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  • Gaurav Mishra 1:58 am on December 14, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Leadership, , , Personal Development, Soft-Hard-Soft-Leadership-Style-Model,   

    The Soft-Hard-Soft Leadership Style Model 

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    Read about how a soft-hard-soft leadership style works best in an environment that is constantly changing.

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    Management literature is littered with debates on what is the right leadership style. Most of these models recognize that there is no right leadership style, that different leadership styles work in different environments.

    Based on my own experience over the last few years, I have found that a soft-hard-soft leadership style works best in an environment that is constantly changing.

    Simply put, a soft leadership style is focused on people and a hard leadership style is focused on targets and processes.

    According to my Soft-Hard-Soft Leadership Style Model, managers need to adopt their leadership styles to how easy or difficult their environment is.

    The Soft-Hard-Soft Leadership Style Model

    There are three stages in the Soft-Hard-Soft Leadership Style Model model –

    Stage 1 – Soft-Soft

    When the environment is soft and targets/ processes are not under pressure, managers should adopt a soft leadership style to maintain the feel-good factor in the team.

    Stage 2 – Hard-Hard

    If the environment becomes harder and targets and processes come under pressure, managers should adopt a hard leadership style, in order to focus the efforts of the team to engineer a turnaround.

    If the turnaround happens, managers should revert to the soft leadership style they had followed in Stage 1. If the turnaround doesn’t happen, managers should adopt a different type of soft leadership style.

    Stage 3 – Hard-Soft

    If the environment remains hard, and targets/ processes come under extreme pressure, managers should adopt a soft leadership style to prevent the team from falling apart.

    Therefore, managers need to adopt a soft leadership style in both a easy soft and a very difficult environment and a hard leadership style in a moderately difficult environment.

    Implications of the Soft-Hard-Soft Leadership Style Model

    A manager who switches from Stage 1 to Stage 2 too late ends up with targets and processes that have totally spun out of control. Similarly a manager who switches from Stage 2 to Stage 3 too late ends up with a team that is too de-motivated to either achieve targets or improve processes.

    Of course, identifying the inflection points at which managers need to switch from soft to hard and back to soft leadership styles is a question of judgment. I have often erred, for instance, in shifting too early from soft to hard and too late from hard to soft.

    Do let me know your thoughts on the Soft-Hard-Soft Leadership Style Model via an e-mail or a comment –

    - How do you identify the Soft-Hard-Soft Inflection Points?
    - Do you have a tendency to switch from soft to hard or hard to soft too early/ too late?
    - Do you see how the model can be applied to all relationships, including personal relationships?

     

  • Gaurav Mishra 5:41 pm on November 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , , Indica-V2, , Personal Development, , , Xeta, Xeta-Shootout-Contest   

    The Xeta Shootout Contest: Win an Indica V2 Xeta 

    Quick Summary: Read about The Xeta Shootout Contest, where you can make your own Xeta TV commercial in a video or storyboard format and win an Indica V2 Xeta.

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    Winning a car is now as easy as 1-2-3.

    The Xeta Shootout Contest

    Step 1. Visit the Xeta Shootout Contest and watch the Indica V2 Xeta television commercial.

    Step 2. Create your own Xeta TVC in the form of a video or a storyboard.

    Step 3. Upload your entry on the contest website.

    The best entry will win an Indica V2 Xeta.

    You can also watch the entries submitted by others and comment on them, participate in a slogan contest on the message board, or tell your friends about the contest.

    The Xeta Shootout Contest

    The Xeta Shootout Contest

    If you are wondering why I’m promoting The Xeta Shootout Contest on my blog, this is what I do in my Indica Brand Manager avatar, when I’m not blogging about being the next marketing guru.

