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 of...

Least spoken hack for opportunities

An unexpected hack to create opportunities: Read all your emails. It will tell you what businesses are up to.What is being sold, what is being promoted, what is being spoken about, what is creating the news.  It will tell you what your friends are up to.What are...

Don’t get comfortable

Comfort is a trap.Getting out of that trap is real success. How to know if we are challenging our comfort zone? By asking ourselves the question:  “Is there a high probability of success when we do something?” If yes, we are getting comfortable.If not, we are on...

What goals don’t give us

It’s a wonderful goal to lose 10 kgs in 3 months.Or to make sure you get promoted this year.Or to find the love of your life within a year. However we don’t have a basis for setting that goal.And if we don’t reach the goal, we call ourselves a failure. An alternative,...

Freedom with “free” time

Free time is something we all should make room for in our days. Not on days when there are less items to cross.Rather every day, even on the busiest ones. Read books.Practise a skill you are inclined towards.Or just do nothing and be alone. It is not time wasted....

What we “should” do

We should stop feeling bad.We should stop feeling hurt over what’s over.We should stop feeling regretful. This is the advice we get when we are going through a negative emotion. While this is what we know we should do, it is exactly what we are unable to do. We want...