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Bhavik Sarkhedi is the founder of Ohh My Brand, co-founder of Blushush Agency. His work has been featured in esteemed publications such as as The New York Times, Forbes, HuffPost, and Entrepreneur. He is the best-selling author of 'The Unproposed Guy'. Bhavik Sarkhedi is an accomplished and verified personal branding expert, award winning digital marketer, independent SEO writer, published author of 12 books, and storyteller known for his prolific contributions across various domains.

4 Ways to Work Smarter Instead of Harder in 2026

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There aren’t enough hours in the day. That’s just a fact, which applies to everyone. You’ll never really get on top of all the things you possibly can do at work, especially if you include meta-tasks like learning more and networking within your industry, and most of us really want to have a little time left over to play, spend time with our family or just watch Netflix.

Everybody gets 24 per day, 168 per week. Why, then, do some people stand out while others work overtime just to keep up? Part of the answer may lie below.

Take Frequent Breaks

Most people, when they think of working really hard, probably have the image of someone hunched over their desk for hours on end, undiverted by Facebook, snacks or even the call of nature. This certainly shows dedication, but does it actually get stuff done?

Very few people are actually able to work this way for more than a few hours while still retaining their focus, creativity, and motivation. If you’re one of these, bravo!Pomodoro technique for sustained concentration and productivity.

Delegate and Automate

Here’s a secret from the world of software development: the smartest, most productive programmers are also usually the laziest. What’s meant by this is that these individuals will be the ones who tend to read the manual for their development environment, look online for tools they can use and frequently find ways of automating tasks that their hard-working colleagues spend hours doing manually.

Even if you’re not a coder, the same principle can be applied to nearly any job. If you’re wasting hours each day making inconsequential phone calls or sifting through irrelevant emails, ask yourself if an assistant can’t free up this time for things that really do require your attention. In much the same way, learning how to use macros and seeing what software you can apply to your daily tasks will keep you from wasting your energy on the trivial.

Communicate More Clearly

“Why is there never time to do something right, but always time to do it over?” complains a certain motivational sign. Really, a lot of us can relate to that sentiment. In the modern workplace, almost nothing can be accomplished solo, and when more than one person is involved, communication failures are bound to occur.

Talking directly yet politely is not a skill everyone possesses naturally, and to make matters worse, we often can’t detect our own lousy communication habits. Consulting a professional has saved more than one career and relationship.

Start from First Principles

This advice was stolen without apologies from Elon Musk. Anyone interested in productivity, technology or how smart people think will almost certainly find a great deal of value in what this pioneer has to say.

The common perception of being productive is to start with a bang and keep going until you’re done. Is this really right? Actually, there’s one step missing in this model: looking, listening and thinking before you plunge ahead.

Firstly, is the task you set for yourself even necessary? Especially in large organizations, the honest answer is often “no.” Is it really part of your job, or is a colleague trying to palm their work off on you? Distracting yourself from your essential tasks is no way to get ahead. Above all, prioritize and decide what outcomes will serve your purpose – if the important stuff is done right, the rest tends to fall into place.

 

Bhavik in the Confused Wonderland [2.0 Version]

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An Open Book (Some Pages from his Personal Diary)

Caution: Below narration is purely an array of my scared soul and menacing mind.

1:00 AM

Feb 22, 2015

Walking alone along the solitary highway, I was thinking what was so wrong with me then. It was just the 2nd day at my new company (The Anuswara) and I was feeling, yes that scared feeling that still something is wrong.

 Is it because of the profession I am into?

 Have I put an axe on my legs leaving engineering 5 months ago?

Where is the confident bhavik who used to be jolly and jaunty all the time?

Unknown of where I was walking and what force was motivating me to even walk, I was strangling from inside. How happy my parents used to be when I was in AMW (As Engineer) as they were tension-free and relaxed considering my future was secure. Then, one single day, another day, then another day when I really gave  deep thoughts of what I really like to be, what I really want to be, what I really think I can be. I quit AMW and all hopes of my parents but still I was confident of doing something in writing- Lots and lots to do with it- Millions of direction was pushing and pulling – It was time to think again through the bottleneck. (TOP SECRET) Without letting anyone know, without telling anyone about the resignation, I started to work for a blog (In Partnership) www.tenuz.com & to make it a news portal was our goal. Through AdSense, we had figured out that we can earn handsome amount of money. 2 Months later, we knew that it did not work. It failed, yes it again failed, just like my book ‘The Weak Point Dealer’. The bitter truth, the most resentful thought came, “What the hell is happening? Why am I wasting, spoiling and decaying my money and time in weaving words? Why have I spent almost all my savings and capital behind the thing that isn’t my fate actually?

