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 justifications. Changing that, now I want to start crafting what it means to be owner of my story and shape it with certain end-goal in mind. - From Natural Perceptions to Image Creation: I have let people perceive me based on what they see about me and how they can best connect it with their own notions. I think, 5 years after MBA and the time has come that I start guiding how my image gets created in the minds of the people I meet and gets propagated.
I want to start seriously investing in becoming a brand for a person. I need design brand Hrishikesh. I want to commit to it and stay coherent and consistent with it. Success is no more the goal, goal is to build my brand for tomorrow. Certainly not same as getting famous and publicly well known. But, I need start making sure that people think I have some "aukat". - From Working to Earning: So far, my journey has been about learning as I work or so I had defined it. Now, I want to start shifting gears. I want start asking myself, 'what is in it for me?' and start driving it in right direction. Do not work hard if that cannot call for favors or extra earnings. Play the game right. Stop promising people what you do not owe them. Step away from certain things, that do not suit me.
On the other hand, start looking for opportunities to earn more. Time for exploring alternatives. People are earning and getting rich. This is time for staying out of same business day in day out. I have certain skills, but skills are not opportunities. - From Goals to Habits: It was always about setting up goals and trying to race towards them. This sometimes works best when I am in a work project or a known path with definitive start and stop process. But, the rest of my life is about setting up habits. Goals can be achieved and be done with. Habits on the other hand are hard to built up and harder to get rid of. On all fronts of my life, I want to get into a habits. Cultivating good habits will ensure that I stick on a path time and again. It is not about what I have done so far, it is about whether I am aligning myself with my core habits. From waking up to bedtime reading everything is a habit. It is only a matter of time before I get into habits.
With these in mind, I start my 2019 year. I shall keep writing about these more here and start working on this. This is going to be my secret and that I will keep working on as far as I do not get richer, healthier and make space to enjoy my life.
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