Life in Bangalore

A good author leaves one message though they share a myriad of thoughts through their book…Here is a compilation in my own words ,some of the “one message(s)” from books that I have read recently… Subroto Bagchi in his book “The Professional” : A Professional is one who has the below two qualities : 1) Effectively needs no supervision 2) Certifies the completion of own work David Allen in his book “Getting Things Done”: The key to productivity, be it a small task or a big project, is to think for 10 seconds about it and determine what is that next physical action that you need to take up to move one step further. Chris Guillebeau in “The $100 Start-Up”: You could start-up too without big bucks,without MBA, without special skills,as long as you have the following : Product or Service (what you sell) + People willing to pay for it (Customers) + A way to get paid (Ex., PayPal account). Richard Koch in “Living The 80/20 Way” You got to pare down your life the essenti

Life is an Optimization problem.We can help our self by focusing only on a few of those objectives at a time (< 5 , 1 would be best !) People who attained some level of success were the ones who knew what they wanted to do in Life irrespective of the age You cannot find happiness at the end,if you cannot find along the way You got to learn from others, but got to develop your own yardstick for  success Everyone is gifted with “box of tools” to be successful. The problem occurs when we attempt to drive a screw using an hammer All Progress stems from Action that in turn stems from Knowledge You day-today actions should connect to the higher level purpose...otherwise you are simply pedaling a chain-less bicycle Life is a glob of Intangibles...the sooner we realize the earlier we would reach the Tangibles I am called a Faker when I say that Money is a by-product We diminish what we have and magnify what we do not have

“Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out” ...Anton Chekhov In the modern days, we all have mastered the art of procrastination to the extent that we have attained the expertise at the cost of getting stressed out. For example, let us take the example of saving money for Income tax exemptions. We know even in April that how much one needed to save. We knew even in April that it takes a bit of thinking to invest wisely in a good savings instrument. We knew even in April it would help to save systematically over the financial year. And, We knew even in April that my Organization asks for the proof of savings in January of that next year. Despite knowing these, How many of us rushed in the last moment to put money in dud investment merely for the sake of “producing the proof” of investment? Our day-today living is nothing but a string of such projects or tasks in personal & professional life that we are aware of, but not willing to apply more t

             I have a big-time problem with PowerPoint. Let me clarify something at the outset…PowerPoint is a great presentation tool …probably the greatest invention of the digital era! However, the problem is that ,for people with attention-span challenge like me,   the focus goes on “decoration” aspect of each slide rather than the content itself. As a result, I keep adding content only to delete later and even after an hour I would be nowhere with the slides. I would   then be feeling   as much helpless & forlorn as the Hero ditched by his Lady Love in a Bollywood Cinema. Fortunately, It looks like there is a solution…To deliver an effective PowerPoint presentation ,worry less about the PowerPoint !. Before you get perplexed further, let me jump straight to the point... Content is King ! : So you have a presentation to be delivered…Think about the following and note down the following on a piece of paper (Okay Okay…I can allow you to do it an MS-Word not on the PowerPoi