What are your favorite writing tools?

Anyone who is into writing professionally knows about Grammarly. Many know about the Hemingway App. Many users of Grammarly don’t know that Grammarly also has a built-in plagiarism checker for pro users. But…

If you don’t work on them for money. I have written earlier about why passion projects, and why they are so powerful. They can turn into big money spinners if you allow yourself to go deep. You can only…

The debate of hard and smart work is old. And there is no doubt in my mind that hard work works. But you know what’s better? Smart work where you do 20% of what you were doing earlier and gain…

Do you have unfulfilled dreams? Because you are in a job, and can’t get no time to work towards your dreams?

If yes, then as soon as you can find a job or a gig that pays the bills without…

What if we go with this mentality for everything we do. The first draft of an article that we write, The first meal that we cook. The first piece of art we draw. Then there will be no pressure to…

If you are even moderately successful you’ll have people reach out for help. Truth is you can’t help everyone. Then who do you help? Someone who you believe in. How can you help those? 1/ Give them your time. Start…

Imagine you are running a business and you have an opportunity to take a low paying client. Should you take them on? There are many downsides to it, but you should decide based on where you are in life.

If…

Patience. Yes. Patience can be a big competitive advantage. It is often overlooked because people don’t share much about how they achieved what they wanted to because they stayed the course for 5, 10 or 15 years. To make it…

Become a life-long experimenter. Explore and experiment until you find something that you’ll want to experiment with more than once. Because you only want to do something more than once, if you are having fun doing it. When you are…

For most professionals, work emails, project management apps, and messaging apps are realities of life they can’t do without. But you can move them a bit away from you to stay clear of the downsides. As a starting point remove…

Time in sales, like time in life is precious. That’s why there is no point wasting it. In both, sales and life, we waste time the same way, By being inefficient, by being lazy, by wasting time on things with…

When writing about building career capital, I wrote about how by combining two skills one can achieve exemplary success. I also mentioned how Donald Trump used this approach to become the American President against immense odds.  The same way…

During a 2016, annual shareholder meeting of a company that Charlie Munger, the legendary business partner of Warren Buffet owns, someone asked him a question about avoiding errors. He is what he said: There are two things Warren and I…

When writing everyone starts with a shitty first draft. In it, you pour everything in your head on to paper or a doc, which you bring out because you know you can polish it and make it better by rewriting…

In life and projects there are setbacks. And how well and how soon we recover can decide our wins. Another factor that helps us win is avoiding the setback altogether. Thorough planning, experience and guidance may help there but it…