After so long, your life is still so fluid. A friend told me recently. It caused me discomfort and transported me back to a similar conversation we had one and a half years ago. I was emotionally crushed when he told me that I was ‘floating’. I didn’t know myself well enough to stand up…
After self-publishing my own story, I realized that a book doesn’t sell by itself. I started to think about what more I can do to inspire millennials to own their story and create a life they love. When a person reminded me that I am not in the writing industry but the personal development industry,…
There were times people questioned my decision, the way I drifted in life. There were times I felt hurt and angry when people close to my heart didn’t understand my values. Feeling that the world owed me an understanding, I was struck by a moment of truth — isn’t this diversity? That we are all different and…
When the idea of writing a book for millennial first came to me, I jumped at it in excitement. As the idea sank in, I was overwhelmed with fear. ‘Am I good enough?’, ‘Do people care about what I say?’, ‘How will people judge me?’, ‘Will it hurt?’ These thoughts sucked the excitement of the…
When I read Rupi Kaur’s poetry collection ‘Milk and Honey’, I was moved by the simplicity and strength in her words. I was inspired by how powerful words can be. She cracked her heart open like a walnut. I could resonate with her words, like how she wished she could connect deeper with her father,…
After four years of wandering, hitting roadblocks and exploring, I quit the café industry for good and committed fully to content writing with a few projects in the pipeline. The first day I transitioned from café industry to a full-time solopreneur, I woke up in fear. Out of desperation, I tried to seek comfort from…
Brene Brown’s TED talk, ‘The Power of Vulnerability’, is one of the most popular TED Talks of all time for a reason — she shines a light on ‘shame’ that all of us experience silently at some point in our life, pointing that authentic connections are built in the space of vulnerability, imperfection, and brokenness. Inspired by…
At 26, I went back home, back to having nothing in life. When I left the company I started, I knew I was following a path that felt like my path. Even though I was not sure where it would lead to, I was ready to find out. I was scared of a blank page,…
‘It was the biggest fall in my career that defines who I am.’ Nastia Liukin said this in a recent interview on Impact theory. As a reigning Olympic all-around gold medalist in 2008, she fell flat and hard in her face during the uneven bar routine in the Olympic trial 2012. She got up, hopped…
In 2016, when the café consultancy company I co-founded evolved over time, it became a trading company which I was not inspired to be part of. I lost motivation to grow it even though I knew what I could do. Was I living at my full potential? Why had I stopped exploring? What do I…
I swiped someone right on Tinder and went on my first Tinder date. He became my boyfriend later, and he made me believe that, maybe, ‘the one’ exists. Being with him was so easy. The thought of him was like a beam of sunshine that warmed me from within, it made me smile. People called…
I felt scared a lot lately. I asked a friend who started a specialty coffee shop in our small, remote hometown, ‘don’t you feel scared to hold on to your vision when nobody saw what you saw? She told me about her ‘worst-case-scenario’ test – what is the worst that could happen? When you know…