And how to spot and fix it — When you grew up, you remember your elders advising you to not leave a problem until it is solved. Try various approaches. Understand all alternatives. Play the scenarios. Iterate. How else could you have solved the problem? Work on the problem until you find a solution. Feel free to comment…

Who are you trying to impress? — If I was my old self (not older self though), I would be worried about what you would think of this sentence, even before I write it. More importantly, I wouldn’t have known at the time that this is the reason for me not writing that sentence. …

And not be your own worst enemy — A few years ago, I took upon myself a task to find a best friend for myself. I didn’t know where to start. I felt that a good starting point would be my school. I had not met my best friend from school since a few decades. I thought a…

Let us be lovers of the heart, Everyday is a new start. Let us be teammates in our shared lives, What really matter, are our burning, inner drives. Let us be leaders and not pleasers, for our friends and our family, Let us stand up for ourselves, firmly yet calmly. Let us use our intelligence with more interaction, Let us replace seeking praise, with our own treasured satisfaction. It's powerful that we have internal discipline, It's important to reach and learn from, places we've not yet seen.

Without using jargon from psychology — People can be great actors, especially when in crisis. They can beat Oscar awardees in disguising what they feel, and what they show to the external world. This is disguised as passion at times. In most cases, they are simply scared to show their real feelings to someone else. …

Who will you still judge today? — I grew up performing under great stress — both for education and personal life. And I felt good about myself those days. I learned how to keep up ‘high standards’, to achieve the highest possible quality of my work. What I missed that I was feeding my ‘inner critic’. When…

Our most powerful teammate against our inner critic — Our inner personal cheerleader is our first friend. It is our best friend. Unconditionally. Like our inner critic, this voice is formed from the past memories that we chose to keep. However, this voice plays for our team. The voice in our head that criticises us in general is not…

Green is not about jealousy here! — “No one cares How much you know, Until they know How much you care” There are times that we feel down. In general. Just down. Why? Irrespective of how good are we with our skills and abilities, and how good our calendar management is, there are times that we feel…

Avoid the big trap of ‘I can do everything’ My biggest distraction from an important task used to be an equally important task. In the last two decades, I have personally interacted with more than 400 founders and they all have faced the same issues with prioritising tasks. Some of…