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The Year You Decided to Put Yourself First

Love and work, tenants that psychologist Sigmund Freud would argue was the meaning of life is crucial for your well being. You are the captain of your ship and so that means you better be in top shape. Hence, loving yourself and working for yourself makes you love the day that much more.   Loving […]

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Morning Routines: 5 Things You Need to Know to Make Your Mornings Unstoppable

There have been huge talks about morning routines. Medium is saturated with it. Forbes and Inc are publishing article after article about it. Heck, even Tim Ferriss and other podcasters alike have been asking their interviewees what their morning routines are. There is some mysticism about the whole morning routine game, but rest assured –it […]

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15 Lessons I Learned About Success, Happiness, Reading, Love and Life from Naval Ravikant

Naval is a special character in my life. I’ve heard him talk for at least 10 hours but he has never heard me speak. He is the co-founder and CEO of Angelist, a platform for early stage startups and angle investors to meet. He also runs ProductHunt, a platform for startups to launch their products. […]

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The One Question To Determine If You Have Found Your Passion

All our lives we are told to find our passion. Don’t settle, they said. But how? Is it some type of inner compass that we ought to follow but don’t? Do you wake up one day and get inspired? Do you try everything and find it only then? Like you, I wasn’t satisfied with a […]

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How Marketing Made Me a Better Performer, Lover and Friend

Seriously? Yes, seriously. Learning marketing since graduation has been a game changer in my professional and personal life. But I was never always open to it… Growing up, I always considered sales and marketing to be reserved for the ones who can’t get a decent job. But boy was I wrong. Since learning about marketing […]

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On minimalism and books

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery   What is Minimalism There are many definitions of minimalism out there. Some more extreme (see Fumio Sasaki) than others, some more relaxed than others. The Minimalists tried to distill minimalism into […]

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How to Overcome Envy and Jealousy: Stop Comparing Yourself

“Nothing in this world can so violently distort a man’s judgment than the sight of his neighbour getting rich.” — J.P. Morgan I’m a horrible person. The other day I was scrolling through Facebook (not because I needed to know to what my friends were up to, but to entertain myself out of my boredom.) I […]

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The Fastest Way to Career Success

In his book, Ego Is The Enemy, author Ryan Holiday talks about what he calls “The Canvas Strategy.” It’s a popular concept among the personal development community. So popular in fact that its excerpt was featured in Tim Ferriss‘ book Tools of Titans. The strategy was taken from the Romans. The Romans had a word […]

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How to Have a Great Day Everyday

I don’t know about you. But whenever Friday comes along, two things come to mind: Hooray! It’s the weekends! I can finally rest and be at ease (for about 2 days and 2 nights of all-you-can-sleep) Damnit! It’s the weekends already. Time sure flies and I don’t remember achieving what I set out to do […]

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Sometimes, we all need to shut up (or learn how to speak right)

Being young and brash, I often feel the need to exert my “righteousness” onto people. Whenever I notice something about my friends, I point it out. Not because it had to be said, but because my mouth has the habit of always having an opinion.   The Times I Messed Up One time, I pointed […]

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