Today on the podcast episode, I want to answer a question that I’ve seen multiple times being asked on different stages to different celebrities, even to contestants. And the question is, what is the one thing that you would like to change from your past given a chance? Given a chance, what is one thing that you would like to change about yourself from the past? You might have seen this question on the Miss Universe and on the Miss World stages. The correct answer to this question is, I want to change an event or a memory, or interaction or something you specifically answered the question is something that you would like to change? That’s the correct answer. I’ve seen people answer this question the correct way. But, from a sound perspective, from a winning the title perspective, this question has been answered this way. I don’t want to change anything about my past. Because things that happen to me right or wrong are responsible for me getting here. So if I change anything about my past, how can I get here? And even the title for answering this question this way. Now imagine me being a coach and somebody asking this question to me. And I trying to be like, impartial with the answer.
Okay. The truth is, the truth is, all of us want to change something about our past. The reason why we do what we do today is we don’t want our past to repeat in the future. So our tomorrow should not mimic yesterday. So we use our today to protect our tomorrow by not repeating what happened to us yesterday. That’s it. That’s the simple formula. That’s the simple rule. We are happily going to work because our past should not repeat things that happened to our past. In the past, we suffered from money, we struggled with money, we suffered from our jobs, we suffered from our bosses, whatever. We don’t want that to repeat in the future. So we go to work on happily even today, we start a business unhappier run a business and happily because, in the past, we struggle in a job, whatever this situation is, you get the idea. If you ask them the question, nobody asked me this question up till now Cindy, what do you want to change about your past? If you’re asking the question, one thing that I will change from my past is this. Given a chance, I will change the way I have used my time. I’ve started to respect time, all the recent years, obviously, but then I feel like the last 10 years my life has been accelerated in a whole different way. Given a chance, I would like to get better control of my time.
Given a chance, I would do the right things, I would apply my active time, my active time to doing the right things. I see people squander their time away. I’ve done multiple podcasts here where I talk about how to structure time, structuring time is useless. If you do not know what you want to accomplish, if you don’t have a definitive clear, and a finite goal to which you apply yourself, what’s the point of structuring time, goals or goals or goals that are useless if you are not taken them into your heart, into your mind, their wishes, you know, you wake up in the morning think I want to do this, this is what I want to accomplish. This is how I see myself, this is what’s gonna define me for the next 1015 40 long after I’m gone, this is going to be my legacy, if that is not what you feel that everything you do is all over the place. So there are many books on time management. There are many books on habits in those are the two things if you change, your entire destiny is going to change. I’ve repeated myself numerous times on this podcast. But I want to drive one point. You shouldn’t structure things to fit time. I have eight hours in a day. Let me do this and dissenters. That is like an elementary level of thinking. And the advanced level of thinking is I have to do these things.
Anyway, I’ve structured that into my timeline anyway. How can I do this in a better and a faster manner without compromising Anything, how can I steal time away from the activities that I’m doing? I’m burning 1000 calories in three hours? How can I burn 1000 calories in 15 minutes? In 20 minutes in half-hour? Is it possible? Yes. How can I? What kind of skill, talent mindset, all these? How can I acquire those to achieve that kind of perfection and performance? Now that I can do it, I can burn 15 100,000 calories in 15 minutes, which I was burning in an hour, I have 45 more minutes to do left now, what should I do with those 45 minutes? How do I apply? Where do I apply those 45 minutes? It’s a question that I wanted to ask, I want you to ask yourself today. This is something I want to change about my past. This is something that I want to change about my future, which is how can I use my time in a more productive, effective, meaningful manner? That’s even more important meaningfully? How can I use my time? This is a question that I want you to, I want you to ask tomorrow and be after. And every other day that you will be blessed with going forward from this point in time. Everything is time. Nothing exists without time. Even though time is a manmade construct.
It’s time on planet Earth. This is the time that we are in. But this is not the time on some other planet like Neptune or Uranus or Saturn or Jupiter, it’s a different time they’re in a different galaxy. That is a different time. In fact, they just found another galaxy, another galaxy where time is running backward. So amazing. It’s amazing. It’s very interesting. If you start scaling your thinking into the universe into the cosmos, it’s amazing how just how minuscule we are. Where we exist. We exist nowhere. A long time ago, now a long time ago. But when my mom passed away, right before at passing, like six or eight weeks before her passing. She was still talking. She said something said is it possible for you to remove some of my past memories? And I was, huh. Did I say why? Oh, you know, I’m laying down on this bird. I’m thinking about them. And I want to live a good life whatever little bit life I’m left with. So she is stage four cancer, lung cancer. Given seven months to live, she already has lived seven months. And the disease in the seventh month she’s having this conversation with Michelle is asking me to wipe out some memories from our past. I said I cannot. But she insists. She says you do this with your clients, right? Can’t you do it with me? Said Yeah. With my clients, I desensitize the events, the incorrect or wrong events that happened to them in the past. I do not erase memories. Nobody can erase memories, memories, or memories. So I can change the effect that memory has on you today. But I cannot take it out. She insists that I take it out. Or she says okay fine, desensitize them. I told her, Listen, in order for me to desensitize the memory. You need to relive that memory one more time. Why do you want to relive a memory? That was so hard on you and you have so many incorrect wrongs? Hard memories? Why relive this memory? Do you have whatever time left? Just forget and forgive everyone in your mind. Forgive and forget yourself and just live whatever is left. I didn’t say that to her, by the way.
