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Is it possible to alter your life within a year?
This guide is designed for those who are eager to make a turnaround and are ready to commit for 12 months.
I won't guarantee any shortcuts or magical solutions. However, in this straightforward guide, I will guide you on the path.
Follow it, and I promise you – your life will change.
This 12-month commitment is demanding, but it's within your reach.
Download this guide only if you truly want to make a change in your life.
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If you are an entrepreneur, it is almost certain that work occupies your mind 7 days a week.
But isn’t that ironic? Don’t you become an entrepreneur for 'freedom'? So that you can do whatever you want, without any constraints?
It turns out that freedom is not a life without constraints - it is the ability to choose your constraints. That is the only freedom an entrepreneur has.
There is no such thing as absolute freedom.
- Rajan
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Here is the best way to do day trading -- don't.
Nobody knows what a stock will do in the next few hours. Short of insider trading, which is illegal, day trading is just gambling. Why do that?
To create wealth, invest for the long term -- invest on fundamentals.
Be patient. You will be surprised how quickly ten years go by.
No shortcuts in life. Always play the long game.
- Rajan
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Early in my childhood, I read one of the best books on writing – Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘My experiments with truth.’ Our school gave us an abridged and simplified version of it.
And the best thing about the book was its simplicity – it had no big words. You just felt like the author was talking to you in daily English.
Quite often, we like to impress readers with our vocabulary and jargon. It never works. Good writing should be invisible – you should understand it so effortlessly that words never come in the way.
Jargon may occasionally be needed to explain something very technical. But most of the time, it is used to confuse the hell out of the reader. E.g., when two companies merge, they talk about manpower cost rationalization opportunities. What they actually mean is that they can cut costs by firing some people.
Next time you write something – simplify, simplify, simplify… until your writing becomes invisible.
- Rajan
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During my undergraduate days, the IIT Kanpur library had the most fantastic, yet untouched collection of journals and books. Practically nobody read anything outside the syllabus.
If you wanted to score well in exams, there was a simple algorithm (which I learned too late) – just do the assignment sheets and go through the class notes. It nearly guaranteed an ‘A’ grade – you had to do nothing more and most people did nothing more.
To an extent, this was quite understandable. After all, there is way too much going on in college and you only have so much time. And if you tried to read the big fat books, it would suck all the time and ruin your grades.
But would it not have been good to also take a little time to also explore things outside the syllabus? Maybe, on a lazy Saturday afternoon, just flip through Nature or Scientific American?
And this is not just a college phenomenon – it applies just as much to our lives.
To do well in our careers, we just need to stick to ‘the syllabus’ – i.e., build job-relevant skills and knowledge. But what fun would it be if that is ALL we did?
For sure, we would build our careers but would it not be great to also explore things that are fun and meaningful even if they don’t have a direct payoff?
Life is not an exam. There are no grades. Nor will we receive any medal at the end.
Life is a journey – make it memorable.
- Rajan
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Since I left my IPS job, numerous IAS and IPS officers have told me that they wanted to try out career opportunities in the private sector but one thing came in their way – they were too scared to let go of their Civil Service jobs.
These were all very accomplished people, many of them with professional degrees in engineering, medicine, or management. And yet, the thing ruling their mind was ‘fear.’
Why are such competent people with impressive degrees and credentials so afraid?
Because they have too much to lose.
I have seen the same syndrome even in graduates from IITs, IIMs, or even Ivy League schools – they sometimes back out from taking risks because they have too much to lose.
I am by no means suggesting that people should take crazy risks or leave their jobs – not at all. All I am saying is that fear should not determine how we live our lives.
Whatever your degrees, background, or qualifications – be prudent but don’t live under fear.
Our degrees and credentials were meant to free us, not become our golden handcuffs. The less you are afraid to lose – the more powerful you become.
Live fearlessly.
- Rajan
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Decades ago, while in school, I was obsessed with comic books. One day, I read this silly-sounding story in a comic book:
A boy (it was probably a character called 'Suppandi') was sitting under a tree, wailing loudly. A passerby asked him - ‘What happened?”
The boy said, “I had 8 idlis and I ate them all. But I felt full only after eating the 8th one. Had I eaten the 8th idli first, I would have saved 7 idlis. What a fool I am!”
The passerby said, “Yes, indeed you are a fool”.
In life, whenever we fail at something, we feel that our effort was all a huge waste.
In those moments, it might be worth asking ourselves -- could all that wasted effort not be those “7 idlis”?
Who knows?
- Rajan
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Can a year be the game-changer for your life?
This handbook is meant for those who fervently wish to revolutionize their lives and are ready to commit to a full 12 months.
I won't promise any quick fixes or secret hacks. But in this no-nonsense guide, I'll lay out the path for you.
Follow it, and I assure you – your life will be different.
This 12-month commitment is not a breeze, but it's achievable.
Download this guide only if you truly want to bring about a change in your life.
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During the practical training in the Indian Police Service, when I first heard that we would have to work as the SHO of a police station for three months, I was aghast!
We had joined the service to run a district police force, not a police station. Why lower our dignity by doing this? What could we learn by running a police station?
But the experience did surprise me. Here is one typical day – there was a dead body for which I had to do the inquest. At the same time, there was a theft case reported – so I had to go to the crime scene and do the investigation.
Even before I had made any progress in the theft case investigation, it was already late afternoon and I had not even had lunch.
And all this while, people were streaming into the police station to give complaints, and there were a zillion other administrative things to do. How could one person handle all this? I wondered if I was fit to even run a police station – it was way harder than I imagined.
And this was one of the lightest police stations in Kerala’s Palakkad district. What would it be like to run a busy police station?
When we see things from a distance (e.g., when heading a district police force), everything looks simple. But the first-hand experience is totally different.
Whether you are in a startup, part of a large company, or working in government – there is no indignity in getting your hands dirty. In fact, there is only one way to learn anything – do it first-hand.
- Rajan
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I'm Rajan Singh, an IITian, ex-IPS officer, Wharton MBA, and McKinsey alum. I help build life-changing habits @ HabitStrong.
HabitStrong helps you build life-changing habits — digital detox, morning routine, daily meditation, and productivity.
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