Progress

We talk about progress and wellness. Wellness can include wealth and health. It comes down to the individual.

We live in a society, a big tent. We have housed people with distinct backgrounds. Is only your wellness enough? What about the world around us?

Time and again, I have been asked what my ultimate purpose in life is. I simply say changing the lives of millions of others. I cannot be happy and live in peace if the world in is chaos.

We are still a developing nation. It provides us ample scope for progress. Our healthcare system, education, employment, and entrepreneurship, all require a major overhaul. We cannot let this for the government to fix. The private-public partnership, cooperative structure, and youth rural entrepreneurship have a role to play.

The progress of India is everyone’s responsibility. You can alone not live in the ivory tower and let the rest of the population die of hunger, poverty, illiteracy, or healthcare deprivation.

The country will end up in anarchy and the poor will eat rich. There will be a civil unrest.

Desperate

In the early days of building taghash, I was way too desperate. Some customers made me run around them, giving me no business. I was sedated with an itch to build taghash to prove PMF, and as a result, many would not take me seriously.

It has taken 7.5 years in business to realize that those who like you, those who believe in you will return later. They will respect you for the hustle, but in the world we live in, we will not get fair treatment.

I am no more desperate, I know people will come to us if they have pain and they will pay. It is a pure business. I have to work hard, stick to my virtue, and build a profitable company that outlives me.

disagreement

There are times when we have disagreements in business or personal life. It can be due to unmet expectations, communication gaps, ego, or anything else.

We are social beings. What differentiates us from other animals is our rational thinking. Disagreements need to be sorted out in a conversation, with both sides making a point of maintaining mutual respect.

Time and again we have seen our ego trumping over rationality affecting the overall greater good of both parties. All disagreements need to be handled with respect and in a cordial manner.

Nothing

When you start from nothing, you know there is nothing to lose. What worse can you do? We live multiple lives with societal dogma upon us. The sooner we start living in this nothingness, the more independent we will become.

Our body is made of water and fat. Our consciousness defines us. Our will to live takes us out into the mad world and performs in the orchestra of life.

Disconnect

Someday, you would like to disconnect from the world and hide. It helps with thinking and gives you more perspective. These days are the ones that open your creative brain and make you think out of the box. I call it lazy days.

I want one or two days in a week to be lazy days when am on my own. I have been writing and reading frequently in the past. I feel due to so much travel, multiple timezone switches, and eating out, I am losing that creativity.

It feels like I have stopped thinking and living on some kind of autopilot. This is a cycle and I need to break it soon.

I feel as we grow old, the responsibility of growing up ceases independence. It can be from thinking, living, and being with oneself. You are tossed into a world with multiple egos to deal with, and multiple scenarios to tackle. In short, uncertainty to the max.

Excite


We need to ask what excites us and the team. Building anything is difficult. When you create something without a specific outcome, you need courage and belief. When we have a team excited and working together as one unit, all difficulties and challenges become easier to tackle.

Finding people who are excited about the cause trumps expertise and experience. Most get bored without direction or a light at the end of the tunnel.

You don’t need pessimists or sad-faced folks around you for salary, glory, or equity.

Plan

Many of us take very planned steps. We decide, define, and dedicate our actions accordingly. But life is very unpredictable. You can die at any moment, or all your joy can turn into pain.

What should we do? One thing for sure is living in equilibrium now. It is not easy to live grounded and humble in all situations. When we become successful, some get arrogant. I have “made it” kind of feeling.

We don’t know what is next for us, we can predict seeing horoscope or tarot cards or whatnot. But how far can this take us, can it make us equipped for the unnatural?

The best plan in life is to have no plan. It keeps us sane with reality and makes us dive to our best now.

Stories

The stories we make, the stories we tell to our subconscious mind, and the stories about ourselves we wish to project are all different. We are constantly in a loop where “self” is in the center of everything. We change it like a mask on all occasions.

We are in pain when our projected selves and stories are misaligned with our wishes. Our minds constantly seek our version of stories.

Questions

Question your decisions as a founder. It will keep you grounded. We live in a world where very few of our loved ones will give us honest feedback. The reason for this is that they don’t want to hurt us or affect the relationship with critical feedback. It can result in living as a frog in a well.

When you have people around questioning decisions, your steps: your blindspots get detected. It opens you up to thinking on those unthinkable sides.

chance

Life gives us opportunities to do our best for ourselves and others. It is on us to cease. It is easy to give up or become self-centered. What is required is thinking big and uplifting everyone around us.

We tend to focus on what we don’t have and what we could have done with some possessions or skills. It is essentially finding reasons not to give our best.

Our life is limited. I feel I have lived half of it. I have effectively 10000-15000 days left to make something impactful for the world. I am lucky to have everything, all the opportunities.