I’m just saying that on the podcast here, but I didn’t say that to her right. I did tell her that we have to you have to relive that memory. But I said I asked her to forget and forgive. But I didn’t say that you have four weeks or eight weeks left or whatever. I didn’t say that to her. You get the idea. We all want to change our past. The truth is this. The only way you can change the past is not with money. Or with more success. More name more fame none or better job title. Better, dynamic, and relationships. Not true. The only ingredient that can change your past is the way you use your time. Starting now from today, I want you to use your time meaningfully for some meaningful outcomes. For some meaningful returns, it could be money, it could be some deep inner thing that you want to fulfill whatever it is, but attach meaning to your time, lead every minute meaningfully from starting this point forward.
That is the point of today’s podcast. I’m thankful that you are here with me till the end. Before I go any further. I want to stop here. I’ll catch up with you tomorrow. Stay tuned. Bye now.
How To Take Your Game To The Next Level
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Today on the podcast episode, I want to talk with you on how you can take your game to the next level. Whatever level you want to get to, you are happy with what you’re doing. The results are predictable, you are getting the outcomes, but then you know, there is something else to you. And you know that you can play a much bigger game. What do you need to do? The source of this question is coming from a video that I saw on YouTube and there was a comment, somebody asked, kind of put a comment there asking the question to the author of the video saying, I am getting good results and good outcomes within my carrier. But then I know there is that next thing that I need to do. And they were asking a specific question. And I looked at all the answers, but I thought there was a different way it should be answered. So I thought I should take that question. And answer that because I know you are listening to the podcast, it means you are success minded individual. You listen to this. So it made sense that we can have a conversation here. So question is, how do you take your game to the next level? Let’s look into this. There are if you look at any thing that anybody is doing, there are three things that define the success, only three things.
One is skills. Sometimes skills are acquired, most of the skills are acquired. But occasionally you see people who have the gift, by birth by nature. So obviously they have the advantage, clearly, but then skills, predominantly skills, that’s the first part to success. So you can learn anything that you want to learn. If you spend enough number of hours, I think 10,000 hours, you really become good at it. This is what I have seen consistently with myself and people, you can pick up any skill doesn’t matter. But make sure that you give focus and time to the skill to skill is the first element of any level of success. The second part to this is your habits. I talked about this yesterday also on the podcast, which is our habits define our character. And our character innovation defines our destiny. So what habits are serving you, and what habits are not serving you, that needs to be addressed practically on a daily basis. At some point throughout the day, or at one point in every day, at one point, you need to ask a question, What habits Should I drop today? And what habit Should I start today? Or start tomorrow? Question You got to ask. So skills, number one.
Number two is habits. Now once these two things are in place, the next thing is mindset. Whatever education I’ve gone through, had the opportunity to talk to some incredible people. And I cherish even I look forward, I wake up in the morning, and I want to have an incredible conversation with someone who from whom I can learn. And guess what there are enough sources from where we can learn. And one thing that I want to capture is what is the mindset with which somebody is doing something, a game that they are playing that again, I can copy that I can learn from? Or I can mimic is the right word mimic? What is that game? What is the mindset that they have for the success that they are having today? So skills, habits, and mindset to string. If you look at what you have achieved till now, you know there is more, no matter which levels all of us can play at a whole different level, there’s always the next level. And there is never going to be a situation where we can say, Yeah, I did it. I got to the ultimate level, there isn’t the ultimate level. And you also heard me say this here also, and I, I keep repeating myself on this one, which is every time you see an ultra-performance in one area of life in someone that is happening because other areas are compromised. Not all but some.
If the outer game has to go up, the inner game has to be leveled up. There is no need to go and learn a new skill anymore. Maybe there is but it’s not like I made 100 million dollars today doing this business. Let me go start another business and make 200 million it doesn’t work like that. If you made $100 million today in one business, the chances are you could make $200 million in the same business. Now, what do you need to do in the same business to raise to your income to 200 million? Well, the answer to that is you have to play the same game but you don’t have more time. You probably have to have some better people and better leadership and better skill sets and all that you need to bring in But the bottom line is you, you know that game? Well? How do you go from 100 million to 200 million in the same business? Turns out, it is an inner game at that point.
