Essentialism is about identifying where you can create most VALUE , make greatest contribution or create greatest impact. It is then about finding ways, building systems and having tools that help you execute on it effortlessly. It is about doing less but doing BETTER. This also means having courage to say NO to less important things.
When faced with difficult situations at work or in life, our first instinct is to complain, blame and find faults in something external, other people and external situations. Finding faults in external sources is fine till it enables us to acknowledge the problem clearly. But we all have seen people who complain and blame incessantly […]
We are going through an unprecedented time. It is easy to get sucked into the spiral of pandemic data, live charts, sensational headlines, misinformation and round-the-clock updates across different platforms. Fear stems from overthinking. When we step on a treadmill of constant consumption, we imagine worst-case scenarios (what-if). Anxiety paralyses us. Faith is innate to […]
A priest was confronted by a soldier while he was walking down a road in pre-revolutionary Russia. The soldier, aiming his rifle at the priest, called out, “Who are you? Where are you going? Why are you going there?” Unfazed, the priest calmly replied, “How much do they pay you?” Somewhat surprised, the soldier responded, […]
We decide. We experience. We Learn. And then we adapt. We can never be certain if our decisions will turn out the way we anticipate. Sometimes, even when we have done all the critical thinking before deciding, success of a decision depends on context as well. So, what if we change our perspective about our […]
Nicholas Bate once sent me a bunch of inspiring cards made with lot of love. One of those cards read, “Every YES contains a NO (YES to staying late is NO to Lego with your daughter)” “Every NO contains a YES (NO to the gym is YES to more stress)” When we say YES to […]
In moments of uncertainty, inspiration came to me in form of a tweet with a visual that read, “If you see shadows, it is because there is light.” I instinctively told myself, “If you face the light, shadows fall behind.” The mindset of abundance asks, “What’s possible?” instead of “What could go wrong?” and […]
When our mind is like a mountain, it is nothing but a heap of fixed beliefs and knowledge that does not evolve. To have a mind like a valley, we need to pursue things with a sense of wonder, knowing that we don’t know and having a receptive frame of mind ready to absorb. An […]
Once there was a circus Lion who was so tamed/trained that he never knew about his real strengths. He was then left in the jungle where real Lions lived. Upon seeing other Lions, the tamed Lion started running fiercely driven by fear until he saw his own reflection in a pond. He realized that he […]