9:05. 19 Jan.
Starbucks, Versova
The week gone by was long. Busy. Hard. To the point that Poo called to check in if I were ok. Two other friends wrote in to check if I was okay. I will talk more about this shortly. But lemme follow the format that I sort of discovered last week.
What I was supposed to do in the week gone by. And my report on the same.
1/ I said I will work on my 2025 plan.
I failed at it. The year is upon me and how. And I didn’t even think about it. This means that the review letter is also delayed.
2/ I said each time I open insta, I will do three push-ups.
No, I didn’t do push-ups when I opened insta. So I failed on this.
I will implement this from today. And keep a track. Will add it to my tracker.
3/ I said that I would delete food delivery apps.
I did for a couple of days.
But then, installed it again.
Convenience is a tough trap to get out of.
4/ I had to write the #dateSG doc.
I didn’t.
I won’t call this a fail cos this is not high on priority.
The tracker from the week that went by.
The tracker from the week gone by is attached.
I am glad to report that I have tracked almost all things. No, I didn’t really get any better. But tracking is an important first step. And yay to self for that. #win
You can see that I had a rough one.
But now, we seem to be doing ok.
Some realizations...
1/ For a one-person house I run and with my kind of lifestyle, I spend a lot of money. I need to check my spends.
2/ My day emotions are off the charts. I need to do something about it.
3/ I am consuming a lot of coffee. What’s not on this is that I don’t have coffee after 12. But, this much is not good. I will try and stop.
Ok, moving on.
Photos from the week
This week was bad.
Couldnt take too many. Here’s a link, in case.
Will get back to this next week.
Highlights from the week gone by…
This is a little different from what I did last week. Let’s see which one sticks.
1/ Made it to Thej’s weekly notes.
In fact these weekly notes are inspired by Thej’s. And this is the second thing that I have taken away from him. The other being SoG Grant. A good reminder that I need to move the needle on that.
2/ Spent time with Manish.
I am grateful that he takes the time to coach C and me. I don’t know what I’ve done to get kindness from so many people. I can only promise myself that when I have something going for me, I will pay it forward.
3/ Warikoo revealed his earnings from the year gone by.
The highlight was this part. I quote…
From Jan-Dec 2024 we earned Rs. 48.22L (USD 56K) in affiliate income. 100% of the affiliate we have earned (and will earn in the future) goes towards the education of kids who cannot afford it.
It is a simple process. Students email me, we ask for their student ID, college details, Aadhaar and a link to pay the school/college directly. And we make the transfer.
Last year, we contributed 43L towards the education of 104 kids and since existence we have contributed nearly 1.7Cr (USD $200K) towards the education of 397 kids.
I will do something similar.
I will channel a source of my income towards this. May be for SoG Grant. I don’t know yet. I will think on this.
4/ AK’s thought about C4E Culture.
She pointed out that when we get new people at C4E, they don’t get time to ramp up. And that needs to change. No person will ever go back from C4E with a sore experience.
Oh, while am on AK, the girl has made 7 posts so far. I think she will get her AirPods Pro Max at this rate.
5/ I am learning a lot about myself with this new startup.
Some things worth noting are…
- On this one, I am not the captain. I am merely one of the charioteers at Mahabharata. And its good to see that am able to navigate it well.
- I thought since there are heavy weights, I would not be able to speak. But I surprised myself with my actions. I was not sure I had it in me to speak in a room like that. I did. And I made eloquent conversations. Humbling and proud. And a #win.
6/ I want to be well-known (and not famous)
I wrote about this on my Twitter today. And I found a good articulation. That I want to have the respect of the ones that I respect. And this respect must give me access to any room that I want to get into. Simple.
I will repeat what I wrote today morning. I’ve been the kinds to always shy away from spotlight. I have wanted to be a kingmaker (not the king). I want to have a band (and not a solo act). I want to help run a village (and not be the mukhiya). I want to be a Krishna (and not Arjuna).
But I do want to be a famous Krishna. I also mentioned that I want to be on the thank you page of 1000 books, 100 Oscar speeches and more. I really want to be the person that offers shoulders to giants.
I don’t know how I will get to it. But this realisation is interesting to have. May be this is what growing up is?
Oh, as part of this, I will build the ability to do small talk with people.
7/ I failed to deliver something simple to a senior that I look up to. At the same time, in a review of C4E, our board member mentioned that we are in a poor place at C4E.
These were the large reasons why I was so fucked in the head the whole week.
I will ofc try and fix but I didn’t like that I failed so bad.
I want to note that I didnt let the heat come to my team. If I could just not overreact and eat random crap, I would have handled the crisis well. I need to work on self-control.
8/ At C4E, we are going to be more process-oriented.
Again, this is a thing that I’ve known for a long time and I’ve always stayed away from. Gokul taught me in detail. And I ignored. Manish reinforced this when we met him in December. And I ignored. But now I am learning that both of them were right all along.
Ok.
That.
Moving on.
One large takeaway from the week?
I think I have discovered the word for 2025.
Consistency.
Everything else that I need or want is on the other side of just one thing. Consistency. All the magic – compounding including – happens on the other side of consistency. Wish I had learnt this earlier.
I am going to embrace it.
I’ve even added this to the Knock on C4E’s door. See if you can spot it.
I know I know.
People have opinions and thoughts about YOLO and FOMO and how you ought to experience life and all that. But I think there is merit in being consistent and living a life built on top of discipline, long-term thinking, small actions, and consistency!
I guess this is about it.
As I close this, I am thinking, how is this weekly note different from the daily journal that I am writing on twitter? Maybe with time, I will publish more than these streams of consciousness? Maybe with time, I will have these two evolve into separate things – one to talk about things on a day-to-day basis and the other from a helicopter lens where things are a little more broad and large? Let’s see.
Ok, I have a long day ahead.
A lot to be done.
Gotta go.
See you around.
Oh, here are the previous editions: Wk 01, Wk 02
PS: This series of posts is inspired by Thej and his weekly notes.