Growth Is A Daily Grind: This Podcast Is The Proof

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Welcome to Success with Srini. Happy Monday morning to you. This is the end of the month of February 2022 last day and also start a new week. Interesting. So before I get going into today’s podcast, I want to quickly share something. Today, we complete two months of this podcast, a daily podcast. So we started, I think the third of January of 2022. And we completed two months. And thank you for being a listener, thank you for being a supporter. Thank you for your questions. We thought our questions this podcast is, I don’t even know what I’ll be doing on the side. So this is this has been an incredible journey. Now, last year, I’ll tell you why this is so monumental for me personally. Because last year in 2021, I did the same thing. I started the podcast, I believe the last podcast, I stopped on February 17. I believe that the last podcast last year, I did daily till February 17. And I stopped this year, I have come till February 28, which is remarkable progress. So I feel good that I surpassed my previous performance.

Okay, so I can tell you one thing for sure. Whatever this is, this has been a daily grind. This has not come in easy. It’s a daily grind. This is a daily commitment. And I’m alone, I’m doing this. And nobody’s watching me doing this. And I could stop. And there have been those moments where something within me was telling me to stop this, right? Nobody’s responding to you. Nobody’s saying anything to you stop it. But then here is why this has come this far. This has come this far because there have been numerous false starts over the years, 2016 I started the podcast, false. False start, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. Again, false start. So there are too many false starts. That makes this start this one this year, to be a real one, till this becomes a false start again. But this is a different approach, the different mindset I have when I’m doing these recordings and publishing them.

The first and foremost is that I’m seeing what’s happening in my mind. And what has happened to me already with this podcast. And I’m seeing what’s happening with people entering questions coming in. So because there are questions coming in, I have to give. So I’m seeing I’m giving, but the giving is only happening through sharing. I can’t tell you what you have to do. I can tell you what can be done. That has been the format that has been the message. So I’m seeing what’s happening because I’m getting questions I have to give the giving is in the form of sharing. And because these three things are happening, there is growth. And because there is growth, there is expansion. And because there is expansion, that enjoyment. So I’m enjoying on the side doing this podcast, the difference between last year and this year is I have helped this year, which I did not have last year.

So there are people behind in the business now helping me to make this podcast successful. They’re just putting in the effort. And initially, I started editing and all those things. But now I have my team helping me to put this together so I can not succeed. Or I wouldn’t even have this conversation today with you on February 28. Yet 2022 talking this podcast, I’m sharing this detail with you without a team supporting me. So I’m also grateful for that. So that is the expansion and enjoyment is that you know, I look forward to doing tomorrow’s podcast. So here are three things I did coming into this project. And this is what I’m doing in my YouTube project now. So the YouTube channel is up and running now. And everything else that I’m doing with a three-step mindset this year in 2022. I want to share that with you today. The first thing is along the way, anything that you do, there will be some self-defeating beliefs. Why do this? Who is going to benefit from this?

I don’t have anything worthy enough to share. I don’t think my journey my ideas, my thoughts, my experiences are going to help anyone so that part is a self-imposed limitation. We all have it. I have it. Sometimes I do the recording too. In this recording, as I’m doing this, I said, I’m not going to stop this, there are some words that I might have misspelled and I might have pronounced them in an incorrect manner. These are limitations, I have these limitations. English is not my first language, this is my limitation, I have it and I have to accept it. This is the truth, okay. But there are many other nonexisting limitations that we impose upon ourselves, simply because we believe in them. It’s belief level, so we just think about them, believe them, and then we impose upon them impose upon ourselves, and then now suddenly, we are incapacitated, and we are not producing results. The second approach here is I’m constantly evaluating my life pattern to pull myself out of mediocrity and nonperformance. So I’m constantly looking into myself, I’m seeing, you know, what can I change? What can I do to pull myself out of nonperformance? And whenever there is performance, there is also a subliminal existence of nonperformance, you cannot be performing and you can’t see an incredible performance. So let’s take an example, you go to a concert, you see an incredible performance happening on the stage.

