Mani Vaya is a former Computer Engineer who left a very lucrative hi-tech career to start 2000 Books in 2015. At 2000 Books, Mani and his team compress the knowledge from the world’s best business and self-help books into 15 minute Videos and Audios. Mani is an insane book lover who has read over 1,500 business and self-help books.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“even before I started my business one of the challenges that I had was I couldn’t just go and start a business because I was on a visa. So I literally had to wait for my green card in order to start my business otherwise I would have started it much sooner and that was one of the most frustrating things in this whole immigration thing that we have going on in this country where sometimes you get bound to a role rather than letting people do what they do best”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- As a Man Thinketh Book by James Allen
Also mentioned:
- Think and Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill
- Meditations Book by Marcus Aurelius
Favourite Quote:
- “Our actions may be impeded, but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” Marcus Aurelius
Also Mentioned
- “99% is a BITCH; 100% is a BREEZE”
- “to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment” James Allen
Recommended Online Resources:
ConvertKit – Email Marketing for Online Creators. Get the email marketing tools and automation you need to grow your blog and business
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“commit all the way if you want to become mighty successful”…[Listen for More]
More About Mani Vaya:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.” Zig Ziglar
Other Quotes From the Chat with Mani Vaya:
- “I believe in 100% commitment… Once you are committed you always find a way. But until you are committed you are always going to shy away from finding the way forward. So, commitment is absolutely essential and that’s why I had to go all in to make it happen”
- “I would have focused single-mindedly on one channel is in one specific thing, one marketing channel, one sales channel and one specific kind of product and just go wholeheartedly in to that. So, focus is the first thing I would teach or I would tell myself”
- “find mentors on every step of the way, find a coach, find a guide on every step of the way of your learning journey. You are never done learning, you are never done improving, there is always someone who is doing what you are trying to do who is five steps ahead of you, who is 10 steps ahead of you, whose results are twice, thrice as good as yours are and you have got to go and hire those people, you have got to go and pay them what you need to pay to get the results as soon as possible. You can short-circuit your path to success by as much as 2, 3, 4, 10X by working with the right people. So, don’t skimp on getting a mentor or a coach”
- “it’s a journey of learning to be more of yourself. That’s the journey of life and the journey of entrepreneurship in many ways is to learn to allow yourself to be who you are rather than listen to external noise and constantly analyse and re-analyse. So being who you are and allowing yourself to be who you are, that’s the gut instinct, that’s the gut feeling”
- “if I could summarise all of life success in one word it would be commitment”
- “if you think with purpose you will make all conditions serve you. The requirement if you do not want to be a victim in life you have to start thinking with purpose. That is the key. If you want all conditions to serve you, you have to start thinking with purpose with a very definite goal, that’s where life starts”
- “whatever it’s in your way is the way forward, the obstacle to standing in your way is the way forward right now. So, don’t let obstacles, don’t let challenges dishearten you realise these challenges are indeed the way forward into building a greater life”
- “for people who are getting into the field of online marketing or online business building make sure you build your email list”
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