Archive for the month August 2019

Hubspot became an $8 billion (in market cap) company by riding the inbound marketing wave.
For a long time, the company’s pitch was that by creating useful content often you can get more people to find out about you, trust…

A pacer in running helps other runners maintain a steady pace.
For this, she has to run at a steady pace for long distances. She has to be a good runner herself.
People in other fields also can get a…

When we are in doubt, we experience a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction.
During the journey of life, we experience many doubts.
Today I want to discuss two of these doubts.
There is a kind of doubt that…

For good things to happen in life, you need to create space in your mind for them first.
Legend has it that JK Rowling got the “fully formed” idea for Harry Potter while she was on a four-hour-delayed train trip…

The normal keeps changing.
That is how we come to the new normal.
There was a time when we downloaded stuff on our computers and kept it there. The cautious ones among us backed the data on physical hard drives.…

Seeking change is not normal.
But it is better than accepting change.
Because whether you like it or not the change is upon us.
We don’t know in what shape, or at what time it will appear but it will…

Our aspirations are small promises that we make to ourselves.
They emerge inside our heads.
Too many aspirations all at once inside our heads can bog us down.
If we start feeling the pressure of our aspirations, we can leave…

I quit drinking tea in 2014 once I realized I was having too much of it. I first replaced it with milk, then replaced milk with water and later started having coffee on occasions where I used to have tea.…

We choose one thing over others, many times in our lives.
Network over friendships.
Revenue over profits.
Work over leisure.
Taste over health.
Entertainment over sleep.
Plastic over the paper.
Packaged over fresh. Intensity over moderation.
Anger over love.
All…

I am a sucker for growth.
That’s why I run my monthly self-growth experiments and try to improve my life in a little way every month.
I know doing something every day is important if you want to make it…

A lot of work once in a while never killed anybody.
But if you do it every day for a long time, you’ll not be at your productive best and burn out for sure.
Testing your limits in workout also…

We live in times when people care about marketing more than they care about getting good at what they do.
They start thinking about promoting even before making something worth other people’s time.
What if we choose to master what…

Our environment can make or break us.
That is why we need to choose it wisely.
Places and people make our environment.
And, often we accept what we are given or who we come across.
But we have the power…

I told you how my Sleep Early Experiment was a flop.
Despite the failure, I continue with my series of personal growth experiments.
In July I started a new one.
I called it The Reading Habit Experiment.
As part…

Society is built on relationships. Families too.
Relationships also drive careers. 
And, a business that serves businesses can’t go far without a relationship with its customers.
Smart business owners know this and try to build a relationship with the customers.…