Happiness means different things to different people. Some see it as contentment and inner peace, others as intense joy and exuberance....

Nobody likes to lose a job—it’s never a pleasant experience. But many of you, at some point in your careers, have been fired from a job...

Like everyone else, I look forward to every weekend so I can do the things I enjoy doing and catch up on stuff I’ve been putting off....

How is your weekend looking? Are you planning to do the things you might not have time for during the week—or doing nothing at all?...

Actor-director Woody Allen once said, “If you're not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.”...

It took a long-haul flight from Mumbai to Vancouver for me to finally experience a comic bookstore I'd only read about online and watched...

The faucet at a public washroom I visited appeared quite ordinary. I turned the knob both ways, but nothing happened. I moved my hands...

Thich Nhat Hanh, the renowned Vietnamese Buddhist monk, famously wrote about mindfulness:   Tea is an act complete in its simplicity....

Real achievement and satisfaction comes from doing things we have never tried or done before — because we think we lack confidence or we...

As a journalist many years ago, I was intrigued by the writing process and referred to writing guides such as The Economist Style Guide,...

Monks and sages have been saying it for ages – mindfulness has a remarkable ability to boost our mental and physical well-being, and...

Most mistakes are genuine. They are oversights. Made unintentionally or inadvertently. They occur due to human error resulting from...

For a guy who, up until the pandemic, waited patiently in the queue to update his bank passbook every month, my almost overnight...

Think before you speak. Or as the late US radio host Bernard C. Meltzer is believed to have said: “Before you speak ask yourself if what...

There is an interesting phrase that goes "A pizza is made round, packed into a square box and eaten as a triangle". The pizza model can...

Consider this scenario. A middle-aged couple is planning a holiday. Their two children won’t be joining them. Although they are both old...

Not a day goes by when you don’t hear or read about online and digital frauds. It’s almost as if you’re living in an era of scammers,...

Life is no cakewalk. If it was, most of us would’ve breezed through it and probably would have been happier most of the time. The good...

If you could adapt a famous or memorable film dialogue to your professional skill, which would it be? Mine would be Liam Neeson's “I will...

Friendship can make us stronger or more vulnerable. It can positively affect our health or have a negative impact. It can be sharing...