This book can help you find your purpose.

Quick overview of what's in this edition.

1. Life Update

2. Read this book if you feel meaningless in life.

3. You need a bigger purpose in life.

4. Health Should Be Your #1 Priority.

5. Resources of the week.

Life Update.

Last week has been filled with ups and downs, not just in terms of work, but overall mindset. 

I was struggling with the thought that am I valued enough, and questioning myself “Am I wasting my 20s by dedicating myself to work?”. 

On a couple of days, it kind of took over, and I could not focus much on work. Sunday the 1st. 

From Monday I was locked in again. We made great progress in terms of client work, working on the Agency's back end to set up sales systems. 

One crucial learning was again, that there were efforts we used to give up on, really soon. The real ROI in this game, especially sales, shows up 1.5-2 months after you start. 

Had to be reminded again about that, and now we’re working on the big picture, and not just the day-to-day. Which is a big problem with most agency owners. 

Growth should be the minimum standard, not maintenance. Otherwise, you’re going downwards. 

I set up some company rules with the team, we’re in the process of sorting out better project management for my brand and the client work.

I have started a dedicated content process, that in a week or two, will be on its way to becoming a content machine, so you’ll see me on every platform. 

This was the first week after a while, when every single day I used to go to bed with a smile (Not because something was wrong in life lol), but being happy about doing my all with work. 

I trained every day. Trained hard. Made sure to read daily, as well as get all the essentials done. 

I have been focused. 

We also did a 2-hour Q&A with the ECB community, as per requests. While the modules are still being finished. 

As I’m writing this my content bank for Whysaksham is almost finished and I have to squeeze in a big scripting and filming session today or tomorrow. Plus I have a recording session with Christian. 

Grateful for this life honestly, since I’ve worked for it. 

Now, moving towards a different angle to this newsletter, being vulnerable the whole way through. Let’s go!  

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Read this book if you feel meaningless in life.

Over the past few months, I felt like I was heading nowhere in anything I did. The agency was stagnant, I lost my first jiu-jitsu match, and I wanted to create a product but I was just delaying it for weeks (Expert Creator Blueprint is live now).

Until the real realization hit when I got my blue belt. That was a sign that I was making some progress. 

You guys know how much I value martial arts. The approach I have in it transfers a lot to how I deal with my life as well. 

Once I got the blue belt from our professor, I understood that I was getting lied to by my brain. It’s not like this is the first time, it always happens, when you do not receive any good feedback or validation in whatever you’re doing. 

No clients are being closed. The content isn’t working. Workouts aren’t fun. You can’t stick to a schedule and always get distracted. And endless other examples. 

It’s the ungrateful brain that wants me to take things for granted, to not go hard with work, to not be disciplined, because all it wants to do is survive with minimum resources, that’s our default wiring. 

Every time you make yourself uncomfortable, you’re dealing with this, it’s this internal resistance stopping you. You can’t see it, or point out exactly why you’re being lazy because the resistance never stops working. 

I wanted to develop the schedule of reading daily again, and I could not do it with a massive book straight away, so I picked “A Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl”. 

It’s about how he survived the concentration camps in Germany. All of the work he did as a doctor amounted to nothing when he was one of the prisoners, being starved, beaten, and overworked to the point of death. 

In those phases, he had to find meaning and purpose in his life. Remembering his wife and family, gave him strength. The hope is that someday this suffering will end, and he’ll get to sleep on a nice bed and not on the floor in near-freezing temperatures among several other people who obviously can’t fit on the bed while being covered in the stench of feces and other nasty stuff around. 

He’ll get to have rest, go back to finishing his research papers that were taken away from him when he was captured, and have coffee and good food, instead of watery soup and a small piece of bread to keep the consciousness alive, but nowhere the nutrition to survive. 

All the accomplished people, whatever their backgrounds were, were reduced to “just humans with little to no clothes, and barely any food”. 

While some people gave up hope because they felt that they lived their lives for nothing, a select few found hope in this. 

