I am not good with technology. Even simple technology like Google Maps can confuse me. I was heading down to the beach a few days ago with the firm intention of apricating for a few hours and catching up on my reading. Google Maps asked me to bear slightly left. I think I bore more left…

I remember the very first place of my own I had in the US. It was a studio on the thirteenth floor of an apartment building on the Southwest corner of 113th street and Broadway. It must have been substantially renovated because I do not recognize it anymore. On the…

One of my coaching clients shared a story with me that I found deeply moving. It was also instructive. This client runs a company that is just scaling. It has the potential to launch an industry that does not exist yet. Think Fred Smith in 1971. He built Federal Express…

Here is a famous quote by Thich Nhat Hahn. An alumnus of my course, Creativity and Personal Mastery, who is serious about personal growth, posted it on our electronic bulletin board. “When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons…

I would like you to try this thought experiment. You go to a company party and the host, a senior executive, mis-pronounces your name when he introduces you to nearby guests. Later, he asks you how you are enjoying the affair and, this time, he does not even remember your name and addresses you as someone else. You are…

I am going to stir up some controversy here. Do you believe that all the success you enjoy has been due to your effort? And, correspondingly, all the goals you have not met is because you did not work hard enough or smart enough? …

Mahatma Gandhi reportedly said that there is enough of everything to satisfy each man’s need. But not enough to satisfy every man’s greed. So — would you be willing to make a slight change in your habits if it will make a material positive difference in the world? I was…

I was at a party recently when a friend mentioned that he was recovering from kidney stones. A woman in the group immediately chimed in saying how terrible it must have been and, gosh, how painful. And then, for fifteen minutes, she narrated the tale of how she had kidney…

In my last blog I pointed out that decades of unchecked mental chatter have caused our minds to whirl with incredible momentum. Our unchecked thoughts force us to live in a cacophony of wild conjectures, frustrated desires, unmet ambitions, unrequited love and constantly changing likes and dislikes. You cannot slow…