Be present

"I handle one customer a day. That is enough. I want to have time for my wife and 2 children," Rajeev Gupta revealed while we were stuck in the traffic in New Delhi.

My ACE's early years, I gained professional success but was losing something far more precious in the process. I had long thought of myself as a father who would do anything for his kid, yet increasingly I wasn't seeing or knowing him.

My greatest failure would be to fail my boy.

Equally bad, we can spend time with our families, be present at dinnertime, remember to call home when travelling - we can do it all but if we're too exhausted, too distracted, too frustrated and angry when "doing" these things, the positive return we hoped for will not materialise.