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"Ankur, your pics look awesome. Which phone do you use?"
"Ankur, your videos are so sharp. Which camera do you use?"
"Your voice sounds so clear and deep. Which mic do you use?"
"You have been meditating for so long without fail, which app do you use?"

These DMs make me smile :) 

It's the equivalent of me asking someone, "Your book was wonderful. Which pen did you use?"

A lot of us are stuck in the wait for the right tools. 

The right camera.
The right phone.
The right laptop.
The right course.
The right app. 

The right moment. 

What we fail to recognize is that the tool is just a tool. 

A tool doesn't replace the hard work. 
It elevates the hard work. 

A tool doesn't improve the art. 
It refines the artistry.

A tool doesn't replace the skill. 
It enhances its application.

If you keep waiting for the right tool, you will never give your talent the chance to shine on its own merit.

Share your work today.
The tool will come!

PS: Every week, I share such thoughts in an email. You can receive that email for free by clicking here:  https://bit.ly/3XQObNV 

One of the biggest misconceptions about personal branding? 
That you need to be an expert.

You could be a complete beginner and still have a compelling personal brand.
Because your personal brand is about YOU.

The perspectives you have.
The content you consume.
The insights you find.
The attitude you have.

That’s what establishes your value and brings you opportunities.

LinkedIn is the best platform to build a personal brand today.
For the same amount of effort, it gives you the highest reach compared to other platforms.

If you are ready to start building your personal brand or want to take it a level up, I would love to help you.

How to LinkedIn by WebVeda.
A course covering our journey and insights from 40K followers in March 2020 to 2 million in March 2023.

The course will teach you how to:

- Discover your personal brand’s purpose
- Identify your niche and audience
- Build a creation process and generate endless ideas
- Understand LinkedIn analytics
- Advance your career through LinkedIn
- Make money from LinkedIn

If you have any questions, we have a live group Q&A session every month to get your doubts resolved.

As always — if the course does not meet your expectations, you can avail a refund in 14 days. No questions asked.

Explore the course here:  https://bit.ly/htlcourse . 

When I met my current wife, Ruchi, at the age of 19 while in college, she was way out of my league!

I was the super geeky and serious kid.
I had strong notions about what is right and wrong.
I was too uptight.

I would even call myself sad, at that point. 
Too serious. 
And took myself too seriously. 

She, on the other hand, was the Shahrukh Khan in everybody’s life.
Happy and going with the flow :))
Forever smiling.
Everyone adored her.
Her happiness made everyone else happy around her. 

We met during our college days.
Became friends.

And while I knew I didn't stand a chance, I also knew that If I didn’t ask her out… 
The answer would always be no.

So I took the chance.
Of making it to a yes.

It’s been a yes for 24 years now :)

She made me happy. 
She makes everyone happy. 
She is the happiest person I know.

That's her superpower.

Take your chances.
Even if you think you don't stand a chance.

PS: Every week, I share such thoughts in an email. You can receive that email for free by clicking here:  https://bit.ly/3XQObNV 

Our YouTube channel hit 500 million cumulative views!

It took us 41 months to reach the first 1 million views.
15 more months to reach 100 million views.
And now — we add 100 million views every 90 days.

I attribute this to two things:

1) Consistency — 1 Short every day and 3 long-form videos every week.
2) Understanding YouTube as a science.

Disregarding the second point is why many YouTubers fail to “make it”.

If you chase virality and trends, even if you find success — it will not be long-term.
It’s very likely that you’ll attract an audience who isn’t your target audience.

YouTube, as a platform, works with a scientific approach.

Once you understand the algorithm and how you can infuse this approach into your content creation process, strategy replaces luck.

And you can learn it too — in 20 hours.

How to YouTube by WebVeda — a course that compiles all of our learnings and processes growing our channel to 3.5mn+ subscribers.

Whether you’re:

- A brand looking to market your product 
- An aspiring YouTuber
- A beginner YouTuber looking to grow your audience 
- An established YouTuber looking to revamp your strategy or monetise your audience

This course takes you through the entire journey from starting out to pursuing it full-time.

Click here to know more:  https://bit.ly/htycourse 

As always — if the course does not meet your expectations, you can avail a refund in 14 days. 

This is the smallest price to pay for progress 👇

Our colony had the Tennis Singles Finals this morning. 
I lost. 

While I feel slightly bad about it, I am happy about 2 things:

1) I didn't play it safe. 

I played aggressively and took my chances. 

(It's another thing that most chances did not work out 😄) 
But I tried! 

2) I know exactly where I went wrong and what I need to do to fix it. 

The distance between where I am and where I wish to be can be covered by hard work. 

A lot of us are scared of hard work. 

“It will be too intense, too painful, too long.”

I think it's scarier to be in a spot where you do not even know what to do. 
Where you don't know what to fix, what to improve upon, and how to move ahead.

If hard work is the only thing in your way to become who you wish to become, it's the SMALLEST price to pay to cover that distance. 

If it's just hard work, why wouldn't you do it? 

