We suffer more often in imagination that in reality. Worrying about things in the future doesn’t stop them from happening. It just takes away your happiness today. You’re doing alot better than you think you are.  You’re more healed than you think you are. EVERYTHING will be OKAY, YOU CAN DO THIS.  FILL YOUR HEART & MIND WITH POSITIVE THINGS.

YOU CAN DO... 👍👍

Don't try to be perfect. Just try to be better than you were yesterday.Everything will come to you at the perfect time.Be proud, you survived the days you thought you couldn’t.

Perfectness 

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1. Always Day 1.Always. Have the same hunger you had when you started your first day towards your dream. ✅Every day when you wake up, its Day 1. Nothing can beat that.

10 Wise Lessons From the Book ”Invent and Wander” 

When in doubt, move forward, imagine yourselves at 80 and ask, will I regret not doing this? 🔴If yes, then do. Else, delete.

2. Regret Minimization Framework. 

When buying a company or hiring talent, ask, does it have a strong mission.👉That’s ‘missionary’. Else, its mercenary. ✅In investing, ‘missionary’ is long term. Mercenary is ‘trading’, always trying to flip.

3. Missionary vs Mercenary. 

🟡Be afraid of your customer. They always want more. They are always dissatisfied. They will always grow you.

4. Customer obsession not competitor obsession. 

‼️When I pitch, I try to follow this. Like an elevator pitch. Like a story.

5. Write your pitch. Story-tell. But never more than 6 pages!

One door decisions – binary outcome, you can’t change them; take all the time. Two-door decisions – you can course-correct; don’t take too much time.

6. One door and Two door decisions

✅Listen to your heart.I listen to my gut. Don’t always listen to the inner critic, the inner Amrish Puri. It is okay.

7. Use Intuition. 

Focus on free cash flow.Cash flow is reality.

8. Focus long-term shareholder value creation. 

🟠Negative reviews may cost you in the short-term but helps customer make better decision, ultimately pays off. The villain needs to be seen.

9. Allow negative reviews. 

❌Don’t focus on what will change. focus on what won’t change in the next ten years. That’s a great business to be in.

10. Focus on what won’t change in the next 10 years

- the worst/best decision you’ve ever made?- the consequences of it?- all the possible perspective you had?Go to an upper level of decision making and make you mind to be on auto pilot mode.

Can you remember…

In Jeff Bezos's own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin. In this collection of Jeff Bezos's writings—his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder letters, plus numerous speeches and interviews that provide insight into his background, his work, and the evolution of his ideas—you'll gain an insider's view of the why and how of his success. Spanning a range of topics across business and public policy, from innovation and customer obsession to climate change and outer space, this book provides a rare glimpse into how Bezos thinks about the world and where the future might take us. Written in a direct, down-to-earth style, Invent and Wander offers readers a master class in business values, strategy, and execution: The importance of a Day 1 mindset Why "it's all about the long term" What it really means to be customer obsessed How to start new businesses and create significant organic growth in an already successful company Why culture is an imperative How a willingness to fail is closely connected to innovation What the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us Each insight offers new ways of thinking through today's challenges—and more importantly, tomorrow's—and the never-ending urgency of striving ahead, never resting on one's laurels. Everyone from CEOs of the Fortune 100 to entrepreneurs just setting up shop to the millions who use Amazon's products and services in their homes or businesses will come to understand the principles that have driven the success of one of the most important innovators of our time. Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos is co-published by PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, and Harvard Business Review Press.

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In Jeff Bezos's own words, the core principles and philosophy that have guided him in creating, building, and leading Amazon and Blue Origin. In this collection of Jeff Bezos's writings—his unique and strikingly original annual shareholder letters, plus numerous speeches and interviews that provide insight into his background, his work, and the evolution of his ideas—you'll gain an insider's view of the why and how of his success. Spanning a range of topics across business and public policy, from innovation and customer obsession to climate change and outer space, this book provides a rare glimpse into how Bezos thinks about the world and where the future might take us. Written in a direct, down-to-earth style, Invent and Wander offers readers a master class in business values, strategy, and execution: <ul> <li>The importance of a Day 1 mindset</li> <li>Why "it's all about the long term"</li> <li>What it really means to be customer obsessed</li> <li>How to start new businesses and create significant organic growth in an already successful company</li> <li>Why culture is an imperative</li> <li>How a willingness to fail is closely connected to innovation</li> <li>What the Covid-19 pandemic has taught us</li> </ul> Each insight offers new ways of thinking through today's challenges—and more importantly, tomorrow's—and the never-ending urgency of striving ahead, never resting on one's laurels. Everyone from CEOs of the Fortune 100 to entrepreneurs just setting up shop to the millions who use Amazon's products and services in their homes or businesses will come to understand the principles that have driven the success of one of the most important innovators of our time. Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos is co-published by PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books, and Harvard Business Review Press.

Jeff Bezos

Invent and Wander

✅You need to identify what matters the most to you to put a strategy together that fits your level of commitment and vision. Making a plan and committing to it will unleash all the energy and discipline you’ll ever need.

1. Know What You Want. 

🔴How do you want to be remembered?🔴How do you want to make an impact on other people’s lives?🔴What does the greatest version of yourself look like?

