4 Indians in the top 10 richest men in the planet.

Was checking out Forbes,

Here is what I found!

4 Indians are in the top 10 list of world’s richest men.

And India is the 127th richest country in the world, in terms of per capita. This is pretty poor actually.

Social entrepreneurship is the way to go baby! Haven’t read CK Prahalad’s “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” yet, but I am gonna read it by August for sure. This is what I wanna do between 35 and 40.

May has been a roller coaster ride!

There are so many highs and lows that I have seen this month!

The Lows,

• I break my resolution to read 5 books every month.
• I break my habit of waking up at 5am every month.
• I stopped planning my work
• I became careless about my eating habits again. There are few days when I have my breakfast. Often skip a  meal.
• I quit exercising
• I quit yoga
• I quit meditation
• My house started getting untidy again
• I don’t read my goals daily
• I didn’t meet my financial targets
• I quit painting

The Highs,

• I became absolutely unstoppable towards my entrepreneurship centric projects
• I made money! Finally!
• I got the offer to revamp a dead organization as an entrepreneur with limited liabilities.
• Impressed with my proactive attitude, the company’s founder asked me to become a director in the company instead of my previous role as an adviser. Its a big honor and privilege for me to be regarded to highly.
• My coachees at Landmark love me and we are contributing to each others’ lives. Its a very enriching experience
• I developed alliances with several people and companies.
• I am close to building a team that will create a revolutionary book.

Well there are a lot of gaps in life right now. I would like to do everything that I want to do. And do it all together. I gotta grow massively as a human being to make everything happen together.

Today is the 3rd of June.

Today I take on being an absolutely un-stoppable person. I will not succumb to my circumstances, I’ll be their creator instead.

I will restart megaliving from tomorrow onwards and also restart simple.ology. I have to build a lot of habits before I take on my role as an entrepreneur. I have time till July 21st. And I’ll make it happen.

I also take on writing a blog entry every night. I want to document my growth through these times. I would love to read these pages sometime in the future!

Life is far from perfect. Lets make it rock!

In the past few days, I have been my powerful self. I have refused to accept that things are impossible and I am just beginning to realize what being true to your purpose is.

But if I take the holistic picture, life is still a breakdown. I am not meeting my friends or speaking to my family, regularly. I am not exercising, neither am I waking up at 5. I am not keeping my house spic and span. Not washing my clothes regularly and almost nothing is planned. I am not reading either.

Ok, so I put all these things together in my life from tomorrow onwards.

Truly converting all my ORs to ANDs.

There are a lot things that I had said I’ll do by the weekend.

• Doing 100 volumes in sales and recruiting 1 person in my team by tomorrow 3PM. I did only 66 volumes and haven’t recruited anyone yet! But I have time till 3PM
• Putting up the Startup Pains research website. (This will be done tomorrow)
• Interviewing 2 people. This again will be done by tomorrow.
• Memorizing my dialogs. Tough, but I have to memorize them by tomorrow.
• Inviting 15 people for my workday.
• Fixing the date for an HILF and a CILF. I am not enrolled to making this happen.

Freaks, its too much.

And I’ll make all of this and the ones above it happen tomorrow, and onwards.

I already have a headache imagining how seemingly tough it looks. This is when I shall grow.

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A few journal entries,

Did my rehearsals today. Not sure how good or bad they were. I forgot my dialogs left, right and center

Met my college buddy Siddharth Banerjee today after a long long time. He is like a family to me. It felt awesome. Got calls from Krishna and Prateek, both came as a surprise. Felt real fortunate in life!

Its tough replacing ORs with ANDs

In my previous post I had mentioned my resolution of converting the ORs of my life to ANDs. I have been in action towards living that resolution, and by jove, its not easy. But it is real fun.

Take this for instance,

Right now I have 4 important things to do :-

1. Prepare for my play – “The Death of a Salesman”
2. Build/Test and publish the web app for my research on “Startup Pains” by 18th May.
3. Sell books and earn – involves giving presentations and all.
4. My SELP
5. Build Website for Mumma. (I just finished it today)

Each of the above 4 are very important to me and I can’t ditch any of them. The amount of work involved in doing all 4 together looked almost impossible due to the sheer lack of time and inflexibility. For instance, I have to rehearse for my play everyday in the evenings and that is the time that I gotta make presentations for my books as well. Similarly, the web app would have easily taken about 20 hours of my time. SELP would take the whole of 18th, all monday evenings and about 10-15 hours in the week. Whatever… basically, doing all of them together looked impossible to me.

