Owner’s Mindset
3rd July 2025 When I was a kid, my father once asked me to tidy up a few bookshelves in his room. I rushed through the task, sloppily stacking the books so I could get back to playing. When I told him I was done, he looked at the bookshelves, smiled, and told me to […]
Build Resilience..
1st July 2025 Success is never linear. We all face failure at some point. Life is all about handling the peaks & trough. Resilience is one ability which helps us recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. It’s the capacity to adapt to stressful situations and bounce back from adversity. Resilience is a […]
Are You Letting The Bull Get Away?
27th June 2025 “Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment & make it perfect.” But so often we wait for the conditions to be just right – the right weather, the right person to accompany us, the perfect location, the perfect time, the right mood etc, etc – and while we’re waiting the […]
This Too Shall Pass
18th June 2025 Life gives you a fair share of Joys & sorrows. Nothing is permanent. Once a king called upon all of his wise men and asked them, “Is there a mantra which works in every situation, in every circumstance, in every place & at every time? In every joy, every sorrow, every defeat […]
‘Change the perspective’
12th June 2025 “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” We all face tough times & the world seems unfair. During one of my low periods, I was only seeing negatively & one day I realized that there was only one thing I could change, and that was […]
YOUR FOUR MINUTE MILE
10th June 2025 The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once observed: “Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not, Join them.” The life you see this very moment isn’t necessarily the life of your future. You might be viewing things through the eyes of your fears, […]
Stop Comparing
16th May 2025 Comparison is the thief of joy.” ~Theodore Roosevelt I’ve lived most of my life comparing myself to others. At first, it was school and sports. But as I got older, I began comparing other metrics: work, income level, house size, and worldly successes. I have discovered there is an infinite number of […]
The Mountain or the Pebble
24th April 2025 Here’s a quote by Mohammad Ali, I often think about: “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.” introspect & ask yourself: Am I blocked by the mountain in my path or the pebble in my shoe? The mountain is the big, obvious […]
Don’t judge a book by its cover
17th April 2025 An important life theme I’ve always tried to live by is to never to judge a book by its cover. In today’s fast-paced world, we tend to make quick decisions about everything, including how we judge people. In our quest for speed, we can often and easily make judgments based on superficial […]
Who would you call to get you out of a foreign prison?
7th April 2025 I recently read George Mack’s incredible essay, High Agency. ‘High agency’ refers to a mindset and a way of acting characterized by a strong belief in one’s power to shape their own circumstances and take control of their destiny, rather than passively waiting for things to happen. Imagine you wake up in […]