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3 things I absolutely love :)
- Haldirams (Street food) – It is God sent!
- Watching movies on a weekend – We watch a movie for 2-3 hours, every weekend, and that’s it! And it’s fun :)
- Reading my emails – I actually look forward to reading them. I read all my emails. ALL of them. Though I may be respond to a few, it is such a beautiful thing to receive all the love from all of you, and do my little, to help you in your journeys
Not worth losing your sleep…
3 things are not worth losing your sleep on:
1. Investments due to FOMO
2. Binge watching because your friends do so, as well.
3. Someone else’s definition of success
No is the way to yes
As a startup founder, when you say no to potential customers that are not your customers, you choose to serve your core customers really well.
In friendships, when you say no to things that exceed your boundaries, that is when you nurture the friendship.
As a son / daughter, sometimes when you choose to move out of your parents’ home, you protect the relationship you have with them.
No is not sin. No is not evil. No is not wicked.
No to what isn’t as important, means saying yes, to what’s most important to you. And that’s precious.
About having conversations
Your goal is not to show others that you are better.
Your goal is to become better together.
Once we understand that the loss of one person in any relationship is the loss of both, we stop optimising for “winning” the conversations.
Only when we allow instead of assuming them to follow, we create a mutual win instead of a hollow win.
Don’t try to win conversations.
Try to have one.
The lie about workplaces
Three lies most of us have been fed about workplaces:
There is politics.
There are people conspiring to bring you down.
That no one wants you to win.
Several organisations exist where you are respected and nurtured as a human being.
Your number one job is not to find a job, your number one job is to find an organisation where merit is more important than what you know.
The answer to the consistency question
If you are someone who loves reading, and were asked to watch only YouTube videos as your source of learning, you would hate it!
Because you are not being yourself.
So is the case with consistency.
You will always struggle to be consistent at what you don’t like, or somewhere you do not have to be yourself.
The most consistent people, are simply being themselves all of the time.
To show up when you do not have to mask up, is the secret sauce to consistency.
Stories, everywhere…
“How can I bring new people on my podcast, what do you think is the best way to convince them?”
Someone asked me this in an IG live.
Here’s what I suggested them: I’m always looking for stories. If I find a good story, I figure a way to bring them on – not necessarily bigger channels than me, rather also smaller or the ones at the same scale at me.
It is the stories that touch the heart. Followers and growth simply follow.
Resisting is a good thing
The world teaches resisting ain’t a good thing.
I’d agree.
Except, when it is.
The world will prescribe you a success formula.
Finish college by X
Get a job by X
Get married by X
First car by X
House by X
Resist it and find your own formula!
The nature of true success
All the successful people around you went through multiple failures.
It is the sauce of endurance, lessons from failures, and staying at the game longer than anyone who thinks you have a right to stay in the game – is what ultimately creates success.
Success isn’t just an achievement.
Success is wisdom.
Success is understanding the recipe.
Success is using your failures to reflect.
Success is a process!
When gains come quickly we tend to lose sight of the basic wisdom
True success, to really last, must come through hard work.
Quick success comes without wisdom. It is perhaps luck.
True success comes with tears, toil and time. It creates luck.
The scariest yet the best thing
If you play a game designed by someone else, you have no choice but to play it by their rules!
Want your own rules?
Make your own game!
Do you want to succeed on your own terms? Create those terms.
Do you want to know what failure will be according to you? Create those.
Don’t want to follow society’s rules of happiness and peace? Feel free to craft yours.
Society has designed a game that tricks people into believing they are winning, even if they feel hollow inside.
True winning and losing is choosing your wins and losses.
That’s scary. Yet I’ve not found a single more liberating thing than this.
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