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Tomorrow
That difficult conversation
That hard decision
That painful cut
That reset
Do it today. Do it now.
Today has got to be the hardest day
Tomorrow is too far away
Writing
The past 3 weeks have been rough at work. Lot hitting us that we didn’t plan for, lot hitting us faster than we had planned for.
And when shit happens, the easiest thing to let go off is the long term. The reason for your existence. Why did you get up in the morning. And why should anyone care.
Because short term is a great thing. It’s now. It’s instant. It has a believable story. It shows a trend. It’s shows output.
It doesn’t show outcome though.
So in the middle of all of this, I just sat down and wrote.
Wrote down every single emotion I was feeling. Where I fucked up. What signs did I ignore. Which faith did I turn into a belief. And which truth did I say no to.
And from that emerged an honest document. Strangely, a document that I knew of all along in my head, but hadn’t seen it ever.
As an entrepreneur, writing will not make you sell more or build better. It’s not possible.
But it’s necessary.
Hang out
I hang out with my friends
I hang out with my colleagues
With my family
At the movies
At restaurants
At shopping malls
With my phone
With TV
With my laptop
I hang out 16 hours a day with something or someone
15 mins everyday, on my way to work, I close my eyes and think of yesterday, with my earplugs on but with no music, my phone blanked out, no calls, no talk. Where did I fuck up. Why did I. What do I need to do better than yesterday.
For these 15 mins I hang out with myself
And I wonder why I don’t do it enough
Don’t sit on a chair when…
Pointing mistakes
Making decisions
The next time you are in either of these two situations, make the effort of getting up and understanding the impact of what you are about to do.
It’s easy to sit and point mistake
It’s hard to understand why it happened in the first place. To see the other side of the story. To hear it out. It’s the right thing to get up and fix it yourself.
It’s easy to take a decision and forget about it
It’s hard to understand what the impact will be. What should you measure. What should you improve. What will tell you it was a bad decision. Or a wrong one. It’s the right thing to ask what the decision should be.
Arm chairs are meant for people who want to be comfortable.
Successful people are always walking!
Move
Don’t crib
Don’t be lazy
Don’t judge
Don’t be perfect
Don’t wait
Don’t sit
Don’t review
Don’t pause
Don’t let free time enter your schedule
Don’t let others tell you what to do
Don’t let others tell you who you are
Don’t let laziness happen
Don’t let pain affect you
Don’t have unread emails
Don’t have doubts
Don’t have time for haters
Have passion
Have empathy
Have 15 min meetings
Have a packed day
Don’t stop
Move!
Wrote a book in 35 mins
Conversation with my Ola driver this morning
- There is no difference between Uber and Ola and Meru or any other. Difference lies in my willingness to work
- If I tell myself that I can do it, anything is possible
- Key is not to be lazy. If I have to get up and go to work, nothing else matters
- How I treat passengers (people) is not determined by rules defined by the company. It is determined by me.
- How much I earn is determined by the company rules. How much I earn from the money I earn, is determined by me
- I am 23. And I have my own car. I do not know the owner of Uber. Nor does he know me. That makes me the owner of my own life. I am CEO of my car.
This guy just wrote a bestselling self help book in 35 minutes!
How did you get saved today?
Every single day we are making mistakes
Taking the wrong decisions
Misunderstanding situations
Hurting people
Prioritizing urgency over importance
And every single day, life will send signals our ways
To tell us that it’s the wrong path
We have to read the signs
Keep asking the world to save you
And the signs will become obvious
Seth Godin saved me today!
I am at fault
The very instance you say these words, you set yourself free.
You come clean
No more guilt
No more presence
It doesn’t matter if people are still judging you
You now know what to fix
And how to win tomorrow
Strangely enough, people feel that saying “I am sorry” has the same impact.
It doesn’t
Accepting a fault doesn’t require one apologizing for it.
The reverse isn’t true.
Working out
When I started working out 2 years back, my instructor told me 2 things that have immensely helped me
Never close your eyes, even if in intense pain.
Always look in front. Never down.
It was later that I realized. He wasnt talking about working out.
He was talking about life!
When someone says no
How do you react when someone says no to you?
Try and convince them again
Do it anyway
Argue why it’s the wrong decision
Blame yourself for the defeat
Gather a mob
Seek sympathy
Stop caring
Consider for a moment – that the no sent across your way was not directed at you. It was not a no to the person, or the idea. Rather to the moment
No = Not right now
Knowing that it is just a matter of time now, now how would you react?
Don’t convince people of why something will work.
Spend time convincing them why it needs to be done right now.
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