Commuting towards the office 🚙, how many of us have got our working day planned? Very few! We are happy with the illusion of walking fast, not caring to know whether the road we have taken is the right one or not. Only two days in our lives, we do not get to live the full quota. Every other day is 24 hours long. But because we do not often have any goal in sight, we end up wasting this…Continue reading →
Convert Adversity into Advantage
“I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” said Thomas Edison 💡. He added, “when I have eliminated all the ways that won’t work, I will find a way that works”. Doesn’t this statement resonate with what Pete Rose said about failure? Why is WD-40, a handy lubricant and rust protection solvent, named so? It is because the finished product was created after 39 failed attempts. 🆒 Why should we believe success owes us anything? Why…Continue reading →
Be Creative around Failures
Just before writing this blog post, I was drinking coffee ☕️and I spilled some on my shirt, thus staining it. Talking about a stained shirt reminds me of Massimo Bottura (Chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant) 🥗. One of Massimo’s employees dropped a dish and stained an expensive carpet. Neither did he scold him nor did he talk about a pay cut. Instead, he created a new dish called Oops! I Dropped the Lemon Tart. This is an…Continue reading →
Warren Buffet’s Brilliant 3-Step Prioritizing Technique
With all the success Warren Buffet has had in his life, it is easy to believe he understands how best to use time. There is this story of Mike Flint, Buffet’s personal pilot ✈️for over a decade. The two people were talking about Flint’s career goals when Buffet took a pause and asked Flint to jot down his top 25 career goals. 25 is a big number for career goals but the question was posed by a “real pedigree” and…Continue reading →
5-Step Guide to Create and Manage a Much Bigger Pipeline
Because of the unique advantages my company offers to its Loan Officers, one of the recent hires was able to grow from doing 3-4 loans a month to a pipeline of 25+ loans. 😎 But, he was struggling to manage it. He was consistently missing his close of escrow dates, spoiling his newly built real estate agent relationships, and jeopardizing future client referrals. This, after working 16 hours a day. 😫 I personally reviewed his pipeline with my Processing Manager,…Continue reading →