Love Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs or hate him, he said something at the D8 Conference last week that resonated with me. It’s a lesson that can have a profound impact on how you use the other 8 hours to create a better life. First, a bit of background. The iPhone and iPad cannot display Adobe [...]

As a child I was enamoured by the famous line “My name is Bond… James Bond…” and saw some of his movies. But I never believed such a character could exist in real life. But over the last few years since I started learning and teaching Chanakya’s ideas, my views of Mr. Bond have changed. [...]

You can get everything you want in life as long as you give others enough of what they want. If you give nothing of value, you get nothing of value. Your method of exchange determines your wealth. The type of exchange you use determines your financial success. Nothing else you do has a greater impact [...]

‘Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.’ —Leo Buscaglia There is a story about three boys who were climbing a tree. The one reaching the [...]

We all love the first day of our new job. Then time flies, and the same workplace gets irritating and superlatively boring. To top it off, you have an irritating boss and an increment is the last thing you care about. So, what is it that is going wrong? It’s because we don’t want to [...]

How do you lead in turbulent times and respond to change? At every moment, we can choose to let our circumstances shape our lives and business or we can shape our circumstances. Being a winner is a choice, not a condition of your circumstances. Change is inevitable – growth is optional. The only thing we [...]

There are many ways to become famous overnight. A couple of weeks ago I told you about how Christina Perri went from working at a cafe one day to becoming an “overnight” sensation the very next. The secret to success for Christina or any artist, creative, job seeker, or entrepreneur is the same — it’s [...]

You succeed based on the quality of your work, the amount of work we can do and one other factor: speed. How fast can you go? “THE RAPIDITY OF PARTICLE FLOW ALONE DETERMINES POWER.” — L. Ron Hubbard The power and progress of our society is based on speed. When your particle flow (information, services, [...]

Once I happened to visit the Art of Living workshop by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. There I learned a very important thing about happiness. Happiness is a state of mind. It all depends on us whether we want to be happy or not. Once we decide to be happy, there are no two ways about [...]

‘If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.’ —Henry David Thoreau Imagination is the creative ability of your mind that helps you form an image of an object or an experience before you bring it to physical reality. [...]