Free, but reliable?

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 6/10/2012 2:11:00 PM

'Times are gone when consumers grabbed your free stuff. Marketers have degraded the power of free. Today, your customers still love free, but they have simply decided to finally tackle the flush of free. “Is this stuff reliable?” “Is this newsletter worth signing up for?” they ask their friends, they take help of social media, they search for the reliability factor. In fall, they ask “Free, but reliable?”'

Read full article

3 step future of everything

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 6/6/2012 4:05:00 PM

'Future comes to everything and everyone. The first step is the invention. Second, making it beautiful and third, reinvention. The future is always about improvement. If it isn’t improvement, it isn’t moving into the future.'

Read full article

How people choose in competition

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 6/5/2012 3:15:00 PM

'You go to a bookshop to buy a Steve Jobs biography. You find a stack of different books written about him. In fact, there is a whole different section for his books. Which book would you pick up? Definitely, the one that looks most beautiful. When market is competitive, your second step should be to make your product gorgeous, so that it looks better than your competition.'

Read full article

Dealing with deadlines

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 6/4/2012 3:38:00 PM

'Sometimes, the best way to deal with deadlines is to fall in love with your work and tell your clients that when your work pasts their deadlines, they make more profit.'

Read full article

Mixing relationship consideration is vulnerable

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 5/26/2012 3:43:00 PM

'When we call an insurance agent to buy a policy, we have an opinion about him. He might be a friend, a relative or someone you were referred to. But, what happens when you call a person he is not. It might definitely sound right to call him your bro if he is listening (!) but buying a policy because you accidently started to consider him your brother is a little vulnerable. Create relationships. Creative attributions but just make sure you don’t mix them up. Always hold a line betw(...)'

Read full article

How to talk, convince and influence people with ease - 5 simple ways to simplify your communications

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 5/13/2012 4:57:00 AM

'The communication skill improvement industry boomed after Dale Carnegie published “How to Win Friend and Influence People” His simple ideas and examples transformed how we talk, explain and influence. From giving top notch interviews to involving yourself in day to day communications, improving communication starts 5 simple steps. 1. The secret of convincing people Have you ever tried to convince people but only failed? Have you ever tried to show how good you are to people but onl(...)'

Read full article

The Power of an Individual – What creates Followers

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 5/12/2012 2:57:00 PM

'You come across groups. You come across communities; religious, political and lifestyle. You come across people who tell you that an individual is nothing against the powers of the groups and communities. Well, wrong. There are no such things as a group culture. It is a culture established by one thoughtful person that is followed by thousands of people around the world. They are just followers. The power is still individual. So, just because someone tell you you can’t do somethin(...)'

Read full article

Pondering the true meaning of people’s words

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 5/11/2012 3:24:00 PM

'Sometimes, people speak to us about something and after the talk is over, we keep rethinking the same things over and over again. We try to understand the newer angles to the meanings of their words. This process can sometimes be good and sometimes, deadly. Good in the sense that you are being better aware of what they were trying to say. Bad as in the sense might we discover and accept a totally wrong meaning.'

Read full article

Doing someone else’s work is always tiring unless…

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 5/8/2012 6:38:00 PM

'Just an observation: The same work taken into consideration, if you are doing it for someone else and you are not being rewarded for it, you feel tired. Just appreciation can not be regarded as reward. You have to have something solid to make your brain believe that it is eventually doing a self fulfilling beneficial job. Otherwise, you are tired…'

Read full article

How long does it take to create change?

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 5/7/2012 5:16:00 PM

'Sometimes it seem like it is never ending. You want to change and you constantly find some deficit in yourself. You need answers to questions you ask yourself. And then you point your mind at point blank and get depressed and stay unanswered. But, what if you could switch change to autopilot? What if you would never have to answer yourself? Can there be anything like, auto-change-adoption pill that you can gulp and adopt to change? No, because change is what keep you alive. People,(...)'

Read full article

How to not let confusion distract you

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 5/6/2012 2:56:00 AM

'Just a few moments ago, I finished reading one of the most wonderful free eBooks by Leo Babauta. Focus. He rightfully commented that we need to focus. True. Then he moves on to show you how you can bring simple changes into your lifestyle to bring focus and remove distractions which was very much true. As I see and meet people, I’ve found that even people connected to the internet are focused upon what they want and they take actions upon that wants without being distracted. The on(...)'

