Archive for the year 2020

Become a life-long experimenter. Explore and experiment until you find something that you’ll want to experiment with more than once. Because you only want to do something more than once, if you are having fun doing it. When you are…

For most professionals, work emails, project management apps, and messaging apps are realities of life they can’t do without. But you can move them a bit away from you to stay clear of the downsides. As a starting point remove…

Time in sales, like time in life is precious. That’s why there is no point wasting it. In both, sales and life, we waste time the same way, By being inefficient, by being lazy, by wasting time on things with…

When writing about building career capital, I wrote about how by combining two skills one can achieve exemplary success. I also mentioned how Donald Trump used this approach to become the American President against immense odds.  The same way…

During a 2016, annual shareholder meeting of a company that Charlie Munger, the legendary business partner of Warren Buffet owns, someone asked him a question about avoiding errors. He is what he said: There are two things Warren and I…

When writing everyone starts with a shitty first draft. In it, you pour everything in your head on to paper or a doc, which you bring out because you know you can polish it and make it better by rewriting…

In life and projects there are setbacks. And how well and how soon we recover can decide our wins. Another factor that helps us win is avoiding the setback altogether. Thorough planning, experience and guidance may help there but it…

Present is all that is. There is no future, all that is, is here, now, for us that is. Though true, but this may not work for most of us, heck it even does not work for me. It is…

You and I are part of those who are alive today. More than 150,000 people did not make it. Because these many people die every day. We are lucky that we are alive and kicking. How can we make it…

This is the story of our lives. Especially those in the hustle mode.

And hustling night and day does not create unlimited growth. So give it a thought to how fast you are growing. Beauty of human life is…

Whether our business controls us or we control it, depends on one thing. How efficient (or inefficient) are we? Note I did not say absence of problems Or years of experience. or the level of the skill set. Because anyone…

You won’t do something you hate for long, And if you think something is worth doing. Make it enjoyable. What you can do with it is only limited by imagination. Use this approach to, Build your startup and roll through…

To build a successful business, you don’t need: A website A logo Brand design or brand color palette An incorporated company To be world class at what you sell Have a lot of, or highly paid employees To be in…

There is this notion that if you work 18 hour days you find success soon, or you’ll create a bigger impact than let’s when you work 8 or 10 hour days. Far from true. Because if this was the case,…

This more for what is inside the head than what you tell the world. You may have started as a marketer. But you may also be a copywriter, project manager, saleswoman, and coach now. And your work will want you…