mistakes

fails.

Everyone makes mistakes.

Everyone falters.

But we always look at the end of the outcome of people’s

journey.

Rarely recognizing what got them there.I continued to pursue my education because I was good at it,

without ever asking myself if it made me happy.

Just because you are good at something doesn’t automatically

ensure you get happy doing it.I looked down upon people who used to smoke or drink or party

every weekend.

I felt they were losers and the reason to bring the world down.

It is not what you do, but who you are underneath, that defines

you.I felt morally obligated to help everyone in distress.

And if they continued to remain unhappy, I blamed myself.

The best gift you can gift yourself and to others, is to take care

of your own happiness.I felt the lack of money was the root cause of all our family

problems.

And once we have money, we no longer will have any problems.

Our problems are the stories we tell ourselves, of how

everything will be fine once we get what we want.I ate shit, slept odd hours, maintained bad posture, while

constantly telling myself that I have tomorrow to fix all of this.

An excuse is the distance between who you are and who you

wish to be.I really tried hard to please people. I wanted them to like me, to

think highly of me, to speak highly of me.

If your happiness depends on external validation, then your

happiness depends on something you do not control.I didn’t think subjective topics such as psychology, business

ethics or human resources were needed or even important.

Business is all about finance and marketing.

Business is all about people.

How well you know them.

And how you treat them.I assumed if I speak well and speak confidently, it will cover up

for the lack of content I have.

You cannot lie on stage.

The audience will always know what is within your heart.If people approached me with their problems, my job was to

determine whether the problem was worth my time or not.

And if it was, then my job was to fix it.

Listening to them without judgement or prescription is the most

precious gift you can give someone.I needed to have a plan.

A plan is the only way you get to any point in life.

If you do not have a plan, you do not have any chance of

getting to anywhere.

To not have a plan and be ok with it, is the best plan.I looked around and saw that everything was designed to make

our lives comfortable.

And so I assumed, the purpose of life is to make life

comfortable.

Avoiding the comfort trap is the difference between who you

are and who you could have been.If I said something, wrote something, shared something, I felt

dejected when no one cared, when no one responded, when no

one commented.

No one owes you their time and money. You earn it, everyday,

by the work you do.I had to make money fast, buy my parents that house, buy that

fancy car, that vacation.

I had to make money fast, to buy stuff.

Money can buy you stuff. But the biggest thing it buys is

freedom. Including freedom from stuff.I assumed if you work hard, really hard, you will eventually win.

Working hard is the only thing that matters.

What you work on is just as important as how much you work

on it. Even donkeys work hard. Working smart is the difference

between a donkey and a human.