Musings: When you realize your friend is a bad person
Human beings can be surprisingly forgiving especially in situations involving a backstabbing friend. We love redemption stories, seeing people make the most of second cha...
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Musings: Why you’re still friends with people you hate
Such friends mirror your flaws in ways you can’t see. Author and researcher, John Gottman believes that finding your soulmate is not a random, chance encounter orc...
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Musings: Rethinking money as the means, not the end
Money is a touchy subject. That’s because most of us, to a certain degree, associate a lot of our self-worth and identity to our job and how much money we make. It is, qu...
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Musings: Happiness is not enough
Happiness is a very important emotion but it is not enough in this topsy-turvy world of facetiousness. It’s not all about feeling good. All emotions have power and motiva...
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Parents: How to raise your child to be independent, self-motivated
The hardest parenting lesson for most parents to stop telling kids what to do. Most think it is much easier to bark out orders than to let them figure things out on their...
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Musings: Train your daughters not to be nice
In this rapidly-changing world, the onus is on parents to ensure the inculcation of great values in their daughters whilst ensuring they don’t have to be nice to th...
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Musings: Breathe deeply and forget your feelings
Feelings can be so mystifying and ineffable. In essence, there is what feels right and then there is what is right, and both are not mutually exclusive. A lot of people t...
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Musings: Self-Preservation – Are humans really that conceited?
Can you think of a time when you maybe did something for yourself, and it ended up harming another in the guise of self-preservation? Have you ever really cogitated on ho...
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Musings: Has marriage outlived its usefulness (or not)?
The marriage institution made a lot of sense once upon a time. This was during medieval times when women didn’t have the same roles and rights as men and were effectively...
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Musings: Don’t put all your happiness in one basket
In finance, a smart investment strategy is one that diversifies your happiness — not putting all your eggs in one basket. This makes sense. You don’t want to invest...
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