Not knowing what to do

“I don’t know what to do with my life.” We happen to tell this to ourselves early in our lives, especially when we see people younger than us becoming successful YouTubers, rocking on Reels or becoming child prodigies – and our wanderings make us wonder if we...

How to predict your future

What did you do today? Learned something? Met someone interesting? Took notes and executed upon your ideas? Or watched Netflix, ate junk food and slept a little more. And what will you do tomorrow? Day after? Quicker than you know, the days turn into weeks, weeks into...

Did you fail today?

Sara Blakely is a tremendously successful businesswoman. Someone asked her, what do you attribute your success to? She said, “Every night at the dinner table, my father would ask my brother and me, ‘What did you fail at today?’” Did you fail today? Did you get knocked...

Conversations

When we point a finger at someone else, we are unable to join hands together. When we think someone else is wrong, we hardly stop to think they could be right in their shoes. When we confront, it is in accusation mode instead of access mode. It’s easy to win...

Borrowing from the richest

If given a chance to trade anything of the wealthiest people, what is the right thing to trade? Their money? Status? Network? Hard work? Life Lessons? The best thing to trade for is their curiosity. What do they think about the most? What is the pattern of their...

The stories we tell ourselves

An alcoholic father had two sons. One grew up to be an alcoholic. When asked why, he responded, “I watched my father.” The other grew up hating alcohol. When asked how he chose to be sober, he responded, “I watched my father.” So it wasn’t about what happened to...