What can you do?

Most of the things in the world don’t make sense. Most of them are not justified, not empathetic. It is frustrating to see the wrong in the world and it is tempting to focus on how things and people are wrong. But that does not change the world, that

Doing more thinking less.

There are times when we get entangled in thinking, in planning, in trying to sort things out inside our mind. The more we do this, the deeper the mess we get into. We get stuck in the spider’s web of its own making. It is extremely tough to break

One more thing.

Can you help one more person? Can you write one more word, one more sentence? Can you publish one more book? Launch one more product? Focus on the next. Forget what came before. Forget what will come after. Do one more thing. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If

Boredom is the friend.

Boredom leads to creativity. We get away from our boredom by creating something out of it. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are already a subscriber, do share with your friends.

How can you serve?

What is the work that matters to you? What is the work for which you can cross seas? What is the work that only you can do? That is the work that matters. It’s high time you seek that work. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you

Ready-made solutions.

Throughout our lives, we have been given ready-made solutions. Pick one: science, arts, commerce? Pick one: engineering or doctor? Don’t even pick, just do an MBA. Ready-made solutions seem objective and easy to swallow. But they hide the short term pain of dealing with ambiguity and in

Sustenance and creativity.

These are different things. We can’t expect our creativity to sustain us, we need to sustain ourselves for our creativity. Income generation needs to be looked at as an engineering problem needing to be solved. It is very different from the creative process. It’s important to separate the

Resistance is mediocrity.

Mediocrity is all around us. In the industry, in education, in politics, in religion, in news. Mediocrity is the lowest common denominator. And mediocrity is like a black hole. Once you give into it, there’s no coming out. It sucks you in. And once you give in, then it

Life is short.

Book that flight. Ask that girl out. Write that book. There is never going to be a time like now. Risk is the likelihood of the irreversible negative outcome. Tim Ferriss

From Martyr to Trickster

The martyr is a sucker for rules. It uses random excuses to not do the work, to not show up. The trickster is full of tricks. Not only for the world outside but for its own brain. It lightens the mood, it reduces the stakes, it moves forward. The martyr

Mediocrity

Why are we so comfortable with being mediocre? With not showing up? With our life not meaning up to anything? That we just come on this planet, survive and then die. Why be a human then? Be a cow, no? — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are

Prostitution

The society does not look well on the women (and men) who sell (or rather, rent) their bodies to someone else for money. But what about the soul? What about your work? What about your life? Why is it okay to rent your soul in exchange for money? To not

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A hundred no(s).

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

What exactly is a career?

Can there be life without a career? Action is inevitable. Career is about what action we take. What is our karma? Our action? The work? Money is just one of the factors of our work. It’s what allows us to continue with the work. It’s not the purpose

Money mindset.

People don’t pay us because we need money. They pay us because we are offering something they want more than the money. The key to solving your money problem is to ask ’Who it’s for?’ and ’Whats’s it for’. The more you help people get what they

Getting through the dip.

The dip will inevitably hit when you start showing up. And when it hits, it seems that the entire world is stacked against you. The only alternative that makes sense while going through the dip is to give up, is to stop showing up. But if we keep showing up,

What’s the framework for Career Design?

The creator is at the centre of it all. And it has to be about the individuality of the creator. The individuality includes her dreams, desires, aspirations, fears. It is about reaching the foundational dreams. What is natural to the creator? What is at the centre? Each person has a

Make things happen.

When you do the work, when you initiate, when you instigate. When you serve your audience. When you create tension. You make things happen. Be the one who makes things happen. — If you liked reading this, consider subscribing. If you are already a subscriber, do share with your friends.

Miss what’s happening

Twitter tagline says, ‘Don’t miss what’s happening’. Unless you miss what’s happening, you won’t be making things happen. Let the breaking news break. Let the trends vanish into thin air. What will remain is what will matter. Your work and you. The amateur tweets. The pro

Permission & marketing.

Marketing with permission. Do you want to get this? Do you want to learn more? Can we ask questions instead of shouting the answers? Questions is how communication happens. Questions is how relationships are built. The thing with a question is that it creates tension. The tension of giving an

Action vs. thought.

Action is light and fun. Thought is heavy and burdensome. Most of our misery in life comes from thought, from trying to resolve complexities within our mind. Our mind is not a very good tool for that. Instead, once we get out of our mind and focus on getting things

Get something 'done'.

The key is not to simply do but to get it done. What does done look like? What is the final step that makes the thing done? When we are struggling with Resistance and procrastination, getting one thing done leads to getting the next thing done and so on. — If

I didn’t know I could do that!

The beauty of showing up and shipping is that we are surprised by ourselves. When we simply sit down and do the work, we are surprised by what we create. It take emotional labour to ignore the voice inside our head and to keep doing the work. That labour involves

Being stupid.

The world is smart. Every one is. And every one is so smart that they think that only they are smart. But being smart can be stupid. Because we get nothing done when we act smart. We ship nothing when we act smart. It’s better to be stupid and

Make it easier.

When we shift from the martyr energy to the trickster energy, we find easy and cool ways to get the tough things done. We stop making things precious. We focus more on doing and less on thinking. From playing deep focus music to getting a buddy sit with you while