Balaji Rao | Startup Talks Show | An Entrepreneur's Journey of Entrepreneurship & Life

Balaji Rao | Startup Talks Show | An Entrepreneur's Journey of Entrepreneurship & Life

By Pathange Balaji RaoBusinessEntrepreneurship
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  • ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever Book review | Completed in 4 hours , Here are my learnings

    Was able to read Rework- Change the way you work forever in just 6 hours.


    A true outlier must-read for anyone who wants to unlearn and relearn how to work more efficiently and learn what should really matter.

    Have a couple more books to read before the year ends.

    Let's see how that goes

    Reading is especially seamless when you switch off all the digital devices that can distract you

    Have been planning to switch off my mobile phone during working hours.

    Need to try experimenting with longer hours 🤔

    As a matter of fact, I consider myself a very bad reader.

    But I am trying my best to improve

    It's said that if you read you can live multiple lives in each of the books that you read and learn out of them


    Do you read #books?

    Any suggestions for me and other folks?

    Also if you aren't what stops you? I Will try helping you out at my best. Send me a voice message link at the end of the show notes


    And finally thanks to my so-called mentor whom I call the Spiderman who comes to rescue and help the #youth - Ankur Warikoo 🤘

    You can join our community - https://chat.whatsapp.com/H70AiiKKGP2HcS8IWAV1PE


    #reading #rework #productivity

    10 min
  • Learning with Mindfulness -> There are things to be learnt from everything that we do

    There are things to be learned from everything that we do


    In sports-cricket, walking, playing, talking with people, helping others .....and the list goes on

    Now let's take a holistic approach

    What are the things that you learn from watching a cricket match?

    Just try gathering your thoughts.

    You could say, I find it entertaining, Cricket can help me pass time, I am a great fan of Dhoni, etc

    But I try to see it this way:
    1. It keeps me aware of the need for being Physically fit
    2. Preparation to Final match == Rehearsals to Exam/speech
    3. Learn to reach and get inspired by how leaders perform under pressure
    4. It's the team as a whole that wins - everyone brings in something unique to the result
    5. Not every ball could be hit for a boundary the same way not every time we can expect some reward
    6. Maintaining a constant run rate is important to keep up to the game, it's the same in our lives too- but of course context changes

    I could possibly think of 100 other things

    But I hope you are getting a gist of it

    It's just the shift in the way you tweak your though process to grab these learnings from anything and everything that you do

    To observe these learnings mindfulness in whatever you do also plays a key role to help you observe everything that's happening around you


    You can join our community - https://chat.whatsapp.com/H70AiiKKGP2HcS8IWAV1PE

    12 min
  • Don't confuse activity with Productivity | Get to become a Productive person rather than a busy being busy person

    Don't confuse activity with Productivity


    Many people are Simply Busy being Busy and not heading anywhere


    I have experienced this very thing

    If I go back 6 months in the past - my schedule had 10-12 activities lined in the form of to-dos each and every single day

    And my job was to hunt these to-dos down

    4 months into that I started realizing "I was putting in time and effort but things haven't but I was going nowhere"

    It's then I started to figure out the 80:20 rule

    I started to learn to focus on things that matter

    The change started after I read this book - "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck"

    It's all about prioritization ⚖️

    This art of prioritization I am not only applying in day to day but also into my Product Management work

    Things have drastically changed past then

    Now I have a set of KPIs for what would put me in a situation to hit my short term goals (1-3 months)

    My activities on a day to day basis are solely dependent on those

    This change also came after I started to schedule and not just use to-dos as the way of doing my work

    I would like to thanks Ankur Warikoo sir for helping me incorporate that discipline


    You can see down below in the photo attached to the post - that's my KPIs now

    I am hunting them

    Keep things simple is the key🥁

    11 min
  • 10Xing Time management by Scheduling and not operating using To-dos

    Quitting Todo lists and moving towards Scheduling has been a game-changer to me


    What I mean by scheduling is creating habit-forming planning of certain buckets of jobs planned on day-wise every week

    Lets first see what TODO is then an example of Scheduling

    TODO: (its all about like a shopping list)

    Scheduling:
    Monday - Email reach outs & client relationships
    Tuesday - Team internal meetings & Project status checking
    Wednesday - Day for learning, upskilling, event recordings, courses

    This is how an example schedule looks like. What this does is helps you form habits and reduce context switching - not dealing with more things that lead you to switch your focus as well as resources

    This way transitioning from random list TODOS to actually planning my time has helped me manage time better

    Learnt this from Ankur Warikoo
    This really worked extraordinarily


    Folks start your new year with Scheduling and see how your efficiency get to 10X - you will start to understand

    Make your life more efficient in 2021

    10 min
  • Yearly journaling that helps me make wonders | 10X the way you retrospect your life

    Humans often overestimate what they can do in a year and underestimate what they can do in 10 years.  With another year 2020 coming to an end let's see the one habit that has really helped me a lot to give myself direction whenever I wanted.


    That is the yearly journal. You might have heard of a daily journal where people write every day but I think that's too short of a time bracket for me and a lot of others who don't have the habit of writing. So here's something that I follow known as a Yearly Journal lets talk about how this has helped me better manage time, give myself direction, make wiser decisions and also keep my spirit up when I feel low or frustrated


    Tune in lets talk about this yearly journaling habit and how it always comes to my rescue

    10 min
  • 💰 Making money while you sleep | 2 ways to generate 100000000000X Returns and 1 way to make a decent return

    Money is always seen as evil and a zero-sum game but it isn't. Money is just a translation of the value that you create around you. 

    There is this great quote by Warren Buffet sir- “If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”

    We will speak about why investing is necessary for entrepreneurs, startup founders, individuals. Where can you start and why financial discipline is required.


    Also lastly I will let you know 2 ways where you can generate skyrocketed return no Quick rich scheme they are Investing in yourself and your health and the last on being in Assets that make money even when you sleep


    Let's get right into it. Hope you enjoy it 

    13 min
  • 🧠 How to detect Enlightenment? What are its markers? Lets get into some philosophy cum science

    A human being is here on earth now what is he striving for? He pays hefty effort to make money which in turn helps him keep himself healthy. Health in turn helps a human to enjoy his presence and be happier. There is nothing big in there we just need to put our thought in the right direction. Let's try doing that. 


    This is very important for anyone who is running to make money to understand the dynamics by taking a minute to understand where he is intended to go and what is it that he is aiming for at the end. Tune in lets talk 

    8 min

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