Can I never be a good script writer or a better novelist?

Will I be devoid to go in ‘TVF’, ‘AIB’ and any creative firms?

Why I fail in every test of writing that I give to the above firms?

Am I really good in writing or was that just the illusion?

How come I never think a second before spending on my writing?

These questions were lot many but enough to answer some of my weird and new thinking I have developed for myself:

I can’t and haven’t fit with any of the new colleagues, friends or neighbors I meet at new rent place, job or any neutral venue( since I have left Engineer). I act strange like I don’t like them (even without knowing them). Yes, I put a mask on my face every time I go out in this world.

FLASHBACK: There was a time when people around me would want and crave and demand and wish me to crack a joke and make everybody laugh. Yes, I still am the same bhavik when I meet my closest and dearest people in the world, but I don’t know why what happens to this extrovert and fun loving guy when he sees-meets every other guys and girls in the world & behaves like a dumb and introvert? Why this Dual-personality?

PRESENT

2:00 AM

I was not sleepy but I was exhaust so I thought of returning back to my place so that I get some motivation to go back to my new workplace and do the thing I feel pity to do, I hate to do, I wish I could change it, I don’t really like to

“Earn Money and Bread eventually for the Survival”

How sad is that? I mean, really? Bhavik is a guy who doesn’t like making new friends but he has so many close friends with whom he is cool and original. He is working as a designation he wanted to but he is not happy. What is it that he is finding?

When he tried to sleep half consciously, he was speaking to himself,

“I am so creating in things and stuffs like Songs Rapping, Right Arm Fast Bowler in Cricket, Movie Fan, Reading Books, Visualizing every nearby surrounding and routine into my mind-script. Everytime I help a poor or feed a dog gives me so much pleasure and bliss that even my paycheque don’t give. May be I am creative but not up to the mark, so people don’t consider me. May be I need some training, practice and struggle to work on my writing. May be, I need time. May be, I am a normal guy wanted to be special thinking that I am special.

But what about my ambitions I have to be a great script writer or behind the scenes’ hero?

Why my every step into my career puts me drags me back into mud again?

 Why I want to run far away to the place where nobody knows me?

What is wrong with me?

Why I become so dumb and numb sometimes that I even forget/hesitate/doubt/waver my writing?”

1 unread mail:

To Bhavik,

Thank you for your application. We are overwhelmed by your response. We got more than 20000 applications and we selected our top 9 contestants. Please don’t lose hope and try next year.

From,

AIB

I cried, I couldn’t stop myself as I took my shawl to shout out loud but couldn’t as I knew that there is something positive for me coming up but I don’t have any shoulders to cry on. It reminded me when my such application was rejected in biggest Zee TV, TVF and other famous brands’s competition. To add some salt to my injury, I always remember at last that my Girlfriend who stayed with me for 4 years finally went to a guy and may be the only difference why she chose him was his ‘Status’, ‘Prestige’ or let me be straight forward ‘Materialism’. I laugh and cry saying, “I was ambitious, maybe I could have been like him if given time.”

I cried, cried, and I slept…

(Every night, I do one positive thing: I count my failures every day and try to figure out optimistically that more the count/numbers of failures nearer will be my good time)

Failures:

Being the topper till 12th, I still repent and regret why I couldn’t pursue ‘mass communication’ degree .Unfortunately, I was not aware, known or alert about such things. Anyways, Engineering was good.

Starting from ‘Soup for the Soul’ blogspot, to the ‘The Randomz’ to several many websites I created that failed and then I started investing on such things to make it lucrative. Publishing book was the worst thing I ever did in my life. Making and striving to join and run start-ups, making funny facebook and instagram, working for high authority sites, learning new things daily to do many things pages to 2013- Octover 23,2015.( On October 23, 2015 I started www.tenuz.com) The very ambitious bhavik, the jubilant bhavik was a junk now. He has no aims-goals-dreams to fulfill. He is so negative that he thinks to be saint, run away from home-city, hurts himself, but not struggle.

