Archive for the month June 2020
Earlier I wrote about
why leaving your job won’t help in starting or growing your passion project.
That does not work because you set a condition on action and creativity.
I’ll do this, when I have this.
I’ll do…
I am an entrepreneur.
And, I can say that entrepreneurial life is good after you get some wins under your belt, and learn to run and grow the business.
For most people, before that, there is a period of learning…
Because if you have to leave your job to work on your ‘passion’ project then it is not actually your passion it is just an excuse to not do then work that you don’t like.
In fact, if you want…
A second is the smallest unit that a standard clock allows us to see.
But we don’t think in terms of seconds in our day to day life.
We think in terms of minutes and hours.
For example, I use…
I was recently talking to a startup founder, who I advise on growth.
So, one of the things they are doing to grow their brand is running an interview series with leaders.
Now, how do you use such interviews strategically?…
“I have all the time in the world to work on my dreams.” Said no one ever.
But almost everyone says this at some point in their life, “I have so many dreams but I can’t seem to find the…
The easy answer is – the market.
Because markets are huge and we are small.
What if every leader thought like that.
Then there would be no change in the world.
The bigger the change you are seeking, the bigger…
Life keeps happening.
It’s us who need to prepare and work with what life gives us and at times throws at us.
And when life decides to throw a curveball, we adapt.
If we get hit, hard, surrender may be…
There are times in our lives when we want to read 52 books in a year.
Because Warren Buffet reads a lot.
And, he is super-rich and super smart.
I thought of doing that once 🙂
Good, I didn’t.
Because…
Knowing your quitting threshold can be one of the best things you can do for your professional growth and even for success in life on the personal front.
How does it help?
See, if you know where and when you…
By undermining your value.
By underpricing.
By selling your work by hours, and not charging for all hours you spent to come to a place where you can do something in one hour, when someone else would take 10 hours…
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak spent time on electronics as a hobby.
They were so passionate about it that it became their life’s work.
Mark Zuckerberg coded as a fun pass time before he started working on Facebook.
I used…
There are times in life when we stand on the sideline.
We want to help.
But aren’t sure how.
Maybe we are thinking if my help will mean anything.
What if each drop in the ocean thought like this?
And…
Backlinks rock the SEO world.
It is what Google’s search ranking algorithm is built on. There are 200 or so other factors but backlinks are among the top ones.
They are so important but not easy to understand for those…
Earlier I wrote about
how I reply to most emails right away.
I do it is because how you do anything is how you do everything.
We often don’t do somethings that we need to do right now because…