    So, if you are an Indian citizen and know how to wield a camera, shoot and upload your own Xeta TVC. Even otherwise, do visit the contest website and e-mail me your feedback on the design/ features. And, yes, do feel free to blog about the contest. I have made a bet with a colleague that I’ll get at least ten posts out of this plug, and if I win, I’ll buy you a beer at Twitter. :-)

     

    • Spearjax 11:08 pm on December 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Hi there,

      Very good initiative. Finally a contest in India which gives us a chance to win a car by making it’s TVC : )

      When will the website be updated? The contest is already over.

      Whats the status of judging process? And who are the winners? : D

    • Gaurav 12:08 pm on December 6, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      @Spearjax: Why do I get a sense that you have put in an entry? :D

      Patience, my friend. The results are coming up soon.

    • Spearjax 12:55 am on December 18, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Yes :D

      And i’m waiting for the results : D

    • Spearjax 1:02 pm on February 28, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Hey!

      When will the website be updated?

      But i know the result anyway. :P

      I’m Insha :P

    • shaileshyadavs 5:34 am on October 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      hi am shailesh and i want to say somthing in a indica vista car. vista is a very power ful car and vista look is very beautiful and and vista is so run a fast and the seat r very soft and long u that vista is just lookig a like a angle

    • dhanvirsingh 3:19 am on December 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      fantastic man , thank god , my dream is going to be fulfilled.

    • ankitarora 4:58 am on December 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      indica its very sexy company. this company all parts too gooddd.

  • Gaurav Mishra 7:05 am on November 10, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , Office-Influential, Personal Development, , , ,   

    The Importance of Being an Office Influential 

    David Armano on the importance of being an office influential –

    Make no mistake, office influentials are self-educating themselves in ways that can be beneficial not only to themselves but to their organizations. Being an active participant in social media means you learn how to custom design web pages and profiles, manage your personal brand, network and communicate with people from all business and backgrounds.

    That sounds a lot like yours truly, but I don’t think my Technorati rank will be a factor in deciding my annual bonus anytime soon. :-)

     

  • Gaurav Mishra 5:43 am on October 30, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , Personal Development   

    You Must Be Mad To Do This! 

    the-line

    The line between “you must be mad to do this” and “you must be mad not to do this” is a very thin one… and you know what… it shifts.

     

  • Gaurav Mishra 11:38 am on May 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Find-the-Right-Road, Marine-Drive, Maruti-800, Mercedes, , Mumbai-Pune-Highway, Personal Development,   

    Mercedes and Maruti 800 

    Stuck in morning rush hour traffic on Mumbai’s Marine Drive, on way to work, I found myself next to a Mercedes and a Maruti 800.

    In slow-moving bumper-to-bumper traffic, the bigger Mercedes was at a disadvantage to the much smaller Maruti 800. The Mercedes stood still in its lane, while the Maruti 800 maneuvered itself into small openings and got ahead. I found myself calculating how much costlier it was for the Mercedes to be stuck in heavy traffic because of higher fuel consumption. I also found myself thinking what a waste it was for the Mercedes to be stuck in rush hour traffic on Marine Drive, when it should be doing 150 km per hour on the Mumbai-Pune highway. In fact, I almost felt sad for the Mercedes because it was on the wrong road.

    Now, think of people instead of cars and careers instead of roads. Or, think of businesses instead of cars and industries instead of roads. I’m sure you have heard of hundreds of brilliant people who are stuck in the wrong career. I’m sure you have read about dozens of interesting businesses that don’t do well because the industry they are in is too crowded.

    Now, ask yourself this question: are you a Mercedes stuck in a rush hour traffic jam on Marine Drive? If your are, then, maybe, you should try to find the right road for yourself.

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    Disclosure/ Disclaimer: I work for Tata Motors. All the views on this blog are my personal views and not the views of the organization I work for. In this or other posts in the series, I do not intend to discuss the merits and demerits of the brands I have mentioned, but only use them as a metaphor for people and companies.

     

    • Jason 1:00 pm on May 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Thought-provoking post! Thanks for sharing :)

    • Shek 4:28 pm on May 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      very nicely thought of, Gaurav. If I had a Mercedes, it would be the CLS63 AMG and I would be on the freaking Autobahn!!! Just like your blog, I am trying to become the CLS63 AMG of a person and I am taking my career to the Autobahn!