Read full article

The limit of tolerance

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 5/4/2012 4:26:00 PM

'How long can you tolerate that boss, that nagging neighbour, that unworthy celebrity, the hypocrisy, the social injustices. What is your limit of tolerance? Is tolerance good? Is it socially soluble? Speaking is not always solution. Standing up for a cause can’t always be the solution. Sometimes, tolerating become the solution. But you can always tolerate with disobedience. You can challenge their tolerance by pushing the limits your own.'

Read full article

Fun is when you have the town square of the global village in your pocket!

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 5/4/2012 2:53:00 PM

'[This blog entry is a response to "The Internet is Fun Contest" by Indiblogger and Vodafone India.] Back in 2003, I opened my life's first website. Back then, internet was centred on yahoo just like it is today around Facebook. I read an article in the newspaper about how blogging earns people money and just like everyone I create my first blog. I still run that blog. This is that blog. I remember people visiting cyber-cafes to send emails, print documents, read latest stock marke(...)'

Read full article

Stop being a machine, please.

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 5/2/2012 11:13:00 AM

'Are you trying to fix things or are you busy creating things that matter to you? Do you go home night feeling depressed because things didn't went quit right in the day? Are you too busy trying to fix your job, relationships and all other things that it feels impossible to be able to dream about new things you want in your life? Stop being a machine. Start dreaming. Work on fixing things but don't make mummies out of your fixtures. You got to dump things that aren’t working. You des(...)'

Read full article

Why am I doing this thing?

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 5/1/2012 5:27:00 PM

'‘Why am I doing this?’ This is one of the simplest questions you need to ask yourself every single time your actions divert from the path of your goals. Then, ask the next best question. ‘Can I do this stuff later so that I can complete my priority work now?’ As simple as this looks, you mind will make a quantum leap. It will find answers and help you better focus on things that matter, now!'

Read full article

The point of imbalance

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 4/30/2012 2:01:00 PM

'Everyday, you have a choice of making decisions. Then you've a choice to choose from balance and imbalance. You can either choose the point of imbalance because you are lazy, ignorant and not ready to take action or you can choose the balance because your take firm decisions and you clearly know where you are going. I call it the 'point' because imbalance is not a whole day happening. Imbalance happens for just a few moments everyday. The rest is the falling part. If you can just (...)'

Read full article

72 simple ways to make happiness a daily phenomenon

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 4/29/2012 7:19:00 AM

'A few days ago, I was attending a seminar and a speaker talked about what happiness is to professionals. He questioned the attendants about the importance of money and happiness in the service provided. Happiness is that silent factor working behind everything we do.  It is that simple secret of every great creativity, charitable institutions, governments, elections, businesses, stock markets, painters, musicians, skydivers. Everyone is involved in the pursuit of happiness. Ha(...)'

Read full article

Who is a marketer? Who is a liar?

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 4/27/2012 3:47:00 PM

'Everyone is a marketer. Just because you haven’t attended a marketing class or don’t work in the marketing department of your company doesn’t make you a “not-a- marketer”. You connect with an audience who buys your ability, appreciates it. You brand yourself, try and keep yourself being creative in whatever you do. Every moment of your life, you are putting yourself on the stage for the world to notice you. You are marketing yourself, your products and your expertise, sometimes fo(...)'

Read full article

What are mental blocks of beliefs? How to release the mental blocks that bind you?

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 4/26/2012 4:10:00 PM

'Mental blocks are nothing but thoughts that have been thought again and again for longer enough to form beliefs. Mental blocks are, specifically speaking, your beliefs. These are the list of beliefs that are working against you. Let’s put miracles and the divine summoning aside and yet with every other affirmation you are creating or removing a block. Pick up a situation and start travelling back in time. Try to remember and discover your informative stacks of layers. As you move (...)'

Read full article

One blunt reason your life sucks!

Author : Jaky Astik      Blog : The Real Jaky Astik      Date : 4/25/2012 3:07:00 PM

'You are living this life because at some point of time, you said it. You exaggerated yourself before someone. You challenged someone. You promised. You answered with analysis. If you are not living the life you always wanted to be, you probably can’t stand the ego that generated itself after you spoke something without thinking. Life is meant to be simple and happy. You should be doing things you love. Your life is the result of what you’ve acted upon and you act upon what you spea(...)'

Read full article