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Divyaa Advaani 

2 November 2024 at 3:28:38 am

Your Success Is The Problem

He had been doing things his way for decades. A business built from the ground up, a reputation earned over years, a way of showing up so ingrained it had become indistinguishable from identity. When I pointed out what was not working, he listened politely. And then continued exactly as before. He was older than me. More successful than me by most conventional measures. And in the quiet of his reaction, I could sense what he did not say out loud — what could a young woman possibly tell him...

Your Success Is The Problem

He had been doing things his way for decades. A business built from the ground up, a reputation earned over years, a way of showing up so ingrained it had become indistinguishable from identity. When I pointed out what was not working, he listened politely. And then continued exactly as before. He was older than me. More successful than me by most conventional measures. And in the quiet of his reaction, I could sense what he did not say out loud — what could a young woman possibly tell him about how to show up in his own industry. I did not push. I shared my own story instead. I told him I had once been exactly where he was. Unclear in how I presented myself. Inconsistent in how I communicated my value. Holding onto patterns that felt like strength but quietly cost me every opportunity I worked so hard to create. I told him what shifted when I finally chose to change — not overnight, but consistently, one uncomfortable step at a time. The clarity. The leads. The conversations that finally converted. He went quiet. And then something in the room changed. This is the part most founders never examine. Not the website or the pitch. The invisible patterns so habitual they have stopped feeling like choices. The way you dominate a conversation believing it signals confidence, when the room reads it as insecurity. The way you resist being seen differently because the old version of you built everything — so changing it feels like betrayal. The way leads walk away without explanation and you tell yourself it was the market, the timing, the competition. It was none of those things. For accomplished founders this is the most expensive blind spot in existence. The patterns that need to change are not weaknesses — they are the exact behaviours that built the success. Which is why they are the last thing anyone examines and the first thing everyone else notices. Ask yourself honestly. When was the last time you had a significant conversation that should have converted — and did not? When was the last time you walked out of a room that should have remembered you — and did not follow up? When was the last time an opportunity chose someone less qualified, and you genuinely could not understand why? If any of those questions created even a flicker of recognition — that flicker is not coincidence. It is your brand telling you something your revenue has been masking. He called me weeks later. Changes made — small, consistent, uncomfortable. People responded differently. Conversations converted. Someone who had known him for years said he seemed entirely different. He told me — I am so glad I listened. Thank you for not giving up on me. I had not given up on him because I had once needed the same. That is the work that never makes it into a profile or a post — the courage to examine what no longer serves you, even when it built everything you have. The discipline to change when change feels like loss. And the moment, always worth waiting for, when the world reflects back the leader you have been building from the inside out. The founders who do this work stop chasing. The ones who do not keep running harder on a track that quietly leads nowhere. Your next level is not waiting for a better market or a bigger team. It is waiting for you to close the gap between the leader you are and the brand the world currently experiences. A Founder Brand Audit is a focused consultation call — not a free chat, not a discovery exercise, but a direct and honest diagnosis of exactly where your brand is working against you and what it will take to close that gap. Four slots open each week, reserved for founders who have decided this has cost them enough. Book your call here: https://calendly.com/divyaaadvaani/founder-brand-audit (The author is a personal branding expert. She has clients from 14+ countries. Views personal.)

India working on logistics of Tahawwur Rana's extradition

  • PTI
  • Feb 14, 2025
  • 3 min read

Updated: Feb 18, 2025

Tahawwur Rana

Washington: India is working on the logistics of Tahawwur Rana's surrender and extradition from the US, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri has said, as President Donald Trump announced that his administration has given the go-ahead to extradite the 26/11 terror attack accused “to face justice".

“This is an issue on which the US authorities have taken very clear decisions. I think you've seen the President announce it himself from the White House podium" the decision of the US to extradite Rana, Misri said at a press conference here on Thursday.


During a joint press conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the White House, US President Donald Trump announced that his administration has approved the extradition of "very evil" Tahawwur Rana, wanted by Indian law enforcement agencies for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, "to face justice in India”.


In response to a question by PTI on the timeframe by when Rana will be extradited to India, Misri said: "We are working on the logistics of his surrender and extradition to India. There are a few final steps to be completed. The two sides are in touch on this particular issue.”


The India-US joint statement issued during the Prime Minister's visit to the US notes that Modi and Trump reaffirmed that the global scourge of terrorism must be fought and terrorist safe havens eliminated from every corner of the world.

“They committed to strengthen cooperation against terrorist threats from groups, including Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Jaish-e Mohammad, and Lashkar-e-Tayyiba in order to prevent heinous acts like the attacks in Mumbai on 26/11 and the Abbey Gate bombing in Afghanistan on August 26, 2021," the joint statement said.


“Recognising a shared desire to bring to justice those who would harm our citizens, the US announced that the extradition to India of Tahawwur Rana has been approved," it said.


The leaders further called on Pakistan to expeditiously bring to justice the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai, and Pathankot attacks and ensure that its territory is not used to carry out cross-border terrorist attacks.

"The leaders also pledged to work together to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems and to deny access to such weapons by terrorists and non-state actors,” the joint statement added.

Rana, a Canadian national of Pakistani origin, is currently lodged at a metropolitan detention centre in Los Angeles. He is known to be associated with Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, one of the main conspirators of the 26/11 attacks.

Speaking at the joint press meet, Trump said "Today I am pleased to announce that my administration has approved the extradition of one of the plotters and very evil people of the world, and having to do with the horrific Mumbai terrorist attack, to face justice in India. So, he is going back to India to face justice."


The extradition of Rana was cleared by the US Supreme Court in January as it rejected his review petition in the case.


India last month said it was working with American authorities for the early extradition of Rana.


"The US Supreme Court on January 21 declined to hear a petition from the accused. We are now working with the US side on procedural issues for early extradition to India of the accused in the Mumbai terror attack," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal had said.


In November 2012, Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman among the Pakistani group, was hanged to death in Yerawada Jail in Pune.

-PTI

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