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Regret will cause more pain than failure ever will.

Failure will give you ways to succeed.
Regret will give you compounding regret. With zero end to that downward spiral.

You will never know how your decision would turn out, until you actually make that decision.
However, if you won’t make that decision, you would always blame yourself and everyone else for the rest of your life!

Do you really want to sign up for that?

I hope not, because it is always a wonderful idea to try and fail than to not try and tell stories (while regretting silently in your mind).

You will struggle to smile and show up. Show up anyway.

It’s scary to show up on days you are scared. And scarred.
However, it is only by showing up on those days that you tell your scars that your smile is bigger than the scares they give.

Anyone can show up on a day of sunshine.
But sunshine doesn’t make you strong. Struggles do.
To show up with courage on a day when it wasn’t easy is what will make you tough!

Courage is not when you face what’s in front of you while being fully armed.
Courage is when you face what’s in front of you knowing that you are weaker.

Being prepared is not called courage. It’s planning.

Courage shows up when the plan gives way.
Courage shows up when you have no other option than to face the super difficult situation in front of you.

Courage is what makes you stronger when you are weak, because courage is the sun that shines through the clouds. Not the torchlight that stays hidden under the kimono.

Courage is the process of getting stronger by showing up and facing what’s in front of you.

Courage is the catalyst that transforms you from weak to strong. Because once you have the sun that shines through you, you don’t need torchlights.

You think you are a broken tube light. In reality, you are the lighthouse. If you choose courage.

Lived for others
Did not listen
Feared till death
Never loved herself
Believed everyone else
I wish I…
Why always me

We create our stories. And then the stories create us.

Most of life’s problems are a result of our inability to have an honest and objective conversation with our own selves.

What do I want?
What I don’t want?
How can I play with my strengths?
How can I handle my weaknesses to not let interfere with what I want?

As we reflect on these, we find what our problems are.
Only when we know what problems exist, then would we be able to solve them!

Because we don’t spend time with ourselves, we mistakenly believe someone else is responsible for our problems!

To find out who controls you, ask who it is that you can’t speak against.

For most of us – it is our mind!

The mind is a wonderful servant. And a terrible master.
It will nudge you to send that angry email, eat that dessert, participate in that gossip, or even bad-mouth someone – in the heat of the moment.

If you give in to the heat of the moment, you let the mind win.

If you control the mind, you will speak up against it. And act against it.

Does the mind control you? Or you control it? That decides everything. Everything.

What we do when no one is looking is who we are.
That is the person others will get to see when they are looking.

Nothing we do in public is random.
All of it is a result of what we do when we are alone.

If you are happy alone, the world sees you as a happy person.
If you are complaining when alone, that is what the world sees you for around them. There is nothing random or spontaneous.
As Tony Robbins says, ‘You get rewarded in public for what you do in private.’

The public is simply a reflection of the private.

No one expects you to be rich in your 20s. So don’t act like you are rich.

Live like a pauper.
Invest any and every money you get.
Avoid loans.
Don’t buy a house.
Don’t buy things that you think will make people like you more.

Those people are not worth pleasing!

When you live your life in alignment with your expectations, the vague expectations of others stop making sense.

It is interesting how ‘free time’ is looked down upon when you are young and is perhaps the only thing worth chasing as you get old.

When you are young, you want to hustle hard. Only to realize a couple of years later that the hustle makes sense only if you have free time. If all that you do in your free time is also hustle, you will never reflect upon whether you are picking up the right hustles.

Hard work seems effortless when you combine it with free time.
Easiest work seems like a mountain when you never give yourself the free time.

Which comes as a realization when you give up your luxury of ‘hustle’ and try the freedom on the other side.

Free time is a necessity.
Not a luxury.

In life, it is not the most genetically gifted person or the one with the most potential who wins.

It’s the person with perseverance that wins.

Everyone is born with gifts.
That, however, doesn’t make them gifted.

It is those who make use of their gifts, who get to amplify their gifts.

Everything that doesn’t get invested and multiplied declines. True for money. True for your talents.