For me, for a long time starting things was easy. But I could not finish what I started. So I ended up with lots of unfinished projects, no visible success and lots of time and energy wasted. Thankfully I learned…

Blake Masters sat through a startup course that Peter Theil, venture capitalist and the first outside investor in Facebook, was teaching at Stanford. He just didn’t sit there, he took copious notes. He posted those notes on his website, and…

Because it forces you to be more attentive to ideas around you. When you share what you write with others you can’t just share what comes to your mind. You think through and make what you write clear enough for…

According to a Harvard Business Review article based on 10 years of research, people who were described as “decisive” were 12 times more likely to be high-performing CEOs. The article points out that – Decisive CEOs recognize that they can’t…

There are a lot of ways a business can grow, but for a founder hiring the right people is the most impactful one. Your responsibility does not end with hiring though. You need to make your employees successful in the…

Stop doing what you are doing. Do nothing for a while. Think of the reason why you can’t focus. List all the things that are holding you back. Is it because you are distracted, disturbed, hungry, thirsty, too full, need…

Kendra Scott, a self-taught jewelry designer, designed her first collection in 2002, with $500 in the spare bedroom of her home.  Not knowing that the business she started Kendra Scott LLC will become a brand valued at a billion dollars.…

When you look in the mirror do you like the person you see? If yes, cool. If not then remember, how we appear now is a result of mostly what we have been doing in the past year or so.…

Starting a business online is easy. Getting the attention of the right buyers is tough. Here is what one can do if starting from scratch. 1) Start with buyer interviews. Identify people who are already in your network and will…

Not putting stuff out thinking what people will think. Creating work and deleting it because you were embarrassed by it. Wasting time on stuff that offers low ROI. Procrastinating, more thinking, less doing. Not showcasing your work. Working for free…

We live under the illusion that having lots of money makes us wealthy. But it is not the money that makes us wealthy. It is what money can buy. So money is an illusion with no value of its own.…

There is peace in reflection. Studies are done like the one by K. F. Osterman deduce that reflection improves a professional skill. Other studies share how expressive writing improves health. Reflection helps anytime, but especially when one can’t do anything…

Most people claim that they want to make a mark doing what they love. But treat it like a hobby. The right way to approach it, is like a professional. A professional goes after anything with a plan and invests…

Don’t worry about it if you are just starting out as a creator. Because if you worry about putting the garbage out, you’ll never create. And unless you create something, you’ll not have a chance of improving it. Newbie creators…

The words they write. The promises they keep. The product they ship. Anything they do in public. In today’s world to stay relevant there is no choice but the market yourself by putting yourself out there. While it is normal…