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Writing since 2010, I explore and share ideas around personal growth, creativity, design, branding, business, strategy and technology.
Slow down, think deeply
I've been slowly working my way through Ryan Holiday's book "Stillness is the Key", and the other day, I read a chapter that really captured the essence of things I've been feeling and experiencing lately. To call 2020 a wild year would be an understatement. From the...
Using rhythm, ritual & practice to reclaim balance
Life tends to gets chaotic, as I've mentioned many times. If you don't apply the effort to keep your affairs in order, things tend towards entropy, towards falling apart. There are external vagaries of life that push us to and fro, the world outside, events outside...
How to bounce back
The other day, I got robbed, and my laptop was stolen. Naturally, I thought I'd make a blog about it. What do you do when you get knocked back by misfortune? When the deal you have been working on for months falls through. When you get unceremoniously laid off. When...
Rejecting the ‘I don’t have time’ myth
The other day, I was watching a productivity course on Skillshare, and I learned something interesting about what separates very productive people from non-productive people. It has to do with how they perceive and relate to time. This idea was so profound, it has...
How to use time to solve your problems
Or how to throw time at your problems. We have all heard about throwing money at your problems, paying to get things fixed. The core of the idea is that of deploying the resources you have against your problems to get to optimum results. But what of how we use our...
How to use chaos to improve your life
In my last post, I spoke about reducing chaos in your life. I defined chaos as the vagaries of life, the unpredictable factors and events that happen to us. If there is too much outside our control, we suffer. If things can easily happen to throw us off, we are...
How to reduce the chaos in your life
Does your life feel like a raging dumpster fire of problems with no way out? Are you constantly moving around in circles unable to make real progress? It might be an issue in how you manage chaos. It is impossible to make real steady progress towards a goal or an...
How to hold an intention
In my last post, I proposed that taking a purely goal-setting focused approach to chasing success was a limiting strategy, especially if you are dealing with ever changing and chaotic environments. If the playing field is always in flux, it is difficult to set and be...
I deliberately did not set any goals for 2020
Somehow I think I might achieve more. As the year 2020 rolled in a few months back, I had the strong intuition to not set any goals. See, I had gone into 2019 very gung-ho, very eager to get things moving and moving fast. I had all these things I wanted to achieve and...
Make space in your life for these 4 things if you want to keep growing
I am a little bit obsessed with the idea of empty space. You see, life can get very busy. There is so much to do, we all get caught up in the business of living. In this state of perpetual motion, it is easy to get swept up by the currents of life demands, dragged...
