3 Job Offers: How To Choose One?

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I have three job offers to choose from. I’m confused, not sure which one to take. I’m reaching out to you in time. Hopefully, you can answer this question. It will help me make a decision that’s going to impact my future and my family. Wow. the profound question is rarely I get a question like this. This is incredible. Welcome, welcome back to success with Srini. Happy Tuesday morning to you. I feel privileged that I get problem questions. Very rarely do I get a choice question like this. This is empowering. This is amazing. I don’t know what job offer you have to pick. And because I don’t know all the details, so it’s very difficult for me to say, take up this one. don’t deal with the other two, I’m happy for you that you have. You’re in a situation like this, which is a good problem to have, at a time when companies are almost stopping hiring. So there is a hiring freeze across the board. I do not know where this economy is heading. People are saying many things. But we’ll come to know, once we get into Thanksgiving, Black Friday sales, the Christmas sales, all these things will tell us where we are heading. But for some reason, the companies have started to stop hiring, which is, which is so this is good.

This is incredible when you have three offers to choose from. I don’t know I think some time ago, I don’t know if that was last year, or maybe a couple of years ago on the podcast, there was a similar situation. So how to choose? I don’t know, I don’t know the answer to this question. But I will attempt to know what I know. So here is how I’m going to tell you the answer. I’m going to I’ll pretend that I’m going to wake up tomorrow morning in your shoes. And if I wake up in your shoes tomorrow, how do I deal with this? What is my mindset? Okay, so I will approach it from two different sides, one from the company side. And from my side. So I’m going to give you both my mindset are arguments, you decide which one you decide, and you apply yourself to it. So I’m going to go with a company that is solving a big problem for a lot of people. And with a lot of solutions, solving a lot of problems for a lot of people with a lot of solutions. So I want you to imagine a triangle, where on the very top is a problem. On the left corner of the triangle are people. And that right corner of the triangle is solutions. Odd maybe, maybe let’s redo this, imagine three circles, people problems, and solutions. Now imagine these three circles intersecting. So whichever company is solving a big problem in the market with the best solution and reaching more people, would fall into the intersection. Okay, in the intersect. So if the company is falling within the intersection of these three circles, then I’m going to pick that company and go with it. So ideally, one problem, one solution, and a lot of people but if the company is also having many solutions to many problems, for a lot of people, that’s also fine.

So this ensures that there is longevity, and there is long drawn-out success for the company. So if I go there, if I work there, if I build my career there, then I’ll be successful, they will be because they’re successful, and I’ll contribute towards their success. So that’s what I would think and this is what I recommend to people when they want to start a business. Now, that is how I sold the company side. Let’s talk about you. What are the things that you need to do? So that you succeed? Okay? So again, three circles. Imagine three circles or three corners of a triangle on the very top. I want you to if you’re writing it down, not listening. Or if you’re listening, you’re driving right now, imagine on the very top is uniqueness. Okay, the second corner of the triangle Is relevancy. And the third angle or corner of the triangle is urgency. So, where I’m going with this very simple, whatever you’re doing, or whatever you are about to do for this company, make sure that you’re unique. Make sure that you are unique. And make sure that that which you are going to be doing is also relevant not only for them but for you. So you get to learn, do things that make you feel good, you have a learning path, you have an experimentation path, and all those things, I don’t want to get into all the details, but you get the idea. So that is relevant for everyone. And there’s also an urgency for this. So I will position myself in a company that solves a lot of problems, that has solutions for the problems, and that it’s reaching a lot of people. And the way I will position myself in a role is a role that is unique, that’s relevant, and that has urgency. Now, you will never get that perfect balance between these two is between these two triangles, you cannot get a perfect balance, people compromise. Sometimes people get the role is unique, the role is irrelevant.

The role demands urgency or has urgency, the company wants that individual in that role. And it’s a crucial role in all that. So but if the company is weak, doesn’t have revenues is not profitable, or has some issues going on shaky management, whatever it is, or the customer base is not solid, or whatever that is, it’s very difficult to get this the right way. Just the right way, it’s very hard. But I want you to leave, I want you to understand the concept. I want to leave you with this concept. So you apply yourself and try to get there if you go by emotion. And it’s very difficult. People make these choices when they have three offers, you know that your confidence should be at the highest level right now. And what people do is, oh, this, this company is paying a lot of money. So I’m going to go with this. And next time around, if something happens to this complaint, we’ll come back to the market and I’m going to take up something else. The truth is, this is a job.

