Archive for the month October 2021

We need to do stuff to keep moving forward in life. Here is how you can get more done, with less hassle. 1. Deal with things when you notice them first. 2. Break projects into tasks, as soon as you…

Charles Dickens wrote in Our Mutual Friend: “No one is useless in this world,’ retorted the Secretary, ‘who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.” This is a good reminder for all of us. Each one of…

Why? Because success comes from trying new things and seeing what works. And, doing it over and over is hard, and it’s boring. Unless you embrace it, there is no way you can do it again and again. I have…

Goals are powerful. But you don’t achieve a goal just by setting one and forgetting about it. You got to energize your goals. Visualization is one of the most effective ways to do it. There are two ways I really…

We all have had days where we can’t do anything at all because there is no fuel left inside us. It does not have to be like that. Here is what you can do to be energetic through your days.…

Rest gives us a clear mind. A clear mind can think well. When we think clearly, we make well-thought plans and reduce the need to hustle. Because hustle often is a result of lazy thinking and not planning how one…

Business owners often end up with agencies that don’t do much to take their business forward. At times it may be because an agency is promising hyperbolic results and not having the conviction, capability, or capacity to deliver them, but…

For someone earning 5, 10, or 20 lakhs, earning 1 crore in revenue in a year looks out of reach. But if you are someone who has a skill that you can teach others, this is a realistic revenue goal.…

The reality of Elon Musk and of most people who want to be like can’t be further apart. Still, they like to emulate Musk and achieve what he did. That’s not the best use of your time if you don’t…

This increases your chances of winning and succeeding. When you put in your best effort, you learn a lot and increase the pace and quality of your success. Even when you fail, learning stays with you, and part of what…

One – keep your costs low. Two – work on what will make your business successful, every day. Let’s understand these, one by one. So keeping your costs is important because when running costs are low, you increase your runway,…

Procrastination and laziness are real. But no one procrastinates on doing what they like and find enjoyable. That is why no advice works in the long run if what you do is not meaningful and interesting. So before worrying about…

Becoming a creator for the sake of a creator is not bad. But becoming a creator to share what you know, what you are learning about, to finding something novel that most people do not know about is far more…

In July of 2011, I got an investment for a venture. To focus on the venture, I chose to stop working with a brand that I had been working with for a while. I continued working on the venture, then…

Often what we have been looking for has been hiding in plain sight. It is often inside the folders and hard drives on our most uses devices, or inside the Google drives, Apple iCloud, Dropbox, and the old notebooks. Mine…