The next 2 hours could change the momentum of your entire week. — Its 9:30pm. And you’re staring down the barrel of a lackadaisical day. Perhaps you never really managed to show up to your work today. Or maybe you neglected someone that you needed to have been there for as a friend, relative or partner. The day has been slipping you by…

A micro-essay on the invisible skill that great writers have — A writer is as good as the best sentence they write, and as great as the best sentence they leave out. The best sentence you write signals your aptitude, which is the ability to write valuable things. All good writers have some aptitude for writing. But aptitude doesn’t make writing…

A strategy for being riotously successful in people-facing roles — Exceptional returns come when modest efforts bring immodest outcomes. Relationships are a terrific avenue for exceptional returns: people don’t notice your effort; they only notice the value it creates for them. Yet, most of us suffer professional relationships in a miasma of miscommunication. We miss profoundly, and exchanges that could…

How to build habits for effortless progress — This year, I created a workout plan to go to the gym 4–5 days a week. And I planned all the way. I got an accountability partner, a calendar to cross off days, made daily to-dos. But still, eventually I stopped going to the gym. In the same year…

Are there ideas in your head that put readers to sleep on the page? A writer’s worst crime is being boring. The world has infinite patience for the wrong, stupid or evil writer. But no one will read your second paragraph if the first one puts them to sleep. Now…

Unsatisfied with words that exist, I hereby present my own: writer-philosopher. A writer-philosopher straddles the fence between objective and subjective truth. As a philosopher, she seeks to interrogate reality as it is out there in the world. As a writer, she seeks to articulate the experience of being in the…

Step 1: Kill the Fantasies, Keep the Dreams Differentiate between the things you want to have and things you want to do. A dream is something you want to do. A fantasy is something you wish would happen to you. Only your dreams are in your control. And perhaps you can already see — only your dreams are…

We are about to try. — I was in the library today — gawking at books — when I thought, “I want a book on how to have abundance.” To feel that everything is possible. That the important things are already here. That there is so much to give. How good would it be to live…

On consciousness, creativity, and the best of all possible worlds. — I currently work Saturdays and Sundays, so my “weekends” are Monday and Tuesday. Not many people are hanging out on a Monday morning. So, if I’m lucky, I start the day writing. I walk to the nearest hawker center. I get a coffee. I walk back. I close my heavy…