Do Good

Stop. Look. Go.

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The only common thing in you, me, friends, enemy, people on the street is that we all want to be happy.

The myth is you are happy then you feel grateful. The reality is if you are grateful you become happy.

Every moment of life is our opportunity to convert it to a grateful moment. To be grateful to you must stop to analyse the context, look at the opportunities of gratefulness and then go for realising the opportunities of being grateful.

If you missed the opportunity at this moment, the next opportunity to be grateful is just with you. Opportunity is not a scarcity, it’s you who needs to be ready to grab it to enjoy grateful and be happy.

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Strategy to Succeed

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Billionaire Entrepreneur Charlie Munger’s Strategy to Succeed

I always thought the key to success was creating a vision, setting goals, and working hard toward them every day. If I failed, I thought it was because I did one of these steps wrong.

Today I read Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman quote, he shows another equally important path to success; thinking through what can go wrong no matter how smart and hardworking you are. Realizing this, Munger continuously and methodically considers every way a plan could go wrong and plots out how to avoid each obstacle.

“Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backward. What happens if all our plans go wrong? Where don’t we want to go, and how do you get there? Instead of looking for success, make a list of how to fail instead–through sloth, envy, resentment, self-pity, entitlement, all the mental habits of self-defeat. Avoid these qualities and you will succeed. Tell me where I’m going to die so I don’t go there.” Munger says.

Munger’s approach tells me to avoid roadblocks and be more prepared when I inevitably runs into one. Furthermore, combining goal setting and obstacle avoidance is backed up by a growing body of over several of academic studies on the topic. When people only ‘fantasize’ about the future, they actually end up taking less action than they would if they also thought about what could go wrong and made plans to avoid it.

To summarize the key message here, “Being both pessimistic and optimistic is better than just being optimistic. One of the best ways to win is not to loose.”

To apply this principle, test your plan with this three-step pre-mortem process developed by Meathead Movers CEO and cofounder, Aaron Steed:

1) List the ways the project could fail
2) Assign a probability to each possibility
3) Prioritize actions that can be taken to avoid failure

Rather than adding new procedures to help those projects succeed, he developed the pre-mortem process to remove the barriers that were causing them to fail.

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The Joy Of Service

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In Conversation with God Krishna, I asked: “Why is that I am always in the want mode? When I don’t get what I want, I feel miserable and when I exactly get what I want, I still feel bad because I feel I limited my want so little.”


God Krishna said, “It’s because you are always in “I” mode. I want a house. I want a beautiful spouse. I want a car. I want success. You are no worth more than a beggar. Even you have enough, you always want, want and want. It’s because you have not experienced the joy of service. For all such want mode people, they suffer bigger hardship.”


I further asked, “Joy of Service? What can I serve when I myself don’t have enough?”


God said, “There are four ways that people feel the joy of service: Some give their work to the divine which is doing your work surrendering it to the feet of God, some give their life surrendering the body to the holy feet of the divine, some give their wealth for the purpose of serving the common good and the ultimate man give their soul to the service.

You look at nature; all of them are always offering their service without any want of their own. Just try to live like nature for a while to experience the joy of service.


March forward with a common goal. March forward with open-minded and work together in harmony. March forward sharing your thoughts for integrated wisdom. March forward following the example of our ancestors who achieved higher goals by virtue of being united.”
श्री कृष्ण अर्पणमस्तु।

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Magic is something you make

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It is time to speak your truth to yourself. If you ever joined a community, connect.

If not, create your community and connect. Stop looking outside for a leader. Seek for a leader inside you. There is a river flowing – slow, settled, pure, clean and aqua.

You are the one wasting on the shore to enjoy the pleasure. Don’t be afraid and wait at the shore – like every river has it’s destination you have yours too.

You need to jump, float and allow yourself to go with the flow. Once you enter the middle of the river, keeping your head upward, look at the blue sky with eyes wide open, let your imagination soar to discover the real you and celebrate yourself in you. Make the magic and experience it with eyes open…

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How to make friends and influence others

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I have read “How to make friends and influence people” a few times and I can just summarize the book pretty easily as “just be nice to people and make them feel like they are successful for their efforts.”


It makes a ton of sense. If you meet someone and you feel you enjoyed being around with that person, just acknowledge them:


Someone cracked a funny joke and it made you smile, just acknowledge by saying “You are one among the funniest people I know.”


