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Most of us have been taught with the belief that money can’t buy happiness. 

I’d disagree. 

Money buys you freedom to do things you want to do. And to say no to things you don’t want to do.
That privilege to live life on your own terms is happiness, because you don’t “have to” do anything, you “want to” do them.

Money does buy happiness!

In my first job, I used to make this gross mistake of commenting how the management of the company was responsible for all the problems we were going through, at work.

Hardly realizing that they were always doing their best.
Hardly realizing how difficult things at their end might have been.
Hardly realizing that it was easier for me to be a spectator and comment on how someone else is failing.

It is easy to comment when you are the commentator.
It’s difficult to take action when you are the action-taker.

As entrepreneurship is getting cool, it is becoming even cooler to provide people with bean bags, free coffee and lunch, and flexibility to come and leave any time.

What remains the hard part still remains the hard part: To build a culture that helps people thrive.
To build a place where people are heard.
And to build a company where people are encouraged to fail, not dismissed when they do!

As the easy things get easier, it is getting harder to get the hard things in place!
Which is where the best talent lives!

It is not the salary that is the drug.

It is the stability that is the drug.
It is the predictability that is the drug.
It is the complacency that is the drug.
It is the addiction to the status quo that is the drug.

It is the lack of awareness that you need to push yourself even in a salaried job, that is the real drug!

Create content daily.

Over a period of a year, you have 365 pieces of content to ride on.

Spend 30 minutes daily, for a month to convert that into a written material.

Spend the next 60 days editing and polishing the book.

Your book is now ready!

The truth is, the next year is going to pass away anyway, what are you going to do about it when it passes?

What good employees do:
– Do their work

What great employees do:
– Do their work
– Help others with their work
– Take responsibility of their work
– Are accountable for what they do
– Do not put others down
– Invent new ways of growing the team
– Everyone can rely on them, without thinking twice.

The ones who truly learn everything, do not start with wanting to learn everything.

Learning isn’t a choice or a destination.
Learning is a lifestyle.

Those who end up learning “everything”, never ever started with the “want”.
Their curiosity was enough :)

Curiosity begins where desire ends.
Curiosity leads to everything, when desire leads you nowhere.

By writing down your thoughts.

Whether you are a writer or not.

When you write things down, you give words to clutter in your head.
That clutter then sees a direction, mostly a probable solution as well.
And even when you do not walk away with a solution, you have a clearer problem

When mind entangles, writing liberates.

Anyone you see cracking it hard in content, it is easy to say they got lucky.

Well, here’s the truth: We did get lucky with our content.

For 2+ years, we have been creating consistent content on all our channels – every day, every week, every month – without any fail. We show up, and we create content. When we feel like. And when we don’t feel like.

And over a long period of consistency, luck works out for you.
Luck favours those who don’t stop favouring the relentless hard work.

It’s been almost 18 years when I heard that from my first manager.

I still remember that.

In my first job, I had made a movie to train sales professionals – a training that would otherwise be given on PPTs.
It worked out really well!

Except, that I started getting a LOT of work, while others didn’t.

That’s when, while I was frustrated, my first manager said: Good people pay a higher price for being good than bad people pay for being bad.

That’s not it. It is the counter that is something I wouldn’t want to be: I wouldn’t want to be someone who isn’t trusted and is given responsibilities.

And when you know what you don’t want to be, you inch a step closer to who you want to be. Isn’t that priceless?