But my possibility of replacing the ORs with ANDs was equally inspiring. So I did this, I sent a mail to the Bangalore Ruby Users Group and asked if any of them want to work with me on building the web app (point 2). It was a proactive step and I had never considered it. It helped a lot, I got 2 replys. I went and met Satish Kota, of Heurion Consulting and he gladly took the responsibility of the whole website! Amazing, isn’t it! I earned myself about 15 free hours. I woke up at 5 today and finished designing Mumma’s website. I again requested Aashish to host it! So I save some more time by making powerful requests.

I am still struggling with time, but what I have realized is that, everything is possible if you really want to make it happen.

I have given Gyanesh, my director a word that I will memorize my dialogs before going tomorrow. Looks tough, but I shall do it. A word is a word.

I am beginning to realize what Stephen Covey calls ‘being proactive’ and what SELP calls ‘making powerful requests’. I am beginning to live an extraordinarily powerful life!

Yet another sexy new possibility – Theater!

It was Aashish who called me up at 10 in the morning yesterday saying that their troupe is short of 1 guy for their play – “The Death of a Salesman”. He asked if I was interested, I immediately said YES. I went gave an audition and I got selected.

I had done a couple of plays in my school. I was the best actor in the Hindi play and I forgot my dialog in the English play!

I have to be truly extraordinary to make it to the rehearsals though. Been heavily out integrity in terms of work. I have at least 20 items in my to do list, stuff that I should have done by now but haven’t.

In fact, I was about to inform Aashish of my inability to participate because I had a lot of other work to be done. But when I thought for it a little more, I realized that what I was thinking was – ‘I am not good enough to manage all these things together‘. I dropped the conversation and said ‘hell, I am‘.

I have invented a sexy new possibility of replacing all the ORs of my life with ANDs. That is, I usually say, I can either do this OR do that. What I have taken on is, to do this AND that. All you need to have, to do this , is -

• Integrity (honoring your word),
• Existence Mechanism (Reminders in phone and daily/weekly/monthly planning),
• Relationships (ability to make powerful requests) and
• Powerful Communication.

Thats all it takes.

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Wow! I had always imagined doing theater in Bangalore. That is happening!

Art is happening.

Dance is next!

Oops! I forgot mumma on Mother’s day!

Happens happens. Now I’ll make it even more special to her by making her a portrait and couriering it to her! Yes, she would love it.

Good idea!

It also reminds me of not having completed the tulips that I started making for Isha for her b’day. I’ll make 3 sketches/paintings in the next 3 weeks.

Its not that easy to make money out of your hobbies!

I am smiling as I am writing this post!

I am sure I’d come back years later and read it and smile again.

Today was a harsh day! Every single thing I tried to earn out of my hobbies – failed. Or rather I did not give my heart and soul to achieving success. I firmly believe in the fact that, we create our destinies and everything that looks ambitious initially, becomes downright practical if you focus your attention and energy into making it happen.

However, I am not that great at FOCUSing yet! In fact I have realized that “Lack of focus” is my biggest impediment to success.

May is about to come and I don’t have the resources to last it. In the midst of a heartache, I chose to pick up a job again. I’ll give my final burst to earning from my hobbies till 15th of May, and if I am still broke, I’ll pick up a job.

This journey has not ended yet, so I will not jot down everything that I have learned from it. But I do wanna acknowledge the tremendous amount of good that it has done to my psyche. Man, I am so glad that I got this chance to experience life and do all the wacky things that I have done in the past 4 months.

I have discovered several mental blocks, attitudes and fixed ways of being that stop me in life! I have also realized that getting a job and sticking to it is the easiest thing one can do in life. But thats a sure shot way to mediocrity as well. I quit my job to live a life I love, and being in the rat race is actually 1/(Living a Life I Love). But none the less! There is something called Stomach as well

Freak yar! I am not turning so negative!

I’ll fucking make my way out of this negativity business.

I declare – By May 15th I would be having 10,000 bucks in my Bank Account. Earned by me without writing any code.

Some tension creeping in!

