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.

experiences

Our life is the sum of experiences. We are writing our story every day. We meet people, visit places, read, and visit places. In all instances, we gain a lot of learnings. It is on us how to apply to us in the present moment.

Most successful people learn and observe from these experiences but do not cling to them. The reason is that all situations and people are different. We cannot apply past templates to the present scenario.

We have to understand every day is full of new opportunities. It has so much to offer. We should take it instead of clinging to the past and getting stuck. We have to move in life and see a new world every moment.

insecurity

Our insecurity is a root cause of suffering. We don’t take a step forward seeing the light of success. We are scared and fearful of venturing in because of past experiences.

We have a small life and limited moment of opportunity. For someone insecure, it does not matter. Many are living in their bubble and calling it their comfort zone.

Many people don’t venture into relationships because of their insecurity. Some don’t get into business partnerships because of fear of losing before the start.

We get out of insecurity by changing our mindset. We start seeing a world of possibilities.

lucky

Are we not lucky breathing, living a life out of fear?
Are we not lucky to have parents around with us?
Are we not lucky to have enough to live an independent life?
Are we not lucky to have few friends with whom we share all our secrets?
Are we not lucky to have a life partner helping you grow professionally and personally with their attitude?
Are we not lucky to have people leaving us while teaching us valuable lessons for life?
Are we not lucky to have mentors guiding us to succeed in life?

The world gives us an opportunity. It is on us to cease it for our lives.

PMF

I feel sad seeing the plight of founder friends who raised millions and burning cash like there is no end.
With the new normal, investors are asking founders to cut costs. And turn profitable overnight.
As a result, there is mass layoff.
In the first place, these companies had no PMF and burnt money in all directions to find one.
Now, with no money or PMF, these companies are at the crossroads of death or acquihire.

I see the next 10-12 months as a feast for PEs as they will be on an acquisition spree. Many startup founders take a job, and the luxury of overall employees is affected.

It’s an economic reset, not an entrepreneurial reset. After the US election, things should come back to normal. But before that, many startups will die.

The race to reach quick PMF with money, funding, or hundreds of team members has failed. You can’t fatten a pig and make it ready for feast overnight. Things take their own time.

Religion

Religion is a bond that keeps society behaving. Otherwise, we are all animals, and we have our animalistic itch, which goes beyond social norms.

Every religion existed out of our fear. We were scared, and we needed something to cling upon.
It could be a stone, a supernatural, or living humans as gods.

In the early days, we bowed to nature, and the sun, moon, and animals prayed.
With time, this changed, and we ended up joining camps.
The religious evangelicals made us join groups with dominance, fear, or luring with food/clothes.

During imperialism and monarchy, priests and the church played a huge role in making decisions. A king cannot make decisions without the church on their side. Other leisure, plays, and arts had religion and churches showing their dominance.

Religion drives the economy: from priests to flower sellers to sweet sellers to cloth sellers, all depend on the temple and auspicious days of prayers.

With democracy, our politicians are banking on religion and the vote bank politics. The grand divide is increasing more and more.

Jai Shree Ram.