Category: 365DaysofGratitude

I was in a discussion with a group of friends on the very first sale we closed in our entrepreneurial and professional journeys. What made me to bring this topic to the group was that, for every professional, the first sale closure is a milestone, because until then we don’t have the experience or track…

The other day, I was having a conversation with some fellow entrepreneurs in my state of Kerala and some startup ecosystem enablers on the Clubhouse platform. Since Clubhouse was launched on the Android platform there has been a flood of recent users on it. The conversation stretched to about two hours and there was a…

There is always a seed of the Devil and the Divine inside every person. What I feel is that a person turns into the devil or divine form based on how we nurture that seed in them. In short, we are responsible in the making of divinity or devilishness that a person shows towards us….

I was listening to an interview of an executive coach who was talking about the art of leveraging fear in one’s self. I somehow thought that being absolutely fearless is what brings us fortune but this gentleman’s talk slightly altered my perspective. He said, “One should always have a healthy respect towards fear,” and he…

I happened to read the famous quote by the American entrepreneur and author Jim Rohn that, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” I personally love this perspective. It’s a very sensible scale for our self-auditing. If we really want to change our positioning, I think we should…

I was having a casual conversation with a friend of mine. We were talking about staying grounded in our lives, putting the right anchor to our ship of life. One perspective that popped up in my mind during the conversation was this: In our life we should be accountable to something, it could be anything….

I was watching a talk by Prof Mark Jackson at The Royal Society – “Life begins at Forty.” He shared different perspectives about this idea and some of the points I personally felt cool are as follows: We mostly celebrate our youth without caring much about our health but when we arrive at forty we…

I was having a discussion with an entrepreneur quite senior to me who has always been an inspiration. We were discussing the matrices that make products or services successful. He shared a very simple but sensible perspective with me that there are two kinds of businesses/organisations or products/services that succeed. Either it’s a unique one,…

House of Cards, one of the earliest series on Netflix, is one of my all time favourites. The ruthless politician Frank Underwood (played by Kevin Spacey) is the pillar of the show. I was casually watching some random episodes and, among many of Frank’s firebrand statements, there’s one, in particular, that’s among my favourites: “Power…

If we pay enough attention and observe ourselves, we will be able to understand that we all follow certain patterns in our lives. From daily routines to food to watching content or social media usage, in almost everything we follow a pattern. During this pandemic, since most of us are in lockdown, it’s a wonderful…