How To Get Ahead In Life

Life can sometimes be tough. No matter what you do, things may not be moving. If that's the case, I want to share with you seven ideas on how do you get ahead in your life. So take a lot of notes. Let's get in.

Do you feel like you're doing a lot of work, but for some reason things are not moving at the pace that you wanted to move?

You know what? In this podcast, I want to just speak from my heart and tell you that, that if you have to get ahead in your life, ahead of all your, you know, resistances, there are seven things that you got to look at, okay? And there's one factor which is important, which is luck. And I'm going to talk about my definition of luck towards the end. First, if you have to get ahead of your game and if you're stuck, you have to just self reflect and check with yourself. Are you really following your heart or is it something else? Are you doing what you're doing right now because you really wanted to do it or because somebody else has influenced you to do it? You know, that's the starting point. Because most of us, including myself, there was a time in my life where things are not moving forward because I was doing things for the sake of others. I was doing things just for the sake of money. There was no purpose behind it. There was no deeper mission behind it. And there were also times where it was not aligned to what I really wanted to do. I had to do it because I just wanted to do it. Okay? Now this is the situation in most people's lives today, especially those who are in, you know, busy corporate jobs. And they got the job because they studied in that field. They studied in that field because their uncle or auntie asked them to do that stream of education. And now in their job, they're realizing, man, this is not what I subscribed for. But they can't get out of the loop because they have the EMIs to pay, they got the bills to pay, they have the family to feed, they got to put food on the table. So this particular situation is a very important one. So you got to ask yourself the question, do you really love what you're doing? And if the answer is no, what is it that you love to do? And if that you have clarity on that, what are you going to do about it? Which means that are you going to say no to the things that are not, that you're not aligning with? And how soon are you going to start saying no to it? It's not. I'M not saying you should walk away from a job, but I'm just saying how do you really reorganize your life so that you can do more of what you really want to and less of what is not aligned with what you want to do? So that's the first step. The second step is it's like Google Maps. You know, if you really want to go and achieve something and get ahead of your life, you need to be clear about where you want to go. You know, you. You're currently at a situation right now. You set the destination, whatever the destination is going to be, you set the destination for yourself. And you just need to walk that path. You don't need to memorize the entire maps to reach the destination. You just need to know what's the next step, which road to take, which detours to avoid.

So if you want to get ahead of your life and get ahead of others, you need to understand the power of goals and the power of writing your goals on a daily basis.

And if you're not already doing so, please start today. And if you're already doing that, reinforce it and add some emotion to your goal writing so that it creates an emotional charge that pulls you towards your goals.

The third way to get ahead of yourself, if you're really stuck and not moving forward, is get into the habit of learning every single day. Like, I love to learn. And see, learning is not just about, you know, buying a course or watching a YouTube video. It could be many things. It could be all of these things. Like, for me, I learned from all different places because I'm always open to.

I'm always in learning mode. You know, I may be driving in a car, I see a billboard and some really catchy ad. I make a note of it on my notepad and I learn from there. Or maybe I'm watching a bird flying in the sky and I get a just bulb on some idea and I'm learning from, from nature that I could be learning from a podcast, I could be learning from a course, I could be learning from a YouTube video, I could be learning from a book. So it's not that you got to learn always sitting in front of a system. You can learn in so many different ways, but be always in learning mode. Learn something every single day. And the fastest way to learn is to teach it. Because when you learn to teach, you'll start to assimilate and absorb the information more and more. And why do you think I'm doing these podcasts? These podcasts I'm doing Not just for you, it's for me. Because now when I'm preparing for this podcast, now I was just thinking about how you can get ahead in your life, and I made a list of these seven points. So while I was preparing, I was actually learning. And then now when I'm recording this, as I'm speaking, I'm also listening to what I'm saying, and I'm learning. And then after I finish this podcast, I'm going to listen to my own podcast once again, just to see if everything is in the right flow. And that's my reinforced learning. So the fastest way to learn is to teach. That's the magic. Because when you are learning to just learn, it'll only have so much of an impact. But when you're learning to teach, you will do it at a whole different level of learning. Okay, now the fourth aspect. If you want to get ahead in your life, and if you feel that you're stuck, get a mentor, okay? And choose a mentor based on what values the mentor has, and choose a mentor if you're able to resonate with that mentor in value system. Like, for me, I don't choose a mentor just because they're getting results or just because they're making more money or whatever, you know, or they're just because they have got more results. I've seen a lot of people go in that route and they choose a mentor just because they've got some result, but then they. They're not aligned in values. So what ends up happening is there is no full surrender. You know, when I choose a mentor, I want to fully surrender. And in fact, I did a podcast before this. You have to check out my previous episode on how I got inspired on my business journey by playing cricket. And for me, getting my coach and my coach inspiring me to play the game the way that I play has had a huge impact on my business. So for me, the whole concept of surrender, I've been lucky enough to experience that right from my childhood. And when I found my mentors, I completely surrendered to the process. So if you're stuck right now and if you don't have a mentor, that could be the key, you know, to the lock that you need to open.

