There was a point in time when I always used to envy some of my illustrious IIM Bangalore batchmates. 26 years after graduating, many of them are country heads, CEOs and Managing Directors of multi-million dollar companies in India and abroad. They jet set around the world, stay in 5-star hotels and some of them earn more in a month than what I earn in a year.

Till one of them (who I coached) told me.. “Milind.. you are self-employed; you get to choose what you want to work on, when you want to work, from where you want to work, how much you want to work, with whom you want to work.. and YOU get to decide your annual increment. I will give up everything I have to get to the place you are in.”
(To which I told him.. “I did.”)

Now it’s great to be a highly paid CEO and it’s great to be an independent professional.. and we all want to grow and change… and all that’s fine… but it’s beyond me why human beings have this crazy idea about life (me included).. Being THERE is always better than being HERE!