Then, One day, he talks to one of the God’s Messenger. But he is so confused to narrate his troubles that he is scared and frightened. Since Bhavik’s favorite song is ‘I am not afraid to take a stand’, he decides to directly and clearly tell everything and every query of the universe he has inside him.

I am good at writing but I don’t want to do/be writing what somebody tells; I know it sounds crazy but I want to write something from my mind, something I like to. You know, when I go out for work, I peek into every degrees around me like a panorama and narrates the scene inside as I am writing something and like a storyteller, …You know…when a children of pauper plays just with the wooden cart full of mud makes him/her smile, it makes me smile and think ‘why people are running behind money?’.. when I help any aged person cross the road, he bless me …and …some spark .inside thunders happens..when I feed dog as I love to do it daily , they love me – I am good in emotions but I know I needs practice and guidance because I am an amateur in it . The only good thing about me in writing is my bullshit thought “I think I can be one of the pinnacle or pioneer but let me just try, let me just get a chance” I don’t want to work under someone, I don’t wish to do what everyone tells me to /orders me to/ I don’t like to ..Is it so hard to live for yourself? To do what you love? Why am I suffering like hell? Am I so vague in my approach and plans to accomplish my dreams that I have just failed?

What would happen to a guy who left Engineering on October 20, 2015 but his 2 months: October 23- December 23,2015 just spoils like anything with nothing but lost hope. Then he joins firm Krish Technolabs and consoled himself that dreams are just fairyland and before he could live his life settled, they FIREEEEEEEEEED HIM, YES!

“The writing was not good / upto the mark”, exclaims the boss and CEO.

Hopefully and before he could do anything wrong and bad with himself, he joins on the very next day after he was thrown.

I am optimistic and pessimistic, introvert and extrovert, totally emotionless and fully sentimental; I think I don’t know me, I hate materialism but I come across the fact that I might had but I lost it. I hate to be fake and put a mask but yet I imitate and manipulate me. I hate my life but yet I am living it…..

‘From Cars to Chemicals: India as a manufacturing melting pot’

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Like most of the developing nations, India, too, had realized the significance of the manufacturing sector. Not only did it help in alleviating poverty, but also helped in the growth of our economy. Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India, was the man behind the systematic establishment and flourishing of this sector in India. The result of this was the acceleration of the GDP to over 5% per year during 1980, a steady rise as compared to the previous years.

Today, India is becoming one of the most productive options for manufacturing industry to thrive. It is poised to become the third-largest economy of the world by 2030 and rank amongst the top three manufacturing destinations by 2020.

Industrial corridors are the principal drivers of India’s growth in manufacturing and urbanization. Since past two decades, the growth in it is continuous and although with few rises and falls, the development is flawless and marginally increasing significantly. India’s manufacturing sector picked up the pieces after GST kicked in. With the help of Make in India initiative, India is on the runway of becoming the hub for manufacturing, design, and innovation.

India is already a global hub for the manufacturing of a variety of goods ranging from paper to power, pharmaceuticals to software, chemicals to automobiles and satellites to submarines. That is a vast area to cover but nothing has hampered its development. Business confidence in the manufacturing sector, which was knocked by obstacles relating to the GST and demonetization, has not been disturbed dramatically.

“Under the Make in India initiative, the Government goals to increase the share of the manufacturing sector to the gross domestic product (GDP) from 16% to 25% by 2022.”

A strong infrastructure, less expensive labor force, fully-fledged and advanced technological equipment, robust strategies and invariable growth rate are indispensable elements for any manufacturing sector to grow and Indian manufacturing sector has it. Keeping that in mind, the government invested a lot of funds in building roads, rails, transport and every necessary infrastructure to foster the growth of the manufacturing sector. Cumulative Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in India’s manufacturing sector reached US$ 70.51 billion by June 2017.

