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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?

1. Haldirams (Street food) – It is God sent!
2. Watching movies on a weekend – We watch a movie for 2-3 hours, every weekend, and that’s it! And it’s fun :)
3. 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

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

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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!

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.