JOURNEY

 In my previous post "live like you are dying" I mentioned about how everyone should live life.  How people live after surviving a major heart attack.  Some will never realize until they experience death.  But according to OSHO, everyday everybody dies momentarily.  And yes you die every single day.  You sleep and nothing is in your control.   You wake up and realize that world is still running rock solid.  Experiencing death in advance makes you think about life.  Makes you think how you should live.  Death is not permanent, it is a brief moment of time which passes by and a new life is born, just like you sleep and wake up. Certainly the world will not come to an end if we die tomorrow.  The world will still continue to function as it is functioning now.  Then why worry about death.  If worrying about death makes you dispensable then it is good otherwise it is useless consumption of your emotional health.  ...

Have you ever encountered a person who didn't listened to your idea?  Do you have a boss who never listens to your idea? Then finally you get discouraged and give up.  Some great opportunities are missed and you hear the news in the industry about bankruptcy, layoffs, customer complaints, lawsuits, takeovers. Only those who have missed the bus will come to know about the importance of timing.  In this new age, losing an idea from any person or a corporation is unacceptable. Sometimes some great solutions to great problem will come from a receptionist or the guy cleaning windows or your linchpin.  If you are not writing your ideas as soon as they come you are at risk. Getting yourself familiarized to writing your own thoughts and ideas.  And get off the chair and start spreading your ideas.  If you have good boss then he/she will tell you to document your idea and present it in the next team meeting.  That's how great start ups and thriving c...

Schools are a classic example of mass production of goods with same batch number, identity, degree and no specialty.  Schools mastered the phenomenon of producing graduates at an enormous faster rates creating abundant labor, lack of linchpins, full of complacency and non-experimental workforce. As we all are seeing economic and environmental disaster unfold before us, it is evident that schools have failed miserably at finding a solution and at best preventing it.  There was a time when if you had an engineering degree you could have easily survived.  But now survival is not enough.  Engineers and doctors are facing the same problems faced by everyone out there.  MBA graduates are working for multinational corporations doing same mistakes and struggling for finances and careers opportunities. So what is broke.  Our school system is broke and is becoming more and more irrelevant in current times.  The training periods of a new hire in companies are...

This book I got for FREE from Seth Godin as a gracious gift from Michael Hyatt of Nelson Publishers.  Thank You both of you from the bottom of my heart for this gift.   Linchpin is an amazing book by legendary marketing guru, best selling author, entrepreneur and my favorite mentor, Seth Godin .  Linchpin is a book about how you can become indispensable in this fast changing world.  This is by far a master piece written by Seth Godin and it is one of the greatest gift you can expect from him.   This book teaches you the importance of shipping your ideas, products and what ever you produce by overcoming the resistance and fear within you.  On shipping I would like to quote my favorite line, “There is no shortage of talent in this world, but there is shortage of shipping.”  So to elaborate, there are thousands of people with great ideas but how many are actually building products, writing blogs, creating music and shipping it to masses. ...

3 Dead simple rules and they are very simple to get maximum ideas out from you.   I am 100% sure these will work for you.  But you got to be fearless.  You have to be fearless from everything - your own judgment towards your own ideas even if they are right or wrong.   Fearless from others judgment and fearless from the outcome of the acceptance of your idea.  And fearless people are creative .  I will share 3 simplest rules to get more ideas with you.  So here is the first one. Rule no 1: Ship your existing products first. Answer this utterly simple question : Can you eat more if your stomach is already full?   I don't mind if you want to stack more food on top of it.  But the answer is you cannot dump anything in an already full garbage can.  Right.  You have to empty your brain.  You have to get it out.   For a new idea to get into your brain you have to ship your existing ones first.  By sh...

What happens when you do things at the last moment?  Why you feel that I will do better next time?  What happens when absolute focus kicks in? Result: You will work with undivided attention.  Undivided attention brings creativity and results.  You are very creative when you are very focused  in your goal.  The ideas behind this post is not to encourage you work at the last moment but to bring light to benefits of absolute focus . Why apple is considered to be the most creative company?  The company with remarkable products.  Because they are a very focused company.  They are aware of their extreme focus .....high gains and high productivity.  highly creative individuals...preventing themselves from average products.  Most companies are distracted by too many things.  Trying to do just about everything.  And as a result nothing gets done.  Products with average quality, performance and lots of complains. I am writi...

Are you keeping track of your ideas?   Can you recall those wonderful ideas you had once in the past about the future?  Did you ever had this feeling? "You see I had this concept while I was young." Our mind thinks amazing and crazy ideas everyday and of which some are really revolutionary.  But the average mass don't write them down.  People when confronted to write they hated to write even a single line forget about pages about a product concept or new marketing idea.  It might seem impractical to write down every small idea some of them could be really crazy ones.  But the catch is you need only one to hit the home run, only one big idea to get promotion, one great idea to get you job or your next marketing idea. Because they might be not practical now but in the future everything is a possibility.  You could be the first person in your company to come up with a new project concept. You can either become the darling of your organization, ...

How many times you thought that you had a great idea and just couldn't do anything about it? "Oh, I wish I could do that" is not acceptable in modern age. Have you experienced like that in your daily work, your assignments, cooking food, project, design or meeting. Have you ever tried being creative and be different than others? What prevented you from doing those? How can so many great people come up with marvelous ideas? There were many great moments in life that you could have made them different, memorable and as seth godin would say it " REMARKABLE ". How can we capture those IDEAS and implement them? Learn from a child who fearlessly expresses everything in a drawing book. Corporate companies have " DRAWING BOARDS " in their meeting room. And many start up companies keep them to brainstorm new ideas. Having a drawing boards in our life helps us capture those great Ideas. Because our life is our start up company. "Always d...