Delayed Gratification

For the past year, I’ve been working at a job that I don’t love, to say it nicely, as a live-in manager of a care home for adults with complex needs and disabilities. However, I stuck with it for the planned duration for reasons that will soon emerge. …

but I am ok with it and I still love running — My first memory of running, is from when I was 9. I used to have a good friend, Naman Rakheja. He went to represent our school in the Delhi zonal champs in the 400 meters. Our teacher made us run 800 meters that day. I kept up with Rocky for…

I was having a conversation with a dear friend yesterday about ordering a watch and then waiting 6 months to take delivery. This led to a dialogue about delayed gratification, and I thought it was worth writing about. Nothing being said here is new, but it is a short enough…

One of the most dynamic relationships we have is our relationship with money; there are times when we are pleased with our recent spending and saving habits and times when we may squander a bit. …

You don’t have to search far to hear that consistency is what separates the successful from the unsuccessful but what is the cost of consistency? It’s a perspective I’ve rarely seen covered in personal development literature. Having pondered this for a while I came to the conclusion that the cost…

The world is made to always tone our mind, body, choices, actions and outcomes to average. It often, in fact always throws at us easy wins, getting us used to it, so we are not able to delay our gratification! Never. Our mind is enslaved by choices that enable shortest…