This question is about a job. And the job market. It’s a market that decides, you know, how much you get paid and what role you get and all that. So what you have to demonstrate is true tomorrow. And tomorrow, it may demand a whole different level of struggle. Yeah, you may get a better job and more money. And I wish you that. But understand that tomorrow, or six months when I tomorrow, by tomorrow, I mean six months or a year down the road. If you take if you look for a job because you’re unhappy in this role, then you may not have three offers to choose from. That’s the point. I hope I answered your question. If I did, do let me know. I’m done. I’ll catch up with you as a list tomorrow. Stay tuned.

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3 Affirmations That Are Proven To Counter Workplace Burnout

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Welcome back to the podcast today, I’m answering a question that has come in from a longtime friend of mine. And now, a listener of the podcast. Let’s go to the question. Here is Andrew.

“Hey, Srini. This is Andrew, a longtime friend, and listener of your podcast. My question today would be your opinions on one how to prevent burnout in the workplace, and to once you feel burnout coming on. How do you help relieve that? So short and quick, but thank you.”

Wonderful question. Andrew, thank you for listening to the podcast. Thank you for taking the time to ask the question means a lot to me personally. As far as the question is concerned, I think I did answer this question in some shape or form not exactly a few months ago. So before recording this episode, I went back into the archives, I was looking for that recording. And not that, I would just say exactly what I said on that podcast recording. But I want you to see that whatever I say here, is a part of your question. I do not want to contradict myself. But I couldn’t find that recording. So I don’t know what happened to it. But anyway, so this question is very dear to me because I have gone through it myself personally. And I know a lot of people who go through this. So this is a wonderful question, even though you said this is shot. I think this is good. It’s amazing. So let’s get into this.

Let’s talk about how you prevent it. And how do you relieve it? If you study the conventional information, or the conventional advice on this specific point of burnout, what you find is most people addressing how to relieve to people say go exercise, go sleep, practice some mindfulness, these are all the things that are going to relieve you from burnout from stress. And there is truth to this. So I’m not here to say that’s not the case, because I do recommend that. But here is where it becomes over-simplistic. If you somehow relieve yourself from the stress, using exercise, sleep, and mindfulness, in a way, you’re also preventing it. But that is not the case. That’s not what I have seen. I’ve seen people come out of stress, anxiety, and all these things, but primarily in the context of burnout, they do come out of burnout, by doing all that stuff. But I don’t think that prevents from it happening. So the traditional information, the answers that you find to this question, do not really address how to prevent it because you get the same answer on how to prevent it, and you get the same answer on how to triage yourself out of it. That’s the right word.

Here is what I have found the answer to how to prevent it has to do a lot with a philosophy that you got to develop. This is the philosophy I developed for myself. When I was working, I was going through the motions of work, sometimes long hours, sometimes situations where you really don’t like to do certain things, but you’re forced by your management to do sometimes the dynamics or incorrect people dynamics and all the godless that is born out. And I was going through this and I tried all this I tried exercising, sleeping, and you know, meditation, yoga, hypnosis, which I talk a lot about on this podcast. And here is here’s something I said many, many months ago on the podcast, I said, an ounce of momentum, or an ounce of movement is better than a pound of meditation. So you cannot overcome a bad situation with meditation, yoga, or hypnosis, you’ve got to really address the situation. So you’re unhappy with the job, you are getting stressed out. There could be more to this.

So you got to address the call. And the addressing of the call has to happen with the philosophy and here’s the philosophy I’ve developed. I’ll tell you one more data point here before I go into the core question or the core answer. I’ll give you something that I encountered which is I once not once more than once. I parked my car in the parking lot. I have I wanted to go to work but I stayed in the parking lot stressed out for like, two-three hours and I left home. I experienced this also at the gym. I go to The gym I sit in the car, I listen to something on in the car, and I’m scrolling stuff on my phone, and I leave, I go home. You call it ADHD, you call it to stress, you call it burnout. But, not only that, on the radio show, I had people call me telling me the same thing we go sit in the parking lot, we go home, we don’t want to go to work.

