Just Answer One question.

The Thought

What is that one question if you could ask everytime, can dramatically improve your performance at work? What is the objective of your business/ you? What is that which you are aiming for?

You may be in retail business, or into media, you might be manufacturing steel, or a doctors treating patient.
With endless webpages on mission statements, and how to make a unique vision statement, businesses tend to miss that, if it has to be unique statement, it cannot be found on net.

In today's world, do what you want to earn profit, but all the business or you exist here for just one thing.

"Making things Easy for customer or people to work with you". Period.

You may be a local retailer, your objective
making it easier for people to get the daily stuffs, near and quickly in the best rate possible.
You may be a Salon, your objective
making it easier for people to re-fresh their looks/or refreshen up and ensure other people talk about it
You may be a Media industry, your objective,
making it easier to find the news the customer wants to find, and do it quickly.
You may be a Educational Institute, your objective,
making it easier for students to upgrade all their skills, and do it better and faster than others.


You see, facebook, why it has eaten up the share of Orkut.
Simple, once you know the buttons, its easier to do things in facebook than it is to do in Orkut.

You see Linked in, less and less people visit it, although the proposition they offer,
" Connecting with professionals" is very powerful.
The reason, its hard to navigate.

So if you are in a Business and wish to do something valuable, just answer one question

" What one thing that I do which will make things easier for my customer or people to work with me".

Remember,
Its the powerful questions which matter most.

The Power of Rest

The Thought

Technology has enabled one to remain in touch, whatever happens, whereever the person is, and whatever the time is. But the Downside of it, is harsh. Is the price paid for such technology upgradation is worthy enough.

The blackberry beeps, Google chat Pings, Facebook Updates, Twitter tweets. Yeah, I am a social media Guy, and I choose to remain a Hunter.
But check the Girls version of it.
Aisha Tune, sharing what they are doing, or planning to do, the Cute Guy they found.........
Well the world has really changed and with so many options in hand, the most needed and aspired thing is "REST".
My last post talked about "Attention", this basically is the extension of it.
Only after a powerful Rest can you give complete attention.

The recent News headlines where Sachin tendulkar wrote after hitting the Double ton in Srilanka,

" Plenty of rest is required to perform".

Ask yourself, when was the last time you took that "Plenty of Rest".
No, not plans of it, but the real "Complete Rest".

If you haven;t go for it ASAP, before Life ensures you take a Bit Painful
"Complete Rest".

Power lies in Balance, and anything which is more is bad.

Enjoy and soak into the power of Rest.

The Internet Media

The Thought

The world has changed so much in last few years, and with such ferocity that we all tend to agree that with a blink of an eye the whole new world could start existing. The credit to this goes lot to the internet, which has changed the way we have been working. Business has a completely new media to work upon and create the difference. But what must businesses need to remember.

The word "Globalization" has been buzzed so much that the common man comes across this word, atleast 20 times per day. He witnesses the power of globalization everyday and everysecond he moves across the lane. May it be the way polythene bags are branded, to the big bunglow in the vicinity.
But other than this world, a different world exist, which has no boundaries.
Its the Internet.
And Internet Media is the latest power vehicle which can change the way you do business.

There are basically two kinds of internet media.

1. Expressive Media: which includes websites like facebook, orkut, hi5 etc which are based on how and what the people express.
2. Collaborative: Its got to do with websites like wikipedia, who collaborate and create the changes by the power of group.

If we realize this two Internet media types, Businesses can create wonders for their business utilizing these spaces.

For Example P& G's Olay regenerate is a product from the expressive power of media.

The Power of Facebook

The Thought

What does a Youth actually want, subliminally, and what is that which facebook alone is able to provide.

A recent article which catched the attention told that the biggest threat to google is now facebook, because Time spent per user in facebook is 6 Hrs while that in google stands at 2 Hrs.
I do understand that there might be some biaseness to this but, then its for sure that facebook has taken google into a stiff position. What exactly has they done which google could not do?


Google, is primarily a search engine. With Enourmous websites, and n number of data in it, searching what you need is a huge trouble. Google helps you search it, quickly, easily and better than any other options available. But what does Facebook do?

Facebook, lets you meet friends, thats what is a simple evident which you all might agree, but
lets see it this way.

Human being started as an Hunter, for Food, shelter, he has hunted his way up, till farming came into existence.
Farming gave the Humankind, ability to stay at a place, and develop.
While most beleive that hunting has became a kind of "bygone" era, kindly Stop!.
Hunting has just changed its forms.

We are still hunters, but the Forest and animals have changed to " Other materialistic" things.
Facebook lets you be a Hunter again, and what best,
if you have the most powerful tool in the world (I believe its) Language and words, you are sure to hunt some really nice people around.
If you note, you might have an average 400+ friends in your facebook, but always, around 30 people will remain Online and if you post something, around 20 comments will drop in ( only when U write something exceptionally brilliant and breathtaking ), Wondered WHY?

Because as A hunter, you can have only a particular number of "Things" in your zone of attention.
Second Point is
The Facebook lets you become a Farmer too. Recent data reveals,
FarmVille has become the most popular game application on Facebook, with over 82.4 million active users and over 23.9 million Facebook application fans in May 2010.

Imagine why, because, we are still Humans, and the crux is

before we wanted everything and now we want to be everything.

Trying

The Thought

How hard it is to try? Trying to wake up early morning for a Run, trying to compelte the project on deadlines,

living the thought more than living the life. Why?

Another day gone by, trying so many things.
Trying to please the boss, saying yes to things which doesn't matter, denying things which are important,
trying to compelte things quickly, trying to convert just one more customer,
looking at the analytics and trying to improve the website by chaning one meta description.
"Trying" is a fantastic word.
It removes the effort, and quantified aspect from it.
Trying is not enough,
whats included is " Trying" to "Achieve a particular outcome.

You may be best at trying, but the world is looking for people, who have tried hard enough.

Next time., Dont just try,
Try Hard enough.

Status update

The Thought

Status update, has become the lifeline of youth. The uncanny desire to update about self and the environment has led to multiple issues.You are in Orkut, as well as facebook, you are figuring out Google buzz, writing a blog in blogger/blogspot.com, trying wordpress and could not understand it ( happens with few), you have request pending for hi5, its been long you have updated Linked in profile, ( yes you have that too). And there are services which you have not even heard of but if you knew you will surely give it a try,www.friendfeed.com,www.bebo.com, www.friendster.com, www.jisko.com etc etc.

Its not possible to update yourself in all these social, personal webspace. Why we do it and how to do it better?

Humans by nature want appreciation.This neeed for appreciation from the peers along with show casing that you have achieved something great has remained one of the prime need of human.
Since we have already produced all the products that humans need, and now are producing goods and services which humans want, only those underlying needs are left untouched which, are intangible, like, the need of appreciation, the need of being recognized etc etc.
What these social websites have done is given you an option to showcase your inherent talent and share with the world ( please read "your world" only) to see and if the like, appreciate you.
You know who is your friend, when they comment on your status update.
The more comments in the status update, the more happier one gets, and inherintly believes that he/she is wanted and belongs to the society.

But, with the endless number of social websites and networking option, one has made their presence felt, but now are having less and less time to status update all these profiles. Is there a solution?

Yes, there is and the solution is absolutely free,

there are two good websites who will help you solve your problem.
The website called "Hello TXT ", allows you to configure upto 50 account services, from varying websites and all you have to do is just update at one place.
The other is "Quub", which also does the same job.
Go
try yourself,

visit
http://hellotxt.com/
https://www.quub.com/

and Enjoy " Status update".