done, assume you are working for them and do the work.

Send them that work. Or just share it online.

We keep running after work experience.

We think it will make us better at what we do.
But experience comes with its own baggage — a blind belief that what we know is what is right.

However, it is the maturity of realising that we are constantly learning, that things are constantly changing, and what we know today might not work tomorrow.

A truly experienced person knows when to use and when to challenge that experience.

Two mantras of life I live by, that I recently told my team:

Never complain: Never. Ever. Even if it is the worst day of your life to date. It robs us of our power and tricks us into believing that we don’t have any.

Trust: Trust people for what they say. Living life with that sense of awe and wonder, to never let doubt creep in. If someone else’s lies comfort them, what’s the point for us to be discomforted by that?

Two extremes. Never and always.

When you take care of never complaining and always trusting, the balance that forms in between takes care of everything else.

We have this habit of checking the strength of our relationships, every now and then.
"Let's see if they can be trusted."

The minute we test it, we break it.
It is either earned or established through conduct.
It's not to be tested.

To test trust, is to not have it.

I came across a beautiful post on Instagram and had to share it with all of you.

Ask your mom these 7 questions:

1. What is the happiest memory you have about me, from the past?

2. What, according to you, is the best thing I have done for you?

3. What are the most beautiful and the most painful things about growing old?

4. How was the first year of your life after you became a mother?

5. Is there something you have kept a secret from me all these years?

6. What do you want the most from your children?

7. When you are gone, what is the one thing you want me to always remember?

As I reflected on these 7 questions, two things dawned upon me:

How little do we actually know of our parents, as a human.
How rarely do we have true and meaningful conversations about them.

I am guilty of the above too and I want to spend the rest of my time with my parents changing this.

I hope you do too, before it's too late.

At the age of 14, I started preparing for engineering exams, only to realize I just could not manage my time.

Worse, I had NO CLUE why.

If someone asked me - what are you busy with the entire day, I would not have an answer.
So I decided to track my time.

Every hour of my day was recorded.

Just this act of measurement, led to the act of improvement.
Because for the first time I knew where my time went, why it went into that and how it made me feel.

I continued this for 13 more years (until 26).

You don't have to do this for 13 years. Please no!

Do it for 10 days and you will see the difference in how you manage your time and work.

You cannot improve anything that you do not measure.