I was on the running track one day, thoughts racing in my head. I could taste fear and anxiety, a sort of existential crisis that wasn’t estrange. I felt that I hadn’t lived up to my best self, I felt that clock is ticking faster as I approached late twenties, I felt torn between choices,…
Category: Entrepreneurship
What happens when you turn passion into work
For the past few months, I had been writing day in and day out. Writing becomes my job, my career, my passion, my life. There were moments I felt contented to be able to do what I do; I questioned myself why I was doing what I do, I teared feeling the pressure of not…
Hitting the rock bottom
When I left the company I started end of last year, I knew I was following a path that felt like my path. Even though I was not sure where it would lead, I was ready to find out. I was scared of a blank page, but I knew all that I need to feel…
Don’t beat yourself up
Every time you overcome a big challenge, you feel so invincible that nothing can beat you anymore; you’ve cried your heart out and you thought you’ll never shed tears again. The thing is, there are always challenges yet to come, until you learn to accept it as constant in life. I went through a badly…
Own Your Story
I would laugh if somebody told me that I’ll be a writer the day I left business school. After four years of wandering, hitting roadblocks and exploring, I gathered enough confidence to make another pivot in life. The first day I transitioned from café industry to a full time content consultant, I woke up in…
What is your First Principle of life?
So, here I am again. I heaved a silent relief on my 27th birthday. Back to figuring out, back to carving my own path, back to creating life. Looking at the post I wrote to commemorate 26 years of life, a sense of amusement surged – who was I trying to impress? I dug through…
A bit of naivety, a lot of courage
‘I’m going home, home.’ This is a line in ‘La La Land’ when Emma Stone felt humiliated after a poor received play and decided to retreat back to her parents’ home. I felt it. That was my life too. Back home, I told family and friends that I sold off my business and decided to…
You have come this far
Matt looked at his dish intensely and choked up. ‘I can’t believe how far I’ve come,’ he said. This is a scene from Australia Masterchef 2016 finale when the judges asked Matt, the finalist, how he felt about his dish. I choked up too. I felt doubtful of myself that morning when I had to…
5 Mental Antidotes for Broken Spirit
They squashed my confidence, my self esteem, my belief; made me feel so small and question what the hell am I doing. I was broken badly. I didn’t have clarity to back myself up. I was intimidated by the fact that they are more experienced than I am. Maybe you should get a job. He…
Maybe, this is what ‘finding your passion’ looks like
I’ve never thought that life would turn out this way. Past the quarter life quadrant, I changed my mind and turned my life upside down. I went through struggle that lead me to break things in life piece by piece – security, pride, and beliefs. Someone slapped me in the face I was comfortably living…
Every day is a new adventure
I am scared of life. ‘The further out we go, the more I find myself wondering what it is we are trying to accomplish. But if this universe is truly endless, then we are striving for something forever out of reach’. Captain Kirk, Star Trek. If life is a space ship, I was like captain…
Give Life Who You Are
Life might give us everything we want, it might give us nothing we want; but we can give life who we are. – Unknown This quote has given me so much strength when my world is shaken with changes. I met my mentor on a plane ride early this year. After working with him on…