Helping folks with practical tips to manage themselves better
October 5, 2026
A Zen Teacher saw five of his students return from the market, riding their bicycles. When they had dismounted, the teacher asked the students, “Why are you riding your bicycles?” The first student replied, “The bicycle is carrying this sack Read more…
October 4, 2026
We spend a lot of life looking for maps. Tell me what to do. Give me the steps. Show me the right answer. Maps are useful when the destination is clear, and the terrain is familiar. They show us routes Read more…
October 2, 2026
In 1925, Mahatma Gandhi published a short note in Young India titled “Seven Social Sins.” (library.bjp.org) He listed seven things he believed society needed to guard against: Interestingly, Gandhi did not originate the list. It had earlier been articulated by Read more…
As you grow professionally, the decisions rarely get easier. The stakes get higher. The consequences travel further. More people are affected. More can go right, and more can go wrong. That is not necessarily a sign that something is wrong. Read more…
October 1, 2026
We like to believe that good decisions come from knowing what happens next. But when I look back, many of the biggest breakthroughs in my life were not things I could have predicted. A conversation led somewhere unexpected. An opportunity Read more…
September 30, 2026
A bad outcome often does more damage through the decisions that follow it than through the original mistake itself. We make one poor call, then defend it because we have already invested too much. A deal goes wrong, and we Read more…
September 29, 2026
After I decide, how much can I still influence the outcome? Take an AI solution for a customer. I may not have the product fully ready. There may be uncertainty around what needs to be built. But I can still Read more…
September 28, 2026
A woman wrote a furious letter to her sister but, in the end, decided not to send it. The next morning she wrote a second one, calmer, and sent that instead. They were close again within a month. Years later, Read more…
September 27, 2026
Sometimes an event is over, but we are still carrying it. You can carry the same event in two ways. You can keep seeing it mainly through what it did to you, the hurt, the loss, the helplessness. Or you Read more…
September 25, 2026
One thing I have learned is how easy it is to get people wrong. We interpret a silence as indifference. A sharp response as disrespect. A decision we disagree with as evidence of motive or character. Then we build a Read more…