That led me, of course, to my own experience of me getting stuck in the parking lot. That motivated me to find a solution to this problem. But the solution got strengthened by more and more people trying this and getting a result. Here is the philosophy. First and foremost there are people who do come to work, who have bigger challenges than me. That’s the truth. There are people who are doing my job, who are less skilled than me. There are people who are doing my job who get a lot less than what I get or what I make. There are people who are going through all of these bad job like bad personal situations, bad financial situations, and bad income situations, but they have the same role. Or they have an identical title and identical roles like mine, but they show up and they make people happy. They take all the negative emotions and feelings into themselves, and they make other people around them happy they make the floor happy. Then why am I not doing it? I’m privileged, I have whatever bad there is to this. But there is so much good to this. Why am I with my mindset with my thinking, messing up this incredible opportunity that I have, which I look for? And I think and I don’t respect. I overthink it. I overlook it. And I don’t respect it. But this job is doing incredible things. For me. It’s given me the experience the know-how, of course, the money, of course, the respect, and all that. But why am I overlooking all this? So the core principle in this philosophy is that when I start respecting people, then I become insignificant.

So I put myself below the people. I wrote an affirmation. And I used to read the affirmation before I step into work. I did that for a month or two. And eventually, I never had to do it anymore because my mind shifted completely. So philosophy leading into work every day is a better prevention technique, than practicing zillion different things. Okay, I’m gonna stop here. If I say anything else, if I say anything more, I think I’m overdoing this. Okay. Now, Andrew, I hope I answered your question. If not, let me know. And everybody else who is listening to this podcast, at some point, I will have Andrew come in as a guest on the podcast because Andrew is amazing. He is into fitness. He’s an incredible entrepreneur. He’s doing some crazy things. I think everybody who listens to this podcast, or who listens to everything that I’m saying here will benefit a lot more from listening to Andrew. I think so I’m going to chase him. And I’m going to request him, to come in and be a guest on the podcast. I promise you, you’re going to love this. And I’m going to do that very, very quickly.

Okay, that’s all for now. Hopefully, it’s helpful. If not do let me know. And before you know it, I’ll be here with you tomorrow. And tomorrow. Let’s see what I have on my mind for tomorrow. I did take some notes for tomorrow. Yeah, I think we’ll talk a little bit more about work tomorrow. So stay tuned. It’s gonna be good. Tomorrow. Okay, that’s all bye now.

All You Need Is 10% More Effort

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Welcome back, everyone. Happy Sunday morning to you on the podcast today, I want to extend my thought from yesterday, yesterday’s podcast, if you have seen the title, it is about mentorship, why you need to have mentors, and why the environment is important equally. And this was a question that I got, which I placed on the radio. And Rajiv, who heard the radio show called in, and he shared his insights. And towards the end, I was supposed to come back and make a comment, which I couldn’t. Well, I did, but my time was running out on the show. So yesterday, I talked about how growth happens. Growth demands a certain level of, the surrender of security, and all that. So I kind of expressed some of my thoughts around it. But still, I felt something was not done, something was incomplete. So I thought I want to extend the thought and share some of the things that were actually there in my mind, but I couldn’t get them out at a time when I was recording the podcast yesterday, since then, all day yesterday. And now.

So see, when you talk about mentorship, and results, and coaching and all, clearly, you know, if somebody has the skill, somebody has the talent, and that skill, talent, that has to be channeled in a certain way for a certain outcome. That’s where mentorship comes in. That’s where coaching comes in. I don’t think anybody asked me this question. But once I was on a stage, and I was doing a seminar, and I think this was from the cloud, or maybe not, I remember vaguely making this comment. It said if given a chance if I have to go back in time, and I have to pick one mentor, who I should spend learning from or witnessing him perform or, you know, listen to what he was telling others, his students, his mentees, then that individual is Vince Lombardi, the greatest coach, that literally any coach that you talk to anybody who you study if they are not attributing success to Vince Lombardi and his principles and his success if they’re not quoting if they’re not talking about Vince Lombardi than I think they are, they may not be the best. They don’t understand coaching. That’s how strongly I feel about this.