But let me tell you behind the scenes, you have no idea what kind of nonperformance is playing out, not visible on the stage, but there is it’s playing out a good performer, or good production. After the performance, they’re gonna evaluate what happened on the stage, what happened off the stage, and they’re going to, should improve that in the next performance. You as an attendee of this performance, you will not know. But there is an improvement, and improvement happens behind the scenes. So a part of our pursuit should be that we wake up every day, and we ask questions. How do I eliminate any life pattern? Or any nonperformance or any mediocrity from my pursuit? I asked this question for this podcast project. And I’m doing that from a YouTube project now and everywhere. Then there is another element to this, which is, what is it that I will do today, that’s going to create a massive and monumental shift in my life? What can I do today, that can create a massive and monumental shift in my life today. And interestingly, it starts with this podcast. Because this is the first line of activity I have. This is the first line of public activity I have every day and if I cannot make that shift here, you know, everything else I do in the day is a waste.

So this is it. These are the three shifts I made. And I’m going to keep on changing this a bit more going to refine this. And over the next few days, weeks months, on this podcast, I will even share the refined three-step or four-step formula at some point in time, but this is the mindset currently, this is how I’m approaching this. So that’s all. So thank you for your support. Thank you for being a subscriber listener. And as somebody who is questioning who is asking the question and putting me on spot, I appreciate that.

Thank you for everything, for whoever you are, and whatever you do. That’s all I had on my mind. And you see, today’s podcast is a one-take podcast, no editing, nothing. This is what it is. These are some words that I said here. Some thoughts I lost as I was speaking, all that is intact as is nothing changed. You know what I have learned over the years. People don’t care about all this. Everything has to be said and done. within which they derive value. If they are deriving value, they don’t care about all the cosmetics. Everything else is unnecessary. But people are caught up in all this. How do I look? How do I speak? am I sounding right? Doesn’t matter. Personal experience doesn’t matter.

Okay, so that’s all for now. Wherever you are, be safe, be wonderful, be amazing. And we’ll talk tomorrow. Take care. Bye now.

Feel A Deep Sense Of Professional Uncertainty? Then Do This

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Welcome back to Success with Srini. Happy Sunday morning to you. A very, very interesting question has come in. And it’s an open-ended question. I expect specific questions on this podcast. If you have any questions for me let it let them be specific so that I can give specific answers. And people love specific answers. Not all the listeners love specific answers. So this is a generic question. It’s an open-ended question. So every time I come across an open-ended question, I don’t know how to answer it. Because there are so many different ways you can answer. And every time you take a path, you lose, or you ignore, or you miss taking 20 other paths to answer the question. So interesting question, because, okay, here is how it goes. Streaming I have been in Silicon Valley for about 11 years now, I make good money. But there is a constant fear. And I don’t know what’s going wrong with me. Or if there is anything wrong with me? How can I become fearless? It’s a wonderful question. It’s not a specific question, because the question was specific, then it should have been, okay, this is not going right with me or this job is not going right, or this investment is not going right, or my dynamic with my boss is not going right. Something specified. I wanted a little bit more specificity in the question, but it’s a good question.

So here is how I would approach it. If I wake up in your shoes, the few reasons why we feel this kind of uncertainty. And there are few areas I want you to look into. The foremost area is lack of trust in the nature of the work you do, or you don’t trust the work or you don’t believe in what you do, or that you don’t feel you’re equipped enough to do what you do, or you don’t trust the environment within which you work. Some of those along those lines, I want you to focus on that. Now, the reverse thought to that is that in order for you to really overcome this fear, this professional fear is that I want you to start believing that you are a real player, in whatever you’re doing, you’re a real player, that means you are the best in the game. That means that you have greatness in you, that means that you have what it takes to, to weather and stand and still make sense and still be impactful still be relevant to everything that would otherwise happen to you and to the profession and to the industry in general. That’s the kind of a conviction, we are talking about here. So that means if you study the real players, real players have some level of uniqueness to them. The question you have to ask yourself is what is unique about you? So take some time, sit down today? And answer that question. So talk around and talk to your spouse, your partners, your friends, whoever you have in your life, people who know you well ask them what is something unique about you? What is something about you that they think that you only have it and nobody has it? Nobody else has a toxic boss? Talk to your co-workers? Why not? But there’s another big question you got to answer. And that is, what is that you do that others rarely do? Or others do not do it often? Or others do it but you don’t see it? Or maybe they’re not doing it. That’s why you’re not seeing it. Right. So what is that you do? That’s so rare? Obviously, you are unique. But then what is it that you do that others rarely do? It’s the question.

