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#07 Bangalore Startup scene

Bangalore startup scene:In Bangalore i went to a hack weekend event, where more than 30 young motivated „Hackers“ participated. Everyone could introduce their ideas. Afterwards we built groups to work on the strongest ideas. In the end of the weekend every group had the possibility to present their idea to invited investors, business people and successful startup leaders to collect feedback.

Bangalore is very popular and famous for its startup scene. Especially in tech projects. A lot of developers and IT specialists live in Bangalore – most of them working for the tech companies there.

And of course you find here in Bangalore an amount of coworking spaces, incubators and organizations, which help to cultivate and develope the Bangalore startup scene.

One organisator is https://www.facebook.com/groups/blrstartups, where i joint this inspiring weekend. Thanks to Rashmi Ranjan Padhy, by the way, for the great organisation. 🙂

Here some results of this great weekend:

# Lessons Learnt of today:

Set your goals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you.
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SET YOUR DREAMS HIGH

During our daily life, we find always obstacles on our way through life, which have to be eliminated or bypassed.
Thats why we should set our dreams high enough, to see still the vision we follow.
Because if you can’t  see the dreams anymore, you will loose yourself on your path and will stay at one of your obstacles.

Live Your Life
Live Your Life
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#06 Bangalore Green & Tech

Bangalore Green & Tech.I got a cold. It is very cold here at night (under 10 degrees). I didn’t expect that. But lets check out Bangalore in the next days.

Bangalore is one of the most popular cities for tourists in India. Its named on the one hand as the “Garden City”, because it has a lot of green parks inside, lakes and nature areas which provides calm rest in this hectic city.

On the other hand Bangalore also known as the “silicon valley of India”, and has become famous for its information technology development, not just in India but also in other countries of the world.

All big name international companies are located here: Intel, Vodafone, Sony, Microsoft, JP Morgan, and so on. They stay in closed and secured „Tech Villages“. Where you hardly  get in without a permission.

The city has in interesting mix of people, and is a very traveler friendly place.
Today, the city continues to grow as number of people visiting the place increases over the years.
Amount of citizens: With population more than 8,4 million Bangalore is the third biggest city of India after Mumbai and Delhi.
The main language is English, because of the international business & tourists.

# Lessons Learned today:
Great ideas are incepted in your heart and rising in your mind . Follow your heart, connect to the right people you need for it and work on to make this IDEA BIG!
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RESET YOUR DATABASE TO FIGURE OUT, WHAT YOU REALLY WANT

Most of us following our mind instead our heart. We follow have-to’s and must-do’s.
Doing what our society is expecting of you and successfully finish given workflows.
But we often forget to listen inside of us, listen to our heart, what we really want to.
We are filled with information, each single day we receive new content. After a time our brain or database is overloaded.
Then its time for a reset. Sit down and start to meditate or do something where you can really relax and not need to think about anything.
So we can clean our database and create space in us for new great and inspiring ideas, which come from deep inside of us.

Live Your Life
Live Your Life
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#05 Osho Meditation Resort – Part II

Osho Mediation Resort Part II:Today I had a very intense day with a lot of different moods and feeling. During the heart mediation, I connected with my heart. I had to cry -just felt compassion, surrender and love – to the people, to the world, to myself. After that we celebrated and danced at the Buddahs Groove outdoor platform. Just dancing in the sun. I really love dancing in the sun. I could do that the whole day long. Would there be a job that is called the „sun dancer“ I would be a master of it. In the afternoon we celebrated a death ceremony, which is similar to a funeral.Just  here you celebrate it with joy, dancing and fun. In the western way everybody is sad and crying during this ceremony. Here we won’t like to have an ending where everyone is crying. Come together, laugh, dance and sing, is the philosophy. After we paraded to the river with drum music and fireworks , where we burned down his body and through his ashes into the river.  The second time I started to cry today. Life is short.

We should always be aware of our time and spend it with things and people we love. Don’t waste your time on unessential things.