With the assistance of the government, this sector opened doors for the production of several luxury, technology, and automotive brands. Seeing the profits, many schemes and plans were developed. One of them is The National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (NMCC). This programme targeted that India’s manufacturing sector will contribute 25% to the GDP by 2025 compared to the current share of nearly 16%.  It has been observed that the Indian manufacturing has grown at nearly the same pace as the overall economy.

Now, let’s look at some of the sub-sectors and analyze their development.

AUTOMOBILES

This manufacturing sector of India is the fastest growing sector which contributes to nearly 22% of the countries manufacturing GDP. It is expected that by 2020, India will become a major automobile manufacturing hub. Not only this, while it is currently the seventh-largest, with an average annual production of 17.5 million vehicles, by 2020, it would become the third largest market for automobiles. Thus, from two-wheelers to cars, tractor to commercial vehicles, buses to trucks, solar vehicles to hybrid vehicles, India is moving ahead in this sector at a light speed.

The Indian government has also established a go-getting target of devising only electric vehicles being sold in the country by the year 2030.

MINING

India is rich in minerals and has a constructive geological milieu which has not been fully assessed and explored. The Mines and Minerals, which governs the mineral sector, have been amended lately, by the Government. It has been recorded that India produces as many as 88 minerals which include 4 fuels minerals, 3 atomic minerals, and 26 metallic and non-metallic minerals. The numbers speak for it.

CHEMICALS

Chemicals sector also acts as a fundamental empowering industry and delivers support for agriculture, construction, leather etc. According to the reports, the Indian chemical sector ranks 3rd in Asia and 6th in the world. The total production of the major chemicals was 23.9million tons during 2015-16. It is hoped that by 2021, this sector would grow at 14% per annum.

POWER SECTORS

Power is one of the acutest components of infrastructure decisive for the economic growth and welfare of nations. Among the list of 40 countries, India is at the third position in EY’s Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index. India’s power sector is one of the most diversified in the world. Sources of power generation range from conventional sources: natural gas, lignite, coal, oil, and nuclear power to non-conventional sources: solar, wind, and domestic waste.

MILES TO GO

Undoubtedly, India is a smart and primary choice for foreign investments in the manufacturing sector. Many mobile phones, luxury, aviation, renewable energy, pharmaceuticals, engineering and automobile brands are looking to establish their manufacturing bases in the country. From cars to chemicals, yes, India is a manufacturing melting pot

Few things you didn’t know about Make in India

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Before we talk about the things you didn’t know, it’s essential to tell what you know about Make in India. Launched & promoted by our Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Make in India encourages national and multi-national companies to manufacture their products in India. It concentrates on simplifying job creation problems, enforcing the national economy, making a compelling effort to ensure that Indian economy gets global salutation. The most important point is to focus on skill enhancement in different sectors of the economy. Since the launch, FDI inflows of , including equity inflows of USD 56 billion, has been received until March 2016. The figures itself tell the story, don’t they? It is just the periphery of the campaign & there are 3 simple but crucial things every Indian Youth should know.

It is the brave young risk-taking entrepreneurs of the country who will be the most benefited and do business with ease. But it is totally up to them to take the necessary steps and make a contribution to this revolutionary economic vision of India to be a global manufacturing power.

Easy & Simple Industrial Licensing

The industrial licensing process has become easy and simple. In addition to this, there has been a noteworthy extension in the time period for the validity of the license. There is a driving force to create smart cities and industrial corridors. The maximum allowed Foreign Direct Investment in the sector was augmented to 46% from 26% improving FDI standards in the development segment. Make in India further propels the manufacture of gear/machines/gadgets for reducing regular contamination and increasing water preservation. Do you want to set up your industry? Of all the reasons that bothers every individual who fears to set up something on his own, this factor ranks the top. Now, there’s not much to worry about the licensing. Do it today!

Reduce Redundant Dependency

 It’s not all about setting up industries but it’s the small factors that contribute to Make in India that ought to be considered. For those who are setting up plants and factories, an exceptional way to put into this campaign would be to source your raw materials from within India because raw materials can be easily procured domestically. Close to $63.4 billion of the import cost of the country is on electronics, machines, engines, and pumps. If it is manufactured in India, it will reduce the dependence on overseas suppliers and exposures to foreign exchange risk in a long run. It’s as simple as that. We don’t buy or import foreign products; other countries don’t get our money.