So, the majority of the time you see someone who is losing a medal at the Olympics, come back four years later and gets a medal. It’s not that the individual was trained, or that the player was trained of that athlete was trained by any new methodology. It’s just that some things were changed, some tweaks were done. And most of these tweaks are in the mind, instead of the mind, not outside the forum did not change as much, there was no new technique that was introduced the same. In fact, there is a saying that the top 10 athletes who run the 100 meters, on a given day, anybody can win the medal. On that day, there is a gold medalist because the the the run happened that the competition happened on that day in that point in time, but given a different day, anybody could win, and all of them could win. See, it’s not about a new skill, new talent as much as it is about mindset. So I would focus on the inner game. And the inner game would be like, what are some of the beliefs with which I carry myself? What are some of the values with which I carry myself? Are my core beliefs in place are my core values in place? Am I doing enough to hold on to them and keep polishing them, and keep on strengthening them, while keeping my focus on the outer results, without compromise, a lot of times people withdraw, in order to come back and finish at a bigger level, you cannot withdraw in some games, you cannot withdraw, you can’t take off. You can’t say I will stop doing what I’m doing. So that I can go meditate for about three or four years and a comeback. And now now that I’ve meditated, well, I’m not well centered my mind, now I will go and generate the $200 million. So you’re letting go $100 million revenue or profits, and you are withdrawing for two, three years, and coming back to earn 200 million, it doesn’t make any sense. So if you want to get to the $200 million, you cannot withdraw, you have to be in the same zone.
Now, that means you got to meditate on the job. This is when the Zen Habits kick in. This is when you just start you go deep within your into yourself, the depth of your existence has to be explored, then the height of the success that you’re trying to create outside. This is the answer that I was looking to kind of type on that video, that question. But then there is more to this. As you’ll see, clearly there is more to this. But a few other pointers on this. A few other pointers, just because I said skills, habits, and mindset. That doesn’t mean those are the only three things. Those are three primary things for success. But there is more to it. So if you just do those three things, you are good. You are in the top 3% or top 2%. There is more to that. So there is the I wouldn’t simply stay only with those three and be done with I need to keep on exploring myself as much as I can. There are a few more things to this conversation. But here’s what I’m going to do.
I’m going to stop here. And I’m going to continue this conversation tomorrow on tomorrow’s podcast a little bit more and give you some other pointers on how to what are some of the other elements that you need to be careful of when you’re trying to raise your inner game. Okay. I’ll stop here today. Wherever you are, be safe, and we’ll talk tomorrow. Thank you
Do This To Become Successful, Happy & Fulfilled
Do This To Become Successful, Happy & Fulfilled
If you’re looking for some happiness and fulfillment in your life right now, in any aspect of your life, this video has the answer. Stay with me. Hi, this is the “SuccessWithSrini” YouTube channel. I’m Srini Saripalli. Thank you for stopping by, this question on happiness and fulfillment. This question has been since the eternity numerous books, numerous philosophers, numerous ideas, numerous formulas.
Today in this video, I want to share with you a simple five-step process on how anybody can create happiness and fulfillment. This is not something that I have created, this is something that I read, this is something that I found in the books, this is not my creation. So step number one for this formula is, you need to have faith in the higher power. Whatever that higher power is, whatever your spiritual connection is, you got to have faith in the higher power.
Step number two is that you need to have confidence in yourself in whatever things that you are doing right now, in whatever beliefs and whatever values you have in your whole identity. All that you got to be an entity with confidence as an individual.
Step number three, you got to have dedication for a purpose. It’s very difficult to lead a life without purpose, it’s important we attach meaning to things that we’re doing to our goals and to our outcomes. And such that the pursuit becomes easier. It becomes more enjoyable. It seems, and it is now proven that people who have a purpose usually lead a good life, happy life, and if you’re dedicated to a purpose. Now you’re completely raising the levels altogether to a whole different state.
The next one is you got to have mastery in things that you are doing. Mastery one thing, that that one, the one thing that you are doing right now, professionally or whatever, whatever thing that you something, when people look to you, then they feel Yeah, that he or she has the mastery. Okay? Not just experience, not just the skill, not the brilliance, literally mastery, okay.
And then the last one, the fifth one, which is a lively interest in everything and everybody. You are genuine as an individual interested in everything around you, and everybody around you, you get these five things, right, your life is gonna be amazing. But if you get a few of these five, right, just maybe two or three, right, you will be you’ll be good. That’s the formula for a happy and fulfilled life. Now, there is a formula that I talked about, a few days ago on this channel. I’m going to drop a link about which is Greek philosopher Aristotle, nearly 2300 years ago, talking about a happiness formula, happiness and fulfillment formula that’s even valid today after 2300 years.
So I want you to check that video out also, now that you have seen this video. That’s all for now. If you like this video, drop me a comment here. Put a question. If you have a question for me, I will personally respond to your question here. If you want me to get in front of you, every time I record a video, then, by all means, subscribe to the channel and also press the bell icon. That way I show up. That’s all for now, wherever you are, be safe. And I’ll be back again with another video very, very soon. Thank you