SearchingSirocco

What does it take to work successfully as a Youtuber?  First, it is the dedication and then it is persistence. These two things work hand in hand. If you want to become a successful YouTuber you have to keep posting videos without caring about whether they will hit the right audience or not. Most of the youtube videos that you will see will tell you that they have arrived at it by an accident. They didn’t know themselves but once something hits the right goal they keep working on it till it becomes massive. The kick is to find that right video. But again, a new question arrives that what is the right kind of content that you should choose to become a successful YouTuber. Googling on the internet will give you lots of options but DON’T read them. You cannot find your calling on the internet. Your calling is inside you and you can only find it thinking about the things that you have done in your life and things that you like doing. Remember, Pewdi...

Where do I start to describe this man? I don't exactly know from where so I will start from any random point.  He is one of the few clean hearted people I have ever met in my life. I first met him in 2011 when he was doing music for a director I was assisting back then. We never had a close one to one chat back then. four years later, in the second half of 2015, he messaged me out-of-blue on facebook that he was making a music video and whether I was interested in directing it. It was a free gig and he was also doing it as a favor to one of his friend. I don’t normally do free shoots anymore in Mumbai but somehow I said yes because frankly, I wanted to meet him. He has always been extra nice to me and had once helped me in the background music of one of my short films. We met and we gelled instantly. To know about his background, he is the son of Legendary singer Poornima, who started her career with R.D. Burman. His mother was a big name during 90s bollywood era a...

A day ago I met an IPS officer. He is a good friend of mine. He is posted in Kerala and his name is Prateesh Kumar. He was here on a short visit to Mumbai so we decided to take a stroll around seaside just to remember the old times and talk about other stuffs of life. We decided to have lunch and dinner together and he was paying the money at every shop we went as I had not a single rupee in my pocket. I told him about my financial conditions which are not very bright and I told him that when you are in film line, nothing is certain and there are always good and bad phases that awaits you. You don’t get monthly cheques and there is no certainty from where your next cheque is coming from. He asked me whether he should loan me some money and I told him that I never borrow money from anyone. He understands my ego and self-esteem as we are childhood friends and our families are close together so he stopped insisting much. But he did ask me what were the problems I was facing and I to...

Did you ever wonder why there are only few people who get success and that you are not one of them? Did you ever stop to think what these few people know that you don’t? Today, I am going to tell you what that one thing is that all these people had which turned them into a winner. Hard work is the key to success, my teacher said that when I was in class third. He was wrong. You may feel that you do all kinds of hard work but still the results have not been in your favor. Your best friend you had in your junior class who was way far behind you, now earns more and leads a happy life. People far worse than you had suddenly shot up to rich and fame and you don’t understand why because you are still where you started with few promotions and success to your credit and with a bank balance that looks like a stand up comedian’s act. So here is one curiosity, are you doing hard work. Well, my first advice is, stop doing it. The truth is that you don’t ha...

If you have to go to Delhi from Mumbai, you reach ticket counter at Mumbai airport and ask for a ticket –what would you say.. I want to go to somewhere please give me a ticket. Do you think she would be able to give you ticket? No she won’t. You have to specify her where you want to go and only then you can be given tickets to go there. You have to tell her that. Think of her as God, God here is someone who fulfills your wish. Now if  you reach god and tell them you need a lot of money. What do you think God will send you. Nothing. He don’t know what your definition of lot of money is. He needs to know a number. Tell him you need 5000 rupees and now it will be easier for him to send you that money. So the most important thing about Goal setting is that it has to specific. You need to know where you are going before you start walking. You can run faster than anyone in this world but if you don’t know where you are going, the whole running will be useless. Goal setting is...

There is a definite way to become rich and no matter how much you doubt it, it works irrespective of the fact what you think about it. There is an exact science for everything, there are exact ways in which this world works so there has to be a science behind getting rich too. There is a reason why people like Steve jobs, Donald trump, Jordan Belford, who were once rich, becomes bankrupt and get millionaire again within no time. They know something which most people don’t. I am not going to discuss elaborately everything about becoming rich, but only one, and that one makes all the difference and it is the one that sums everything up. The idea was known to every rich man for ages, Walter Wallace mentions it in his book science of getting rich and  Napoleon Hill talks about it in his bestseller “Think and grow rich” and is also the basis for the documentary 'The Secret' which sold millions since its debut. The thing that can make your rich is you. Hmm. You mu...

If i ask you one thing that you think is necessary and is the most vital element of success then you will probably tell me that it is talent, hard work, luck, chance, contacts. You may be right. These are essential and vital elements for success but what is that one thing without which every of these things become meaningless. Well, keep reading because the suspense is not yet getting opened. My friend worked with Amitabh Bachchan and he asked him about his PR team who he thought was very efficient to which Amitabh Bachchan just laughs and tells him that he does not have a PR team instead he has fixed a slot for himself where he sits for two hours daily to write blogs and submit posts on twitter and facebook. My friend was aghast. The problem with today's world is that people lose patience very easily. The reason they lose patience very easily is because they are very easily distracted. There is so much distraction around is that it irritates everyone. The phone is continuo...