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I wrote my first book in December 2021.
Second one coming up in December 2022.
So is the plan for every year.

How to make that possible?

Write every day. In the spring. And the summer. And the monsoon. And the winter.
And you might end up having 2-3 books at the end of the year.

What seems like a profound advice is nothing more than executing the simple steps every single day, even when you don’t feel like doing them.

“What if I get ill?”
“What would happen if I die?”
“I don’t know what the future holds.”

All of this is fear. Which, by its very nature, exists to let go of living in the moment – the most important thing that we must do.

So, how do we eliminate fear?

We plan for everything that scares us.

Get that term life insurance. Get that health insurance. Build habits and rituals.

Over time, you see so much good happening because the right things are in place, that the fear eventually gets replaced with fun.

Fear has a reason. To make us think. Planning has a reason. To let us have fun beyond fear.

Not necessary to stick to the career if you don’t like it.

You have time. You have multiple options. You have a choice.

You just have to exercise them. And live life with the mindset that you can do anything.

The world is yours, if your mindset is yours.

Good things take time.

However, you have to make time for them.

Even when you don’t have time caught in the cobwebs of the world.

For so much time that it eventually becomes good, and makes more time for you.

To have more time and more good things, you must start with making more time and doing better things.

Other than money, here are some investments that take care of your most valuable assets:

• Premium subscriptions of apps: It gives you the best. Why not?
• Travel: It makes you reflect. Much needed ingredient of success.
• Making the team make their decisions: It makes me trust them. And they get better at decision making.

If it multiplies your money, it is a good investment. If it multiplies all your assets, it is an investment you won’t regret.

Everyone in our team adheres to a pre-decided process.

We stay true to it, come what may.
If we don’t, every week, in a team email, the delays and errors are highlighted. And also, the percentage of an individual’s contribution of errors to team’s errors.

It shows how we have contributed/derailed the process.
And acts as a fuel to continue doing it.

Process and transparency create accountability, for people who are driven and taken care of.

Sending cold emails

Reading the right books

Saying sorry, when you must

Loving yourself

Making sure to live by your version of happiness.

It is the simplest of things that make the biggest of differences.

Do well what you are supposed to do today.

Plan well what you are supposed to do tomorrow.

Reflect well on what you did yesterday.

And you shall live happily ever after, in your relationship with time.

We all know what a job of a leader is. We read about it often.

However, a less-known job of a leader is to make sure they don’t set their team up for failure. Which means, figuring out where the team member is most likely to bloom, and plant them there.

It requires patience, it requires willingness to let go of only your selfish interests, and it also requires a lot of self respect to allow the team to uphold that for themselves.

The job of a leader, is to think success. For everyone.

One of the fondest memories of my childhood is a fun game my sis and I used to play every night before going to bed.

“Aaaa main mar gaya” (“I just died”)

In the game, one had to pretend to be dead.
The other had to crack jokes to awaken the dead.

If the dead smirked/smiled/laughed, they lost!

As I reflect upon those beautiful days today, I realize how as a kid one of the hardest things to do is to not laugh.

And then we grow up.
We get better at not laughing!
The hardest thing then becomes to laugh.

The easiest thing to learn from a child is to be a child again, sans all the weights we have gathered along the way.