Don't fear hard work. 
Fear not knowing what to work upon.

PS: Every week, I share such thoughts in an email. You can receive that email for free by clicking here:  https://bit.ly/3XQObNV 

Several people asking if I am on TRT or took steroids. 

I frankly had to google TRT to know what it is. So no I didn’t :)
And no steroids - why would I do that to my body?

This is just diet and workout. 
Video will explain everything :) 

Fat free at 43!

Video coming up on April 20th documenting the year long journey and hopefully inspiring you too to take charge of your health 🤛 

You CAN balance a successful career with your personal life and passions.

People get stuck managing their time because they view it from a limited perspective.
There’s a lot more to it than they see.

Energy levels matter.
Motivation matters.
Overthinking matters!

For 13 years, I tracked every hour of my day on an Excel sheet.
I learned the difference between urgent and important.
I became obsessed with systems.

Because I realised:
If I couldn’t manage my time, I would never be able to manage anything else.

Today, I work 10 hours a week.
Devote 5 hours of the day to myself: reading, meditating, writing, working out, and playing tennis.

Owning my time is the greatest success for me.

If you want to have a routine that accommodates your work, commute, hobbies, social time, me time, and even unplanned events…

Know that it IS possible.

I’ve compiled everything I’ve learned about time management and how to practically approach it into a course — Take Charge of Your Time by WebVeda.

Through frameworks, hacks, templates and exercises, implement the systems to take charge of your time.

More than 244,000 people have taken the leap.
Will you?

If the course doesn’t meet your expectations, you can avail a 100% refund in 14 days. 

Explore the course here:  https://bit.ly/tcoyt 

5 things I believed to be true when I was a kid; only to realise they are not!

1) Money is finite. If one becomes rich, someone else becomes poor.

I was convinced that there is only a limited amount of money in the world. 
And that the rich make money by taking it from someone else. 
Wealth is only distributed. 

Today, I know wealth can be created. 
By adding value. 

I shared an example about Maggi in my book, Make Epic Money. 

A pack of Maggi costs 10/20 rupees. 

But if you open it, cook it, add some veggies and ketchup — the same thing can be sold for 50. 
For 100 in Ladakh :))

What just happened? 

You added value and created wealth. 
Which is why the GDP of the world keeps increasing. 

2) Parents are always right.

Growing up, we equate our parents to God. 
We think they are beyond human. 
They can not be wrong. 
They cannot be weak. 
They cannot fall sick. 

Until the day we see them as humans. 

Making mistakes. 
Acting weak. 
Feeling scared. 
Being sick. 

And we realise that our parents are humans first. 
Parents later. 

3) Success is being rich and famous.

Growing up, the only definition of success was rich AND famous. 

Because that's what you saw, right? 
In the movies. 
In the lives of celebrities. 

So you dreamt of that life. 

Today, I realise that success has little to do with money and fame. 
And a lot to do with contentment. 
With happiness. 
With a feeling that you have everything and that you have enough. 

4) Not being good at studies equals not being good at life.

This was a big one for me. 

I thought those who are not good in studies will never make it in life. 

I was quite judgmental. 
Looking down upon them. 

Today, I am wiser and I know that marks have very little to do with who you are. 

I know of the nicest, happiest people from school and college who barely made it in their exams, and I know of toppers who are caught in the grind and struggling. 

5) The more friends one has in life, the happier one is in life.

Growing up, life felt like a popularity contest. 
The more friends, the better. 

Today, I couldn't be happier with the limited set of friends I have. 

Infact, I am the happiest that I am my best friend. 

I know myself completely — my strengths, weaknesses, ideas, secrets, thoughts, actions. 

I can spend time with myself and entertain my own thoughts. 
I need few people, if at all. 

What are some truths from your childhood that you now know aren't truths? 

PS: Every week, I share such thoughts in an email. You can receive that email for free by clicking here:  https://bit.ly/3XQObNV 

Over the past 4 years, my business, WebVeda, has launched 8 courses, and generated 70+ crores of revenue, with 380K+ students enrolled in the course. 

And now, I'm ready to share everything I've learned with you!

I am proud to announce the launch of my latest course, ‘Launching a Courses Business’.

This course is designed to help you turn your teaching into a monetizable asset. In this 4-week course, my team and I will teach you everything we have learnt about running a course business that has empowered thousands of students.

So if you want to:

- Create a lasting impact as a teacher
- Target your niche audience online
- Market the course effectively
- Manage the logistics of a courses business
- Build a community of learners
- Set up a dedicated team

Then this course is for you!

This course covers everything from creating engaging course materials and pricing your services to running and sustainably scaling your business. 

It gets better!

The founding batch of ‘Launching a Courses Business’ will be a group of 30 hand-picked educators, all of whom will receive a 100% scholarship for the course. Completely free of cost. 

The last date to apply is 12th April 2024. Apply here:  https://bit.ly/LaunchingACoursesBusiness 

Looking forward to seeing you in the live class soon :)