In the evening I took a domestic flight to Bangalore, where I arrived around 2 a.m. Long day and short night. Back in the role of „traveler as a business“.

# Lesson learned today:

Start to make unconsciousness into consciousness. Control your mind, being more aware, reduce stuffing your head with unnecessary thoughts. Be always present and do everything consciously.

„And slowly, slowly, as awareness grows your whole personality starts changing. From unawareness to awareness it is the greatest quantum leap.“ (Osho)
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#04: Osho Mediation Resort

Osho Mediation Resort:Osho was an Indian philosophy professor and later on a Guru for many people – specially in the west. His followers are also called Sanyassin.                                                                                                                                            He was a great speaker and teacher in meditation and found a way to explain the eastern philosophy to the western society.  He was killed in the 90s. Still today they offer different meditations from early morning to late evening. My mum was Sanyassin. So I was growing up with that stuff.          Thats why I had more than ever the feeling, like  I have to step in mums footstep and follow her way to understand where I am coming from, and how I adapt and understand it today in comparison to my earliest years in my childhood.

Task for the day: WHO AM I? I got this today from the others: I am an angel (my name), I am a strong independent person, I am a rebel, I am crazy (traveling alone).

# Lesson Learned today:

Indian is a country which might be poor, but its the richest country in spirituality. It concerns the highest value of consciousness. If you want to meet the country and learn, you have to go with open eyes and connect to the people.
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#03: Goodbye Mumbai – hello Pune

Goodbye Mumbai – hello Pune. 

Today I took an early trip from Mumbai to Pune, also called Poona. Enough loud and crowd area. Because I didn’t get any train, I had to take  local bus from Mumbai to Pune. Took me around 4 hours. And I was’t just the only European person there, I also was the only woman there.  Never the less I had a nice conversation and a comfortable trip.

In Pune I will visit Osho meditation resort for the next 2 days.                                                                                                                                                                                                               Today I was just there to register and to make an aids test, which you need to get in.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       I stay here at the beautiful apartment with Kanika and Mitesh, a very smart indian couple, which are moving to the US in one month.

# Lessons Learned today:

It’s totally fine, to be a rebel in my age. It’s the time of finding yourself. Breaking the order and normality of your current lifestyle and society. YEAAAAAAARRRH!
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#02: Culture shock Mumbai

India, Mumbai:Mumbai, officially named Bombay until 1995, is the financial capital of India and the home of India’s Bollywood film industry. Also called India’s “maximum city”, Mumbai is known for its extreme standards of living, fast paced lifestyle, and the making (or breaking) of dreams. It’s a cosmopolitan and increasingly westernized city that’s an important base for industry and foreign trade.

Its very crowded, dusty and dirty and loud. If you want to cross a street, you have to fight for life and you always have to be aware of their price system and dealing, because everyone is trying to cheat you.

…Well, not everybody. I met so kind and nice people, which helped me, guided me, bought me tickets, food,  just to be sure I am fine and well treated in India.

# Lessons learned today:
India is bigger than I expected.
Everything needs longer than I planned. So take more time! Plan with more buffer.
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#01: Stopover Dubai. The 4-week-habit plan

Dubai Airport:  After 2 hours of sleep. Awake at the Dubai airport. Time to make a plan.

The 4 weeks habit plan. Idea: Choose maximal 3 habits you don’t like in yourself and change them into good ones or choose a good habit that you like to become a habit. Bit these “good habits” should stay achievable. By doing things consciously and regularly, you can change your bad habits or non available habits into good habits in 4 weeks. Write it down and start tomorrow.