    • Shek 4:29 pm on May 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      If I had a Maruti 800, this is what I would do: link

    • Karthik 9:37 pm on May 3, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Does it also not show that the person who owned the car had enough money to sit still in traffic.

      Besides, I am sure WRT. the Autobahnd, he has “been there done that”.

      Hell I have.

    • Shek 4:27 am on May 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      @karthik,
      What is ‘WRT’?? I did not understand that paragraph. What did you drive on the Autobahn? How fast?

    • ZZ top 5:14 am on May 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      I am the Mercedes that thinks everyone else is on the wrong road!

    • Shek 8:05 am on May 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      @ZZ top
      That is speaking like a very southern american, which means you are not a mercedes, but a 1985 ford pick up truck!

    • Gaurav 11:16 am on May 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      @Everybody: Three thoughts and a request -

      - Thought 1: It seems that some of you could identify with the ‘find your own road’ metaphor. Great!

      - Thought 2: I’m thinking of developing this post into a series. Watch out for the posts!

      - Thought 3: I think I need to put up a disclosure/ disclaimer on these posts. The perils of blogging under your real name!

      - Request: Since I’m not sure if I’m treading on thin ground here, I’ll request all of you to limit the comments to the idea of ‘finding your own road’ and not discuss the merits and demerits of any brands. You have my deepest gratitude in advance. :-)

      The next set of posts will answer some of the thoughts in the comments above, so watch out for them.

    • krishanumukherji 6:25 am on December 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I really appreciate your article but would want to mention a few things… again, metaphorically speaking, a Mercedes owner does not really care about the small fuel losses… By which i mean that if you're looking for long term gains( travelling in supreme comfort), you have to make a few small compromises here and there… I do not intend to dispute your view but this is just a small addition i wanted to make…

      I bit of my personal bias was also included in this because i'm a Mercedes fanatic and cant take anything against them… Sounds stupid, but i just wanted to mention this…

  • Gaurav Mishra 11:30 pm on May 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , Excerpts, Personal Development, Quitting, , ,   

    How do You Know When to Quit and When Not to Quit? 

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    I have written about Seth Godin’s soon-to-be-released book ‘The Dip’ before and I have also been following The Dip Blog with utmost fascination. Here are some of my favorite pieces from The Dip Blog –

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    Seven reasons you might fail to become the best in the world –

    - You run out of time (and quit).
    - You run out of money (and quit).
    - You get scared (and quit).
    - You’re not serious about it (and quit).
    - You lose interest or enthusiasm or settle for being mediocre (and quit).
    - You focus on the short term instead of the long (and quit when the short term gets too hard).
    - You pick the wrong thing at which to be the best in the world (because you don’t have the talent).

    Even worse than quitting in the first six cases: not quitting. Settling. Sticking with it but not succeeding.

    On hyper-competition –

    The long term hasn’t gone away. Not at all. Winning in the long run is far more important. At the same time, it’s essential to note that many markets have set up short-term screens that make it impossible to survive in the long run if you’re not seen as a possible market leader (the best in the world) early on.

    On the real 80/20 rule –

    Most organizations (and most people) settle for 20%, hit the Dip and move on to the next thing. A few people insist on devoting an unreasonable amount of effort into something. They cross the Dip and get rewarded handsomely for it.

    On being reasonable –

    Your competition beats you when they do things that are unreasonable. In large markets, the unreasonable competitor always establishes the new benchmark, always ends up as best in the world, always redefines what ‘within reason’ means.

    On pop music –

    The Dip is what separates a hit from a non-hit. And the irony is that without the Dip, it would be useless to try to succeed in pop music. Without a chasm that separates the hits from everyone else, the hits aren’t worth anything.

    On the winner-takes-it-all nature of our world –

    Many systems only work when there are a lot of entries but just a few winners. It’s the effort and expense of the non-winners that supports the benefits of the winners. Digg wouldn’t work if there were only a few stories a day submitted. It’s the stories that don’t make the front page that make the front page winners succeed.

