At home or at peace?

Maybe you were verbally or physically abused as a kid. Perhaps you can never be positive because everyone in your family is negative and toxic. Or maybe fights at home are your daily alarm clocks. In such cases, you may wonder how to find yourself and your happiness...

Our work and grapevines

In almost every organisation, there are grapevines. People who think how work should be done, how others are doing it, and how it serves as a platform for them to gossip. The sad part is, sometimes it affects the people who aren’t a part of that grapevine. It leads...

Entrepreneurship as a choice

I want to start a startup because I am tired of my boss. Just can’t wait to have no boss ever! This is almost always the incorrect reason to venture into entrepreneurship. Everyone is answerable to someone, including the CEOs of top companies. Entrepreneurship is...

The test of criticism

Do you even know how I was treated? Perhaps very badly. That’s sad. Shouldn’t have happened. However, if we attach what someone else did to how we feel, we are always placing others on a pedestal to make us happy. That’s not vulnerable, that’s rather dangerous. ...

We fear failure

We all fear failure. Most often, we aren’t afraid of failure because of the expectations we have from ourselves. It is what others will think of us when we fail, which is what we fear.  However, how will we ever learn to fly if we continue to live for the validation...

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...