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One reason to travel
Someone asked me 3 reasons why we should travel.
I offered only one.
To break the routine. To not let boredom settle in. To take the time to reflect.
It breaks your chain of repeated thoughts, and pumps up a series of new thoughts, and that’s beautiful.
Only when you mute the mundane, you get a chance to treasure truer thoughts.
Whenever I feel bad, I ask myself this question…
Whenever I feel bad, I ask myself this question: Will this matter 3 months from now?
Our emotions are real. So real that they seem permanent.
But they are not.
Once the emotions are gone and we have given ourselves time and space, will what we are going through still matter?
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!
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