After all my words of wisdom posts, today I am here to ramble a little. I didn’t post at all in the month of June due to my finals and then due to the sheer load of the website work that was pending.  I had no other option but to make as much as I could off the small 1 week vacation I had to catchup with all the work that was pending for a long time.

I wouldn’t say I completed it all but there was a little progress. Some progress is better than no progress. My To-do list is still 2 page long of a normal notebook with no spaces, so yes still lots of ground to cover. Many of the task are simple but very tedious and hence you tend to get annoyed very soon. But work is work, whatever pays the bills….

Lately, I have been coding. The last major thing I coded was a rapidshare premium link generator. The project didn’t really take off but I am still very proud of my creation. The last 2 days I have been coding for 14 hours a day.  I am working on this Ubercool scraper which tends to lighten my load from all this tedious tasks. Ok, what are scrapers ? Scrapers basically allow me to extract data of my choice from a set of webpages. It can be literally anything. I think, I have kind of got good at it. I’ll be posting detailed tutorials about coding bots on my Webmaster blog at Soulwebworks.

Its funny how you can keep doing something you like for so long without being tired. 14 hours straight is no joke ! Now this gets me to think WTF am I doing in aeronautical engineering ? Its funny how life turns out and how everything does not always go your way.

Second most important thing, my internships are starting from today. Its going to be really hectic and I am looking at 14 hour days for at least 6 weeks. . This clearly translates into lot of pending work. I really have to capitalize on the week ends. I don’t know if my internship will change my mind about the course and planes in whole. I have kinda decided to make websites for rest of my life.

Lets see how this goes.

Every one has their own comfort zone. Basically a circle of things they are comfortable doing and type of problems they are comfortable facing or have faced before. The true metal of the person is determined when he is out of his comfort zone facing the unknown and tackling the fuck out of it.

Tackling the unknown is not as easy as it sounds. It requires patience and the drive to reach the end. Currently, it is semester end and the work load is just crazy. I have 3 exams and 1 presentation next week along with a 300 page assignment submission. This by no means is my comfort zone but Like we all know “You gotta do, what you gotta do ” .  As far as I know, I ll make it through. The question is will i sail through with flying colors or just drag my ass from start to the finish for the sake of it ?

Its all in the mind. I think i need to work on strict schedules, smaller sleep times and less leisure time. If i have any hopes of making it through. It has to be done and will be done. Somehow , any how !

Like we all know life is not all rainbows and butterflies. There are going to be a lot of bullshit thrown on you daily which you have no control over. It could be your boss, teacher or your compatriot who is being a bitch. Not everything goes our way all the time.

Everyone has their own bullshit tolerance threshold (BTT) . BTT in simpler terms can be defined as the amount of bullshit one can tolerate over the period of time. It is basically like a spring which is compressed over a period of time and one day is just let lose. Everyone is gonna breakdown at one point of time. The level of destruction is what varies from person to person.

Some folks are patient and have very high BTT where as some are impatient and break down straight away. There is not much you can do about it. You surely  feel pity for them though.

So at the end of the day, you don’t wanna push someone till that level or want to come close to someone who is almost gonna exceed the threshold. Either ways you are going to be at the losing end.

Somethings are always gonna go wrong, no matter how full proof your plan is. Its kind of funny to see how people deal with situations when everything is going wrong. Most of the people just crumble under the frustration and give up. This is usually followed by series of rounds of blaming others for why things went wrong. If nothing works, they’ll just resort to cursing their luck or life.

The interesting part is majority of people fail to go one step further and sit down and rationally solve the problem. I don’t get it how they fail to see that the situation is not gonna change if they keep cribbing about the problem. No one  can solve those problems better than you because noone knows the problem better than you do in the first place.

Problems are not usually solved instantly. Unfortunately, the problem solving process not only tricky but also very time consuming. Initially, the focus should not be merely on solving the problem but to reduce the current impacts of the problem until a effective solution is found. This is what I term damage control mode.  It does require a lot of patience and logical reasoning to be effective at it.

When everything is going wrong, I usually like to slow down the pace of everything around me. So i can catchup with what is going and take the required action.

Problems come and problems go. Its how you deal with them, that makes you who you are.

Its pretty astonishing how the importance and relevance of money has grown by many folds in the last 10 decades in the day to day lives of people. Money is more important than ever before.  Money is the answer of 90 % of problems of people today.

The funny thing is every one wants everything and to get everything, they need money. But seldom any one wants to work hard for it. They all want to get rich quick, very quick. These are the kind of people who learn the hard way that making money is not easy and is not done over night.

Another tricky thing is money itself is the best moneymaker. Once the principle gets bigger it eventually starts pulling money  to it, if invested correctly. It soon becomes a game of rolling this money at the right places at the rite time and reaping the rewards. According to me the whole game of getting wealthy involves  25 % working hard to make the initial money and 75 % getting that hard earned money to make money for you. Big money should never lie idle. It wouldn’t be wrong to say money sitting ideal is equivalent to losing money. All that money sitting there doing nothing  is losing its buying power due to evils like inflation. Invest, invest, invest. For example, I started my internet career with 45 $ and invested close 95 % of the amount back into the business for the first 6-7 months. This allowed me to grow by 1000% last year.  If you are not investing back what you are making, you are an idiot.

Money also instills a sense of confidence. A well off person is much more confident in his activities than a ahem-ahem person. A well off person is more confident in taking risk than the ahem-ahem person and like we all know what pays off the most is the riskiest. You can actually notice the difference in a well off person’s behavior. At the end of the day, money is a huge boost for your ego and confidence.

Money gets you respect. It kind of comes with being wealthy, people start taking you much more seriously. Its natural people are gonna take you much more seriously if you step out of a Bentley than a Toyota corrola.  People tend to pay more attention to what you are saying and tend to be nicer to you and you tend to find out that you have a lot more friends than you originally thought. Money is one powerful magnet. This by no ways mean that you become wealthy for others attention.

Wait, before I call it end I would like to point out the difference in being rich and wealthy.  Rich is equivalent to accumulating lot of money and nothing else. Being wealthy on the other hand is more about using the money to do things you want and being happy. If the money can’t help you be happy, its useless then.

So at the end, Money has pretty much evolved as the 5th element and the one who can tame it has involved as the greatest and the most powerful.  Make money, use it wisely and invest it even more wisely. There is a lot your money can do for you than you can do for yourself.  I’ll end it with a quote

” Get rich or die trying ” – 50 cent