57 Simple Hacks About Life

By Balachandran Viswaram

Compilation of 57+ articles written between 2008 to 2010 after reading through the best minds in self-help. These writings were originally written for my own use going forward.

13 years later I decided to publish it as an ebook so that others could also benefit from it. Most of the concepts are easy to understand and practice.

• Language: English
• Publisher: viswaram
• Release date: May 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223140252

Balachandran Viswaram

I always wanted to become an author after reading my first non academic book in 2007. Not just to make a living out of it, but as a means to express my feelings & emotions to the world. Videos & Animations might steal the show, score over the written universe in the short term. But I still believe authentic & original written content will be preserved for the next 2000 years. When I started writing in 2008 via a weekly newsletter/blog the biggest challenge I faced was to insert related images that went along with the story. These days we get lot of stock pictures for the same - that does not mean the writing has become super easy. In fact people have lesser attention span these days than 15 years ago. These days the financial markets interest me and my writing is specifically into this niche. Mostly with banking, options trading & macro economics. A doctorate in economics is something I am looking to achieve in this decade.

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57 Simple Hacks About Life.

A compilation of content from great authors. Easy simple-to read, easy-to-adopt hacks

BALACHANDRAN VISWARAM

Copyright © 2023 Balachandran Viswaram

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Contents

Contents

What you can expect from this book

Stress that takes us to the next level...

The fire in us is dying...

Most things in life falls in a cycle. either you keep gaining or you keep losing.

Don’t take things for granted and don’t work like a dog to secure your descendant’s future...

Its Introspection time...All you want is all you have asked for...

And the research goes on...

The first thing you need to have is a good BACKBONE

And people say I am Greedy...

The people that matter are the ones most ridiculed at...

You can only give what you have....

Every Single effort brings in multiple rewards...

The paradox of the May I Help You query...

Just Shut Up and Listen... (JSUpL)

Theory of Technological evolution – REVISITED.

The Theory of Technological Evolution...

Are you Lost in Thought (LIT)?

The dreams that come true are the ones you uphold daily...

Who can be a mentor?

Do we actually become free as we go up in the corporate ladder?

Today is the first day of the rest of your lives...

Guaranteed recipes to fail...

Relationship is the key...

Faith can move mountains for real...

Everything that goes down can come up...

The Power of Positive Intent...

Life is very simple...Let’s not complicate it.

Million Dollar Habits.

I am a born salesman...

Meeting New People....Something out of the Syllabus...

Winners in the Downturn.... a sequel to the Great Economic Slowdown

The Global Economic Slowdown... Should we suffer or is there a way out?

May I help you?...Help is always around the corner.

New year’s Resolution... It is meant to be KEPT.

Leadership....You either Lead, Follow, or get out of the way...

Power to influence...Not just in the papers....

Punctuality...Your tool to save time...

Association...The key to achieving your goals...

KISS ...Keep it Simple and Stupid...

Super Conscious Mind...And its ability to switch states...

Boldness of Character...Let’s not live in fear...

In pursuit of happiness...Always ask the golden question...

Networking.... The guide to unlimited power...

Mistakes...The more you make, the more the chances to win...

Momentum Revisited...More of speed than skill...

Momentum...The product of skill and speed....

Commitment....You need to give all that you’ve got...

Hope...The medicine that keeps us alive...

TIME. The commodity that cannot be exchanged for money.

Perseverance...when you have nothing more to lose, just continue....

PLAN B. Because it’s quite sure plan A won’t work....

Marketing... You need to reach out to people...

Have a Plan. or else you fit into someone else’s.

Change. The ability to redirect your energy...

CONFIDENCE... Never run out of it

Belief. Ultimately you are what you think you are

Vision...See beyond the obvious.

DESIRE – The stepping stone to success

Life cycle of a great personality

What you can expect from this book

When I graduated in 2007 there was a gap for 3 to 4 months before joining an IT company. I was so bored that I had nothing to do. You should realize back in 2007 there was no high-speed internet or a smart phone. The best internet speeds I got then was 56kbps so just browsing the internet itself was a waste of time.

Someone suggested me to start reading books. I have never read a non-academic book till then. I was just not a reader. Well, I must say I got hooked on the first book I read – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. After that I was in a reading spree, I almost read like 54 books in 12 months. And I continued reading everyday morning right before work.