2. Define your purpose by asking:

Rather than competing in games where you’re an underdog, find unexplored new markets in which you can win. 🚫Don’t complain that the game is rigged. Instead, find a game in which you have a differential advantage.

3. Find Your “Blue Ocean”

✅You will never reach your goals unless you act like the person you want to be from the very beginning. The same is true for a company. For any company to be great, it needs to act like a great company long before it ever became one.

4. Act, Act, Act

Before you act on a problem, you must first “process” what’s happening. ✅Great processing involves: 1. The ability to make effective decisions2. Subjecting every difficult choice to a rigorous mental analysis3. Playing out strategies

5. Power Of Processing Issues. 

1. Ask lots of questions2. Don’t care about being right or wrong3. Don’t make excuses4. Embrace challenges5. Be curious6. Prevent more problems than you solve7. Learn to negotiate8. Focus on permanently solving a problem

6. Eight Traits to become a great processor:

Working effectively with others means the difference between enjoying the process and desperately seeking a day job while hiding under your desk. 🔴Instead of being selfish and looking to see what you could take from others, focus on what you could give them

7. Build Right Team. 

✅The less your business depends on you, the more valuable it is. As your company grows, you will constantly replace yourself with others.

8. Create A Replacement Game Plan. 

❌You need to stop asking what motivates people in the abstract and instead ask: What motivates a person? In relationships, replace “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” with “Do unto others the way they want to be treated.

9. Learn Each Individual’s Love Language. 

🥇The number one product is human capital.  You need someone that makes you accountable for your word. Find someone you respect who is willing to keep you accountable on a weekly basis.

10. Make People Accountable For Growth. 

Can you remember… - the worst/best decision you’ve ever made?- the consequences of it?- all the possible perspective you had? Go to an upper level of decision making and make you mind to be on auto pilot mode.

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” (Ray Dalio, author of Principles) in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals. Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves. In this book, Patrick Bet-David “helps entrepreneurs understand exactly what they need to do next” (Brian Tracy, author of Eat That Frog!) by translating this skill into a valuable methodology. Whether you feel like you’ve hit a wall, lost your fire, or are looking for innovative strategies to take your business to the next level, Your Next Five Moves has the answers. You will gain: CLARITY on what you want and who you want to be. STRATEGY to help you reason in the war room and the board room. GROWTH TACTICS for good times and bad. SKILLS for building the right team based on strong values. INSIGHT on power plays and the art of applying leverage. Combining these principles and revelations drawn from Patrick’s own rise to successful CEO, Your Next Five Moves is a must-read for any serious executive, strategist, or entrepreneur.

From the creator of Valuetainment, the #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs, and “one of the most exciting thinkers” (Ray Dalio, author of Principles) in business today, comes a practical and effective guide for thinking more clearly and achieving your most audacious professional goals. Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves. In this book, Patrick Bet-David “helps entrepreneurs understand exactly what they need to do next” (Brian Tracy, author of Eat That Frog!) by translating this skill into a valuable methodology. Whether you feel like you’ve hit a wall, lost your fire, or are looking for innovative strategies to take your business to the next level, Your Next Five Moves has the answers. You will gain: CLARITY on what you want and who you want to be. STRATEGY to help you reason in the war room and the board room. GROWTH TACTICS for good times and bad. SKILLS for building the right team based on strong values. INSIGHT on power plays and the art of applying leverage. Combining these principles and revelations drawn from Patrick’s own rise to successful CEO, Your Next Five Moves is a must-read for any serious executive, strategist, or entrepreneur.

Patrick Bet-David immigrated to America at twelve years old, when his parents fled Iran as refugees during the Iranian Revolution. After high school, Patrick joined the U.S. military and served in the 101st Airborne before starting a business career in the financial services industry. At age 30, he founded PHP Agency, an insurance marketing organization with 66 agents. He grew the firm to 40,000 agents before making a multi-nine-figure exit. A serial entrepreneur, Bet-David founded Valuetainment, which became the #1 YouTube channel on entrepreneurship with nearly a billion views, and expanded into a media production company, Bet-David Consulting Group. He hosts a weekly podcast called PBD Podcast, the #1 business podcast on Spotify. He lives in South Florida with his wife and four children.

Patrick Bet-David

Your Next Five Moves

1. The Habit LoopPut simply, the habit loop is composed of cues, routines, and rewards.✅Train yourself to notice particular cues, which then trigger routines and bring you rewards.

10 Mind-blowing Lessons From the Book “The Power of Habit”

5 main categories of cues:- location- time- emotional state- other people- action immediately preceding the cue👉Recognizing what cues you currently have in your life and how to seek out or avoid them is critical.

2. Cue Categories. 

Keystone habits are usually small and result in a “win” for you, which snowballs into greater habit formation and control. 👉As an example, dieters who keep a food journal are more successful at losing weight.

3. Keystone or Foundational Habits. 

✅ If you write out a plan about what you’ll do when pain comes knocking on your door, you’ll be more successful at withstanding that pain.

