THIS is Basavanagudi's Pride! Meet Vishwanath - Owner of V.S. & SONS, Books & Stationeries, Bugle Rock road, DVG Road, Basavanagudi. 60 YEARS of service! Started by his father, this tiny shop has given Engineering, PU, Degree, High School books to THOUSANDS of engineers. Old students from ABROAD come back just to see him and take his blessings. Even Master Hirannayya used to buy diary-calendar from him every year. Few legendary DVG, Devudu Narasimha Shastri's families were his customers. And @Nimmabhaskar22 also childhood customer He is honest, humble, a walking library of Bengaluru. Today he has a small request: This year, please buy your Panchanga, Calendar & Diaries from LOCAL book stalls like his, instead of online🙏 Your purchase can save a 60-year-old local legacy. Let's support local! Shop: V.S. & Sons, #BUGLEROCKRoad, #DVGROAD Basavanagudi,, Bengaluru #SupportLocal #VocalForLocal #Basavanagudi #Bengaluru #BuyLocal #MalligePanchanga Bengaluru Mudranalayadinda Dhanyavadagalu #GandhiBazaar

Sleep well tonight, because tomorrow is going to be the luckiest day of your life. Your season of abundance is about to begin. Everything you've been praying for, manifesting, and patiently waiting on is finally aligning in your favor.

"Better to be crazy and happy than normal and bitter." | Paulo Coelho

Branding is how people see you. Marketing is how they find you. Sales is how you get paid. Master all three.

RT @JamesClear: Writing is the superpower of humankind. It is our truest form of magic. Writing allows you to conjure up something of val…

Someone on Reddit built his wife a job search app. She is a junior software engineer, and her job search had dragged on for almost 10 months. Tailoring a resume for every posting took ages. So he built Dossier. It finds postings, then writes a tailored resume, cover letter and email for each job, using only facts from her profile. It tracks every application from draft to offer on a board, and it runs on your own server, with a local AI model option, so your data stays with you. She landed a job with it, so he open-sourced it for anyone in the same spot. It is free at github.com/AienTech/dossier.

Dreams that seem out of reach today can turn into reality tomorrow. Life that feels directionless today can overflow with abundance tomorrow. Whether late or early, what's meant to bloom will bloom. You came this far despite struggles. You will arrive where you are meant to.

“Change the world by your example, not your opinion.” | Paulo Coelho

One day, a billionaire was saying goodbye to his longtime secretary as she retired. Wanting to thank her for years of loyalty, he decided to give her a few million dollars so she’d never have to worry about money again. To his surprise, the secretary shook her head and said, “Why would you do that? I already have a few billion of my own.” Completely stunned, the billionaire replied, “But… how? You’ve only ever made five or six thousand dollars a month. How could you possibly save that much?” She smiled and said, “All those years, I sat in on your meetings. When you were on the phone buying land or stocks, I quietly did the same, just on a smaller scale. I copied your moves. So when you made millions, I made hundreds of thousands. And when you made billions, I made millions.” 💡 Life lesson: Who you surround yourself with matters. There are people who drain your energy… and people who lift you higher. Bees always lead you to flowers. Surround yourself with people who inspire growth, not negativity. When you walk with smart people, you grow wiser. When you walk with driven people, you start aiming higher. When you walk with dreamers, you learn to dream bigger. But if you spend your time with those who complain, who have no dreams, no goals, they’ll only pull you down. 👉 Choose your circle wisely. 👉 Build the kind of environment that fuels your growth. 👉 And be that positive force for the people around you.

Learn a skill that can help you earn money. Your knowledge and skills can create new opportunities. Use your free time to learn something useful that can improve your future.

Be rich, but never talk about money. Be fit, but never talk about working out. Be sharp, but never mention books. You're a man. Neverrrrrrrrrr everrrrrrrrrr let excitement make you announce things prematurely. Stay low-key and move silently. Trust me, you'll never regret it.

Your victory is closer than you think. Keep your head up, trust the process, and stay consistent. Everything you've been working toward is slowly falling into place. The struggles, the setbacks, and the silent battles weren't for nothing. Don't give up now.

Underrated life advice: Keep a list of the people who believed in you early. The teacher who pushed you. The boss who took a chance. The friend who told you to go for it. Every now and then, reach out. Update them. And tell them just how much you appreciate what they did for you.

I'm done with traditional travel. I'm tired of dragging luggage through airports, rushing through cities, standing in queues, and travelling thousands of miles just to look at a monument someone built hundreds of years ago. I don't care about ticking off the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the pyramids. Fuck 'em. I want to find a quiet place in the mountains and stay there for 10 days. Wake up slowly. Drink coffee with a view. Listen to the birds. Go for walks. Read books. Think. Do absolutely nothing. That's it. Stillness and peace. That's all I want.

New case study on our blog for @WooCommerce. We audited 43 extensions for #a11y. Teams at @Automattic and @Fueled remediated and we published #Accessibility Conformance Reports. ~500 accessibility issues were resolved + now merchants have much more transparency when comparing plugins. equalizedigital.com/woocomme…

My entire life changed when I realized that anything above zero compounds. That showing up consistently matters more than showing up perfectly. That small things become big things. Never allow optimal to get in the way of beneficial.

There’s something beautiful about people who make others feel good just by being themselves. You may not even realize how much your presence means to others.

According to Neuroscience, your brain doesn’t care about your goals. It only cares about what you repeat. Every action you take strengthens a neural pathway, and whatever you do daily becomes who you are. If you want to be a writer, wanting it won’t rewire anything. Your brain doesn’t know you wanted to write. It only knows you wrote 50 days in a row. Act first, and the identity catches up later. I did this with writing online. I had no clue what I was doing, so I just published every single day. 7,000+ essays later, Penguin offered me a book deal. It wasn’t talent. It was repetition rewiring my brain into the type of person who writes.

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” | Paulo Coelho

You can achieve almost anything you want in life if you learn to master one thing: Shame. That fear of looking stupid. Fear of being judged. Fear of trying and failing in public. The reality is: People judge. People talk. And then… people forget. So, fuck what people think. Just do what you gotta do. This one singular mindset shift can change your whole life.