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For any given middle-class family today, promising that living ‘loan-free’ is nearly impossible sounds almost utopian. That’s because living with debt — whether it be from student loans, a mortgage, or perhaps a few credit cards — can make borrowing money feel like an inevitable fact of life. But is this the case? Was it always this way? And […]

It goes something like this: ‘Yes, I wish to make a different choice in my lifestyle.’ Or ‘Yes, yes, I want to learn design.’ Or ‘Yes, I want to start that passion project of mine, tutorials on meditation.’ And then, of course, there are the initiatives that are time-sensitive and cannot be delayed — the proposals that

If a bird focuses on walking, the bird will never fly. I had spent years learning how to be a happy and fulfilled person. I typically excelled in discussions about how to improve our weaknesses or mitigate the risk associated with those who were falling short in their abilities. When I received the StrengthsFinder book as

There are times when the drumbeat of ‘change’ is so loud that we forget that one of the best forms of change, ‘improvement’ in other words, includes an honest assessment and an acceptance of who we are. There are so many forces at work pushing change on us—to be thinner, richer, taller, more successful, more

Be Kind And Share Knowledge There are two types of people: A hoarder who insists on owning all the knowledge, or a sharer willing to give away your share. Photo by NONRESIDENT on Unsplash Sure, power belongs to whoever is holding the knowledge, but the real wealth is when it is shared. Even if you are

Doing all that we can with the intensity to which we care is how we’re usually advised to achieve any goal. There’s a paradoxical counter-narrative to this ‘try as hard as you can’ advice: sometimes, the less we care, the more results show up. It’s a paradox with as many footnotes as there are people who

Across the business world, entrepreneurs who want to get the most out of their day — and who often operate in a ‘do less, accomplish more’ economy — turn to structured morning routines. From Silicon Valley start-up founders to the CEOs of Fortune 500 corporations, entrepreneurs of all types rely on morning rituals. What makes this morning ritual a

In a society where financial success often feels like a pipe dream, some people appear to attract money like a magnet. By avoiding the ‘get rich quick’ schemes and escaping the luck of the lottery, becoming a millionaire can be achieved. If you believe the saying, it’s never about what you have, but what you

As more social media metrics define the worth of my words, I am in danger of reducing writing to impressing rather than expressing. In the competitive internet arena, a desire to shine and shimmer can overwhelm the aim of self-expression. This elusive landscaping of the writer’s mind, or shines with some emotional brightness or usefulness,

Hardship knits itself into so many stories of life that it’s difficult to think that someone, somewhere, isn’t suffering. Hopefully, this is momentary, at times, temporary; but often hardship becomes a permanent pall on life that we do our best to navigate and somehow survive. This has certainly been the case in the last few