Grow Assets to Start Treading towards...

When you spend money, you either spend it on an asset or a liability. These are the only two broad categories available. Any expenditure that will appreciate your money involved is an asset while the other way around – depreciate – is a liability. Let me consider a couple examples to illustrate the thought. If you are putting in money to… Continue »

Water : Limits and How much is Too Much

Scientists often come out with studies claiming to have all the answers in the topic of their research. One of the common enigmas in life is the amount of water one needs to consume to stay healthy. There is no definitive answer, but some say drink as much as you can and most put a lower and a higher limit. I… Continue »

Laughter is the Best Medicine

I cannot stress enough on the benefits of the emotion of being happy and following it up with the external expression of laughter. Elders say laughter is the best medicine, and is widely believed so even today. Scientists have proved that the happy emotion makes a person healthy, let’s get to the nitty gritties in this article. Scientific tests have proved… Continue »

You and I are a Reflection of Our...

In many ways, what we are is a true reflection on how we live our life. How we live our life is influenced by a number of factors including the society we live in. The people around us change the way we do things, talk and think amongst others. Simply put, we reflect our society in a broad sense. Let me… Continue »

Is Collective Wisdom Any Good?

One of my constant preachings to my protégés is to stay apart from the crowd and move in a direction that cuts across the masses. I have always believed it and have been a staunch follower of this theory. An old friend who I had not seen in sometime met up with me for a drink last night, and challenged me… Continue »

Success Starts with a Vision

If you want to succeed, vision is everything. Unless you envision what you want, your meaning of success is ambiguous and hence your goals would seem like a distorted map with no clear path towards destination. Vision is nothing but clarity on your destination, where and what you want to be. If the ‘wheres’ and ‘whats’ are unanswered, you might as… Continue »

Mind Mapping Initiative

I was recently introduced to the process of picking our brains called as mind mapping. At first, it sounded very familiar, something that I had heard, believed and rejected. But, I decided to find out more about it anyway – with a selfish motive that it could help me in my work on my debut book Success Mantras. The speaker was… Continue »

Repetition is the Secret behind...

It is often believed that skill is an innate talent, that bestows upon us from (or earlier) our birth. Many of us start blame games stating that we didn’t achieve great things as the skill needed was never in picture. I like to contradict this belief and categorically state that if a person starts doing things repetitively, he/she will pick… Continue »