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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.

Do not try to remember anything.

Write it down.
Keep a calendar.
Free your mind from tasks.

It lets your mind do what’s most important for it:
– Think intuitively
– Make wiser decisions
– Develop the courage to say no

Only when we let go of seemingly important things, we realise the power of truly important things.

One thing I have a huge amount of: Patience

One thing I have too little: Patience on things we do not know why we are doing them

Patience for the long run. Impatience on wasting our time which we don’t have a direction for.

I surround myself with some cool psychological hacks, so that I trick my brain to follow what I want, and not vice versa.

Some of them are:

1. Wearing work wear while working. Even from home.
2. Keeping dumbbells next to the bed.
3. Schedule my free time and distraction time.
4. Run life through To-Do list and calendar.
5. Waking up and sleeping at the same time – every single day.

The things that make life easy, are the things we need to be hard on :)

As we come to almost close of another year of pandemic, we all have gotten some acceptance with uncertainty.

As if we had another option, though :)

However, now that things are getting better by the day, the uncertainty gives a very clear lesson:

This too, shall pass!

You may not like what happened. You may want to change it. But no matter what happened, it has passed. For the better or worse.

Uncertainty turns to certainty, and leaves us with a choice: to dance with it, or to dance in the dark.

When an interviewer asks you questions about yourself, they are not going to judge you by the facts of the answer.

They are going to judge you by how much you know yourself.

And very few of us do!

Awareness, is everything. Everything!

Your values won’t make money for you. However, on days when you are crying out loud and driving your car, what do you offer to someone asking for food at the traffic signal – kindness or anger?

The thing you offer to them are your values. In that moment, when you offer them kindness, that is who you are.

In that moment, when you offer them anger,

that is who you are.

It may seem that none of this is related to who you are.

Except that it is totally related.

Values are the qualities that show up when you do not have preparatory time for them, Fortunately or unfortunately, that is what defines us.

The most dangerous people invest their energy explaining why change is something they don’t need.

The best thing you can do to stay away from their danger is not enter their danger zone!

Because their zone makes you believe that you don’t need to change!

However, the only constant in life is change. If you don’t change purposefully (for the better), the danger zone of energy-draining people changes you automatically. For the worse.

Working out teaches you discipline and patience like few other things do.

Working is not painful.

Pain is showing up for the workout. Getting off the couch. Having proteins. Having meals on time. Keeping track of your body measurements.

These are the things that need discipline. These are the things that grow your discipline and patience. The reward is understanding the fact that all worthwhile things require discipline and patience.

Not everything comes at the speed of a tap on a smartphone!