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 This week I re-watched the 2007 comedy/drama film The Bucket List. It’s about billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and car mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) who meet in the hospital and learn that their respective illnesses will kill them in less than a year’s time. Instead of letting the news bring them down, they decide to create a bucket list together, which is basically things each of them wants to do in life before they die. The rest of the movie explores the relationship between the two men as they go out and try to live their bucket lists. There are many life lessons to be learned from this Movie. However, for me, two lessons that stand out are: First, Find the Joy in Your Life, Just find the things or do the things that make you happy. And Second, Bring Joy to other People's Lives, Be the reason for someone’s happiness. Finding Joy in Your Life in my view means, we need to figure out what makes us happy and keep doing those things as much as we can. I keep sayi...

 This week I saw the movie Mission Mangal again. It is a brilliant movie and it beautifully portrays the inspirational and motivational story of the Mars Orbiter Mission team. We can all learn a lot from each and every member of the Mars Orbiter Mission team. My Key Takeaways: First, We should never lose hope. Even if the odds are against us, we should work with sheer zeal and achieve the unachievable. Second, Our hard work is what will make us triumph over the numerous challenges and obstacles placed on our way to success. Third, Optimism is a great weapon, a weapon that aids in the fight against let-downs. Fourth, and more importantly, Ideas take a while to formulate and do not do so in moments of aha, but rather slowly brewing and forming over time. Good Things Take Time. We all live in a world that adores speed. But the nature of business and life is more organic. A gorgeous wine takes time to mature. And – great businesses and world-class lives are not created in a day. It’s m...

 I keep saying that the biggest Innovation which happened in the ongoing crisis is Working from Home/Anywhere ie Remote Working. Lockdowns forced all the Corporates/Startups/Government Bodies to allow their employees to Work from Home and it's now an acceptable Way of Working across India & World. I personally believe Remote Working removes the inherent unfairness of the geographical birth lottery to a great extent. Two equivalently talented people can have wildly different career prospects because of where they happened to be born. For example, if a person is born in Delhi, and has the same talent as any person born in a small town of Uttar Pradesh (UP), will have more work opportunities than a person born in a small town of UP. Remote Working is now giving All of us a Fair & Equal Opportunity to Work & Live Anywhere. Remote Working is also making the World one Marketplace. When anyone is Working from Home, whether he is working from Bengaluru, India, or the Bay Area, ...

This week was spent along with my Co-Founders, Advisory Board Member/Mentor & our Partners, Planning for the Next Financial Year. While working on the Plan we looked into what worked for us in the past & what did not emerge opportunities, resources required, challenges ahead, and in fact, everything that we could possibly think of. Jeevitam is a Startup and we cannot afford to dream small, we visualized the impact, planned for everything we possibly could, and believed that we can do with the help of all our Partners and the Team, it's now time to Act. I believe Planning Well is the key to Success & Happiness. For a better tomorrow, we all need to Plan Well Now. Planning becomes all the more difficult in times of Uncertainty. The ongoing crisis is forcing us all to plan for things that are not in our control. We now have a plan for lockdowns which can happen anytime now. We all have to plan for a world that is changing fast and becoming one Marketplace. Working from Hom...