against

How does it feel when the world is against you when the world is waiting for you to make one mistake? That is when you realize it’s that single thread of trust working for you, the belief in you taking you to the path of success in spite of all the naysayers around. It’s not easy to be part of such a journey but the more I observe I witness the life of successful people. It’s the will to live, the non-ending grit of going against all odds that keeps them going.

The world can go against you, fundamentals are not in your favor still you will sail through as long as you have the will to live.

Help

Helping others is a good virtue. But not on account of hurting ourselves. We don’t have to fall for sunk cost and realize that not everyone needs help. We have to help those who want to help themselves. We are acting as a catalyst instead of a guide.

You can take thirsty to a pond, and they should feed themselves. You don’t have to throw them in the water.

dream

My job requires me to meet new people. Many of them carry dreams with them. I have suggested to most of them to keep dreaming. It is important to dream.

At the same time, dreaming alone is not enough. We have to take dreams to it’s destination. It requires us to take the next step. It could be working towards making dreams come true. It could be hiring someone to make your dreams come true.

There are things in our control, and there are things not in our control. The only thing which we have is our dream and working towards making it a reality.

Predictable

We are creatures of habit. We like simplicity and predictability. If people or organizations are not delivering up to it, we are just burning ourselves. There is no point working with someone or keeping business alignment with unpredicted people.

I have witnessed this while building our company or making sales. We have had a lot of success because the people we hired were not 10X engineers but predictable and hard-working. We knew they would deliver if they took the task in their hands.

The same goes for building our company. We are here because our customers believe in us, and we are at their service 24/7. They have seen us giving our best for their success.

In short, be it a business or relationship, ” predictability” trumps someone cheerleading or showing a high dopamine rush and disappearing.

plan

No plan is the best plan. It ensures you are not running like a headless chicken. You are calm, living now. You have things to look forward to. You are accepting whatever comes in the future.

I have seen people living in planning mode throughout their lives. They have always lived in the future. The castle we make out of our thoughts adds pressure on us. It makes us miserable.

Many successful people I have known had the willingness to put all their hard work into the present and leave the rest. They put their best foot forward. They had no time to make a plan.

Change

We are not chameleons. We don’t change ourselves overnight. Our past experiences, learnings, and company don’t vanish overnight. It requires decades of hard work and dedication to rewire ourselves. The problem with most of us is that we all want to be better. We like to change ourselves, but we want it to happen quickly. As a result, we get frustrated, become lazy, and give up too soon.

We have to change for ourselves first. We change because we want to be a better version of ourselves. We cannot change for others. We cannot become someone else overnight.

Lastly, we cannot keep an external incentive. We are not monkeys to dance to others’ tunes or wedding night horse dancing for money.

We are humans. We live in our thoughts. We are delicate.

Center

Some of us get disillusioned and end up making our assumptions. As a result, we become possessive or impatient. We expect the world to run around us. It is this madness that makes many people cry, get into substance abuse, or pick up unwanted fights.

The sooner we realize that we mean nothing to most in the universe. The sooner we understand that our loved ones have their life, the sooner we accept that we are not the center of their life, and we will start living a virtuous life.

Our world is not the center for most around us. We are all fighting a little battle within ourselves.

leader

A leader’s job is to lead.
Take the organization out of trenches and as a shield lead from the front. A leader has to work to earn respect.
It has to come from their virtue, not because they have the leadership.

Another important work of a leader is a succession plan, building more and more leaders with guidance, mentoring, and hand-holding. It takes a village to raise a child. It takes many hands to create a legacy organization.

Company

Our world is by people we spend most of our time with. We have to be wise with our time management. In short, who to be with and not. Our time on this planet is limited. We should spend it with like-minded souls.

It is easy to be pessimistic about everything. It is easy to blame others for personal failures. It is easy to dream and die. A company around will foster positivity, and negative people will add pain.

Our success has a role to play with our company around. The sooner we realize, we progress in life.