How would our life be like if we could forecast it like the weather? We could know all our pains, struggles, failures and success before encountering them.
And how would we act if we could predict life like the weather?
Would we act like always or would we make changes in our behavior? Wouldn't it be easy to live like that? But it is impossible and that's the reality. We must accept it.
Everybody has got their ideas of doing something great in their life. But that remains as only as an idea unless we execute on it.
Ideas are great but it's of no use without true execution. Ideas die when they are left unexecuted. So we need to execute on our ideas before they die...
We all are concerned of selling our product but nobody cares about the problems faced by the costumers. We should be selling the solutions to the problem, but we are selling products.
We care about our product. We care about the ROI, but we don't have a clue what impact that product has brought in people lives.
Instead of focusing on selling our product, we must provide solution to the problems in peoples life. Most importantly, investors should change their questions from what product do your company offer to what problems do your company solve. This will give rise to a revolutionized and long-lasting company for humanity.
The world doesn't care about our self-esteem. We got to build something ourselves.
It is only us who care about our self-esteem...
To develop it, we have to practice and respect our every behavior.
Decision making is important and we focus on the thing that needs to be done to meet our purpose and goal. But we miss something very fundamental during this process.
Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. There should be this balance. Only then we can have a clear focus towards our purpose and goals.
There is an old Hindu proverb that carries profound weight, one I find myself returning to every single day: For the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits, and for the rest of your life, your habits make you. It is a sobering reminder that we are currently architecting the very system that will one day carry us or consume us.
This isn't just a poetic observation; it is a fundamental law of growth. Building a foundation of intentional habits in your 20s is perhaps the most critical investment you will ever make. During these years, you are essentially programming the "operating system" that will run the rest of your life.
The challenge is that many people spend their energy on distractions rather than direction. To avoid this trap, you must ruthlessly focus only on the specific actions that align with your long-term vision. When you turn these actions into habits, you remove the need for constant willpower. You stop "trying" to succeed and start "operating" in a way that makes success inevitable.
As we know from the Law of Process, massive success is never the result of a single moment; it is the compound interest of your daily agenda. Soon, those habits will take over the heavy lifting, leading you steadily toward your goals and building a worth that is harder to defeat.
It has been the most difficult yet intriguing paradox to understand. We think we justify the results but most often it shows that our result is justifying.
We don't seek meaning before we do something. We seek meaning after we get result from something. Is it the human nature? or is it because we don't care about it too much? This has been the mysterious question lately.
The world we see has different meaning onto us based on the experience we've gone through and our inner self. Yet we have to realize that whatever it is whether we justify our result or the result justifies us, it has just one consequence and that is ourselves. So we just have to justify it in our favor.
I always start everything with my intuition and try to express them logically and create a mental map of what works me the best in the context. This is true in my investing journey too.
The mistake we all avoid is we expect the price of our stocks to go higher. But we don't know that for stocks to go higher, it should first go down. For example, you expect the price of Snapchat(SNAP) to go to $20. Right now its price is $11. So for it to bump up to $20, it first should go down to $6. That's what exactly happened to Snapchat. And my biggest weakness is I do not exactly know when to buy and when to sell. Then I realized timing is everything is investing.
To do well in our journey, we have to push our own limitations. When we push our limitations we will crash with reality and it will hurt a lot. We think we failed but its not true unless we quit.
The pain of this failure will soon fade and the light of new knowledge will encounter. New opportunity will come ahead of us though we might not see it physically. So the important thing is to gather as much lessons as possible from all those failures. This increases the chance of our success.
It all starts with pushing our limitations...
The most important lesson I learned from investing is that the market is the market is the market is the market. The price of the stocks rise and fall depending on the market. If we have the patience then we can make money, else we lose it and someone else is going to make it.
The other lesson I learned is that if we don't become aggressive we won't be able to make money and if we don't become defensive we won't be able to keep it. So there must be balance between being aggressive and being defensive. Of course it's difficult but it doesn't mean it's unattainable.