It’s easy to forget that waves permeate our lives. After all, as city-dwellers, we are out of touch with nature. Our homes are shaped like boxes. We drive rectangular cars, ride on tubular trains, and …
Category: Success
In my previous post I wrote about five things you should give up to follow your passion. Have you given up those five things? You have? Great! Here’s what happens when you follow your passion: …
Last June I finally pulled the trigger. I left my full time job to pursue what I love. I chose adventure over security, passion over conformity. It wasn’t an easy decision. I struggled with it …
I was once walking in Washington Square Park in New York City when I came across a girl sitting by the fountain. She looked like a regular girl, with brown hair, tan skin, and bright …
You’re standing at the edge of a cliff, looking down. You hear a little voice inside of you telling you to jump. That little voice is your call to adventure. It’s an urge to try …
I recently turned 30. The biggest turning point of my life was when I shifted from an achievement-driven life to a relationship-driven life. Over the years, I’ve learned that how much I achieve is not as …
Back when I was an investment banker, it seemed like I had reached a peak in my life. I was young, free, living in New York City, and earning more money than I knew what …
Imagine you’re playing a game, the game of life. You’re standing in the middle of a many-laned road facing the traffic. The cars are coming toward you. These are life’s challenges. There are many challenges …
Ever get the feeling that time is just passing you by? You wake up each day and dread getting out of bed, because each day feels like a repeat of the day before. You know, …
Since young I have loved helping people. I mentored youths, volunteered with Habitat for Humanity, raised money through charity runs, and became a tutor in university. A few years ago I even left my job …
We were taught a great many things in school. How to complete assignments, how to obey our teachers, how to study for exams. But we never learned the important things. Like how to love, how …
It is a habit of mine to push myself beyond my limits to see what I am capable of. I want to see where my potential is and I want to go as far as …
1 — I must get my way. There is a part of us that suffers deeply whenever we don’t get our way. We have a wilful side of us that demands the world behave as …
I recently bought a home. Many people buy homes, so the act of buying a home might seem unremarkable. But as my advisor put it, buying a home is “the biggest financial decision of your …
When we speak of self-love, there are generally two types of love. Soft love and tough love. Many online articles only focus on soft love – about accepting ourselves, caring for ourselves, allowing ourselves to …
From childhood to my early 20s, I really hated myself. I would actively do things against myself. One example was choosing to study business over psychology just because my parents discouraged me and because my …
There’s been a lot of talk on how automation will affect us. Leading institutions like McKinsey and the World Economic Forum have released in-depth studies on automation, and social media mentions of “Future of Work” have risen 40% since …
In everything we do, there is an intention. The intention represents our desire to get from here to there, from one point to another point. When we brush our teeth, we want to get from …
When you think about the idea of responsibility, what is your first reaction? Perhaps you associate responsibility with blame, burden, obligation, power, choice, even fear. But what is responsibility, really? There are two factors to responsibility …
A HBS professor once said, tragedy is the distance between how happy you could be versus how happy you actually are. Another person defined Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet …
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