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    The only question left to be answered now is:

    How do you know when to quit and when not to quit?

     

  • Gaurav Mishra 10:17 pm on April 22, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , Personal Development,   

    My Piece for the ‘Fine Art of Blogging’ Project 

    Diogenes at ‘Quasi Fictional Views’ asked me to contribute a piece for her ‘Fine Art of Blogging’ project. Blogging biggies like Liz Strauss and Chris Garrett have contributed to the project previously and I’m truly touched that Diogenes asked me to participate. Diogenes asked me to answer a few questions about my blogging and here’s the piece as it appears on her blog.

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    What is my blog to me?

    At the simplest level, my blog is a repository of my thoughts and ideas. It is also a white board where I experiment with words and projects, a place where I try to find my voice as a writer, and a project that will become my purpose, my calling, or my legacy. My blog is also a medium to create new conversations with people I wouldn’t have met otherwise, and some of these conversations have already become entrenched into friendships.

    Why do I blog?

    I started blogging because I wanted to be a writer, to write for a living, but wasn’t sure if I had the voice or the discipline to shape it into literature. Blogging was one way to find out.

    Over time, however, why I blog has changed. It is not only about writing anymore, it is also about ideating, creating conversations and helping others find their own voice and purpose.

    Take, for example, my Desi Blog of the Day series, where I offer gratuitous blogging tips to one known or unknown desi blogger everyday. To most people, especially to the more established bloggers, it probably means nothing at all. However, to some bloggers it does, and it feels great to know that, by taking out a little time, I have been able to help someone else, in at least a small way. I’m now planning to start a desi blogging network that will help new bloggers in India find their own voice and an audience for it.

    Another example is my 30 by 30 list, or the thirty things I want to do before I am thirty. It’s a very ambitious list and every single thing on it looks impossible today. I’m trying to do two things with the list. One, by putting it out there in the public domain, I have committed myself to it, and the amount of positive energy it has already generated for me is amazing. Second, if I do get all the thirty goals on my list, or most of them, it would be such a positive example to motivate others to go all out for their own goals.

    What do I blog about?

    Gauravonomics is my personal weblog, an online diary, but I also offer blogging tips for beginners and write about desi blogging, desi popular culture and marketing in a converged world.

    What have been my blogging high points?

    Every time I create a new conversation online is a high point, but the big high points will be getting all the thirty goals on my 30 by 30 list and setting up my desi blogging network.

    What is my blogging philosophy?

    You need to give others a reason to visit your blog. You also need to give others a reason to continue reading your blog. Focus all your energies on finding that reason and, once you do find it, let your readers know.

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    Diogenes and I first got to know of each other through my Technorati Favorites Exchange and creating new conversations like this was exactly what I had in mind when I wrote about using linkbait projects for discovering new blogs, not only exchanging links.

     

  • Gaurav Mishra 10:22 pm on April 19, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Assets, , Finance, Goethe, , Investment, , Personal Development, Risk, Shares, Steven-D.-Strauss, , , , The-Big-Idea, Trading   

    How to Grow Rs. 2,00,000 into Rs. 1,00,00,000 in Thirty Months 

    As part of my 30-by-30 quest, I’m asking my friends to write guest posts on my blog offering tips on how I should go for one or more of the thirty goals in my list.

    Today, using my Technorati Favorites Exchange, I managed to get Gauravonomics into the Technorati Top 100 list, one of the more ambitious goals in my list.

    There won’t be a better day ever, then, to have the first guest post in the 30-by-30 series, on the other very ambitious goal in my list – have assets of more than a crore.

    Ranjan Varma writes about business and finance at Weblog on Business and Finance where he has cross-posted his advice to me.

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    Gaurav’s post on the thirty things he wanted to do before he is thirty was a brave one. I wondered at his bravery and wished him all the best only to land up in trouble myself – he wants a way to build a net worth of one crore before he is thirty and now wants me to find it!

