This book is simply phenomenal. The lessons in this short book are the timeless backbones of leaders of strong character. I’ve decided to share my highlights from this amazing book in this blog post as a way to go through them again one by one. The chapter titles crystalize the essence of each life lesson […]

Your position in life is a the accumulated results of your choices. Actions do have consequences. Where you are is based on the trajectory you set for yourself years ago through choices that led to a sequence of actions especially those you chose to repeat over time. Where you are going to be ten years […]

Abundance is such a great word. It is a much better concept than zero sum games where the winner takes it all and the loser has to fall. It is possible to consider winning in a world where we only peddle win-win situations. Your best new customer is your old customer. This is because a […]

We start life with complete ignorance. Life overwhelms us and we cry and our care and well-being lie entirely in the hands of our parents. Then we learn, discover the world, explore our abilities, and adapt to the world’s feedback. We reach a level of competency in our ability to learn culminating in taking our […]

Home is where the heart is. It’s a saying that will always remind me of a good movie by Natalie Portman. The title conveys a deep meaning about whatever place we consider our home. It is not a place, a city, or a house. A home is where we feel we belong, and where we […]

Change is the only constant in life. You are born a baby and then you grow into an adult. Even though your body doesn’t grow taller but you keep on growing emotionally, and intellectually. Experience polishes and carves you into who you are today. Your environment, the people that control, guide, and accompany you on […]

Look in the mirror. What do you really see? Can you feel a sense of purpose for the tasks you have set up for the day or a sense of dread? Are you looking forward to something that definitely excites you, or lamenting the weight of your daily Sisyphus toils pushing the same rock up […]

It really doesn’t matter how anything starts but what always matters is how it ends. You definitely end up making this choice for yourself. A cup of coffee is nothing but water, ground coffee beans, and heat. You fill in a measure of water, add a couple spoonfuls of coffee, then place it on a […]

People are always in a hurry to get somewhere faster, and with less effort. It’s the need for new tools and technologies that created our way of life right now. You want to be able to move faster, be stronger, eat more, see farther, hear over long distances, learn anything immediately, own as much property […]

Conformity is a natural instinct for mankind. We are born into a family, community, and culture, and we naturally feel an affinity for those who are like us, who look like us, and who understand us. As time goes by and we have to walk our own path, we tend to huddle with those who […]