Here my 4-week-habit plan:
1. Smoking, when drinking (probably learn drinking without smoking)
2. First thing I do in the morning after wake up: Coffee & Laptop – Change into meditation & Yoga every morning first. Especially mediation, It is what I need to ease my confused mind.
3. Today we are all focused on ourselves and even me sometimes, more selfish than unselfish. Collect more positive karma and make every day someone smile. Its all about giving and receiving in life.
# Lessons learned today: Buy a power supply adaptor for Dubai to work if I have to stay here more than 1-2 hours at the airport

 
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50 Tips For Running Business Teams

Here are 50 powerful rules for running business teams from Robin Sharma, which I want to share with you:

The 50 New Rules of Work

  1. You are not just paid to work. You are paid to be uncomfortable – and to pursue projects that scare you.
  2. Take care of your relationships and the money will take care of itself.
  3. Lead you first. You can’t help others reach their highest potential until you’re in the process of reaching for yours.
  4. To double your income, triple your rate of learning.
  5. While victims condemn change, leaders grow inspired by change.
  6. Small daily improvements over time create stunning results.
  7. Surround yourself with people courageous enough to speak truthfully about what’s best for your organization and the customers you serve.
  8. Don’t fall in love with your press releases.
  9. Every moment in front of a customer is a moment of truth (to either show you live by the values you professes – or you don’t).
  10. Copying what your competition is doing just leads to being second best.
  11. Become obsessed with the user experience such that every touchpoint of doing business with you leaves people speechless. No, breathless.
  12. If you’re in business, you’re in show business. The moment you get to work, you’re on stage. Give us the performance of your life.
  13. Be a Master of Your Craft. And practice + practice + practice.
  14. Get fit like Madonna.
  15. Read magazines you don’t usually read. Talk to people who you don’t usually speak to. Go to places you don’t commonly visit. Disrupt your thinking so it stays fresh + hungry + brilliant.
  16. Remember that what makes a great business – in part – are the seemingly insignificant details. Obsess over them.
  17. Good enough just isn’t good enough.
  18. Brilliant things happen when you go the extra mile for every single customer.
  19. An addiction to distraction is the death of creative production. Enough said.
  20. If you’re not failing regularly, you’re definitely not making much progress.
  21. Lift your teammates up versus tear your teammates down. Anyone can be a critic. What takes guts is to see the best in people.
  22. Remember that a critic is a dreamer gone scared.
  23. Leadership’s no longer about position. Now, it’s about passion. And having an impact through the genius-level work that you do.
  24. The bigger the dream, the more important the team.
  25. If you’re not thinking for yourself, you’re following – not leading.
  26. Work hard. But build an exceptional family life. What’s the point of reaching the mountaintop but getting there alone.
  27. The job of the leader is to develop more leaders.
  28. The antidote to deep change is daily learning. Investing in your professional and personal development is the smartest investment you can make. Period.
  29. Smile. It makes a difference.
  30. Say “please” and “thank you”. It makes a difference.
  31. Shift from doing mindless toil to doing valuable work.
  32. Remember that a job is only just a job if all you see it as a job.
  33. Don’t do your best work for the applause it generates but for the personal pride it delivers.
  34. The only standard worth reaching for is BIW (Best in World).
  35. In the new world of business, everyone works in Human Resources.
  36. In the new world of business, everyone’s part of the leadership team.
  37. Words can inspire. And words can destroy. Choose yours well.
  38. You become your excuses.
  39. You’ll get your game-changing ideas away from the office versus in the middle of work. Make time for solitude. Creativity needs the space to present itself.
  40. The people who gossip about others when they are not around are the people who will gossip about you when you’re not around.
  41. It could take you 30 years to build a great reputation and 30 seconds of bad judgment to lose it.
  42. The client is always watching.
  43. The way you do one thing defines the way you’ll do everything. Every act matters.
  44. To be radically optimistic isn’t soft. It’s hard. Crankiness is easy.
  45. People want to be inspired to pursue a vision. It’s your job to give it to them.
  46. Every visionary was initially called crazy.
  47. The purpose of work is to help people. The other rewards are inevitable by-products of this singular focus.
  48. Remember that the things that get scheduled are the things that get done.
  49. Keep promises and be impeccable with your word. People buy more than just your products and services. They invest in your credibility.
  50. Lead Without a Title.