How would you change your life today if I told you that in 3 years, you would die? That’s a good thought experiment if you want to live your life with intention.
Look, life is short. We all know it. And yet, we get stuck in the mundanity. We do the same thing day in and day out.
We hardly ever think, “I won’t live forever.”
Sometimes we read a really prolific book that makes us think. Maybe it’s Man’s Search For Meaning or On The Shortness of Life.
“Have we ever made an emotional decision?” Warren Buffett asked his long-time business partner and friend, Charlie Munger, at the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder’s meeting. Being emotional with money is common with most people, after all. Munger, as dry as he always is, answered […]
Don’t set goals, create systems. Systems trump flexibility. This is a popular idea amongst people who share advice online. I’ve written about it too. The idea is that you’re more consistent if you rely on a set of daily actions/habits that you execute without much […]
When you set out to earn more money, you tend to set absolute financial goals. Somehow this is the default thinking pattern of our brains. When it comes to money, we prefer working with absolute numbers. I call that a ‘fixed goal.’ You don’t only […]