Someone helped you find the way, just acknowledge saying “Thank you for the help.”


Someone stopped their vehicle and allowed you to cross the road, wave your hand and acknowledge it.


When you ride an Uber, just say to the driver “Thank you for driving me safely. Time send with you today was pleasant.”


That person will now do anything possible for you. Eventually, the book says that if you compliment enough people, you will have an army of dedicated killers at your beck and call.

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4 Quotes From Vidur Niti About Ego, Wisdom, Power and Modesty

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1. Egoistic people treat education, wealth and birth in high family as a matter of ego possession whereas; the learned person knows that these are the means to achieve excellence in life.


2. The wise gets support from the saint, the saint also supports other saints, the saint also supports the crooked person. However, a saint cannot expect support from the crooked person.
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3. Power dressing attracts the attention in conferences, cows fulfill the desire of sweetness, the vehicle drives to the destination faster but only a wise person achieves all round winning forever.


4. Modesty makes the man great. Once the modesty is lost then wealth or family cannot help in fulfilling anything.


~~Vidur Niti

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Practicing Gentleness

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Sometime I try remembering the things that brought light in my eyes, acts that moves me and the deeds that defines the courage and heroism. Sometime, I also think of missing the compassion, clarity and openness in our life.
The challenge I see is discovering the way to be and remain gentle with ourselves. And I remembered my mother and me reuniting with her whenever we meet even after a long time, we reunite as though we have just met recently.
I feel there must be way to reunite with ourselves every moment so that I do not become stranger to myself. I’d call it practicing gentleness…

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A Little Unemployed📌

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In my early days, a mentor advised me to keep myself — A Little Unemployed.

Those days, we had to work for six days.

“The full-time occupation takes away all that you have: You go to work, keep doing things and return fully exhausted. I advise you to encourage you to be a little unemployed at all times. You can use that time for self-care, personal growth, prevent burnout, pursue your hobbies or explore a side hustle.” Mentor stated.

I took the advice seriously. I started working on the things that mattered most at a specific time. Here is what I did:

✅ I started teaching part-time at computer classes. It strengthened my subject knowledge and improved my communication skills. I gained recognition as a good teacher.

✅ I became a part-time trader selling computer accessories and consumables to earn side income.

✅ I developed writing skills and started writing for magazines and newspapers.

✅ Leveraging my training experiences further, I started speaking at technology conferences across the globe.
✅ I started mentoring and coaching budding entrepreneurs which helped me understand the nuances of starting a business early on.

✅ I have developed a deep interest in Hindu scriptures and philosophy. Now, aim to take it as a full-time occupation in the distant future.

I know many would say that it becomes challenging to do something else while being in a full-time job, but if you can keep yourself a little unemployed, manage your time well and explore potential opportunities around your interests and hobbies, it will lead you to something meaningful.

Here is one piece of advice to you from me — BE A LITTLE UNEMPLOYED.

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Past, present or future?

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Question: Off late I am living on an emotional roller coaster. It’s like happiness has gone away from my life. I am in haste most of the time. On the road I feel like having a wing to fly rather than crawling in traffic. I cannot conclude a conversation as I jump to another topic in the midst of conversation. At work I mess around and am not able to complete tasks as I am not able to focus. Even at home, I get agitated too quickly and not able to manage home well. Why is this happening to me?

Answer: You are living in a time warp of expectations. You are always readying yourself for the next thing on your list to occur before you complete the task at hand.

It is happening because you spend all of your time concentrating on something out of sight and you miss what is around you. To have a focus, you have to be present in this moment, totally aware of your immediate environment then only you can conclude the conversation instead of jumping from one topic to another.

You devote your thinking always to matters of the past, or wishful thinking of the future, or plotting how you are going to defend yourself, your attention is not on the present and you are missing the activity around you. It is impossible to redo the past or to program the future, so the better thing is to spend your time in the present?

Allow yourself to indulge in meditation or breathing exercises to develop self awareness and be in the present moment more. Live in the present; impatience disappears and the world will seem larger—you are finally looking at all of it!

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Determination

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There comes a time in everyone’s life where you must fight for your existence and sustenance. Sunk inside such a situation, you find yourself running away more lucrative than fighting it out.

I now have enough experience to be able to say what the most important quality that every living being is determination.