Their meaning of life. 

Since they were so close to being gassed every single day, they appreciated every moment. No one knew when a friend they made in those camps would be taken because they might fall sick and be unable to work. 

The amount of visualization I’ve done while reading this book is insane, I used to imagine myself in that scenario. 

Makes me realize that our lives are fragile, the worst could happen, you might fall sick and be left praying for your health to come back. 

We’re young and filled with youthful energy. Why not do our best for us, and the people around us? 

You will never recall watching Netflix alone during the weekend, but you’ll recall the time you spent with your family or friends. 

Or the days you pulled all-nighters working on your projects, the days when you had no energy left when you finished work. 

This is what gives our life meaning. To be able to live in the present. The entire point of having infinite games in our lives is to always play them. 

And once I reflected a lot on this, even if things aren’t going well in the agency, I am the happiest I’ve been with work since I started. 

I crave the feeling of emptying the gas tank before I go to bed and just stare at the ceiling knowing that I did everything I could so that someday I’ll have what I want for the people around me and myself. That’s the most amount of peace I feel. 

And the reason why fate wanted me to pick up this book. 

You need a bigger purpose in life.

Nietzsche famously said, “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” Quoted several times inside the book. 

If there’s no big plan or a big vision, you’ll start feeling hollow from the inside while working. 

There’s nothing big that you’ll achieve from what you’re doing. 

That’s why you NEED to have things that are bigger than you. Your family, loved ones, maybe a sport, anything that goes beyond your work. 

Something that when you work 

Because you’ll subconsciously have moments where you feel empty, start questioning why you’re doing all this. And end up losing motivation to work. Which is already a crisis in our current generation. 

Always attach something big to your work. Maybe a month-long vacation with your family. Or that house you’ll buy finally. Or you are going on a complete break from work and working on your inner self. Or you pursue a sport that you always wanted to but never could because of the lack of finances or a bad schedule. 

I personally have some big goals.

1. Taking a month-long vacation, where I just travel. And not think much about work so I can experience other places since I haven’t traveled outside India other than Dubai, Abu Dhabi, or Nepal.

2. Take my parents on a long vacation, and have all the luxury facilities provided for them. 

3. Even if people say to not buy a house, I want to have my own house or apartment that would be a second base after my hometown. 

4. To have a year, where I invest an unfair amount to see how far I can go with my physique. 

5. And some that I can’t really share here haha. 

What are yours? You can reply to this email, and I promise they’ll be a secret. I’m rooting for you always, you can share it with me. 

My Work Philosophy

I don’t follow routines or rituals while getting work done. My main philosophy is to empty the gas tank on that day. You should feel like you could have done nothing more on that day. And if that’s the case, you won. 

In the grand scheme, stacking these days will give you exponential compounded results. 

Like everyone, my to-do list is never complete. I have some tasks that appear each day of the week and don't get completed for weeks. But it’s okay, I learned to let some fires burn, to get the higher-priority tasks done. 

Your subconscious wants you to survive with the bare minimum, so whenever you half-ass your work, or you didn’t really put any, you are reminded by the voice inside that “you ain’t shit”, and it’s discouraging. It’s your monkey brain to get back to just surviving. 

And consciously training it, by reframing your day around winning the essential is important. Have 2-3 nonnegotiables daily, that you can conveniently complete, and when you do, actually talk to yourself and remind yourself that it was a win. Everything on top of it was a bonus, and you did extra. 

(I recommend reading “The 4 Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz).

A typical day in my life: 

• Wake up around 9-10 am

• Plan the day and time block my Google Calendar (takes 15-20 mins)

• Make coffee and read for 20-30 minutes

• Have breakfast

• Start the first deep work block around 11:30 am - 12:00 pm

• If it’s a “maker’s day,” the focus is on big tasks like agency outreach, sales, and brand work until 5:30 pm.

• If it’s a “manager’s day,” I prioritize meetings and shorter deep work sessions.

• Have lunch around 2-3 pm.

