Is it obvious to do so?

A friend of yours got married at “the right time”.Another one got settled abroad.The neighbour spends weekends relaxing and weekdays grinding.  The world is out there chasing the obvious things.Settle down quickly.  However, if you chase what everyone else...

Timeless or trending?

Trends are cool.Around pop culture, news, sports, fashion, work habits.  They make us feel like we belong – we laugh with them, engage with them, show off with them, follow them.  However, the very nature of trends is that they will vanish.Very soon....

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,...