How to Stop Overthinking and Take Action Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. Attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte The email is ready. You have checked the recipient’s name, corrected a typo, and read it twice. Then you read it again. Perhaps the opening sounds too Read more…

How to Be Productive Instead of Busy: Focus on What Matters It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau Some days feel full before they have even begun. We answer messages over breakfast, carry unfinished tasks from one hour into the Read more…

Long ago, in Rajpur, a town in Maharashtra, lived a man named Hazar-Marya. People rarely called him by any other name. The nickname had stuck years ago because of one strange habit he had developed. Every day, he would leave home and kill one thousand flies. That was all he did. He had no job, Read more…

How to Push Beyond Your Limits and Make the Impossible Possible The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke Most of us know what it feels like to stand at the edge of something unfamiliar and immediately begin listing Read more…

The wisdom hidden in an ordinary bag of flour You must bake with the flour you have. This Danish folk saying uses the language of the kitchen to express one of life’s most practical truths. We cannot always choose our circumstances, but we can choose what we create from them. A baker may wish for Read more…

How to Let Go of Expectations Without Losing Hope Expectation is the root of all heartache. Most of us have lived through a moment that makes this line feel painfully true. We look forward to an occasion for weeks, only for it to fall flat. We trust someone to respond in a certain way, then Read more…

Living Without Regrets: The Secret to Staying Young Has Nothing to Do with Age A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore Living without regrets is one of those ideas that sounds simple until we stop and think about what it really means. Most of us associate ageing with Read more…

How to Deal with Anger: Why Mark Twain’s Words Still Matter Today Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. Mark Twain Most arguments end within minutes. The strange thing is that the anger they create often doesn’t. Read more…

Character vs Reputation: Abraham Lincoln’s Timeless Reminder to Nurture the Tree, Not the Shadow Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln Some quotes reveal their depth immediately. Others take a while to settle in. Abraham Lincoln’s Read more…

Anna Quindlen’s Reminder That Success Should Feel Good, Not Just Look Good If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. Anna Quindlen I don’t think many people wake up one morning and consciously Read more…