After a year I was like flooded with so much information that I thought I will pen down what I learned. So, I decided to start a blog in 2008. https://inspire.viswaram.com/

Every Thursday I published one article till 2010 after which I really lost my fire to continue as my work-life got super busy. This book is a compilation of some of the articles I had written between 2008 to 2010.

Most of them are not my real experience but what I tabulated from the great authors I read. After 13 years when I re-read my articles – I feel to have walked through most of them in my personal, business & social life.

Request you to go through these articles with a light heart and do inform me how you felt.

Cheers

Balachandran Viswaram

Stress that takes us to the next level...

stress 

/stres/

Noun

Pressure or tension exerted on a material object: the distribution of stress is uniform across the bar.

The dictionary defines stress as the pressure inserted on an object. Here the human being is the object under consideration, so we can re-define stress as the tension exerted on the human mind

Is stress bad? No, absolutely not. Stress is what compelled human being to set goals, chase dreams and achieve success. Stress is what helped the evolution of the present-day man, had there been no stress, there would be no invention.

How is stress caused? It’s the mindset that we would fail on something, it’s the mindset that we won’t achieve a target on a particular mind, it’s the mindset that we would run out of business in 90 days.

If we let the footballers play the entire day, they would score less number of goals they would have if we restricted them for 90 minutes. Reason? It’s because every player is stressed to score within 90 minutes or else, they perish.

So, it all starts with a dream. Dream is a statement that we will achieve something. When we fix boundary dates for the dream, it becomes a goal. Now stress is something that pushes us to work to achieve the goal. The more the stress, the better we get finding easier methods to achieve the goal. The more the stress, better we become at innovation.

IF YOU ARE A HIGHLY stressed person, it’s a good sign. It’s an indication that you are pressed hard to find a solution in a short time. There are only 2 outcomes to this situation. Option A - you perish and Option B - you come out successful. We don’t want you to perish, we want you to solve the problem, to come out as a better person.

Now this requires more study, we need to sit with ourselves to find what desire burns us, what puts us into trouble. The toughest part is to analyze the root cause of the problem, once you have done that - solution becomes much easier.

If I tell stress pushes up the rung of the ladder, it’s not wrong. If you have solved a problem, you gain more confidence, your appetite grows for a bigger problem and you grow. So, what pushes you is what worries you, solve it and get ahead.

The fire in us is dying...

Ever felt the fire in us is not staying as long as it is expected? Ever felt we quit digging 3 feet from gold? Ever felt the grass is green on the other side of valley?

My life is full with these questions. My mind is like a pendulum that swings from one desire to another, and by making sure, I just don’t stand to achieve them. This is just the feeling that can happen to any one of you? We are all creatures that live in the past and live on memories. We just feel our past was better than present, and we worry our future will not be as bright as our past.

Have you seen the new add of Maruti Ritz car? just the same is true with our lives, we got choices - but we end up selecting a compromise. The patterns of thoughts that go through us are also the same, just as I was thinking - to stay in job or to build the business? to buy some land or get a new car? To travel abroad or stay with family? go out selling or watch TV?

The truth is, even if we know what’s best for us, we refrain from doing it, because of the fear we have. I can tell you; I have been the laziest boy for the last 4 months or so, going to office and coming back home, doing nothing that my mind speaks off, I had the time for all the things in the world, I just did not want to blog as well. For a moment I thought whether the fire in me is dying???

I am quite sure, people who have made places are the ones who have controlled this emotion very well and knew how to dust the butt and move on... I now realize how foolish was I to waste my time doing useless things and bore my brains...

It’s when your goals are bringing fruit to you alone that you tend to become lazy. The smarter way to get rid of this is to ensure the end product of your goals is service to other people - so you can’t stop working. I am of the impression that you don’t remain stagnant anywhere, either you advance or you recede. So, if you are doing nothing for the position you are holding now, it means you are gradually wiping yourselves out.

The only way to keep the fire in you flaming is to add more oil into it. We need to reach out to the next opportunity that comes our way. Take up all the tasks we got, work as hard as ever, because we never know - a small little work can give us a huge opening that can change the way people see