Category: Personal Development

What can derail your momentum?

In 2014 I wrote, The 21 success principles – it is 2023 and they have stood the test of time

Today I wanted to share things that can derail your momentum and stop you from achieving your best

  1. Easy Money can blindsight you and will force you to stop working on yourself, try and avoid this trap
  2. Remaining in your comfort zone will limit your growth
  3. Doing things cause everyone is doing it, this is a sure shot way to live a miserable life
  4. Chasing the fad – Never works
  5. Health – be vigilant to not neglect it
  6. Bad habits – like eating junk, gambling they form easily and become a lifelong bane
  7. Real friendship is rare treasure it, In life most folks would be fair-weather friends know this
  8. If you are employed, better plan your career otherwise you are going to get a rude shock in 10 years
  9. if you don’t learn, you can’t get ahead in any sphere of life
  10. Learn to communicate or you would be paid less than your worth
  11. if you avoid hard things in life – Exercise, Transparent conversations and soon your life would be hard
  12. Average days would become Average months that would
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An inspirational Teacher

The word guru is derived from two words, gu and ru. The Sanskrit root gu means darkness or ignorance, and ru denotes the remover of that darkness.
I have been blessed to have so many teachers in my life who have showered their knowledge, apart from parents teachers have the most profound impact on our psyche in life
I would not be talking about all of them here then the post would become a book, But I will talk about one
Prof S P Srinivas who taught us worldly wisdom through his finance lectures, Sitting through and listening him in class was an enormous experience, I always walked out with an awe feeling , how can one man have such an immense grip on so many subjects – Finance, Psychology, History, Literature and I can go on and on, and top to it all he has the best one liners on pretty much everything in life 🙂
He was always in library outside classes, reading always reading – He was a real life example of what Munger calls a learning machine
Tons of what he said stays with me and guides me when I am indecisive, he is a permanent … Read the rest

Weekly Digest

Improving work productivity

Weekly Digest – Improving work productivity

First up hope you have read

The most read article on Tankrich ever –  understanding competitive advantages

Also read this case study on bad economics Vs Good management

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In today’s weekly digest first up Jessica Stillman teaches us ” How to Get All Your Work Done in Half the Time”  Here are few simple tricks shared

1. Use Pomodoro technique – work in 25-minute sprints of single-minded focus to get maximum productivity

2.  Choose tasks wisely – To enable emotional satisfaction

3.  Forget 9 to 5 –  Focus on managing your energy not time

So get your work schedule corrected from long 60 hours+ week to more manageable 40+ and enjoy life. Read the complete article here

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Weekly Digest

Read, Note and Learn

This weekly digest – Read, Note, Learn

Let us start with a blog which is full of wisdom tenets. I accidentally landed up on this blog and I am already a fan. Seeking Wisdom is an attempt by Jana V to master the best of what other people have already figured out. You will find lucid writings on analysis of Indian companies (the reason I landed up there) , Mathematics, Biology, Mental models also prominently feature as topics on this blog. My personal favorites were

Sell Winners – Hold Losers

How to lie with statistics

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Learn from masters

Weekly Digest – Learn from masters

This week first up we learn from renowned image consultant Lauren Solomon , a true master in image consultancy. This article in Forbes asks a question –   how much does a powerful professional image matter? The answer is Yes it does matter a lot the article then shares examples on how people have transformed their professional careers just by changing their professional image. Some tips that one can learn

Wear clothes that fit properly

Wear good shoe

Casual clothing can be stylish and smart

How you start the day is how you end the day

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Forming habits to excel

Today in weekly digest  forming habits to excel

First up is Crisil’s first ‘State Of The Nation’ report, It is a comprehensive and extensive analysis of the Indian economy, individual sectors and companies. It helps investors to understand the macro situation about the country. The report has massive coverage of 2481 companies across 70 sectors. I especially liked the way they have conducted vulnerability analysis on companies on the below five factors

