by Rajan Singh | Oct 27, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
One evening in 2008, in our small two-bedroom house in New Jersey, standing on the staircase with a colorful plastic ball, my daughter asked me, ‘Papa, let us play.’ I brusquely told her, ‘No, I am very tired.’ She accepted it and did not...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 26, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
Some of us are checking Slack/Microsoft Teams every 5 minutes to ‘stay on top of things’. How about an occasional break to get to the ‘bottom of things’? Remember: Being busy did not save Yahoo or Blackberry. Nor will it save you or me. So,...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 25, 2022 | Productivity, High-Performance, Flow
If you’re a chronic procrastinator, chances are you feel guilty and ashamed of your laziness, but did you know that procrastination is not laziness at all? When you procrastinate, you know that not doing a task has negative consequences, but you still cannot do it....
by Rajan Singh | Oct 25, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
Lately, I have started loving deadlines. Sounds crazy, I know. But let me tell you why. As the activity level at my startup (HabitStrong) has gone up, my to-do list has started looking scary. And when there is so much to do, we worry about ALL the things...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 24, 2022 | LinkedIn Posts
Whenever I go running in the morning, I face two choices – run on the road OR in a stadium. With Trivandrum’s undulating terrain, road running can be hard – the uphill stretches make you feel like your lungs are being torn apart. On the other hand, in the...
