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6 rules for Superior Energy — Robin Sharma

June 5, 2010 Gyaan

Energy is always cru­cial fac­tor in your per­sonal as well as pro­fes­sional suc­cess and very few peo­ple actu­ally real­ize this fact. Robin Sharma shares six rules to supe­rior energy. Eat less — Eat until you are enough, but not until you are full (bor­rowed from Mahatma Gandhi) Eat noth­ing post 8pm Cut back on white food — […]

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How to Get up Early — Robin Sharma

June 1, 2010 Gyaan

Is get­ting up early rel­e­vant? The best of the best, are those who have trained to get up early. It is a com­pet­i­tive advan­tage ( ), because most of the other com­peti­tors are asleep. ( ) Give your­self a 60 minute lead­er­ship hour, just as the best prac­tice their art. So how do you get up early? Get […]

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Ten rules for Web Startups — Evan Williams

May 29, 2010 Basics

Be Nar­row Focus on the small­est pos­si­ble prob­lem you could solve that would poten­tially be use­ful. Be Dif­fer­ent First of all, real­ize that no suf­fi­ciently inter­est­ing space will be lim­ited to one player. In a sense, com­pe­ti­tion actu­ally is good—especially to legit­imize new mar­kets. Sec­ond, see #1—the spe­cial­ist will almost always kick the generalist’s ass. […]

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How great leaders inspire action: Simon Sinek at TEDx

May 27, 2010 Gyaan
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Highly rec­om­mended watch. Simon Sinek uncov­ers a par­a­digm which isn’t always obvi­ous, but seems to always work — Simon Sinek’s “Golden Cir­cle” (pic­tured above) Why? It’s not profit, because profit is a result. The impor­tant ques­tions are: What’s your pur­pose? What’s your cause? What’s your belief? Why do you exist? We usu­ally com­mu­ni­cate from out­side in. The ones who […]

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How (and When) to Motivate Yourself — Peter Bregman

May 25, 2010 Gyaan
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An inter­est­ing tale about the author’s bike ride dur­ing the rain and his thoughts on Moti­va­tion and  Dis­ci­pline. My ride in the rain taught me a good les­son about moti­va­tion and dis­ci­pline: we need it less than we think. “I didn’t need to be moti­vated for long,” I laughed. “Just long enough to get outside.” […]

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