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A small boy came running to a wise man, crying. He was hurt. The wise man asked what had happened. The boy explained: he’d seen a black cat caught in a wire fence, struggling and hurting herself as she tried to break free. Feeling for her, he tried to help — carefully freeing her from the wires. But the moment she was free, she swiped her paw across his hand, …
It’s a very human habit — keeping the things we love the most tucked away, saved for “someday,” instead of actually using and enjoying them. We tell ourselves we’re preserving them, saving them for a special occasion. But everything ages. Everything loses its beauty and purpose over time if it’s never actually lived. What good is something kept too safe ever doing for you? Better to enjoy it while it’s …
Women finding an influential place for themselves at the top We talk often about how women are increasingly reaching top positions in industry, and how times are changing. That’s true — but it’s equally true that the path to those positions remains far harder for women, and not every capable, ambitious woman gets to make that climb. Before looking at the corporate side of this, I want to talk about …
Gautam is Meera’s whole world, and she loves him boundlessly. She’s so attuned to his soul that she can sense what he needs even from a distance — and despite her own circumstances or state of mind, she offers it to him before he even has to ask. He rarely has to ask her for anything; he just has it, every time. But when an argument comes up about Meera …
One of my coachees came to see me recently, looking horrified and stressed. She’d been going through a rough patch — long hours, high targets, no recognition, health issues from the stress, and political battles just to get through each day. All of it had spilled over into her time with family, straining things at home too. She’d given more than a decade to this organization, poured her energy into …