The fifth point to get ahead in your life is to change your environment. Because if you are in a current environment and you're living in an autopilot mode and you have a kind of pattern that's running right now and that pattern is not serving you, you got to break that pattern. You got to shift that Pattern. Okay, so stop doing things that are not fulfilling you and start doing things that fulfill you more. And you may need to change your environment. Like for me, moving from Bangalore to Chennai was a big, big shift. You know, my entire family was in Bangalore, but my wife wanted to come here for her music studies and we decided to shift and I did not know what to expect. But once I shifted the environment, the progress, I could see progress happen so fast because it was a new space. I could recreate myself and I could reorganize my life and I broke the pattern which I was living in before. Sometimes a change of place, a change of space could be that game changer to create that momentum in your life. So the fifth idea to get ahead in your life is to change your environment. Number seven.

Sorry, number six. If you want to get ahead in your life and get out of this know zone of being stuck is to start building new skills and skills that are in demand. Because ultimately it is the skills that helps you create that result for yourself and for others. You know, and in a digital age there are many, many in demand skills like for example, content marketing, copywriting, tribe building, and in a business, when you're looking at traffic generation list building, conversions, selling through webinars, creating videos, creating podcasts like this, these are all like the in demand skills of today's day and age. And every single person needs to be equipped with these skills if they have to really get ahead in their life and help others get ahead in their life.

And number seven is you got to attract luck. I want to attribute this to Naval Ravikanth. I was listening to one of his podcasts where he talks about four kinds of luck. See, the first kind of luck is blind luck. Somebody wins a lottery and they just, you know, get that lottery ticket, whatever they. But most people win lotteries in a span of two to three years, they go back to ground zero because at their financial thermostat is still in the same zone as when they won the lottery. The second kind of luck is luck from Hustle, where you are getting lucky based on just working hard, working hard and putting in the hours. And there's no doubts many people have gotten lucky by, you know, working hard. And some of you might have heard of this quote, no, luck is where preparation meets hard work. But that's still.

Not the best form of luck. There's one better than this is luck through awareness. Like for me when I started my agency in 2011, I had an awareness because of learning that social media was growing and I was able to capitalize on that wave and the trend and ran the agency for more than seven to eight years with like 35 plus employees. And we did some really good work. And in 2017, 18, I also had that awareness that, yes, the coaching industry is booming right now. And I had an inclination towards this because I've been teaching since a very young age and I have a passion to make complex information simple. So I thought, why not.

Move into the digital coaching space and integrate all those concepts and learnings that I'd learned for so many years.

So I. I can attribute a lot of my success to the luck that I had got through understanding where the world was going. And I continue to do that even now. But the ultimate luck is luck from uniqueness. You know, is where you don't chase after luck, but you start to get lucky based on the value that you're delivering to the marketplace, the way that you're presenting yourself, your uniqueness, where luck comes towards you, where opportunities comes towards you, where resources comes towards you, where people come towards you, where now you have the opportunity to choose what you want to do.

You know, to make growth, where you're not chasing after opportunities, that is the best way to get ahead. Okay, is luck from uniqueness? Of course. It starts with hustle, then it builds into awareness, and then you come into uniqueness stage. So I hope you found this podcast useful. And I've been. I hope I've been able to convey this concept in a very simple way. If you have to get ahead of your life, if you have to get ahead of others in life, you got to be in the zone of following your heart, writing your goals, learning every day, following a mentor, changing your environment and your patterns, building new skills and attracting luck. Wish you all the best. Catch you in the next episode. And if you're not a part of my community, please join me in my next webinar. You can go to sidzsids co Live and attend my next webinar. Join our community. And if you're already a part of our community, I would highly recommend that you upgrade to diamond, because that's where the true game is. You want to attract luck towards you. That's the zone. Okay, so I'll catch you in the next podcast and make sure you subscribe to this on Apple, Spotify and other places. All the best.