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Imagine there is a movie of your life and you are the main character.

Ask yourself — when people are watching the movie of your life, what will they keep hoping for you to do in your life?

What would they hope, beg, scream, plead for you to do right now in this moment?
Because that is the only thing that you should do.

Maybe you are afraid of doing it.

But this may be the push you needed.

If there is a difficult conversation in the relationship and the person in front of you becomes defensive, say these things to give them assurance:

“I am sharing this with you because I care about us.

I don’t want to attack you.

I know it may not seem like it, but I am not your enemy. I can never be your enemy.

This is not a battle between you and me. It is a battle between us and this situation.

I know you are feeling defensive because of my words, but I really want to understand you.

Please talk to me. It is important for me that both of us are able to say difficult things to each other and feel safe while saying them.”

Ever thought of asking for something on social media AND actually getting it?

I was scrolling on Twitter one day, when I came across this Tweet:
“I just need someone to take me to a bookstore and pay my bill.”

I am all in favour of having no budget for books and learning materials.
Because they are an investment in yourself and provide IMMENSE value, which will pay off over time through the better opportunities you get access to.

So, I agreed and connected Vanshita with one of my team members to host her.

32 books later, the Tweet became a reality!

Not only did this lovely incident bring a smile on my face, but it also reminded me of one of my favourite quotes:

“If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.”

1. Rent until 35.

2. Don’t do FDs.

3. Invest for long.

4. Only buy assets.

5. Rich isn’t wealth.

6. Wealth is freedom.

7. Invest every month.

8. Read Atomic Habits.

9. FOMO isn’t investing.

10. Freedom is privilege.

11. Read about compounding.

This is one of the worst things that people can say if you have just failed or lost.

Don’t move on.

Pause.
Reflect.
Introspect.
Make changes.
Then take a step.

Failure by itself does not lead to success.
It is the introspection and action upon failure that leads to success.

1. A great leader is dispensable when it comes to their tasks and actions.
They are indispensable when it comes to their thought and vision.

2. Every word you speak will be analysed.
Every action of yours will be reproduced.
Every standard you allow will set a new standard.

Think of how you speak, how you act, and the standards you accept.

3. Your emotional and mental state as a leader has a direct impact on your team.
People see when you are anxious or happy. They know when you are depressed or ecstatic.

4. Be human. No one was born knowing how to be a leader.

5. As a leader, you will most likely suffer from what I call “the curse of intelligence” – the desire to solve every problem thrown at you.
Great leaders don’t solve problems.
They ask the right questions.

Every day, I remind myself that leadership is a privilege.

Through this role, someone’s definition of a leader can be shaped up.

When I started working out 11 years back, my instructor told me 2 things:

Never close your eyes, even if in intense pain.
Always look in front. Never down.

It was later that I realised he wasn’t talking about working out.

He was talking about life!

Imagine your best friend is going through a tough time.
They aren’t able to succeed or are really sad.
Would you start telling them that they’re no good?
That they can’t ever do any good?
That they should already give up?

No. Right?

We hate going around people who bring us down yet go about doing the same thing to ourselves.

What if we became our best friend, our most loyal supporter, our cheerleader?
How would that change the journey you have with this one person?
How smoother would it be to hang around an encouraging human 24*7?

Treating yourself like your own best friend will make your life fun and positive, just as a best friend does.

If you invest in a stock with the information that everyone has, you will get the returns everyone else gets.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Same choices, same results.
Yet each day, we go about following the rest of the world while making our life choices.

What if we made different choices?
What if we made an attempt to get different results?
What if we made an obvious choice, to resist the obvious?

“To get the results only few have, do only what a few do.” – Robin Sharma

We know we shouldn’t do multiple things at a time.
But how to accomplish the huge list of tasks we have?

One task at a time.
Then moving on to the next.

We’ll be more focussed.
And get things done in less time, which will allow to move to the next task

Our brain craves novelty and works in focus.
When you give it both, it’s productivity quadruples.

The secret isn’t multitasking. It’s doing a single task at a time, multiple times a day.