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As kids, we were smarter than adults.

Then why do we become broken adults and lose everything that made us a kid?

Perhaps to be liked by others. Perhaps to not be joked.

However, the best adults are the ones that do not forget that they are kids first, and adults next.

Bootstrapped or funded venture?

Startup or a corporate job?

Outdoor sports or indoor gym?

What’s better? And how do we define better?

By asking yourself the right questions:

What do you want? Which one aligns the most with your who you are? Which one leaves you with the most energy?

Better is a construct in our own head. The best part about “better” is, we choose it for our own selves.

Some urgent pressing

Client work

Someone assigned you an urgent task

Life happens. Almost every day. Thereby, interfering in our productivity. And our energy levels.

The way then, to increase our productivity, is to do the things that energise you. For me it is meditating, working out, spending time with my family, playing tennis, reading books.

Every day I do all of this religiously, thereby, leaving myself with very little to lose energy on.

To be energetic, it starts with filling yourself up with activities that make you energetic in the first place.

We don’t have goals. That is the reason we achieve a lot of goals we didn’t set.

What we do, instead, is the following:

1. Follow a process.

2. Stay true to it. Through our offsites and our happy and not so happy times.

3. Have fun, while maintaining discipline.

Milestones are a natural outcome, if you make process your natural input.

We don’t have goals. That is the reason we achieve a lot of goals we didn’t set.

What we do, instead, is the following:

1. Follow a process.

2. Stay true to it. Through our offsites and our happy and not so happy times.

3. Have fun, while maintaining discipline.

Milestones are a natural outcome, if you make process your natural input.

1. LED ear cleaner

2. Mosquito racquet

3. Plot 4 game with my son

No “productivity” tools, just some fun things, that make life with family and without mosquitoes, a whole lot better!

Since ours is a team that started from scratch and is now growing, here is how we implement organisation-wide changes:

1. Start with a small group.
2. Gather feedback.
3. Experiment on bigger group

Repeat.

Small things are easy, and easily detectable. Just like the smallest of habits – which indeed drive our biggest results!

There are two ways to it:

One: Apply for job portals. Wait for openings. Wait for callbacks. Basically wait for your luck to someday open up.

Two: Create your job. Figure out what you want to work on. Start working on that, before you have a job. Then apply for internships. Write cold emails, stating how you can help them. Create your own luck!

There are always two ways to do something. The second one is always harder, but makes your life easier!

There are two ways to it:

One: Apply for job portals. Wait for openings. Wait for callbacks. Basically wait for your luck to someday open up.

Two: Create your job. Figure out what you want to work on. Start working on that, before you have a job. Then apply for internships. Write cold emails, stating how you can help them. Create your own luck!

There are always two ways to do something. The second one is always harder, but makes your life easier!

Sometimes our parents could be one, for no fault of theirs.

How to deal with them?

1. Recognise that they want the same things from life as you do.

2. Do not consider their emotional blackmail as truth. It isn’t.

3. Get financially independent. And move out.

Sometimes, the best way to deal with toxic parents is to not let that toxicity affect you.