grateful

We are not grateful enough. We tend to focus on what we don’t have. Where or how someone did not help us. We are angry and burnt for what did not work for us.

Our life on this planet is limited, and going through what we don’t have or who did not champion our cause is not the right attitude.

What we should do it so work with our believers, and be grateful to those who stood by us when we had nothing or nowhere to go.

Everyone likes sailing with the course or prays to the rising son. A few misfits back people with no pedigree or history. We should be grateful to them all.

struggle

To get what we want in life requires a lot of hard work and struggle. Some would think it is easier to lead a life if born with a silver spoon. But that is not the case. They have challenges of different levels. Superstars or actors kids die fitting into the shoes of their parents.

Our life is a sum of happiness, pain, and misery. It is on us to decide what and how we lead it.

burnout

When we are angry or in a burnout zone.
It’s easy to blame or point fingers. We say things or take actions we don’t mean to, but we do that. Our rationality takes a back seat as the actions are emotion-driven.

We have to be empathetic and understand the state.

In the end, relationships and connections matter in life. This small phase of life gets forgotten soon.

child

There is a child persona inside all of us. As we age, it goes dormant. Once in a while, we meet friends and loved ones who comfort us. That is when this child comes back to life.

Our modern life leaves no room for idleness and community participation as it used to be in the past generations. As a result, we are not ourselves but goal-chasing robots. It is making us sick, miserable, and depressed.

When was the last time you laughed for hours and let the kid within you be out there?

success

Some successful folks I know have perfected the wall of creating a life of its own. It is like rational compartmentalization of time and effort. They ace at everything in bits and pieces slowly. They are not a perfectionist at one thing but good at everything.

We spend too much time on things we are obsessed with: startups, relationships, or hobbies. We are focused on it. It reaps all the benefits.

What about other things we are missing out on: getting old, stressed, and not travelling enough to see the world or Not seeing our ailing parents enough.

Commitment

Getting early adopters makes the product development process easy.
We started onboarding only a few early adopters on a module basis.
It saved a lot of our time and money.

We had a customer waiting to consume it. Some early adopters also paid us because they were keen to solve their pain points.

Everyone has free time to give advice, but a few use the product. So be very mindful of whose advice you are building the product.

We had a few instances where we asked the organization if they co-build and pay in advance. We onboarded a few and left many for any future advice.

As a founder in the early days of building a startup, you are very vulnerable, and everyone will take you for a ride. Be mindful of where to put the limited time you have in your hand. Everyone around will sweet talk and offer you a shit load of advice.

Take advice from those who are committed to your journey, not those who spin any ideas that come to their mind at an instance and are not willing to put skin in the game.

Rejections

We take rejections too seriously. We end up being sad or angry. Instead, all we need is to keep building.

Everything takes time: building a product, a startup, or a stable relationship.

Rejection is others’ opinion about you, your product but not the truth. Not everyone needs a product, appreciates an innovation, or commits.

So keep building, delighting, and find a few who wants to be part of the journey, work with them, build for them and build a life with them.

nature

We are living in a fast-paced mechanized world. Most of us living in metros are high on dopamine and are ultra-competitive. We are working hard to own every worldly pleasure apart from being the best in whatever we do.

I am no one to say good or bad things about it. What I do feel is that we should spend some time in nature and get rejuvenated.

Our life is too short and in this fast-paced world owning something and being someone should not result in missing out on what mother nature has to offer us.