I am Aarihant Aaryan! Welcome to the Iron sharpen Iron newsletter, Every week I share my homework from my startup journey, books, case studies and sometimes I share my opinions and thoughts.
Happy New year, Let’s be grateful that we are still alive even after the chaos we have gone through the last couple of years. Personally, I am super grateful that I get to do write and share my perspectives every week.
Over the last week, I observed many social media being super excited about the new year, they kept sending the signal that 2022 - is going to be so good, prosperous, and whatnot, but that’s wishful thinking.
Life doesn’t happen like that, it goes through a certain process and the process differs from person to person.
Life doesn’t become better just because the year changes, it can only become better if your perspective changes.
In this week’s edition, I personally wanted to share my mistakes and the things I have been doing to experience good progress.
Understand the process: Before an overnight success, there are many sleepless nights involved. You can’t have results without a process if someone says you can then it is fictional. Before I started writing content I thought it would be super easy to get traction/ engagement to my content from DAY - 1.
For the first 21 days of my content, I was the only person who liked my content.
Time: Don’t measure your work by the amount of time spent or the output.
You can try this method, Your output is divided by the time taken to generate the output.
As you do this, from next time your focus will be to increase the quality of your output + do it much faster, remember time is zero-sum, leverage it.
Build lifestyle not rituals: After anything becomes a habit, it can either turn into a lifestyle or a ritual. In a lifestyle, you don't care about the time spent, you will be super qualitative and you "expect an outcome"
In a ritual, you do it for the sake of doing it, you don't know "why" you are doing that, hence you don't expect an outcome. Most of the things you pursue are either a lifestyle or a ritual.
Pro Tip: This year don’t try to build resolutions, honestly they will not even sustain for a month. “Plan” and try to build lifestyles.
Two things I would highly recommend you to do are read books and write content on social media.
If you have any questions feel free to comment or reach out to me on Twitter and Linkedin.