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.