Archive for the year 2020

You are a creator. Of words, videos, tweets, posts, art, or audio. You make these if you are an entrepreneur or at work, or as a professional creator.

Even as entrepreneurs and employees you can choose to become a professional…

Creators face this dilemma when beginning their creation journey. Whether to start creating on YouTube or write blogs. And wonder whether to be active on Instagram, or on this new platform that’s coming up. You can get rid of this…

I have one rule in life. When my nieces want to talk to me, I drop everything else and talk to them. Never later, never tomorrow. For them, it is now. I want them to know that I am never…

In June, I decided to eat slower than I usually do. This is something I have been mindful of for a long time. Now I wanted to be consistent with it. How did this experiment come to be? You see,…

Learning is a proxy for growth. If you learn fast, you also grow fast. There are two ways to accelerate learning. One, get someone to teach you, how they did it. Two, take the path of trial and error and…

This is aligned with what Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIN wrote in Blitzscaling. But more for people, entrepreneurs who run agency businesses where customers ask for a proposal first. I call this the proposal game. Customers put out a request…

Smart entrepreneurs validate their business idea before they go all in to build a business. To do it, they ask if people will pay for what they want to sell, a product or service. When enough people say yes, they…

The World wants to be more productive. That’s why people won’t stop buying old, new books, courses, and coaching to get good at it. You can do that too. For now, how about trying these tried and tested hacks that…

Creators win. Still so many consumers watch from the sidelines. Why? “I don’t have time,” they say. How can it be true when they spend hours binge watching shows, and spend a lot of time inside messaging apps and social…

Hope, confidence and grit. You need these three. Before you start anything start it with the hope that you’ll do whatever you set out to do. Acknowledge that there might be obstacles enroute. Have the confidence that you either know…

What we think we become. All that we are is the result of our thoughts. Thought is the unit of our being. If we refine our thoughts we can refine our being. We can define who we are. So pay…

James Schramko is an Australian entrepreneur. He was at one point the number one salesperson for Mercedes Benz. Later through a series of events he started an uber successful online business. In his book Work Less, Make More, he…

The movies show that being free means being reckless. Nothing can be far from the truth. Because it is hard to find true freedom without first pursuing the path of discipline for a long time. Want to get free of…

We are all born a no-limit person. Then we grow up and the behavior of those around starts putting limits on us, without us or them knowing.

It starts with our parents. They are the best and mean well for…

Your customers have questions. People who reach out to you have questions. Your employees have questions. It is good to be able to answer the questions for those who seek you out for help.

But it can be a time…