Ashley is a smart, hardworking lawyer. She works for a big international company, but the nature of her job is causing her to work alone most of the time. She has a set of responsibilities that only she can fulfill… Read More ›
Life
Don’t Let Others Program Your Life
“Independence…. is loyalty to one’s best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.” — Mark Twain Are you over 30? Then you should be married, have kids, climb the corporate ladder, have a… Read More ›
Why “Fake It Till You Make It” Is A Bad Strategy
“Fake it till you make it” is advice that is being circulated by career advisors for years or even decades. The idea is that you should never be afraid to jump on an opportunity and get to a role that… Read More ›
Work-life Balance Is Not A Thing, This Is
The common wisdom goes that you have life and then you have work. Work leads to exhaustion, anxieties, depression, and you work only to get money so you can have life. That is why so many people talk about work-life… Read More ›
Set This Type Of Goals To Be Happy
The ancient Stoics, more than two thousand years ago, knew that path to happiness and satisfaction with life leads through knowing what to focus on. It is the realization that there are things in life that are not under your… Read More ›
Why You Need A Personal Life Philosophy
Have you ever thought about your life philosophy? What is the mission of your life? Why are you here? What are your life goals? What is your approach towards achieving these goals? Whether you know it or not, you have… Read More ›
The Power Of Giving
In the book Give and Take, Adam Grant talks about three types of people Takers, Matchers and Givers. Takers believe in the winner takes all world order. Either you win, or you lose. According to them, the world is a… Read More ›
Have A Plan But Stay Flexible
It was in 2015 when I traveled with a small group of people to Zimbabwe. We had a solid plan for the week we wanted to spend in Zimbabwe before moving on to Botswana. Everything was meticulously planned. We arrived… Read More ›
Plan Your Free Time To Truly Enjoy It
Sunday morning. No work today. So you decide to sleep a bit longer and get up at 10am. You slowly prepare breakfast, get a cup of coffee, and spend an hour eating and browsing social media. It’s almost noon, so… Read More ›
Learn To Enjoy The Small Things In Life
It was in 2011 when I spent a month traveling around East Africa. I visited the vast savannas of Kenya, the beautiful national parks of Tanzania, and the pristine nature of mountains in Uganda. This trip redefined in my mind… Read More ›