    Gaurav’s target of becoming a crorepati is brave but also bordering on being foolhardy, I think. To top it, he wants to start with a seed capital of only Rs. 2,00,000 and a monthly infusion of Rs. 20000! This way he will need to grow his money at an outstanding rate of 200% annually!

    Impossible! Or could be there some way? Legal, of course.

    Very recently I read a book, The Big Idea by Steven D. Strauss, which ends with the following Goethe’s couplet:

    Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

    Here, in this blog, I have been talking about mutual funds, real estate, bonds, ULIPs and ETFs. All of them do not pass muster when it comes to giving a return Gaurav wants. What about stocks? Yes, there are stocks that have given that kind of return in the past. But how to identify those stocks who would do the same in the next 30 months? Nobody knows those stocks.

    So, is there still a way?

    Now, Gaurav says that he has a very high risk appetite. That should essentially mean that when he has invested in shares that he expects will zoom and those share prices drop 30% soon after he buys them, he will average his cost by buying more. Let us assume that he is willing to take the volatility for the desired growth and he is confident of his decisions. Moving on that assumption, stocks can give you that growth. But since we cannot identify the 5-6 stocks that will give a growth of 150-200% over a period of 30 months, we need to ride the waves on the stock market.

    The first magic happened today morning when I looked at a blog/ site that I had been avoiding – because I understood little of that – Eagle Eye Trade by Rajeev Mundra.

    Talking to Rajeev – who runs a technical trading seminar too – I did some number crunching. Assuming a challenging but realistic goal of 10% growth every month, a starting amount of Rs 6,25,000 will become Rs 1.09 crore after 30 months. Vow!!!

    At least, theoretically it’s possible. Of course it will take a lot of guts (time & energy too). It depends on Gaurav’s risk appetite. And Rajeev’s expert guidance. If you ask me, the guys can do it. I wish them Good Luck.

    For the first time I’m putting a disclaimer. Ideas posted on the blog are educative in nature and must not in any way be construed as advice or recommendations. Investing/ trading in financial instruments is risky. This blog cannot be held liable in anyway for losses incurred.

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    Thank you Ranjan for the very useful advice. I’ll check out Eagle Eye Trade and will probably even attend Rajeev’s technical trading seminar. And, yes, I do have huge risk appetite; the plan is to make that crore, or become broke trying. :-)

    If you also want to write a guest post on my blog offering tips on how I should go for one or more of the thirty goals in my list, please send me an e-mail.

     

    • abhishek 11:17 am on April 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      heh.can you help me to grow 12 lakhs into a crore in thirty months.really curious!

    • Thilak 10:13 pm on April 20, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Inspiring Post, I must seriously consider investing in mutual funds, but I’m not sure if it works.

      This way, I could make over 5 crores by the time, I turn 20!
      Lucky!

    • santaram 9:13 pm on April 22, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Nice post and congrats for ur top 100 in technorati ranks

  • Gaurav Mishra 1:15 am on April 15, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , , , , , Feed-Count, , , , Personal Development,   

    Should You Show Your Feed Count? 

    Dosh Dosh has a great collection of posts on whether you should display the feed count for your blog.

    Whenever I find myself on a new blog, I quickly check the blog’s Technorati rank and feed count to get a sense of the blog’s popularity.

    If it is a desi blog, and I like the two or three posts I have read on the blog, I subscribe to it anyway, because popularity metrics aren’t really an indication of the quality of writing on personal or opinion blogs. However, if it is a blog in a saturated niche like blogging tips, personal development, marketing or technology, I do use these popularity metrics as a proxy for how influential the blog is in its niche and rarely subscribe to any blog which has less than a few hundred links or subs.

    A lot of blog readers also use these popularity metrics as a filter before subscribing to a new blog and you need to be aware of it before you decide to display your feed count on your blog.

