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On my YouTube channel, I usually host a guest a week.

Here are some of the life lessons that I have come across, from some of the wise minds:

Tech Burner: Everything is a lie!
Nikhil Kamath: Rent > Buy
Morgan Housel: Write consistently. And you have a book.
Seth Godin: We need to change systems, in order for systems to change.
Saloni Gaur: You should be your favourite :)

What has been one of your favourite learning so far?

Investing is important.
A huge part of my online teaching is about it.
It secures your future.

However, we can secure our future only when we have solved for unforeseen circumstances.
Which means, having a life and health insurance.
It is only then when you would enjoy your investments.

When your family is secure, is when you can take care of creating a future free of insecurities.

What is going on in your mind is what is going on in your mind.

People cannot read it, unless you state it.

Share it with them, if you wish that to be known.

Applies to all relationships. Including the ones at work.

Let yourself be heard. By speaking up. And not testing people’s non-existent psychic skills :)

Schedule is a habit. It is not a goal.

Which means, you may also have one for a year from now.

And a quarterly schedule of your business.

When I suggest you to set habits and not goals, you also have the power to set habits for goals.

“Your time management course is impractical. I was looking for some path-breaking time management techniques to fix my problem of procrastination.”

The other day I got this in an email from a learner.

Sorry to break her heart, but I had to say it:

“There is no path-breaking technique to live life.
There just isn’t.”

Back in school, I used to maintain a notebook, where I listed down what I did. Every hour!
And at the end of the day, I used to calculate the effectiveness ratio.

My aim was to always be above 75% effectiveness.

This pic shares a snapshot of the excel I maintained back at ISB, tracking my time!

I know exactly what I was doing at 9.30 am on Nov 5th, 2005. Giving a midterm exam!

Life is simple, my friend.

We all look for answers, because we are convinced that life is complicated. And that there is some magic formula that will solve everything.

That just isn’t true.

You want to get fit?
Simple – eat right and workout.

You want to manage time?
Simple – start measuring where you spend it.

You want to get better at relationships?
Simple – give more than you take.

You want to grow at your job?
Simple – challenge the status quo, at the risk of failing.The answers are always simple. Not easy. They are hard.
But, the answers are always SIMPLE!

Yes, I do.

However, what I don’t do is read my emails all day.

I have subscribed to MailMan, which lets emails into my inbox just thrice a day – 30 minutes post which I respond to all of them.

Emails are important. However, your life will end up becoming unimportant if you attend to emails all day. Not the best use of time, my friend :)

In our company wariCrew, all our work is done through processes.

I have a process for my shoot.
Then for my review.
Process for my team once I am done.
And it continues every week.

However, if the process makes you lose your peace of mind, you are doing something wrong.

You are supposed to be on top of your game.
Follow the process that has been designed in alignment with you.

However, if it takes you to places in your mind that you don’t want to be at, it is time to change the way you work.

Take a break.
Reach out for help.
Let things go.
And let yourself just be.

Anything that is supposed to help, when becomes a hindrance is a sign you need to pivot.

I am the biggest “non-fan” of hustle.
Not that I despise people who do.
Just that I believe you get more done when you do less. By planning and executing really well.

Not choosing to hustle does not mean, though, that you should not work hard.
You absolutely must.
However, how work in sprints like a lion. And make the most of that hunt of time.

Hustle is not truly needed, once you start working hard with planning and executing like a pro.

If you go back to my blogs 10 years back, I would be a totally different person.
So would it happen if you go to my Facebook from 12 years back.
Or even if you ask my family who I was a decade back, I was totally different.

We all change.

The idea is not to protect who you were yesterday.
The idea is to evolve from who you were, yesterday.

We plan for our next offsite once we are back from our previous one.

And the execution mode begins exactly 30 days before the take off date.
My shoot.
Coordinating with subtitling agency.
Team planning their tasks.
Everyone coordinating on what they are supposed to do.

Working for 30 days in advance. For a 3 day offsite.
Welcome to running a company!

It is not that we are stressed out throughout this.
However, we are rather chilled out and focused on not stressing out, which helps us before, during and after the offsite.

Isn’t that a plan?