A year from now…

We want to build that product.Create a community of like-minded people.Change the way things work. But there is a lack of time.Or we are not sure if the idea will succeed.What will people say if we fail?  How will we ever know the result until we do the work?...

Don’t assume. ASK!

When something doesn’t go the way we wanted it to, our brain goes into default mode of imagining the worst case scenario. They’re not acting the way they should.They don’t like me.They must think I am useless.  But what if this imagined world is just that –...

Why are we offended by the success of others?

Your colleagues are doing better than you.The classmate who flunked in school is doing better.Everyone’s life seems sorted, other than your own. And all this makes you worried.Perhaps jealous of their success. But why are we jealous of it?Because we are not focused on...

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...

Whom should you trust?

Whom should you trust?Who deserves to have it?Who doesn’t? It’s a big thing, because maybe you’ve been betrayed.Maybe your heart’s been broken.You trusted someone and they let you down. However, is trust only about the other person?Isn’t it a measure of how much...

Should you be a good human?

I recall during my first job, unable to understand why things functioned in a certain way, I asked my boss: “How is it that some people have so much work and some hardly have any work?” She said, “Good people pay a far higher price for being good, than bad people pay...