Health, Wealth & Leadership [25 Feb 2024]
This week is about my health habits, how much money you have and helping others succeed
This is email #80. Sending you an email every Sunday is a habit that has pushed me to learn and grow. Just like a plane is always correcting its route to get from point A to point B, I am constantly correcting course to zoom in to what value I can offer. I can only offer value if the subject I write about deeply interests me. Interest leads to curiosity which leads to learning and sharing. This is how I get into a flow state. Work feels like play. The journey becomes the reward.
In today's email:
HEALTH: I share a few habits I use to stay healthy.
WEALTH: We answer the question on whether you should talk about how much money you have.
LEADERSHIP: Your job should be to help others succeed
By the way I have launched a WhatsApp Community in which I share what I learn from the world of Health, Wealth & Leadership once a day. I invite you to join me there.
Let’s begin!
HEALTH: Sharing my habits
HEALTH is a topic I care a lot about. All my sweat equity is in Happy Ratio, a healthy diet business. I implement a healthy diet in my personal life, routinely track my blood work and turn up to exercise, even if is just for 10 minutes.
My blood results go in this folder:
Me and my wife compete on who turns up everyday. This is what our WhatsApp group looks like:
Just do 10 minutes. Create cues in your environment which triggers that routine. For example, right after brushing my teeth, I put on my workout clothes. I can't do meetings with those clothes on so I try to get them done before 10am.
What does a 10 minute workout look like? It can be something as simple as 20 bodyweight squats and 10 jumping jacks. 5 sets. That's it! This is what a similar workout for me looks like:
10 minutes/day x 7 days a week = 70 minutes.
70 minutes x 52 weeks = 3640 minutes.
That's 60 hours of working out every year, just because of 10 minutes a day. Some days you will end up doing a lot more and some days you won't be able to get yourself to do it at all. What matters is that you turn up. Keep the bar really low; just 10 minutes. It should be silly to talk yourself out of 10 minutes.
When my mind starts telling me "Yaar aaj nahee. Aaj to bilkul bhee mood nahee hai. Kitna kaam baakee hai! Get to work." I counter this with "Dekh Harsh, tu 2x productivity pe kaam karega agar tune 10 minute lagaa deeye. ROI dekh!" I love high ROI so the later argument usually wins.
Last year I ended up working out 4273 minutes. That's 71 hours. I am fitter at 40 than I have ever been. Tracking it all makes it feel like I am playing. I am competing with myself. It's fun.
This year I expect to beat last year. All because of my new 10 minute rule.
WEALTH: Should you talk about how much money you have?
No!
I came across this video from Sarthak Ahuja which hit the nail in the head. He said that your relationship with money is private just like your relationship with your spouse. Keep it private.
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The Indian army has an unwritten code amongst its officers: never discuss women, wealth, religion and politics. It's because they can't afford to have matters of discussion that would have the power to destroy the unity of the group.
Be like the Indian army. Why give anyone a reason to be envious?
LEADERSHIP: Your job should be to help others succeed
I build businesses so I have to put my faith in other people. Instead of doing everything myself, I have to make sure I give them the resources they need to learn and grow. It is my job to help them do their job. I try to provide them with a canvas on which they can paint their own world. That win-win formula is when teams are able to become more than a sum of their parts.
I have hired six individuals in the last two months for very diverse roles. Some are meeting heads of investment banks and others are breaking down the nutrition in an orange. I insist on doing calls on video because I want to be able to get a sense of who they are, what's their story and what drives them. When I come across individuals who exude positivity; a we-can-do-it attitude, it rubs off on me. I love having those kind of people around. That power is nothing less than magical.
Always look for people with that positive "vibe". And to make sure that you have made the right decision, make the first 100 days of you working together, a trial run.
Harsh Batra
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I build businesses. Region Head @ EthosData VDRs (16 years). Founder @ Happy Ratio Diet (13 years). Long-Term Investing Evangelist @ Marcellus (3 years).