How do you run 2 companies successfully?

I am working with a social enterprise in the remotest corner of India in Uttarakhand. One needs to travel 7 hours by road to the nearest big market for any industrial help. That's how remote we are.

Inspite of the remoteness of the region, and no formal training how can a man innovate and run various companies at the same time? 

The founder of my company is building a beautiful house of mudblocks, has innovated the technology to generate clean electricity from hazardous pine leaves and supervises a beautiful organic farm in the campus, which caters to more than 50 people in the company.

How does a man, who is not train to do any of these constantly innovate and build tangible profit generating projects from it? From what I have observed - the three things that are key to constantly innovating, and managing multiple things are - Discipline, Logical Thinking, and basic level of Intelligence.

Even though we are not trained to do many things but with logical thinking we can take decisions much faster and reach to a conclusion on our own. In this part of the world, we have no external help available and very few people have even heard of the concepts that we work on. Thus, it is the power of logical thinking, that constantly helps him to guide the team and take the right steps to grow the company.

I also believe that basic level of intelligence is important to be able to innovate constantly and think beyond the regular processes in day-to-day life.

Discipline is another attribute, which I have learnt to respect immensely as I see successful people constantly following it to be able to run multiple ventures and still stay human. One needs to spend time with loved ones, travel and go for a run, to be able to come back and work with new vigour and enthusiasm every day of his/her life. Without discipline and clear demarcation of timelines, it is almost impossible to be able to find enough time for things we want to do in life. We will always live under the notion of being ' super busy' all the time and not enjoy life. After all isnt that the goal of everyone's life - to enjoy life? 

Another article, which seconds some of my thoughts.

What is religion to me

I don't know much about any religion. But I find it hard to believe that a religion is meant to be complicated. Religion is for people to adopt and better their lives, and thus, should be easier to adopt. I apologise in advance if I say something which I shouldn't have, because 'people' consider it a sensitive topic. I am sure YOU and I don't fall in that category of 'people'. 

I was born in a fairly religious family, who would do their prayers on all the religious days and festivals, and had faith that HE is there to support us and make things okay in times of trouble. When I was two years old, my grandmother passed away, and my parents put her in the same pedestal as God, and we would pray to her everytime we offered a prayer to God. As I grew up, visited temples, met priests and saw and heard about their perspectives on religion and their way of following it, I kind of started to distance myself from it. How material offering and superstitious beliefs have been imbibed into religion, is what amazes me as well. 

I think religion and faith in someone superior is important in life and should be something, which helps us to hold on to something in times of pain, helps us to be on the right path when we are lost. But, we, humans have moulded religion according to our perspectives, and that is something which I am not very comfortable with. A small village in the mountains where I live in, people spend years taking care of a goat, spending half a day looking for fodder for the animal in the forest, only to sacrifice it in the name of religion. 

I, in my bad times would like to hold on to my grandmother, because I have seen her, and so have my parents, who tell me that she was a guardian angel for our family. I would like to believe in something I have seen or people I trust have seen from their eyes, rather than someone's perspective on something. Someday, I hope, I will have the energy to find out for myself about religion, and how it can help me become a better human. 

Again, someone might have a problem with my perspective on religion. I would be happy to change my thoughts if you can convince me that I am wrong :)!

This blogpost was inspired by my discussion on this article -

The discussion as well.