1 Demand pressures – Expected revenue growth

2 Liquidity and working capital challenges

3 Extent of indebtedness (total outside liabilities/ tangible net worth)

4 Ability to service debt (interest cover), and

5 Foreign currency volatility

Above is a macro framework which any investor can take away and use to analyze any specific company. Some of the results to take note

Education sector was highest number of companies(73%) which had were not vulnerable any of the above 5 factors followed closely by Healthcare (71%) and Chemicals (65%)

The worst hit sectors – no surprises were infrastructure and real-estate. Download full report to gain complete perspective

 

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
― William Durant

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How to build additional sources of Income

Updated – 16.04.2015

What is diversity of your income sources ?

A typical salaried employee’s graph would look like below

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Highly concentrated with income from salary. If you are able to increase your salary 20% year after year, don’t read any further you have cracked the code, see you later. If not continue reading

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Still in college, one of our most revered professor, seeded the idea of diversifying our income sources. He stated

Diversity will not only provide extra stability and improve your life style it will also enable keep the inquisitor in us alive beyond your college days.

I decided I would aspire to have at least 2% of my income incrementally from sources other than salary after first two years at job till my 7th year. Hence reaching a healthy ratio of 90-10

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Circa 2012

I was amazed by the concept, however was not sure how can we add additional income, given that most of jobs demand at least 60 hours a week or more. Spending additional time looking for a weekend job was not a viable option. I had to rely on other means. My chosen areas of bring diversity to … Read the rest

Challenge your thoughts

Invest differently, challenge your thoughts

Weekly digest – Invest differently, challenge your thoughts

Today’s first article talks about investing beyond stock markets, there are usual suspects like real estate, art and bullion. However what you will find interesting is that people invest in wine, peer to peer lending. To top it off the last option talks about investing in yourself

Something that I try to remind my clients is that they are their own best assets. You can always do something to improve your skills, your efficiency, your education, your time management, or your prestige within your field.

read the all “9 Ways to Invest without putting money into the Stock Market” here

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Drake Baer answers , “What can we do today to help out our future selves in 2019?”

Good habits go a long way to improve our well being. Drake has put forward very easy to pick up habits like Learning to work with shame and doubt , recoding every activity with a date among others. See how many of them you can pick here

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Be Smarter

Starting this weekend, We will put up a weekly digest that comes out on Saturdays which is full of interesting reads from all over the world covering value investing, productivity, economics and marketing. Hope you enjoy and contribute to this initiative.

First up is 19 websites that will make you smarter, Maggie Zhang from Business insider provides the list of websites that will make you smarter in your everyday life, While the list has some of my perennial favorites like Luminosity and TED, I was mightily impressed with likes of power searching with google, loads of tricks and tips  to search better. Go check out the whole list here

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Resume creation is one of most important and tedious tasks while hunting jobs right? Nancy Young in Honkiat.com is presenting 10 online tools to create impressive resumes, here you have options to create your resume from LinkedIn, create an info graphic of your resume or even build resume from many written ready made examples. Thanks to Nancy your resume writing will become less tedious, check out all 10 tools here

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Top blogs to follow

A very happy Easter to everyone.

If you  like to read more than what there on Google news, then you need to dig web a lot more and in a different way. Here is my view on some of the most exciting places on web to read cool and meaning full substance.

Blogs

Tiny Buddha

Here is how Lori describes her blog –Tiny Buddha is about reflecting on simple wisdom and learning new ways to apply it to our complex lives—complete with responsibilities, struggles, dreams, and relationships. Over 1.5 million members have found happiness with forum.

Zen Habits

Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness. The blog claims to be one of the Top 25 blogs and Top 50 websites in the world, with more than a million monthly readers. I like Leo Babauta’s simple and affable writing style presenting simple things in simple ways

The Art of Non-Conformity

A home for unconventional people doing remarkable things, that’s how Chris Guillebeau defines his blog. He writes on variety of topics ranging from personal development, entrepreneurship … Read the rest