So I’ll give you one classic example. Vince Lombardi was a master in extracting 10% More from his players 10% more. When you take the 10% principle and apply it to any aspect of your life. It’s, you know, imagine, what will happen to you today. If you do everything that you do and push more. Imagine a scenario like that in your mind takes take a moment, close your eyes, if you’re static, and think about everything that you have your bank account goes up 10% Your work goes up 10% Your health goes up 10% Your overall happiness goes up fulfillment, Joy goes up 10% Imagine what happens. What is the picture that plays in your mind if everything goes up by 10%? That’s the question. We all are working towards it. That’s the truth. But very rarely do we see that we get there. Most of us do not. But a good coach like Vince Lombardi was successful in taking 10% More from his players. Now if you do not know Vince Lombardi is one of the greatest NFL coaches, and somebody who did not play football as much, but went on to become a coach. The greatest coaches of all time across all I believe across all games, literally. That’s how powerful Vince Lombardi is. Just to give you an idea. In 1958 the Green Bay Packers entered the season with one win and 10 losses. By 1959, that’s when the team was struggling. Vince Lombardi comes in and becomes the head coach and a new coach. And in the next nine years, the Packers win 75% Of all the games they were playing and During those nine years, they ended up with five NFL championships. And they also got the first two Super Bowls, and they won. So, this is incredible, this kind of record is not possible in today’s time, despite everything that we have this kind of performance cannot be created and single-handed laborers Lombardi is created for doing this.

Now, back in the day, you know, during the time there was a great football player, who subsequently became a sports commentator, but no, I don’t think he played for Green Bay Packers, I think he played for New York. Frank Gifford, one of the greatest analysts of the game, commentators TV host all that. And he said he made a comment on Vince Lombardi. He said Vince Lombardi is not the greatest football strategist. No, he had any tactics that were out of, you know, the unique, outstanding, all that, but he had an ability to kind of motivate each player and extract 10% more from each one of them. Now, mathematically speaking, there are 40 players on the team. And each person playing 10% of giving 10% more. And now you take those 40 people, you know, back in the day that would have bought, like, you know, 14 games in a season. And now you have a team that is unstoppable. Incredible, I mean, this, this mat, this stinking this man, his mindset, his contribution as a coach. You know, imagine not having a coach not having a mentor at that level, and spending the rest of your life with all this talent. The only reason why Vince Lombardi could do it, was because all those 40 players had the skill, the talent, they were either lacking motivation, clearly, maybe direction, maybe a few strategies here and there, but the greatest of the greatest in the game, they claim that Vince Lombardi did not have any strategy or tactic that was so unique and different. So what is it, it’s the environment, you see, the way you create that environment. And this goes back to my point from yesterday’s podcast, and the example of the Japanese fish koi and how it grows up to three feet if you put it in a lake, you know, some amazing? See, here is how I want to sum up this podcast today is the summary of this. No matter where you are can do 10% More across everything that you’re doing. So take that into your thinking, see, what can you do? Aim for 10 You get five or three doesn’t matter. Now, I have said this multiple times before. People say how do I measure this? Well, a measure is a measure. But nobody’s is nobody measured it was 10% or 12% or 8%. But clearly, Vince Lombardi was able to extract more than other coaches. So when you are able to give more than you know you’re giving more, you will feel it. You will know it. There is no measure for this. Okay.

That’s all, for now, you have a wonderful Sunday and I want to catch up with you as early as tomorrow. The brand new fresh week that we’re getting very close to the end of this year and I keep repeating myself, you just need to go back look into your goals and look into everything that you thought of doing this year. But you could not do it. Just see if you can get done. Get it done. Clean that house clean that car, sell the car, buy the car, open that investment account, you know, whatever it is that you thought of doing. You could not do or did not do or would not do. Get it done. This is it. This is it. I said it. That’s all for now, wherever you are, be safe, and I will catch up with you as early as tomorrow. Stay tuned.