You Are You

We notice people suicide when the stock market crashes. It’s because their sense of reality is the stock market. They view themselves as a part of stock market and if it collapses, their sense of reality is gone. And it doesn’t make sense to live in this world when their core sense of reality is […]

Forgot? Forget! Keep Going

“Forgot? Forget! Keep Going” is a rule I use while I establish new habits. Habits need consistency to build up. At the initial stage of forming habit, we usually don’t miss any days. But as time builds up, motivation fades away and we slowly start to move away from our habit building goal. During this period, […]

Not Writing for Fame

I don’t do aggressive promotion of my blog posts. The chances of people finding my blog posts are pretty low. I don’t care about that, though. I’m writing this for myself, to improve life of people who read it, to improve my writing, and finally improve myself as a whole. I know I have written […]

Afraid of Success

What’s the worst thing that can happen? Travel and end up in North Korean Jail? Limited water, limited food, limited life and plain struggle? But I’m not afraid of that. I’m afraid of instant success, luck and gratification. What if I’ll win a million dollar and everyone around will love me, give me everything I […]

Pain of Regret or Pain of Discipline?

When you first start out on a journey to accomplish something, the biggest success factor is to be persistence at it. Persistence is difficult. It’s easier to carry out your tasks in the initial stage because you are motivated. Persistence comes easy during that time. But when things start to get redundant, your motivation fades away, […]

Learning to Not Regret

We usually end up in situation where every possible path we can take leads to regret. Whatever you do, you’ll regret at the end just to realize if taking the other path would lead somewhere better. There are two things that can happen when you choose a road: Either you’ll regret, or you wont. And […]

Let Your Emotions Flow

I tried to stop feeling emotions which were regarded as weakness. When you part ways with someone you’ve been too close to, you feel sad. The natural inclination would be to cry. But since people generally look crying as a sign of weakness, we try to refrain from it as much as possible. By suppressing […]

Have you Found the OFF Button to Thinking?

I started reading ‘The Power of Now‘ by Eckhart Tolle yesterday. At one point he writes: Just because you can solve a crossword puzzle or build an atom bomb doesn’t mean that you use your mind. Just as dogs love to chew bones, the mind loves to get its teeth into problems. That’s why it […]

Lessons from Crying Guy

I was sitting alongside the street watching vehicles pass by when I saw a guy stop his bike. He stopped and stood there for sometime until a woman arrived (who he had probably been waiting for). As soon as she arrived, he started crying. He walked out of his bike and kept standing on the roadside crying. They talked […]

Until You Walk the Unbeaten Path, You’ll Never Know Where It Leads

You need to fall off to know why you shouldn’t fall off. You need to fall sick to know why you shouldn’t fall sick. You need to fall short on your goals to know why you shouldn’t fall short on your goals. You need to taste bitter to know what sweet tastes like. There must […]