Hrishikesh's Journal

As I look forward to starting a new year, there are certain things I consciously want to control. I want to take my dreams and convert them into plans - plans that I keep executing day in day out. So here I am, trying to ink what I want to achieve. From Manager to Owner: I want to stop managing things for the sake of it and start owning things. I dont own anything right now. I am not trusted with one single responsibility where no one else is allowed to do anything as such. I want to commit to one domain one expertise and start chiseling out how I want to shape it. This is not merely about my career but also about my personal life as well. Many times, I have picked up certain choices and decided in certain ways to gain validation from people close to me - be it to make them happy or to make them comfortable. I have started to realize that strategy is not a winners strategy anymore. It is a managers strategy and I end up making story of my life about conflict resolutions and justifi...

30th of December 2018, and I have made a list of things I have achieved in 2018. Some are as normal for the world as they can be, the rest are my achievements. Proudly, I would look back at 2018 as a year, I did my best to make my life mean.  Dreams are still around the horizon. Some blessings are worth counting. Here are a few handful of them: Paid back my education loan : Starting in 2011 to fund my education in IIM Indore, I had picked up a education loan of 1.3M INR. I had been paying installments since 2013 and taken time away from not paying it at all as well during my startup time. But, in 2018, and with consistent last 5 years, I have managed to repay the entire amount that I had picked up. Apart I have also managed to amass a savings of 1.5M INR earned with Simility engagement and growing from there. I think, financially, 2018 was a boon. I have overcome all my previous worries and now, I can make a few choices which I would have been hesitant earlier. First Internat...