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When do we feel bad?
Almost always because of an external trigger – circumstances or people.

When do we feel good?
Almost always an internal trigger – something we have done or felt. 

If both statements hold true, how is it that we feel bad more often than we feel good? 

If feeling good is within our control, why do we allow an external stimulus to make us feel bad? 

If we do not want anyone or anything to make us feel bad, especially when we don’t want to, we have to allow ourselves to be happy whenever we want to. 

You’re loving your journey.
Working hard.
Making remarkable progress. 

You can see it.
Everyone else can see it.

And then you see, there’s someone else more successful.
Getting more accolades than you. 

Does that suddenly make you feel that your success is lesser? 

Does that make you doubt your own self?

And perhaps your wonderful journey so far?

To not be insecure of someone else’s success and finding security in your own achievement, is the biggest achievement.

The place you were born?
The place where you stay?
The place you go back to?
The place where your family is? 

Is home a place?
Or something deeper?
An emotion?

Home is where we belong. 

Home is where we would never want to run away from.
Home is a vibe where we could be us, without any masks that we are supposed to wear.
Home is not just a place of four walls. 

It’s an abode where all walls collapse.

Clicking pictures of food.
Sharing the best vacation pics.
Getting more likes and comments.

Society has conditioned us to believe in this definition of happiness.

However, does this really make us happy? 

Or is it a dopamine boost that we get while being appreciated by people, who hardly know us?

True happiness is being able to enjoy what’s truly important. 

The nature.
The feeling of looking at the people we love the most.
The joy and responsibility of knowing that there are kids who look up to us to show them how the world works.

Your happiness is priceless.
Not putting a price tag of external validation to it is the most valuable thing for it.

You do not like your job.
And you want to change it.
But you have spent years doing it.

Won’t all of that go to waste?

That isn’t the right question to ask.

Instead the right question is: “If I don’t make the move I want to make, what about the years ahead that would be wasted?”

The time spent commiting a mistake isn’t time wasted.
The realisation that it is a mistake stops it from getting wasted.

What’s Karma?

It is the concept that we reap what we sow.

Our past determines our present.
What we see today is as a result of what we did in the past.
And that could be a helpless feeling.

I can’t change my past.

So that means, I cannot change what is happening to me.

What if we looked at Karma differently?

What we’ll do today will reflect in our future.
And that’s the power Karma gives us.

Karma gives us the biggest power – to do the right karma today.
And change our future.

When are the times that trust is earned?
When we are supposed to show up, and we do?

Or instead – when there’s tension, uncertainty, ambiguity and we aren’t expected to show up?

Trust is earned when no one trusts us to show up and yet we do.

You’ve been kind to people.
And some have betrayed you.

You’ve been giving 100% of yourself.
And some people have broken your trust.

Should you give up your kindness?

No.

Maybe the thing to give up is that relationship.

Kindness didn’t cause you pain.
The person did. 

Your kindness didn’t backfire.
The relationship did.

Your kindness isn’t the problem. It is the biggest superpower you have.

We’re struggling hard.

To find the right piece of advice.
To find that one person who will give it to us.

However, we are always giving advice to others. 

Telling them what to do.
What not to do.
How to think.

What if we gave that advice to ourselves?
What if we trusted our own advice for the decisions that are most important to us?

The advice that we are looking for, is the advice we already give. 

We are caught up in the influencer race.
Of more likes, comments and followers.

A hundred thousand.
Five hundred thousand.
Millions of them.

And we do not think of ourselves as an influencer, until these numbers do not show.

However, we become an Influencer not by the number of followers.
Rather, by the potential influence we have on the lives of people.

What if our thoughts could affect a few people’s day positively, each day?

An influencer isn’t defined by their follower count.
They are defined by the lives they touch.