Not intelligence– determination.You can’t fake this. The only way to convince everyone that you’re ready to fight to death is actually to be ready to fight..

You need to ask yourself: “If your life situation isn’t good enough to win, then do you need to exist at all?”
And see the answer coming your way.

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It’s Love That Makes Everyone happy

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A very angry and rude young man began insulting Buddha. “You have no right teaching others, You are as stupid as everyone else. You are nothing but a fake.”

Buddha asked the young man “Tell me, if you buy a gift for someone, and that person does not take it, to whom does the gift belong?”

The man was surprised to be asked such a strange question and answered, “It would belong to me, because I bought the gift.”

The Buddha smiled and said, “That is correct. And it is exactly the same with your anger. If you become angry with me and I do not get insulted, then the anger falls back on you. You are then the only one who becomes unhappy, not me. All you have done is hurt yourself.”

“When you hate others, you yourself become unhappy. But when you love others, everyone is happy.”

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Life stage a business goes through

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Businesses, like human life stages, go through the three phases: Infancy, Adolescence, and Maturity.
Infancy: Like an infant child the business is entirely dependent on you. As a child cannot live without their parent, without you there would be no business. Your every day is deep in the business to get things done. Without you, the business will fall behind. However, you begin to allocate some works to your coworker as business starts stabilizing and growing.

Adolescence: It comes up when you cannot handle it all alone, and you decide to get help. It’s a bit difficult situation; as you hand over tasks to your employees, you start getting a bit jittery thinking no one cares about your business as you do. As an entrepreneur, you need to start believing in people whom you hired for the business and instead of being a doer yourself, begin supervising the work only to see that your employees do not drop the ball.

Maturity: A mature business knows a different kind of understanding and mindset to manage it. It’s like your parent hand you over to your spouse for helping you with companionship to thrive in your life.

Maturity is not an inevitable result of the first two phases. Mature companies started out that way! The people who started them had an entirely different perspective about what a business is and why it works.
Asks the question: “How must the business work?” Starts with a picture of a well-defined future, and then comes back to the present with the intention of changing it to match the vision. Your role shifts to become a custodian of rules and principles practicing which people working for your business realises the vision and the goal that you have set to achieve.

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Do well keeping things simple

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It’s too complicated. Each one of us nudge when faced with something that do not provide the ease of use.

In earlier notion, stuffing features to influence the mind of a buyer was considered important. Many of the software had so many features that we could hardly use.

Making things work and work well is highly satisfying and attention to usability, convenience, engagement and enriching experience matters more than ever.

Keeping thing simple gives us the room to get to the market faster, step back, room to breathe, and focus on the quality and fineness of things that we produce.

KISS has got new meaning – Keep It Simple Stupid

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Stay Relevant

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Your future depends on what you are doing today to stay relevant in the world changing faster than anyone’s imagination.

You make a tall claim stating yourself as a “dynamic” person. But, truly, ask yourself today, “What have you done lately to stay dynamic?”

There’s this notion that your future can be predicted by the five people you spend the most time with. I would like to tell you one more important thing and that is the kind of skills you are acquiring today will profoundly shape the life you are going to live in the weeks, months and years to come.

If you want to grow in your career, you need to practice the skills you’ll need now, so you can perform well in the future. You are not born knowing how to develop a product, lead a team, give great speeches, sell to prospects, or manage money. These aspects of day-to-day business life are
all skills, and you can improve your performance to the extent you choose to practice. Improve any one of these skills, and you can’t help but improve your career.

Picking up these skills are easier than you think.
Cut down the time waster things that you indulge in – watching TV, surfing internet, meaningless meetings, etc. and put that time for learning and practicing things that will take you where you are now to where you dream to go.
Practice new skills today, and your opportunities expand. Its proven truth that the most rewarding career and life are reserved for the people who are willing to put in the time and effort required to develop the skills necessary to enjoy them. There is no substitute for this.

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Plan your work, then work your plan

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There will always be more to do, always more that should be done and always more than can be done.

In other words, work will never stop unless you make the decision to stop, to organise and to prioritise not just your work tasks, but your life, your dreams and goals, spending time with your family, giving time for pursuing your hobbies, surfing and chilling out.

Reflect on this piece of advice today, circle the calendar on your table pointing on the date when you will put the real living into your practice and let me know how you feel now.

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