Xenia

Ever met a customer, who looks at you like you are lesser than a human being. Talks to you like you are stupid. Demands things from you like you are meant to do them. It feels like you standing with your lunch tray in hand at the cool kids table and they are mocking you.... Feels like high school all over again... When we were in high school we tried everything in our power to stay away from the cool kids (thats if you weren't one). You knew that if you tried you would get mocked at, ridiculed... so we would save ourselves the embarrassment and mind our own business. But now we have grown up and you have made something of yourself or on your way to it. You think you have grown up, matured and think we have left the queen bees and the jocks behind, because you have bigger things in life to worry about like mortgages and marriage and business etc. But has it really changed?? I think not! Its just a little different now, the only difference being you aren't in school or c...

Every entrepreneur waits for their first big break. You are excited and the same time so panicked. Its a bitter sweet feeling. You know you can pull it off but you just keep wondering how? Then you take the project and break it down in to all the variables you know. You plan and you hedge and you plan some more. And then you look back and say hmmmmm this sounds about right.... till you speak to someone with way more experience in the field and he starts pointing out all the things you have missed out and you go back to the drawing board. Then comes the day of execution and you run around like a crazy person functioning purely on adrenaline. You see flaws which you know you can't fix. A dozen things go wrong at the same time and you feel you have been stretched too thin. But you dust yourself off and keep going praying that everything falls into place. At that moment you think this couldn't get any worse but you put on a brave face and power through. You get involved and not ...

I am an event planner. I party for a living. I get to be creative and use my imagination. I get to make people happy and create wonderful memories for them that will last a life time. I am the MAGICIAN behind the scenes. I love my job. My clients; well most of them; are sweet and leave you alone. But sometimes you get this one annoying client, that has a love chat with you once in the morning and once before you go to bed like a overly attached boyfriend who needs to know where and what you are doing at every waking moment. So you humour them once, twice, thrice! and then it starts to get to you a little bit. But you realise that it comes with the territory so take a seat back and go with the flow. But then you are sitting at the fag end of a deadline and nothing is decided and everytime you meet everything changes. So how can you plan? I ask myself I am an event planner but pulling an elephant out of hat is not gonna happen without the required planning! Then you have the other...

"You are only as good as your Employees" This statement could hold greater value that it does for me today. The caliber of your staff is a direct reflect of you, your weaknesses, your strengths and your failures. If they succeed you will give them the credit cause you know they put their hearts and souls into it. And if they fail you will be standing right there in front of them to shelter them from the storm. But when you are starting out I you have your first employee they are more like your partners than an employee. They get vested in and every small victory and failure is celebrated and fretted upon together. But at the end of the day the company is your baby and sometimes (very rarely) they stick around till the end. But more often than not they move on to better prospects, opportunities etc. Never place all your eggs in one basket. Divide the responsibilities and have a cohesive area for all your important data but most importantly remember that their success is a...

Once upon a time.... There was a boy and a girl... yada yada yada Happily ever After!!! OR Once upon a time..... There was man or woman who came from nothing.... Yada Yada.... Struggled and Happily Ever After.... People often say what happens in the movies are stories and you never get that "Fairytale" ending. "It only happens in the movies". I have lost count on how many times I have heard this. Still every time I hear an inspirational story or see a Romantic Comedy I smile and my heart swirls.  The thing is we have been taught to settle for less for a very young age. I remember my mother telling me; although she meant well; "You can't have everything in life" Which is true because it is important to be content and be grateful for what you have. But there is vast difference between being content and settling for less. So I asked myself "WHY THE HELL NOT?" No situation is ideal I agree. But for you at the that moment; at the ...

When you start a new company and you talk to your friends etc. and say man this is frustrating, things don't seem to be moving. You meet people, pitch for your company do the FB posts and tweets etc. But nothing seems to be yielding any results. Then those words of WISDOM come pouring out of people who aren't in the same situation as you : "Keep at it... It will happen..." While what they are saying isn't wrong or offensive its frustrating. Not because you have heard it over and over again its because you know deep down its true! And there are days you have your good moments when you will power through.... Then there are days when you just wanna head home and say Il do it later.... and that later never happens..... So how do you power through and keep yourself going... Here are a few things that have helped me... Which might help you... 1. Count your Blessings: Look back and see where you started and assess the situation you were in when you started. Your ...

My father always says that the youth today got the short end of the stick. We are born in a time when competition is Immense. Its either you Go Big or Go Home. But like any candle in the wind the flame dwindles and eventually dies out. That is the majority of the crowd. They start something and somewhere down the line the faith in what they are doing dwindles and they go back to the safety of a job. One of my Mentors and inspirations is Seth Godin and what he says rings so close to home...  "If is scares you, it might be a good thing to try..." "Be Genuine, Be Remarkable, Be worth connecting with..." He also says that one of the riskiest thing we can do today is stay within the status quo.... It is being Remarkable, being something worth noticing.... That sets you apart and deicides your success When I started my company I had a vision is to do unique designs and execute projects that India has only seen on paper or online on Pinterest etc. Ever...