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Of course a gap year “wastes” a year of your life.

However, we get prepared for 15+ years to work, why make a choice of what to work on immediately?
How will we ever get to know the depth of the pool without stepping into it?
How will we ever know what we are good at if we don’t try what all we could be good at?

A gap year is simply the stopping at the petrol pump to give much needed fuel to the long drive of your career. Without it, we may be in an illusion of the car while in reality it is stagnant.

You should not stop watching news because someone on the internet tells you to stop watching news.

You should stop watching news because your brain cannot focus on the good if it is being fed the bad that is happening around.

Making decisions from a point of why we want to do them makes them stick vis-a-vis doing them without awareness of reason.

Your biggest enemy is not your competitor. Or a newbie changing the world. Or a viral trend you missed.

These are parts of life.

Your biggest enemy is someone who tells you that it is impossible for you to think beyond what lies in front of you. They make you think small because they want you to be one, even if unintentionally. It could even be your closest friends or family.

You cannot move further. Anyone who tells this to you, is the one who is your responsibility to move further away from your life.

It’s always been very important to protect our time.
Because it is the only deposit in our account that never repeats itself ever.

However, never like now has been important to help with your time.
Connecting people to the right medical leads, using our time to verify on their behalf, or even using our time to talk to people who are out in the world still working – so that humanity could survive.

To keep humanity over anything else is the best use of our time right now.

To give your time to those who need help to survive, is the biggest help to them. And yourself.

The society has categorised a profit making entrepreneur as successful and the one who does not, as failure.

However, that is the definition of society. Something that is rarely correct.

True success is having the courage to build something from scratch. True success is getting out of your own self to solve a problem. True success is living by your own stories of success and not the ones the world has imposed on us since childhood.

There’s no such thing as failure. The very act of going for entrepreneurship by leaving the life of comfort is in itself the biggest success.

Happiness is our nature as kids. If we enjoy something, we are in a state of flow doing it. If we don’t, we’ll cry our hearts out to make sure we don’t do it.

And then, we grow up. Unfortunately. And forget to make our happiness a priority.
We pursue courses that our family wants, marry someone because we’ve been told to, and end up living a life that is totally apart from how we would be happy living it.

In the pursuit of trying to make others happy and giving up our own, we realise we aren’t happy either. So, choosing our happiness is the safest option to ensure not only ours rather everyone else’s happiness.

How do we know if we are happy doing something? By asking two fundamental questions:

a. What about it makes me happy? b. Am I truly happy doing it?

It turns out, the happiest thing we could do to our happiness is live with it forever. That’s the most difficult yet the easiest thing to sign up for.

When we think about why we got successful, we may call it our hard work, dedication of our parents, and our commitment. 

While all that is true, studies have shown time and again that the ones who got successful were because of a huge stroke of luck. Being at the right place at the right time. Being picked by the right people. Born in a country where we can grow.

All of this is something we cannot control. But has hugely affected where we are.

Yes, we wouldn’t have made it without our hard work. But we wouldn’t have made it without luck either.

It’s a privilege to be where our success has led us. And the best thing we could do is help create luck in the lives of others.

Being a founder was never so cool.
Quit a high paying job. Took a risk. Making a dent in the universe (perhaps).

But here’s the truth: Being a founder automatically makes us a celebrity.
What we say becomes the Gospel.
What we do becomes the gold standard.
And what we don’t fail to achieve becomes the talk of the town. Forever.

The standards we set become the standards set by everyone else.
As the Spiderman movie says, “With great power, comes great responsibility.”

Comfort is a trap.
It’s worth sacrificing – for your happiness and for your growth.
It sadly seduces us into believing that we don’t need to try.

However, one comfort is worth always living with: Comfort in your own company.

The world is designed to tell us to hang around people, be like them, talk like them, and do everything that makes us fit in. 

Finding comfort in your own company and growing your relationship with yourself is the only comfort to forever strive for.

Human species is hardwired for progress.
Our families celebrated when we started crawling or walking.
Or when we went to college from school.
Perhaps that first job promotion.

We could see we were progressing. So could others.
However, such moments of external visible progress are rare. And mostly out of our control.

How about the rest of the moments? What if we measured our daily progress? Why don’t we do it?

One of the reasons could be our internal craving for maximum progress, that we don’t feel satisfied with 1mm of progress each day.

But it is that 1mm compounded over a period of time that makes the miles shorter.

We may or may not get validation from others. However, documenting our progress is the sure shot way to internal validation – backed by evidence!