“If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.” – Joseph Campbell Certain lifestyles — digital nomadism, for example — have become increasingly trendy in recent years. And ultimately, aspiring to fit into that world is no...

“There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is only life.” – Sadhguru Why doesn’t work-life balance, work? Inherent in the act of balancing of two entities — one is work and the other is life — there is the idea of opposition. It...

At 35, I had achieved a lot. I had a Harvard degree and an MBA from a top business school. I was a Director at a big deal consulting firm. I owned and lived in a beautiful condo in a posh neighborhood in San Francisco. In other words I was “successful”. I had spent...

Most of us are going around making life choices every day. And, we are probably doing that while using less than a third of our available decision-making power. We all have three centers of intelligence available to help us make decisions and set a course of...

No. That’s it. Just no. No is a complete answer. But yet, so many of us have a tendency to apologize, justify, explain, defend, grovel and shame ourselves into a corner for our well-reasoned decisions. I am very familiar with this affliction, as a recovering...

Roughly twice as many workers today report being “actively disengaged” versus “actively engaged”. The idea of “work-life balance” suggests that, if we simply work less, we will be more happy. But it’s likely that if we feel drained by our work, there is also some kind...