The Four Quarters Method
4th January 2025 I’m always looking for new ways to help structure my days for improved productivity, progress, and enjoyment. I recently came across a brilliant approach from bestselling author Gretchen Rubin, which is called The Four Quarters Method: “Instead of feeling that you’ve blown the day and thinking, ‘I’ll get back on track tomorrow,’ […]
The Surfer Mentality
3rd January 2025 I first came across the concept after reading a book: ‘Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life.’ The book is a beautiful, poetic memoir of a young man’s life, told through the lens of his various surfing adventures around the world. In reading it, I became aware of the metaphor of riding waves and […]
Golden Buddha
2nd January 2025 Sharing an old yet true story. Thousands of years ago, Located in Wat Traimit, a temple in Bangkok, existed the Golden Buddha weighing about five and a half tons of solid gold. The monks would pray before it, people would behold its beauty and all passer-by’s would revere the remarkable masterpiece. Then, […]
The Clock is Ticking…
30th December 2024 As we approach the end of another wonderful year, a realisation ticked in, ‘The clock is ticking’—not in a doomsday way, but in a ‘Make the most of it’ way. In fact, that thought of mortality doesn’t scare me as much as it motivates me. I don’t see it as a burden […]
The Stories You Tell Yourself
29th December 2024 There is one piece of wisdom I would share with a younger self: Pay close attention to the stories you tell yourself, because stories create your reality. The Narrative Fallacy is the tendency to craft a story around data, events, and inputs. Basically, our brains like to “make sense” of the random […]
Winner’s Game vs. Loser’s Game
27th December 2024 In the 1999 tennis book, ‘Extraordinary Tennis for the Ordinary Tennis Player,’ author Simon Ramo broke down the difference between amateur and professional tennis, writing that they were two different types of games: 》Amateur tennis is a Loser’s Game: 80% of points are lost on unforced errors. You win by avoiding errors […]
It’s later than you think!
22nd December 2024 I recently came across the lyrics of the famous song by Guy Lombardo and they stuck a chord. “You work and work for years and years, you’re always on the go You never take a minute off, too busy makin’ dough Someday you say, you’ll have your fun, when you’re a millionaire […]
LET IT BE YOU!
21st December 2024 I recently came across this wonderful post by Jim Rohn & found it very apt & hence sharing it. Each and every day, there are people all around the country and world who are living their dreams. Millionaires are made every day. Families are experiencing tremendous relationships. People are becoming more and […]
The Blue Team
17th December 2024 I remember, in my MBA days, we used to have case studies, where one group used to present a case & the other group or the rest of the class had to find gaps in their presentation & question their hypotheses. In recent times, in my work as a wealth manager, our […]
Just Drop it!
15th December 2024 Once a Crow holding on to a piece of meat was flying to a place to sit & eat. However, a flock of Eagles were chasing it. The crow was anxious and was flying higher and higher, yet eagles were after the poor crow. Just then “Garuda” saw the plight of the […]