Let’s understand it with a current and booming company which is helping our nation to grow tremendously & abandon the outflow of Indian currency dramatically. Patanjali, it is. Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved has sold consumer brands from biscuits to noodle overtaking multinational companies. Patanjali group reported 111% rise in turnover to 10,561 crore INR in 2016-17. If a single brand can make such a huge impact, it’s evident that Make in India can make our country the strongest economy in the world soon.

Start it in your own expertise

To some aspiring youth, Make in India might sound technical and out of context. It isn’t correct. From Aviation to automobiles, electrical to electronics, media to mining, textile to tourism, Make in India covers almost all the significant sectors that govern Indian economy. Aren’t you good at one of this, at least? Then, there’s no need to wait for a single second as this revolutionary initiative will ignite your inner potential to do something of your own & eventually serving your nation to the fullest. As Café Coffee Day, Old Monk, Micromax, Royal Enfield Louis Phillipe, Lakme, Jio, Jaguar, Infosys, ITC are giving tough competition to the foreign firms, your firm can be the next one.

This is the time. This is an initiative which is intended to ease investment, improve skill development process, shape best industrial infrastructure and ultimately make our country self-reliant in a global economy.

Why India is best placed for the next real estate boom? [Forecast]

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“Yes, I figured out how to make a million dollars in the real estate business. You start out with two million. Now, that’s what I call a million-dollar idea.”

Next joke, please.

A real estate software sales representative was on a pitch to an agent: “Our innovative combination CRM system and original transaction management software will cut your workload in half!”

“Sounds great. I’ll take two”, says the agent.

Okay, enough with the fun but that’s what you have been hearing and reading all around you, haven’t you? But when you see the overall Indian economy, it is evident that the same-low graph has been the daunting factor for many dominating sectors of India. Why so havoc only with the real estate? The slowing down is consistent and similar in other lucrative sector. But, in this situation, if you deal with coherent strategies, it’s certain that you will get to see the bubble i.e. boom. The survey predicts that the number of people demanding homes will be more in future. Before understanding the future market of India, let’s go into what a ‘Real Estate Bubble’ is.

A real estate bubble is a type of economic bubble that occurs periodically in real estate markets. After almost a year of few imperative reforms, the coming days are looking optimistic. When the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act 2016 (RERA) came into force, it brought extraordinary levels of transparency into real estate projects, reduce delays in projects, clear out unprincipled developers, and many beneficial executions. When it comes to affordable housing, Indian real estate is on an upward trajectory again. Fortunately, the experts forecast that 2018 will be a better year than the prevailing ones.

The tenacity of today’s real estate market is to re-establish the self-assurance amongst the buyers on the Indian residential real estate sector, which reiterates itself that there is more potential demand in future. The potential future demand is directly proportional to number of buyers and disposable income. Surprisingly, both factors are simultaneously rising and that’s a noteworthy element for a common man to reconsider about the proposition of residential investment he intends to do in the future.

“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” — Mark Twain

India’s real estate market is anticipated to touch US$ 180 billion by 2020. It has already witnessed high growth in recent times with the rise in demand for office as well as residential spaces.

Info graphic (we can represent the same statistics differently)

Homie: “Man, why are you paying 15k rent when you can buy your own house and set the EMI of 15k.”

Anti-homie: “True. But, isn’t it risky today as the real estate market is fluctuating.”

Homie: “Tell me which sector isn’t?  You know what. Disposable income per person in India is increasing. So, the current youth population can easily have access to these rising wealth to buy homes in future. Do you get it?

Anti-homie: Sure, I am motivated. House is a basic need. Also, I saw in the news that the number of people to need homes will increase and that means now is the right time to buy it.

Homie: Exactly. As Louis Glickman, real estate investor, says, “The best investment on Earth is earth.”

India is a country full of youths and buying a house so that one feels secure becomes a basic necessity. Approximately, our 65% youth normally gives 10-15 solid years to build on their professions, living in rented accommodation along the way.

The number of people in the young age bracket is far higher than the people in the age group of 35 who have either settled down with a nice residence or planned to buy the house. It’s time for the youth. It’s now or never to buy the home of their dreams.