My Home

Here is the story of my house hunt.....
I have some good 8 years of experience at work of which I have leaved for 6 good years on rent in Mumbai city. I earn decently well to leave a middle class life(with cost cutting and adjustments) and still manage to pay heavy rents staying in South Mumbai. When people would ask me "Why don't you buy a car, microwave, start your own business, etc?", my reply would be "Let me buy a house first and then all will fall in place". Why is so important to have your own house, is it not finally a materialistic possession?
"My Home" are two magical words. Using them:

• Gives you a sense of security
• Relieves you of stress
• Gives you a feeling of belonging
  
• Feels like you have won a big battle in your life

Mumbai city is just so expensive that my income levels never happen to match up with the prices of the market. Also, because of my daughter Siya, I really cannot move beyond South Mumbai. All I can get currently this side of city is 250 sq. Ft.

Wonder if I can crack this :-(

Can you be rich and still be a king?

I am sure everyone who is on the journey of entrepreneurship would go through this kind of a dilemma. This question came to me when we were discussing "Brand" for SME's. Of course these two topics have no connection but that is where we actually landed up.

There is a kind off irony here. You become a entrepreneur because you have the thrist of creating your own identity, you have the urge to innovate, venture out, try things that you like, be responsible for your actions and last but not the least, be in the control of your organizations goals and visions. You inspire to be a entrepreneur so that you can live a KING life.

And then comes a phase where you grow big and there is too much for one to take care off. You tend to loose your pace and find yourself dis-organized with things. So you move towards a step where you want to run your organization with professionals. You tend to move out of a family managed business to a professional corporate. This decision is taken only because you want to grow rich (generate profits). Because of this move soon you will find yourself not a king but a team player.

Are you contradicting the reason why you want to be a entrepreneur?

National Identification Project

We all have heard already about the national identification project. 2 weeks back, I had attended a conference where this project of National Identification was discussed. Curious to know more about it, I did come home and google about it immediately. In India, there is no formal national identification number unlike the US where we have the social security number. The closest India could come was with a PAN number generally used by the income tax department for tracking purpose. Govt has established Unique Identification Authority of India to issue Unique Identification number to each citizen of India. This Authority headed by Nandan Nilekhani, a former CEO of Infosys. This Authority will issue the first unique number within 12 to 18 months of its creation.

Reading this, I was truly impressed and wanted to be a part of the same. I need to be a part of a huge project like this to understand what does it take to be this huge. I am very sure that this will not be a easy way. I also want to volunteer myself to work on this project. But I am not sure how do I go about it. When I searched about it, did not get anything related to the same.