Posts Tagged ‘Do-More-Now’

The Key is to Know When to Quit

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Seth Godin’s soon-to-be-released book ‘The Dip’ promises to help you figure out if you’re in a Dip (a temporary setback that will get better if you keep pushing) or a Cul-de-Sac (which will never get better, no matter how hard you try).

Seth says that the old saying is wrong - winners do quit, and quitters do win. The key is to know when to quit and when to hang tough.

I’ll be really looking forward to this one.

Focus on ‘How’ as Much as ‘How Much’

I’m increasingly finding myself spending all my free time with Kanishka and Avantika.

Kanishka and Avantika are one of the cutest couples I have ever known and watching them together sometimes makes me want to get married myself. What I like best about them is how well they complement each other. Kanishka is an Engineer, CA, MBA and high-flying FMCG marketer all rolled into one and has the slightly world-weary air of a wise man who has seen too much of the world too early. Avantika, on the other hand, is a lawyer who has left the corporate rat race to work with an NGO, and looks at everything with an infectious wide-eyed, child-like curiosity. They are both very interesting people by themselves, but together, they are absolutely adorable.

Both Kanishka and I have been going through a introspective phase of late. Both of us have been taking stock of what we have achieved so far, setting goals for what we want to achieve going forward and searching for tools to help us achieve our goals. Every time we have met during the past few weeks, Kanishka and I have ended up exchanging notes on what we need to do to become all that we want to, and my 30 by 30 list was, in part, a result of these conversations.