Amateur versus Pro

It’s raining today. Let me not work today and enjoy instead.Or it’s a festival today. Let’s skip the workout.It’s too cold today. I’d rather not get to the desk and write. These are words of an amateur.  However, a professional shows up to work...

“I am rambling”

How often do we find ourselves saying that or thinking to ourselves, “I am rambling”. Thoughts are coming, but they are unstructured, they are fast and don’t do justice to what I know about the subject.  The solution is to write.To speak in a manner that is...

Are you scared of failing?

You want a new job.Or start your own business.You want to get out of a relationship.Or you want to lose weight. But you’re unable to do any of these.Not because you don’t want to.Rather because you’re afraid. Afraid of failure.Maybe afraid of what people will...

How to ask for help

You want a college senior’s help.Or you want to reach out to a founder to seek their input on your business idea.Maybe you want to reach out to someone experienced for just guidance.  And quite often we think we do not have anything to offer in return.But that’s...

The right thing to teach our kids

Don’t laugh too hard.Stop doing that.Don’t behave like that.Talk like that. Be this way. We’re always telling our kids what they should and shouldn’t do. Their life becomes a rulebook instead of a blank slate with infinite possibilities. What if we taught our kids how...