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“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” – Warren Buffet As an entrepreneur who's starting a new business or growing an existing one, you will come across a whole  lot of...

Have you read the classic article by Harvard Business Review titled ‘Who’s Got the Monkey‘? Please bear with us, it has everything to do with the promise in the title of this post! The seminal tongue in cheek piece  focuses on  the importance of...

The world is working against you. I don't say that to start a conspiracy theory, or paint a doomsday scenario. But it's true. The malls, the hoardings, the internet have all  been designed to suck your attention and turn that into some kind of profit. If you say...

Desks can be such a headache! Especially if you are a creative individual who is thinking up several new ideas everyday! Somehow the thought of stacking ‘stuff’ in neat, orderly piles seems so unappealing. And most importantly, once you dive into those piles to...

We’ve had an amazing weekend. Over the last two days we had the privilege of spending time with David Allen! And thus can say this with a lot of conviction: Despite being the creator of the world's gold standard in productivity and focus management, David Allen is...

It's 12 am. You're tossing and turning in bed. You want to be sound asleep, but how can you? You have all these nagging thoughts running through your head: ... oh i've got to reply to that customer. What am I going to say? ... next week is mom's birthday I need to...

You must be feeling it. Almost every industry in India is getting disrupted. Take a look at these trends: Sites like Flipkart & Amazon have eliminated the need for physical book stores. Shops around India are shutting down. Job recruiters have been displaced...

Do you have an important email to send? One that requires the receiver to take action. Perhaps it’s an email to a customer regarding a delayed payment that needs to be cleared. Or maybe to one of your team members who has been slacking. We may rely on SMS, WhatsApp...

We all have epiphanies from time to time, don’t we? A brilliant flash of inspiration that glows bright with the potential to change the world! (Or at least your life in a deep, significant and meaningful way) But then what happened? Did you work to manifest your dream...

“If our mind had a mind, it would remind us!” – David Allen, Getting Things Done® Your mind is strange and wonderful! It is more complex than a powerful super-computer yet in some ways it is quite vulnerable. It can plan out a 50 person anniversary party in great...

Do you know what we ask our seminar attendees to do as soon as they show up for a workshop? Yes, that is right. We request people to power off their mobiles and keep them away. Away! Because the ‘silent mode’ is not enough to sever the fatal attraction we feel towards...

You sit in front of your computer screen. Getting ready to do some work. You open your email, and see that you've got 15 new messages. You spend the next 10 mins replying to some of the urgent ones. You tell yourself you need a small break before you get to the rest....

There's a report due to your boss in a week's time. You know you should start on it right away, but something else seems so much more interesting. You tell yourself, "Oh I got 1 week! there's time enough to get this done." So you inevitably end up getting engaged in...

Do you have an important email to send? One that requires the receiver to take action. Perhaps it’s an email to a customer regarding a delayed payment that needs to be cleared. Or maybe to one of your team members who has been slacking. We may rely on sms, Whatsapp...

Writing Comic books, managing a property business, starting a school. I often get asked, how do you do so much? Well here's the secret, and it's something that you can do to. Ever since Arif introduced me to Getting Things Done (GTD) back in 2006, things changed for...