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What happens when a legendary sports player retires from the game officially?
What do they take away with them?
What do they leave behind?

As Roger Federer announces his retirement today, I get into a reflective mode. It got me thinking:

• The game continues. It always does.
• There will be players better than him, worse than him, but no one like him.
• His dedication to the craft, the sacrifices he endured, the body of hard work he built – were his and his alone. And now ours, to draw inspiration from.
• However, the reason he could rise to such exemplary levels and create multiple records without setting out to create them, was because he focused on what he could control: his game.
• That is what we all get to control: our game. Nothing else. Not that of the competitors. Nor of anyone else. Just our own. And that is, more than enough.

Here’s to winning our own game. Because we choose to play it. Just like Roger. Roger that :)

Seth Godin knows the market he writes for.
So does Gary Vee – for his videos.
So does Bhuvan Bam.

The big thing about the big shots is that they never focused on getting big. They focused on their smallest viable audience, and never stopped doing their small things in the grandest manner.

The secrets we are looking for are having a big break that changed everything.
The secret we must know is that you have the power to create your own small break, and with time, it will change the biggest of things.

They ask questions because they are curious.
They ask questions because they genuinely want to know.
They ask questions because they are okay appearing dumb in front of others, instead of staying that dumb forever.

Go, ask the question you want to ask. Because, you want to ask!

Asking isn’t a fad. Asking is what will keep you from being mad.

The beautiful thing about time management is that you do not have to be productive 24*7.

You may choose to be productive just for 3-4 hours of the day. And that is enough.

However, to get there, you need to understand your relationship with time.

To understand your relationship with time, you need to track your time.

In order to track your time, you need to be more disciplined.

Discipline creates awareness. Awareness leads way to order. That order lets you decide how much you decide to be productive.

Productivity needn’t be pervasive. But the desire to get there must be.

Whenever you choose to deliver mediocre quality work
Whenever you think it is okay to slack in your work
Whenever you think it is okay if no one sees it but you in your heart knew you just ticked a box but did not put in your best work,

It always helps to put a note on your desk: I sold my soul for money.

If you are not doing great work and not getting better with time, it is time you sit down with yourself and get super clarity on why are you doing it.

A great hack if you want people to like you:

Repeat what they said, back to them.

“To make sure I heard you right, you are saying XXX (repeat what they said)”

Helps in 3 ways:
1. They feel heard
2. They respect your listening skills – the mirroring helps.
3. They know you are interested in the conversation.

Always works. Never fails!

Repetition of what people say makes people fall in love, with what you say.

1. Do not do anything you hate.
2. Show up every day, no matter how hard.

Great work does not have to have a gospel as long as a Constitution.

Simple works. Because it tells you the truth straight in your face.

“How to deal with exam stress?”

It is something that I took as a medicine, in my school/college days.

Life is a wonderful gift, and you must focus on learning.
If you take that pain of small time and learn to deal with it as a medicine, you will enjoy the process of learning.

Which is the most beautiful thing about life.

Exams, come and go.
Learning stays.

Less premium. More coverage.

Why wouldn’t you want to take life insurance early?

Some life decisions serve us entire life, and even after that. Not making them, cost us entire life, perhaps after that.

For a life without tension, life insurance is the answer :)

“If you are loved only when you are around, then it’s not love. It’s convenience.”

When I recently shared this thought on Twitter, someone responded: “You keep blabbering bakwaas.”

“At 42 that’s a good use of my time. Bade maze aate hai blabbering bakwaas.”

‘You are a very insecure and attention seeking person. You must mature now. That’s my piece of advice to you. Currently you are full of attention seeking and approval seeking small girlish behavior. Advice: take it or leave it.”

“Appreciate your feedback. Thanks for taking the time to share it, when you really didn’t have to. Have a lovely day. And a good week ahead :)”

“And I am sure, this little conversation of ours will change you for good and better. Thank me later!! I am a well wisher who is providing you constructive criticism. :)”

“If you see a difference in me from now on, you know who to thank. The man in the mirror.”

When I was at peace while responding to someone who was apparently triggered in their own life, someone asked me: “Sir how do you deal with triggered people so gracefully without it mentally exhausting you?”

Here’s my take on it:
When you know who you truly are, what people think of you is merely an opinion.
They may be right or wrong in their own world, but when you are aware of your world, everything else is a herd

When you are at peace with who you are, what others think of you doesn’t matter till very far.