4. Plan for Pain. 

✅A craving, defined by this book, is the anticipation of reward. It’s important to be aware of any cravings you have in your life as they can hijack or start a habit loop early, making it more difficult to quit bad habits.

5. Craving. 

The truth is that most of what we do is at least partially automated. 👉Hijacking this tendency of our brain to set certain activities on the back burner can help us form healthy habits that we don’t even need to think about.

6. Repetition and Automation. 

The book makes it clear that there’s no single way to achieve good habits and quit bad habits. ✅The book focuses on providing you with a framework necessary to recognize the habits you have and learn how to create helpful habits.

7. Freedom is Important. 

✅One trick that might work for you when it comes to breaking bad habits is to not ignore or resist a craving a bad habit cue, but to instead change it.

8. Manipulate the Craving. 

The people you surround yourself with can affect your success in forming or breaking habits. 👉You must surround yourself with those who are also trying to form the same habit or trying to break a bad habit

9. The Crowd is Important. 

You must get into the habit (pun intended) of taking responsibility for your bad actions. 🚫Don’t say it isn’t your fault; lean into the difficulty and face the challenge head-on.

10. Personal Responsibility

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to the sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential. At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. As Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives. With a new Afterword by the author “Sharp, provocative, and useful.”—Jim Collins “Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception. Charles Duhigg not only explains how habits are formed but how to kick bad ones and hang on to the good.”—Financial Times “A flat-out great read.”—David Allen, bestselling author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity “You’ll never look at yourself, your organization, or your world quite the same way.”—Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind “Entertaining . . . enjoyable . . . fascinating . . . a serious look at the science of habit formation and change.”—The New York Times Book Review

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to the sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential. At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, being more productive, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. As Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives. With a new Afterword by the author   “Sharp, provocative, and useful.”—Jim Collins   “Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living. The Power of Habit is an exception. Charles Duhigg not only explains how habits are formed but how to kick bad ones and hang on to the good.”—Financial Times   “A flat-out great read.”—David Allen, bestselling author of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity “You’ll never look at yourself, your organization, or your world quite the same way.”—Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind “Entertaining . . . enjoyable . . . fascinating . . . a serious look at the science of habit formation and change.”—The New York Times Book Review

Charles Duhigg is an American journalist and non-fiction author. He was a reporter for The New York Times, currently writes for The New Yorker Magazine and is the author of two books on habits and productivity, titled The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business and Smarter Faster Better.

Charles Duhigg

The Power of Habit

Habit 1: Be Proactive Proactivity refers to simply taking responsibility for your life.When we respond to things reactively, we tend to think we are not responsible for what happens to us.✅Focus your time on what you can control, and overall feel better about a situation.

7 Powerful Lessons From“The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People 

Beginning with the end in mind requires you to use a little imagination. Look into the future at what you want to do in life.👉Then, use that vision to plan what you’ll do today to help you get there.

Habit 2: Begin With The End In Mind

✅Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.

Habit 3: Put First Things First

This habit looks at putting your attention less on competition and more on collaboration👉In the long run, if it isn’t a win for both of us, we both lose. That’s why win-win is the only real alternative in interdependent realities.

Habit 4: Think Win-Win

When we communicate, most times we listen with the intent to reply, not to understand. ✅When you change this way of thinking, you may realize your entire response changes.

Habit 5: Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood

When people experience synergy, they are taking the time to truly accept the other person’s differences.You’re experiencing synergy, if you:- Have a change of heart- Feel new energy and excitement- Feel that the relationship has transformed

Habit 6: Synergize

👉Sharpening the saw is what keeps the rest of the six habits together. When our body and mind are empowered, we have no limits.

Habit 7: Sharpen The Saw

A leading management consultant outlines seven organizational rules for improving effectiveness and increasing productivity at work and at home.

The 7 habits of highly effective people is recognised as one of the most influential books ever written. In this seminal work, Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centred approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity -- principles that give us the security to adapt to change, and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates. The 7 Habits have become so famous because they work. From Habit 1: Be Proactive and Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind, millions of People have worked their way through the 7 and found in them a key to transforming their lives. This book has been the key to the success of legions of business leaders and individuals the world over.

Stephen R. Covey is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Stephen R. Covey has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Stephen R. Covey's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

Stephen R. Covey

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Maintain daily and weekly family routines. Eat, go to sleep, and do regular family activities according to a predictable schedule. Routines and rituals help establish a family identity, reduce stress, and create a stable, comfortable environment. In addition to improving communication, regular family meetings can be a major part of your family routine. Try to practice leaving work at work whenever possible and focus on your family when you're with them. Make celebrating birthdays and holidays together with a family tradition.Have meals together as often as possible.When someone gets home from work or practice late, sit down with them while they have dinner, even if you’ve already eaten. Spending time together and having a conversation is more important than eating at the same time. Set aside time for regular family activities. Regular activities could include bike rides, walks, or playing cards or board games. If possible, dedicate at least an afternoon or evening per week for a family activity. Keep it low-key, and focus on having fun together and enjoying each other’s company.

Family Time. 

Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

"If you have anxiety, Read 👇"

Invent and Wander

Your Next Five Moves

The Power of Habit

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Randhir Singh Solanki