And obviously, there is something in you that’s so unique and we all of us are unique, all of us are made different. So that isn’t going to be a situation where somebody is exactly like you. There is some training, some teaching some values, some beliefs, some upbringing, all that has made you who you are. So your job is not to deny that your job is not to question that your job is to find who you are. What’s unique about you, what is that you do that others do not do? Given that you have been given all this to you? And given that you are given all this? You have to kind of go deep and find this.

Once you know that that is the path. Well, that’s the starting point of you identifying your greatness. And identifying greatness is a lifelong pursuit. It’s not something that is done in one shot but once you identify this, I think it becomes easier. I think it becomes somewhat easier but you have to believe that you are a real player. You are real. You are unique. You feel you are undeniable, you are unique in what you’re doing. That’s where the peace starts. It takes away some of these fears, at least it’ll address some of these fears right away. But then this won’t help you, let’s say do this exercise in the next few days, this doesn’t help you, then maybe the problem is somewhere else, maybe something else is causing this uncertainty, this disconnect. If this doesn’t help, then one thing will definitely happen, which is, the real specific question will come out as a result of this, you will discover a few ways better ways to ask the question. And once you discover a few, a better way to ask the question, me or anybody else can help you. So that becomes easier for us people like us, whoever you’re asking this question too.

So that’s all for now. If you are listening to this podcast, hopefully, this is helpful in general, if you’re listening to the podcast, everybody else who’s listening to this podcast, hopefully, the cell phone. Hopefully, you see how I’m approaching this question. That’s all for now. You have a wonderful rest of the Sunday and something unique today. Something very unique today, but I’ll stop here. We’ll talk about this tomorrow for a podcast. Okay. That’s all for now. Wherever you are, be safe, and we’ll talk soon

How To Develop A Possibility Mindset

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Happy Saturday morning to you welcome back to Success with Srini. On today’s podcast, I want to talk about a book that changed my life when I read it for the very first time. And ever since I have been reading this book, and a lot of my radio shows, this podcast, my seminars, my bookshop, they all are influenced by this book. And this book is probably the second-best book on self-improvement. This book is written by printers, Montford, and this, I believe, came out in 1920, sometime 1925, I have the physical copy of this book. And I treasure this book. And I don’t know how much I paid for this book, maybe three $400 Because it was rare, which is not available anywhere. So somebody was selling it got it. I read this book once every seven, eight months because I paid I didn’t pay I invested into this book.

Okay, so today, I want to take something from this book, there is a lot in this book, but something from this book and I want to highlight that on today’s podcast episode. There are two sides to us. One is the higher self and the other is the lower self. The higher self of us has cravings. So the higher self of us is driven by a possibility mindset within which we are constantly pursuing ideas, we are constantly in friction. So a lot of things happening in our life, we want to become successful, we want to attain perfection, we want to give our best to everything and everything that’s happening around us and there are too many things going on. So we are constantly in the friction. And because of that, we are constantly arguing with ourselves. And we do that a lot with ourselves, we end up having those arguments spill out of us into people around us. And it’s good because we are pursuing everything at our best, we are giving everything that we have to everything that’s happening within us and outside of us. So, this is called an argument for freedom. And every time there is a pursuit for freedom, there is pain. Okay. So we want freedom from pain, and hence we are having this argument. Hence, our mindset is yes, it’s possible because we’re doing it every day. So we think it’s possible. And that is the craving we have and that is what is known as our higher self. So at this point, you know, if you are having these arguments within you, and you are pursuing freedom, freedom, from pain, freedom from all the chaos that is happening, and you are pursuing everything with everything that you have within you, that means you are higher, you’re a possibility, mindset driven individual, and practice your higher self.

