Everything to earn money…

If everything we do is to earn money, there wouldn’t be any living.

50% particular of the things we do is not for money but for our enjoyment, our self-satisfaction.

50% is to earn money.

The best case is to do what u love and earn money thru that, if we can find that in life, go for it and grab it.

Today is the day of change…

Change is constant, change is the only consistent factor in life.

Why not take this chance of change to be better? Look at the change as something you have control over. Something you can start small, but can make bigger by taking steps today. 

If used properly change gives a chance to change:

 – Something which you want to be undone, 

 – Something which you want to redo, 

 – Something which you want to do.

Let’s embrace change, as a friend in life to help us be better!

So go change from today…

Let’s not limit ourselves…

Who says you have to be in one job and earn money from one place?

Who says you have to do one startup at a time?

Who says you have to be tied up to one place or one country?

Who says you have to have cars, a house, and a bank balance to show wealth?

Who says you have to go to school or college to learn anything?

Who says you have to do as others are doing or blabbering about?

All the norms change in the cycle of time, and the heroes are those who differentiate, evolve, and keep themselves happy.

Success Factors…

Goal Settings – Set short-term and long-term goals.

Positive Thinking – Think positively to attain goals.

Visualizing – Visualize your goals as much as possible, and think about what will happen if you achieve them.

Believing – Belief in self and your team.

Hard work – Work hard with determination and things will start turning toward your goals.

Expectations shouldn’t run your daily chores…

We should not run our daily chores based on expectations but should run them based on our habits, our dreams, and our goals. 

Expectations are flimsy, they are whimsical, and they are like half-cooked dreams which don’t give us proper direction or allow us the path.

I am expected to write daily, nope, I write from 7 am-8 am daily. I am expecting it will happen, nope it didn’t happen, need to make it happen.

Another problem with expectations is it cascades failures, if you fail in one, you fail in the next and kind of keep failing next to next till the day is over. 

The action of doing with a routine is much more powerful than expectations, expectations deter us with questions, if I write will it help? Why it will not help? etc

So don’t keep expectations, keep goals, keep habits, keep actions, just do it daily, weekly and monthly.

You can still learn from bad peers…

We routinely play Badminton, but lately, we are not getting good opponents to play. 

Since the opponents are not good, we don’t enjoy playing and we don’t improve ourselves. 

So we can either stop playing or make the best of the situation by trying things, i.e experimenting. Try new shots, try backhands or try new servicing. 

In life sometimes this happens where you don’t enjoy, you don’t see any growth, and you are stagnant, but you can always make the best of it. And keep learning & keep enjoying.

Wings of Fire…

I have read many books on self-help, management, and leadership, of US companies, and of billionaires.

But of them all, “Wings of Fire” by A. P. J. Abdul Kalamji is one of the top books I read in all the verticals.

It’s not just the story of a man – Kalamji, a leader, a visionary but a story of the definition of vision, the definition of wealth, the definition of impact, the definition of management, and most important definition of one’s destiny to achieve success.

In contrast to today, where wealth is defined by How rich you are? How much money did you collate? Where u travel? Where u live? Where u work?

It shows a journey, where wealth is defined by how much impact you have on your country, on your team, and on your people.  

I run a company where we have impacted 10 million students, and we have helped them succeed in their education. We have very less revenue and we are on a verge of closure. But this book guided me to see this as a success rather than a failure.  Impacting 1 Crore student’s education in India is a dream come true thru my company. Yes, we couldn’t raise funds, and yes we couldn’t generate enough revenue. But if there would have been really good governance in India, it would be a different story. (But this is a story for another day).

Read this book to understand what really wealth is, or could be. Understanding how your destiny helps you to take a path that sometimes baffles you. 

Also to learn how to manage people. Learn how to be a humble leader at the same time a visionary leader and learn how our faith can help us achieve anything in life.