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1. Creating (and living) by your own definition of success. Not someone else’s.

2. Making sure you are happy doing what you do. Every single day.

3. Divorcing goals and getting married to habits.

Someone asked me today, “My friends party at high-end places on the weekends, however, I cannot afford it. So I feel bad.”

Here’s my question to them: Why are you still friends with them?

Not because they party.
Rather because they make you feel bad about yourself.

True friends, don’t abandon you emotionally.

Patience is a bad rap. It is postponing action, till a magical day in future. Veiled under fear.

Perseverance is action. It does not mean you know all the answers. It simply means you figure out along the way. Courage in action.

Patience is a virtue only when we use it to not drive angry responses against others. Every other time, it draws us towards vices.

Having the wisdom of when to be patient and when to be not, is usually achieved through perseverance.

Remember when we were kids, we used to ask questions endlessly.

Why does this happen?
Why doesn’t this happen?
What if we do it the opposite?

We would get tired physically (if at all), however, we would never get tired of asking questins.

That is the mindset of learning.
The mindset of curiosity.
The mindset of exploring.

The mindset to learn something new, is to go beyond the obvious and ask questions. Relentlessly.
Especially when the world expects you to settle with answers, your questions will push the world forward.

It is almost impossible to meet 3 kinds of people:

1. People who haven’t made any mistakes.

2. People who have reached a success after failure without reflection.

3. Managers who have team’s trust by exerting control and micromanagement instead of trust.

Three things that help me achieve productivity pro max:

1. Sharing my calendar with my wife: She can add, edit, delete anything – and it gets on my calendar.

2. Taking notes like a kid: We believe productivity is a far off game of some day, however, productivity is making the best use of the place you’re right now in. This, is aided to me by my practice of taking notes.

3. Having dinner by 6:30 pm: How is this related to productivity? Because I have dinner 3 hours prior to sleeping, it helps me feel lighter and easy while going to bed. Which also means feeling way less groggy in the morning, thus, productive.

While there are several apps to make you more productive, for me, it is the old school things that help the most – including family, writing, and dinner before sunset – that make the most difference!

Why do you continue to work hard on your passion despite you can’t see any visible results?
Why do you wake up early to do it?
Why do you ignore the parties because you want to nurture your side gig?

Why do you do it, when you have exhausted all the wordly reasons to not do it?

You do it because you do not know who you would be, without it!

We continue not because we will get something.
Money. Accolades. Trust. Recognition. Success.
None of these is the reason.

We continue because we will lose ourselves if we don’t.

I created different content for different audiences, on different platforms.
While the nature and intent of the content is different, what remains the same is what I want to download.

Here is what I stand for, in every content piece I create:

Simplicity:
Anyone can make simple things complex. What I stand for, off the content, is simplicity. That’s what I strive for, even in each content piece I create.

Authenticity:
I am the same person everywhere – whether you bump into me in a mall or whether you meet me in your office.
The reason I have so much fun creating content is because I do not pretend to be someone else!

Humility:
One thing I care for, is accessibility with humility. I might not be able to respond to every DM or email I get, but whatever I do respond to, it is human. Not robotic like “apologies”. Who says apologies in reality?
I talk like I talk to real human beings. Because I do talk to real human beings.

Simplicity, authenticity, humility – my three sauces to crack the content game.

Feeling intimidated by a colleague daily? Does it mean you aren’t “cool enough” or does it simply mean they do not make you feel involved?

Trying too hard to find work you love? Does this mean you aren’t worth it or does it mean your efforts are compounding to give you 10X return?

Parents asking you for small things? Does this mean they are poking their nose or does this mean they simply want to lower their anxiety by making sure you’re safe?

All of these things make you struggle.
However, when we go to the roots of struggle, it helps you discover yourself in profound ways.

Struggle isn’t meaningless. If you are willing to do the work to find its meaning

The key to motivation is to keep tracking your progress.
Knowing it is the easy part.

Tracking your progress is the difficult part.
Because if you won’t, no one else will do that for you.

It is difficult because we don’t see mountains moving on the basis of daily efforts.
Yet if we keep putting in the daily efforts, they do move over a period of weeks, months, or years!

However, in order to reach that place, we need to be motivated. To be motivated, we need to keep tracking our progress. Even when we don’t feel like. So that when we actually don’t feel like working, our tiny steps will remind us that our work does make a difference.

Motivation comes from daily insignificant actions, that create significance over time.