Don’t Quit While on the Uphill

For the last 15 odd years, every day I go to the gym, I see the exact same cast of people working out — feels like seeing the same play in the same theater 🙂 Given their clockwork-like consistency, you would imagine that sticking to a workout habit is really...

Find a Singular Goal

The best periods of my life were the ones in which I had one overriding life goal — be it cracking a big exam or building a new product for HabitStrong (my startup). A singular goal that you really, badly, desperately want to accomplish, gives you three...

One Small Action at a Time

Nobody gets up one day and says, “Let me become a drug addict.” Nobody decides one day, “Let me start eating junk food, and become obese and unhealthy.” Nor does anyone decide to become a chronic procrastinator, Netflix binge-watcher, or a...

The Myth of Perfection

In my last startup, ConceptOwl, a friend once told me about another learning startup that was growing like crazy by selling through schools. He asked, “Why don’t you also do that?” When I heard that, my heart sank. We had tried the same approach and...

Beyond the Business Card

If you throw away your business card, whatever you have left, is truly yours, because nobody can take it away. We all derive identity and pride from our jobs, and it is perfectly logical. But it is worth remembering that our worth as a professional is derived from two...