• Head to the gym at 5:40ish and come back by 9. Yeah, I spend that much time at the gym. That’s the only time when I do not think about any work. 

• Freshen up and have dinner around 10 pm.

• Get to work until 2 am. And doze off. 

Some days I stay up late, typically on weekends. Some days I have to wake up on time since I have to adjust my meals before training. 

These are the days I love. Then Saturdays are usually wake up at 8-9, train from 10 am, come back by 2, freshen up, have lunch, and sleep. Then I start working in the evening. 

Most Saturdays I’ll either hang out with friends until evening or go out in the evening until nighttime. Some Sundays I’ll meet friends again, or I’ll chill and watch some movies and reflect. Or if I’m in serious grind mode, I’ll work the entire day and get 2-to 3 days' worth of work done. 

Do I often worry about things I miss out on?

To be frank, not often but I do wonder why am I not traveling frequently, experiencing a lot of stuff people in their 20s do too. 

Alex Hormozi said in his recent podcast with Chris Williamson, that people in their 20s either live it up or work it up. 

The ones who live it up become underskilled and underpaid 30-year-olds. 

The ones who work it up, end up becoming under-lived, with more money and time. 

I often think I should just live it up, I can always work it up, but that’s when the actual thoughts come back, that I have to maximize my youth in building something that will last, and I can’t look back. 

So yeah, these days I do think about missing out on stuff, but being engulfed by work and emptying the gas tank, and making sure family is all good, is all I need for now. 

Am I frequently in social circles?

Not, during events I talk to a select few people. I’ll be in the corner with a few friends just enjoying it.

I introduce myself to everyone but continue conversations with only a select few. 

When it comes to partying, I do, but these past couple of years it’s mostly hanging out with my friends from the gym, and chilling. 

Next year I’m planning a month-long vacation in February probably, let’s see.

Health should be your #1 priority.

I often say, that the online world has ruined the already mentally unstable youth into either becoming degenerates and ignoring health, or working so much, that they still ignore health. 

What’s the purpose of youth, when you’re sleeping the entire day, with no energy or drive? Maybe “working”, with bad health, fucked up sleep schedule. 

You’ll see these online creators across Twitter and YouTube posting themselves on a hospital bed. Still glorifying work, and saying “Because I didn’t focus on health as I was working, I am in this place”, and it disgusts me. 

As an energetic young human, how can you not take your health seriously? 

You often worry about your parents getting sick, but you’re living a lifestyle where they are probably healthier than you. 

Then these creators come back and say I’ve been going to the gym 3x a week, and trying to get my health back on track. 

There’s no trying. Your health has to be the number 1 priority before anything in your life. ANYTHING. 

If you’re reading this, I want you to not just “workout 2-3 times a week” and live a mediocre life. I want you to push yourself, and become more functional. Can you sprint? Can you jump high? Can you do pull-ups? Can you do push-ups? 

I want you all to be athletes. Athletes and Entrepreneurs are my kind of people. 

Have you ever wondered, why among the elite entrepreneurs, sports are becoming more popular? 

I posted a story by Sunil Chhetri yesterday, where he says, if you play sports for 6 months, your life will change. It’s a different drug. 

Humans weren’t made to just pick up weights and put them down. We were hunters and survivors and we were made to be raw athletes. 

I genuinely want all of you to feel the high after an intense sports workout, or a run, where you are trying to control your breath, your body is shivering so much it hurts, and with your eyes closed, you are just loving that moment. 

It’s spiritual. 

It’s different. 

Conclusion

My infinite game is to have so much energy and health, that I get to play the game of business and sports as long as possible. 

I want to have people who prioritise their health around me, and for me to be in that circle. The energy is contagious. 

Resources of the week.

1. YouTube video with Akshat.

2. Kane Kallaway’s blueprint newsletter. (Hands down the best thing I read on content creation each week).

3. Here’s how I can help: If you are a service provider, wanting to build a personal brand so you can get high-paying clients and build your presence, you can join Expert Creator Blueprint.