Now let’s talk about the lower self, the lower self is a victimized mindset, where you’re constantly living by the standards defined by other people, and people who have a lower self. In other words, people who drive their existence with that kind of a measure where they’re constantly comparing and contrasting themselves with other people, and living by the standards defined by other people, usually are going to suffer for a long time. And that is why they say you are born to suffer if you continue to live in that mindset. So it’s a victimized mindset. So the higher self is a possibility mindset. The lower self is a victimized mindset. If you are a student of success, and you listen to this podcast and you read books and other podcasts you listen to, and you take personal responsibility for all that. That means every day you wake up in the morning, your job is to question how can I shift myself from the lower side to the higher side? That’s what this book is this book. Thoughts are things is the quote messages that you need to separate these two self serve you and constantly work towards moving from the lower self to the higher self. That’s what this book talks about.

Now, it goes into even more it talks about the material mind and the spiritual mind and how we are caught up with all the material stuff. But one of the other things this book also talks about is in order for you to move from the lower side to the higher side, from the lower self, the higher self. You need to create a thought atmosphere. And a thought atmosphere is where you read some good books, you mastermind with right people. You have some good ideas and you educate yourself constantly. When you do that on an ongoing basis for a long amount of time you unknowingly unconsciously graduate from the lower self to the higher self, that so many things, it talks about thoughts, adjustability, it talks about relationships, extortions and relationships and quite a number of things. This book talks about, I took numerous notes along the way over the years. But one thing is for sure that when you wake up in the morning, the first thing you got to ask yourself is what can I do today to put myself and get into the possibility mindset? And what can I do to avoid or diminish or eliminate the victimized mindset? So the pursuit is always for your higher self. And once you put yourself in that, and when you start or question yourself that way, at the start of the day, or early in the day, then reading, educating yourself having good conversations, all those things automatically happen. But I see people who read books, and who listen to great ideas, just because they want to do it because that’s the right thing to do. Or this is a cool thing to do. Well, results don’t happen because you are reading a book or you’re having a great conversation. I mean, of course, there’s always a positive effect of that. But then, it’s always good to do something with an overall and a bigger agenda in the mind, the bigger agenda here is that you are pursuing a higher self of view. And for that to happen, you need to do these things reading books or getting into great conversations are masterminding with incredible people.

Those are the steps for you to get to your highest self. If you can get this book, get it, read it, you will get some incredible ideas, you will get obviously, wisdom from this book. But then you will also discover how to form a higher order of your mind. So you formulate your mind to the highest order. That’s what this book has done. I will not tell you to just you know this, this can happen only if you read this book, you got to become a student of this book, there’s a big difference in reading a book versus becoming a student of this book. And one of these days, I’m going to come back on the podcast and talk about how I use books to make myself accountable to them. That’s a whole different discussion itself. But for now, get this book this all this book also talks about one more thing, which is how you can step away from being cynical and sarcastic about things and situations and people and all that. So there’s also an element of that in this book. So thoughts are things.

Essentially, the book is about everything that you see around everything that you touch and feel around what the thought was conceived by somebody. So the house you are in the car you are driving the phone that you are probably listening to right now this podcast, everything, everything around us, was a thought before it became a thing. So if you read your thoughts, your thought frequency, your thought vibration, then you can also create things. And creating a life with good thoughts is the easiest part. Refining a life-modifying your life and launching a life-extending life. Those are all easy with a good thought. But then you can do bigger things also, just by shifting your thoughts. That’s the message in his book.

That’s all. That’s all I had on my mind for today’s podcast, by all means, check it out. It should be available somewhere. It’s there on Amazon. I know there are multiple other reprints of this book. That’s all for now. Stay tuned. I’ll be back here again tomorrow. We’ll carry the conversation forward. Bye now.