    In my opinion, you should display your feed count if –

    - it is higher than what a first time readers would have presumed it to be.
    - it is higher than the number of blogs linking back to you in Technorati.
    - it is higher than the feed count for other blogs in your niche.

    I have been displaying my feed count in my sidebar ever since I set up this blog almost three months back. For the first few weeks, my feed count was in low double digits and I still displayed it because it was higher than the number of blogs linking back to me on Technorati. My feed count has slowly increased over time and, at 150+ subs now, it is still higher than the number of blogs linking back to me on Technorati.

    Every niche has a different tipping point at which a blog becomes influential. For a desi personal blog, the tipping point is about 100 linkbacks or subscribers. For a blog in the marketing, technology, personal development and blogging tips niches, the tipping point is probably at 500, or even 1000, linkbacks or subscribers. Therefore, my present feed count is reasonably high for a desi personal blog, but very low for a blog in the niches I’m increasingly moving towards. I’m presuming that most of my present subscribers are desis, so this isn’t an issue as of now.

    Finally, given that my blog is only three months old, I think that a first time reader would probably estimate my feed count to be less than 150 subs, or even 100 subs. If you are a first time reader, do let me know if that’s true, because, if it isn’t, I’m probably underselling my blog by displaying my feed count.

    And yes, if you haven’t already subscribed to my feed, why don’t you subscribe now?

     

  • Gaurav Mishra 4:23 pm on April 9, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Acro-Yoga, Asiaworks-Training, Avantika, Cash-Flow-Game, , , , Kanishka, Personal Development, Personal-Growth, Rich-Dad-Poor-Dad, Robert-T.-Kiyosaki, Self-Help, Tools, Yoga   

    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.

    While I’m working on my goals in my 30 by 30 list, Kanishka and Avantika have been working on their goals. What I like about Kanishka’s approach – as opposed to my approach of “Do. More. Now.” – is that he is trying out specific tools that might bring him closer to his goals.

    Kanishka has been talking about becoming a http://www.asiaworkstraining.com">Asiaworks Training personal effectiveness trainer ever since he attended a workshop by them as part of his job. He finally took the first step last month and went to Malasiya to do the first of the three courses he needs to do to become a trainer. Kanishka is very passionate about http://www.asiaworkstraining.com">Asiaworks Training’s personal effectiveness program, and I’m wondering if I should take ten days off and visit Malasiya myself.

    Kanishka is equally passionate about the “make your money work for you” approach to personal finance in the ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ series of books by Robert T. Kiyosaki. You make your money work for you when your passive income (income generated by investments) is more than your current earned income (income generated by working for it). So the trick is to keep on increasing the percentage of your total income that comes from passive sources. Kanishka and Avantika have joined a group of people who meet up regularly to play the Monopoly-like ‘cash flow’ game that is claimed to teach the principles taught in the series.

    Finally, Kanishka and Avantika have also weekend joined a Acro-Yoga class, which sounds very interesting.

    Kanishka and Avantika are going out on all the personal growth fronts – Mind, Wallet, Body and Spirit – and I wish them well. I also feel all inspired myself, and doubtful. Maybe, there’s more to personal growth than “Do. More. Now.” Maybe, I should focus on “how” as much as “how much”.

     

    • Kanishka 7:40 pm on April 9, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      Actually I don’t think I’ve ever been described as world weary. But Tiku gets so excited when she chats to you that I just stay quiet and watch her hop about like a bunny :)

    • Gauravonomics 11:52 am on April 10, 2007 Permalink | Reply

      @Kanishka:

      You: Actually I don’t think I’ve ever been described as world weary.

      Avantika: But I’m not a baby!

      All my friends are delusional. :-)

  • Gaurav Mishra 3:55 pm on April 8, 2007 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , Gotta-Get-Goals, , , Personal Development   

    Gotta Get Goals 

    It seems that I’m not the only one putting up goals on my blog.

    Alex Shalman has started a Gotta Get Goals meme and blogging biggies like Liz Strauss have joined in.

    Consider yourself tagged.

    Also see – Aaron Potts.

     

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