KILL THE EGO The most dangerous enemy of success lies within us. It is our ego that inflates our sense of self importance and makes us feel that we are the root cause of all that happens in our lives. We become less grateful than we should be and start to have an air of …
JUST DO SOMETHING EVERYDAY We all have hidden desires and secret fantasies. Dreams of launching a great company or becoming a sportsperson or becoming famous online or something else that we often day dream about it. Usually in the daily busyness of life we tend to de prioritise this and move on with the everyday …
DID YOU TRY 41000 TIMES My 9 month old niece was trying to get up. She would crawl to the edge of the bed or the wall or the table, put her hand up to get a grip and try to pull herself up to stand. She fell. She tried again. Then she fell. She …
CLEAN UP DAILY To become effective at anything we want to do, we need to be disciplined and organized in doing it. We need to build the habit of being disciplined. This is much harder to do than we imagine as there is a natural instinct to rest, recreate and procrastinate. There is one simple …
CAPTAIN SMITH – ARE YOU ON THE BRIDGE ? In the great tragedy of the Titanic one enduring mystery has remained. Captain Smith who infamously called the ship unsinkable was apparently sleeping when the ship hit ice. By some account he was on the bridge and remained there till his end. By other accounts he …
BUBBLE TO DO CHART There are a million ways to make a to do list. There are a million ways to not complete the tasks on the to do list. To do lists can be boring or intimidating taking a life of their own. How do we keep it simple, fun and effective. Use the …
BETTER TODAY THAN YESTERDAY What is the way to become world class at anything – speaking, writing, presenting, playing a sport, learning music, programming or any other skill ? Practice, more specifically deliberate practice where you measure your performance against a scale say the experts. What if you can apply a simple method of deliberate …
5 DAY ALIGNMENT RULE There is a project proposal due for budget approval. It has been sent to the relevant decision makers. It’s been weeks. No clear response or decision has been made and the decision has been kicked down the road to the next month. A pricing decision has to be made but it …
WHAT’S YOUR M.E.A.T ? Everyday we have 1440 minutes at our disposal. With this we will typically do thousands of activities in a day. We will brush our teeth, drink water, sit mindlessly in front of the Tv, browse social media, have a pleasant (or not) conversation with out better half, shower, shave, eat toast, …
BE A TENDAI MONK. FINISH OR DIE Great work is accomplished with great commitment. It takes a long time to build a great company or institution or write a best selling book. The road to this success is paved with a thousand obstacles and failures. Hence commitment is the key to persist in the face …
