THE GREAT INDIAN KARKHANA
EVERYTHING I DO IS MY BUSINESS Why Profit and Loss Are Not
Limited to Money, and How I Learned to Invest My 24 Hours in the Five
Spheres That Truly Matter. What if everything you have been calling “life
outside business” is actually some of your most important business?
When a school friend met Dr. Abhishek Gilara after nearly thirty years, he
was astonished by his journey of managing businesses, writing books,
preserving India’s traditional jewellery craftsmanship, contributing to
society, maintaining spiritual discipline, exercising regularly and remaining
devoted to family. He asked a question that many others had asked
before: “How do you find time for everything? When do you actually do
business?” His answer became the foundation of this book: “I am doing
business throughout my twenty-four hours.” In EVERYTHING I DO IS
MY BUSINESS, Dr. Abhishek Gilara challenges the conventional belief
that profit and loss belong only to the financial world.
He introduces five essential businesses of human life—Professional, Family, Spiritual, Welfare
and Learning—and explains why neglecting any one of them can create losses that money alone
may never recover. He also reveals his 0.01% Principle, the art of doing only what truly matters
while refusing to surrender precious time to unnecessary distractions, comparisons, arguments
and other people’s affairs. Through personal experiences, practical examples and reflections
drawn from decades of disciplined living, this book offers a different way to understand time,
responsibility, wealth and success. It asks a question every reader must eventually confront: Are
you becoming richer in life, or merely richer in money? A THOUGHT TO CARRY WITH YOU:
“I do not need more than twenty-four hours. I need to stop giving those twenty-four hours to
things that are none of my business. My real profit lies in what I build professionally, preserve
within my family, develop spiritually, contribute to society and continue learning throughout my
life.”
