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I was inspired to do this incredibly interesting exercise by Deepak Chopra’s Seven Spiritual Laws of Success. Specifically Chapter 7, The Law of Dharma, or Purpose in Life:

“If money was no concern and you had all the time in the world, what would you do? If you would still do what you currently do, then you are in dharma because you have passion for what you do. How are you best suited to serve humanity? Answer that question, put it into practice and you can generate all the wealth that you want.”

If money was no concern, I would…

Increase the salaries, pay off the debt and return the favors accumulated during years of bootstrapping. 

Give the first year of service for free to startups. Let organizations that help improve lives of other people use Relenta for free. 

Ramp-up our development capacity and complete the already-underway transformation of Relenta into a universal, open communication platform. My vision is to merge the distant worlds of CRM, collaboration and social networks into one hybrid communication channel that will accept as its own email, chat, microblogs, RSS, SMS texts, voice, video, and whatever else comes along tomorrow morning.

Hire an evangelist extraordinaire in every language.

Globalize Relenta’s hosting infrastructure.

Set up a charitable foundation to advance a few social and personal causes in Latvia, the home to Relenta development team. Latvia is a tiny, beautiful, and charming country with uniquely screwed up politics and economy. Its capital Riga had been my home base for the last six years, and I am connected to this place in many curiously intriguing ways.

What would you do if money was no concern?

The word hack implies the lack of finesse and elegance, opposite of effortless ease and harmony. 

Hacking is good if you need to quickly solve specific, one-off problems in your everyday life. These small, incremental improvements in your day-to-day routine will not do if you want to jump the curve and get to the next level of productivity and peace of mind.

That’s where life design comes in. The discipline of life design advocates a holistic, balanced, and planned approach. It begins with discovering your personality and purpose in life, setting goals, developing systems and finding the tools that will take wherever you want to go.

Master the the life design first. Change your habits, find the right tools, and you will need fewer life hacks. Good places to start your life design adventure are here, here and here.

We at Relenta believe in productivity by design. Life is too short for endless hacking.

In the real world, talking to a complete stranger is a challenge. Online we do it all the time. It’s become our second nature. We type from the hip.

Think about it. Every email, every IM, every tweet you send not only forms an impression of you, it also represents an infinity of choices you had. You had a choice to be polite or nasty, forthcoming or reserved, calm or irritated, understanding or pissed, helpful or arrogant.

Your every choice of action and its consequence is your Karma. You reap what you saw. Your entire life is the consequence of choices you made in every moment of the past.

Most people pay their karmic dues, without realizing it. It’s often painful, but in the universe no action goes without reaction.

So if you want peace, be understanding and polite, and not only to your customers. If you want abundance, be generous. If you want to be more productive, stop wasting other people’s time. To be lighthearted and joyful, make a choice to not be defensive and resentful. Attract instead of persuading. And stop sending “Do I know you?” messages in response to the Facebook invites…

I don’t believe in coincidences. Do you?