My thoughts and sharing on topics of business, management, productivity, experiences and stories
If you do one thing this week – make a decision to smile more. Laugh more. Smile when looking at yourself in the morning. Smile at a stranger. Smile in a meeting. Make it a personal resolution to smile at least 4 times for each waking hour. Once done see for yourself how much difference did it make.
Ideas are in abundance. You are smart if you can look around and identify ideas and opportunities. You are doing yourself a huge favour if you make a notebook of all your ideas and visions and keep adding to the list as frequently as possible. But thinking of ideas and making a notebook will not make it a reality neither working on 10 different ideas at the same time. This is what I have learnt and re-learnt many many times over the last many years.
Almost everybody have multiple constraints on why they cannot work on 10 different ideas at the same time. If there are no other constraints then time certainly becomes a constraint. Be an ideas individual but become a doer than a thinker. Think and Do. Focus and make an idea a reality. That is what’s going to add value to your life and to the world.
A friend – How do you make money of Twitter?
Me – I don’t
Friend – How can I use it so I can make some?
Me – If I knew I would have made millions by now!
Jokes apart – Twitter or other tools try to add value first to get some value back in return unless you are some sorts of Guru already. If your Twitter or Facebook stream is full of “sounding your own horn” tweets, you might not necessarily get a lot of interest nor engagement from your prospective customer. Try to engage with them, get their attention before putting forward your products and how it is going to solve known problems. Aim for 80% messages that add value to others first, 10% of your own thoughts [originality greatly helps] and 10% “sounding your own horn” [innovative ways surely helps again] messages while connecting with your customers.
Want to see examples, I will let you do some work. Go and check out famous services or software developers accounts and observe how they engage in conversations? See any common trends?
Do you agree that the jist of all things we do is to make ourselves and our loved ones happy? You work hard for exams, as you may want to achieve good scores, so that you can get in the desired courses, so that you can become what you dreamt of, as you think becoming that “person” will make you happy. Some people work weeks on weeks without seeing their family, so they can earn money for their family which will allow you to buy things for them and this may make everyone involved happy.
So if you are not doing what you love the most, – Stop, think and do something about it today. You certainly don’t have to leave everything you are currently doing and take that plunge (although you certainly can!). You can start small today and take it forward tomorrow. As long as it makes you happy.
The more happy you are doing something, the higher the chances of you becoming successful in that endeavour.
Father’s day mean that I miss my Dad the same as I do everyday but with a more intense regret that I wished I had told him more often how much I loved him and what he meant to me. He was and is my hero.
Father’s day mean that I am immensely proud of my children and thank God from the bottom of my heart for this privilege.
Father’s day is also an opportunity for me to stop and think of what kind of father I want to be to my children.
Father’s day is an opportunity to stop and show gratitude to billions of parents out there and say THANK YOU!
And ofcourse being pampered and loved by my children is priceless.
I have never heard of part time passion, have you? If you are passionate about a thing, allocate the time it needs, part time might not cut it.
“One Day” = May be OR Never
Now = Making it happen
Move your world with the power of “now”. Do stuff now, create now, call now, change yourself now, stop smoking now, start the project now. “One Day” may never come.
Happy 2014. First post of the year and I decided to write about purpose as I see myself thinking about it.
Do things on purpose.
To live a life that you love, have a sense of purpose and mission. Make it clear on what you really want. Once you know this, you have your purpose and then take the actions to achieve it.
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As per Pocket stats I am among the top 5% of readers on their service.
Apart from using Pocket, I have completed reading 9 books this year with two more on the go. And I have read a lot using Zite app. My estimate is at the very least I would have read at least 2 million words this year and this does not include Facebook, Twitter, email, work related readings etc. Was it all useful? Most likely not? But I am definitely a bit wiser because of all that I have read.
This brings me to my question of quantifying reading. We need services where we can quantify our readings, measure them, dissect them and get more insight. This kind of service will provide an insight on what we read the most, the topics of our likings and dis-likings, where we spend the most time, authors that we like, authors that we don’t like, our passions, etc. We could use that information to measure how we have integrated what we have read in our lives. We could have a ‘Reading Health Factor‘.
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