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I get this question a lot.

While there are not many concrete answers to this, it helps to remember that Warren Buffet acquired a huge part of his wealth after the age of 60. Being rich is often about patience and peace when others are losing because of quick bets.

However, there is another possible option: To have an inheritance :)

The former makes you richer, the latter makes you believe you are rich.

Anything that comes quick has the potential to go away quicker. Good things always take time, always.

Sometimes success is a failure, if you live by someone else’s definition of success.

Pick a career of lifetime at age 18.
Get married by 25.
Kids by 30.
House by 32.
Settle. Fit in. Follow everyone else.

With only one problem: We will end up with everyone else – which unfortunately is a place living by everyone else’s shadow, instead of creating your own shack – of success.

Your success may look incredibly different from everyone.
But it’s yours. And that is the only thing that matters. Nothing else.

A huge part of why I create content online is to help people make choices from a point of awareness and not ignorance.

However, awareness just doesn’t come by choosing to be aware.
It is often a result of daily habits, like everything else.

Choosing to be aware of our thoughts.
Choosing to be aware of our patterns.
Choosing to be aware of how we spend our time.

And it is in forming of these right habits, that aware choices becomes a lifestyle, instead of an anomaly.

It hardly matters.

What matters is what do you say to yourself.

Do you smile at yourself in the morning?
Do you make the time to take care of yourself, through working out and meditation?
Do you make it a point to stay away from toxic friends and family?
Do you pursue habits that make your “doing” muscles stronger?
Do you spend time with yourself and your thoughts, sans any distractions?

We wonder a lot about what the world would say, because we probably never stopped to create what we would want ourselves to say about the person in the mirror.
Today is a great day to start.

I get this question a lot often.

And I ask them: Do you really want to do it?

The answer is never different.

The truth about consistency is, that if we really want to do something, doing it consistently is never a problem.
Only if we really want to…

When we get to a point where we understand our and everyone else’s emotions, that is when we have really grown up.

For some of us, that could be as a kid when we are filled with empathy.

For some of us, that unfortunately couldn’t arrive despite we have completed 3-4 decades or more of our life.

Growing up, is equivalent of putting your feet in others shoes, and having the power to adjust your feet accordingly.

The first time the thought to resign from the position of CEO of nearbuy came to my head, I was in denial.
Almost dismissed that thought.
Until it started getting bigger.

And when the thought kept coming to my mind over and over again, I sat down with other two startup founder friends, where they asked me a question: “Do you think you staying at nearbuy would make a big difference to the company?”

I think I knew the answer.

And it was the time to move on.

As much as I believed in nearbuy and still do, handing over that baby of mine to my other cofounders was in hindsight, the right decision for the company and myself. It was hard, or perhaps it wasn’t. But certainly it was right. Even though you know the rightness of a decision only after making it, I’m glad I made it.

Moving on, teaches us so much about moving within…

As much as you all shower your love to me online for motivation, the truth is: It doesn’t work!

If you are motivated one day, you end up working out.
What if you aren’t motivated the other 29 days of the month?

Motivation is that trusted friend whom we want to trust but ends up breaking our trust each time, not intentionally, rather out of its very nature.

The best way to do the work, is to do the work!
Clinically.
Every single day.
Even when you don’t feel like.
By putting it down on your calendar.
And then showing up and doing it – even when you don’t feel like doing it.

You will be stunned at the results that show up, once you show yourself that you will never stop showing up to do the work – irrespective of the weather, bruise in your toe or your water bottle leaking on the floor.

Doing the work is powerful, that brings every other power we could think of.

I get 300+ emails every day. I respond to less than 5% of them.
What kind of emails get the response?

1. People who are persistent: The ones who keep asking – who go beyond their ego, because silence means there is still a possibility.
2. Their ability to go deep into who they wish to be and why: Their email is not a template sent to multiple people. They are self-aware, and also aware of how I specifically could help them.
3. Instead of reaching out directly, they reached out through someone who knows me already – works like a charm!

The single biggest impact on how the world functions is because of how parents function as parents!

Kids look up to their parents to show them how the world functions.

Do parents scold them often?
Or do they ask questions?

Do parents instruct their kids?
Or are they provocative?

Do parents spend time with their kids?
Or are they always ‘busy with important stuff’?

Raising a kid is as important as nurturing a nation.
Because how a kid is raised is how a nation gets nurtured.

If you have been a recipient of what you didn’t deserve, it is a good time for you to change how your world functions today.

Sometimes being your own parent is the only way to have the parents you wanted.