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Everybody loves the idea of having freedom whether it's financially or professionally. We all love that fantasy of owning and running our own business and taking control of our future.

Everybody daydreams about the summit but very few of us dream of the mountain. Everybody envision themselves of having the best possible scenario, but all we encounter is the opposite.

It's because we all love the fantasy of making ourselves happy and secure just in the state of mind. But in reality, very few of us make it happen because we give up the idea when we realize it needs blood, sweat and tears.

One thing we most consider while doing something (whether starting a business or risking our lives) is to be prepared for the worst possible scenario which gives us the courage to move on.

One of my mentor asked me to scale my current position in life from 1 - 10, with 10 being the perfect or the dream life. My answer at that time was around 2, not because I was doing nothing but because I had higher and scary goals.

He then asked me, "Are you taking the proper vehicle to reach that destination?"

The illustration he gave that day still stuns me. He said, If you want to go to Australia, not matter whether you got Lamborghini or Rolls Royce, you got to take flight.

The lesson here is if we want to reach certain destination, we need to take proper vehicle. We need to do the things that can take us closer towards that destination, towards that dream life.

So our question to ourselves should be, Is this the proper vehicle?

Things are the items that we care about. It can be materialistic like money, cars, houses, etc. Experiences is awareness that we are accustomed by the practical contact with certain circumstances and facts.

These Things and Experiences are two different and important aspects of our life.

Experiences makes us grow and continue learning. It's a skill that makes us more and more confident in doing the anything. On the other hand, 'things' bury down the very person in the 'things'.

One the the greatest lesson we can learn is to value experiences over things because it's worth it.

Three most important types of happiness are:

1. Pleasure: It's short term happiness. The happiness that is generated by being celebrity.
2. Passion: It's the happiness that is generated when we are in a zone that we wanted. It comes when we do what we want to do.
3. Higher purpose: It is the long lasting. It's bigger than ourselves and adds meaning to our life.

Our improvements doesn't have to dramatic. It can be simple as long as it is an improvement.

If we make 1% improvement everyday then at the end of year we not only make 365% improvement (1%*365), instead it is compounded and we make 3778.3% improvement (1+1%)^365.

This collectively can bring dramatic change.

It was Darwin who said, "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."

This applies to every sectors of our life whether it's an individual or a company which is in its inception. If we're not willing to embrace and drive change, we'll have no other option but be extinct.

We must learn not to fear change but to embrace it enthusiastically and be adaptable with it. Nobody grows without changing. Even an insect undergo metamorphosis to become an adult.

Every human or a company must embrace change to become a alive for long run.

Core values are the culture by which each individual or an organization live. Running a company/organization smoothly and for long run depends upon the company's core values.

Whether it's a company or an individual core values are important for long-term sustainability. These core values reflect how we think, how we act and how we communicate. Above all, they are not just core values, they're the way the company or an individual live.

These core values act as a blueprint or the framework of every decision we make. So, defining our and our company's core values should be the foremost step for establishing a successful company.

We must never settle for good enough. If we settle for the good thing that we achieved then we'll miss the great thing on hindsight.

It's because good is the enemy of great....

We must be setting our rules and standards and surpassing them constantly, that is what stretches us and take us towards greatness.

We grow when we take challenges and we face even more challenges because we are growing. It's a never ending game. So, never settling for the good is worth modelling it.

Most often we celebrate our past success. We live in the fantasy of the things we achieved in the past. We think that our success is what defines us; it is what makes us grow.

Does celebrating our past success makes us grow? Does it help us in any way?

Yes, of course, it enhances our courage and confidences. But, it is not the success that defines us or makes us grow. Instead, it is our sufferings and pains that make us grow. It is our grit and and the ability to tackle the failures that defines us. How we deal with the problem is what defines us.

But here is the punchline: The celebration of our past successes and achievements de-emphasize our future.

We must navigate our future instead of spending time by celebrating the past deeds.

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

― Maya Angelou

So our future technology should focus on the costumers needs and desire. Fulfilling the needs of consumers should be the first criteria of all the business and ventures.

Its not only about the words or promises every business organization give; it's not also about what we did or how we did. None of them matters.

It's about how our products, our services and our initiation made them feel that matters.