I could not sustain the beautiful start in the morning. By mid day, I had a deal to do live handwriting analysis (using a mic) in a big mall on a busy day! Wow, quit a deal. I was excited and nervous. I spent the rest of the day preparing a survey and making a small writeup for the action tomorrow.

Now I have not done live analysis for the last 4 years. Doing it in front of so many people, in a big mall sounds a little overwhelming. I know that I know only a quarter of what I used to know earlier. And I don’t remember any of the catchy phrases that I used to conjure while analyzing earlier. Not to mention, I used to analyze only in front of a small crowd of 10-20 people on an average. But I guess I am not tensed about this as much as I am about not having any money to pay my bills. This live analysis session is not gonna pay me anything. The deal we have struck is like this. I guess I should not worry about money so much. I feel the universe/God wants me to use this opportunity to create money for myself. Something will happen. By 15th Ill pay all my bills, and of course without borrowing it. Thats a promise I make to myself.

Ok, no more negative thinking. “Bimbiglio” this is the word that I use to challenge any negative thought. When ever I get a negative thought I challenge it and replace it with a positive one. The thought that I am replacing this negative pattern with is – “I’ll read Ray Walker, the whole book. Do 2 dummy analysis tomorrow. Go to the mall and have fun.”. Wow! I am already feeling excited. Yes, all I am gonna do tomorrow is have fun. Have fun and nothing else.

Ok, so there I go studying my Handwriting Analysis book.

I am assisting in the ‘SELP production team’ on Sunday! After all the fun I have tomorrow, I’ll have even more fun and learning the day after.

Fear the No 1 Enemy.

I often catch myself not doing something for the fear of being able to do it well enough. Whenever I don’t know exactly how I’ll do it. I don’t take it up. And this is something that holds me back a lot.

As a budding entrepreneur, I gotta start working these self restricting areas as well.

Instead of analyzing how would I overcome “Step 8″, I gotta just start diving into “Step 1″. Chances are I’ll learn whatever is required in “Step 8″ in the process. This is another habit I choose to work on. Stop thinking, just do it.

Eventually I feel, entrepreneurship and all these habits will give me a BIIIIIIIIIIIIG freedom.

The freedom from the fear of fear itself. Ill do anything to achieve that state of mind.

Amit

Megaliving – Day 15

I am very happy today. For no good reason. I didn’t do anything towards my targets today but still.

I noticed that I keep my backbone straight and that my standing posture (that people often complain about) is improving as well. This is definitely out of my Yoga practice which in turn is a gift from Megaliving.

Today’s or rather yesterday’s mind building exercises included auto-suggestions which I obediently followed (though with some initial resistance). The body thing included using a moisturizer, doing weight training + aerobics and walking everyday. I chose to follow the 1st and the third. I don’t want to take on aerobics just yet and I am happy with my sit-ups, crunches and pull-ups for exercise. Wow, I am exercising regularly these days as well.

But there are 2 or rather 3 important habits that I am really not building.

1. Waking up early everyday
2. Eating my food as per the elimination theory suggests
3. Chewing my food well
4. Meditating at a fixed place, fixed time everyday
5. Doing some good reading everyday

So I take on following these habits from today. I declare waking up every morning at 5.30 sharp.

Ill then follow the following routine:-

• Wake up at 5.30 and review my goals
• Read the day’s Megaliving goals [5.35]
• Brush my teeth and answer the important questions like “How do I make today a living masterpiece?” and “What do I do today to have fun?” [5.50]
• Meditate for 20 mins [6.15]
• Do my daily exercise [6.30]
• Clean my house, Soak clothes for washing [6.45]
• Do my Yoga [7.45]
• Put water for boiling and Read something inspirational [8.15]
• Have a shower and wash clothes [8.45]
• Write a blog entry that I have done the above, and what I have learned using them [9.15]
• Plan for the day [9.30]
• Make breakfast and eat (chewing my food properly) [10.00]
• Practice Simpleology daily lessons [10.30]
• Work the plan the rest of the day.

Aha, I have given a healthy amount of buffers this time around. This plan looks more achievable!

Todays spiritual exercise was to be the most enthusiastic person I am every day from now on. Enthusiasm is one of my strongest personality traits, and I am  glad that I got an easy one. I will buy a wrist band tomorrow and wear it. Every time I look at that wristband, it will remind me to be enthusiastic and chirpy.

A good day spent. And now good night.