control

The curiosity of a toddler guarantees they are breakfree. You tell them not to touch the lamp, and they will burn their fingers touching it. They are like water and wind. Flowing in their own rhythm, not used to any boundary.

Some parents kill that curious bit from their inception. They try to educate and bring discipline early on. The barrage carries them to their death by eliminating their curiosity.

Love is the same. When you are into someone, it is not about controlling them. It’s more about being with them, seeing them succeed, and cheering from behind. Life depends on trust, belief, respect, and empathy. Why should not the same virtues drive love?

one

The power of one is magnificent.

1/You need one yes out of all no’s to find the love of your life.
2/You need one friend willing to quit his full-time gig and work with you in the garage to build something big.
3/You need one idea to keep leading your life to eternity.
4/You need one lead investor willing to commit, and the flock of rest will join.
5/You need one customer willing to pay for your broken, semi-working product to kickstart your startup.

We are all scared. We are all simple people. We are risk averse. Anything out of the ordinary means No.

Death

Death is the reality of life. Yet we are scared of it. We keep planning for the future. We continue finding reasons for postponing all we want to achieve.

What is the incentive for mountaineer climbing the event when they know they are walking on their death trial? They accept death and live their life now in resting a life living moment to moment.

Delulu

Delulu or delutional is one core element in enterprenurship. Otherwise, we are all happy working 9-5 living in a work-life balance.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone because because it sucks every part of you. It makes you think beyond the rest. That is how Tesla, Amazon, Google, Apple, and many other companies are. built.

It is good to be Delulu and stick to the ideas till execution.

bottleneck

A founder’s job is to eliminate bottlenecks on all fronts. The organization works on its own. Many founders take things too personally and get into I will do it all myself. They end up being power centers or control freaks. When in real they should be a leader watching things from afar.

A successful organization requires freedom for its team. A team differentiates a successful organization. A leader has to hold them on all fronts, empower them, and see them progressing.

In short, a founder should be the chief bottleneck officer.

visualize

Last week, I was listening to Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People. The book spoke about visualizing a better life. It made me think for a while. The more I delved into I realized how important it is to imagine a better life.

When we imagine, our subconscious mind pokes us into reality to work and achieve it. However, to most, this will sound ridiculous. Deep thinking will make you realize that visualizing happiness and a better life gives us purpose. Our default gets into the mode of thinking better.

Our monkey mind is built over the century and is pessimistic by default because of the fight-flight we humans have gone through the century. The power of visualization gives us the will to live a better life. It cements us to believe in a better life.

pehchaan

Hum dhund rahe hai khud ko khud mae.
Hum dhund rahe hai khuhd ko unme.
Hum dhund rahe hai khud ko sabme.

Ek pehchaan hai jiske talaash zindgi bhar ke rehte hai.
Ek pehchaan khud ki khud se karne ki har pal khwaish rehte hai.
Ek pehchaan banane ki unse khud ke liye aisa tamanna rehte hai.

Hum khud mae is kadar kho zate hai ke mano dub gaye hai ek samandar mae. Aise dube hue hai ke pehchaan se bhatak se gaye ho, aise khoye hue hai ki zindgi ke taal dur hote dikhaye de rahe hai.

noise

Building a startup requires focus. The world we live in has all the ingredients for distraction. It is easy to get lost at events and announcements. It is easy to get lost in replying to unwanted calls and emails.

What keeps most successful ones going is taming this noise. A sense of understanding to mute unwanted chores.

A startup has a team, the pain it’s solving, and customers who are paying. We have to focus on these before anything else. Everything else is noise.

success

We are all craving for success. The definition of success is opaque. The definition can be different in the eyes of each one.

Materialism has become the core of our society. Our media and glamour industry focuses on looks. The new generation is confused about finding balance in cementing relationships and casual hookups while working to make ends meet.

The goalposts for parents, children, and society are all different.

What defines success, then? I don’t know.

belief

Our life is limited. We need a circle that inspires and educates us. Our defacto mind is negative. We need people to guide, advise, and believe in us. There is negativity already around.
Why waste time on it more with the company of friends or at work?

Our mind works when we are free. Our mind works when we have an optimistic worldview about everything. We cannot live a life with pessimism or failure. Our comfort zone should be risk-taking, not risk-averse.