Defining success

Chasing worldly success is illusive. What looks like success to us doesn’t match with others. Setting our own standards of success, irrespective of the noises, is real success. Staying true to those standards is getting truly successful. Everyone has their own metric...

Happiness is an inside job

Our friends and family. Our colleagues. Our acquaintances on social media. We love to keep everyone happy. If they aren’t happy, that’s because of us. “I should not have said that. I am not balancing work and family. I am responsible for their sadness.” Except,...

It’s not hard!

It’s not hard to get on to a stage and speak. It’s not hard to open your phone, hit record, and post a reel. It’s not hard to write a cold email to someone in power. We feel they are hard things because that is how we have convinced ourselves. That is how we have...

The definition of happiness

Happiness is our nature as kids. If we enjoy something, we are in a state of flow doing it. If we don’t, we’ll cry our hearts out to make sure we don’t do it. And then, we grow up. Unfortunately. And forget to make our happiness a priority. We pursue courses that our...

Do values help?

How do we operate when no one is watching? What’s a complete no-no, even if it is an immediate gain for us? Do we want others to win, or is it just a sole game in a team? Values aren’t something that we just write and let it be there. Values are who we are, something...

What I learnt from Ma

Ma always stood for perfection. But she has a very interesting and inspiring definition. Perfection is when you do something with such finesse that people are left amazed at how you even did it. But for you, it is not a big deal. It is a habit. It is natural. I learnt...