Parth Sawhney

What do you think great thinkers like Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Maya Angelou, and successful entrepreneurs, authors, and innovators like Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, and many others have one thing in common? To achieve more, to make a significant impact, and to experience happiness in the

We all know that there’s a student loan crisis going on in America, but the truth is that it’s a gruesome reality in many parts of the world as well. Taking a student loan is getting easier and more and more people are depending upon them to fund

Sometimes it pays off to take a few steps back and look at the bigger picture. To look back at our most impressive and courageous feats. To reacquaint ourselves with the lessons that we have learned from our past. To let our ambitions loose and know what we want and

There have been times in my past when I turned to food to comfort me and help me go through failures, rejections and other difficult times, when I used it as a source of pleasure and an indispensable part of satisfying entertainment. But in the past few months, as I

Betterment is not a one-time choice, it involves a series of choices that we make over the course of our life until the time we depart this world. We should never stop our efforts to get better, no matter our circumstances. Whether it’s old age, an illness, a personal

Birthdays, special occasions, festivals and holidays are a great time — to get together with friends, relatives, and loved ones, to exchange pleasantries, to give gifts, to express our concern and show that we love and care for them. But what about the remaining days. As the Minimalists write in their

Outward clothing can tell a lot about a person and their vocation or interests. A lawyer dresses in an expensive suit. A physician wears a white coat and a stethoscope. A sportsperson dons a jersey during the game. A firefighter puts on his gear at work. A monk mostly shows

It may feel good to romanticize the notion that we have control over each and every aspect of our life. But it is far from the truth. There’s a difference between trying to control things in our life and taking charge of our life. As Anne Willson Schaefwrites in

Most of us have been conditioned to think of our life’s work as restricted to a single vocation. We start cultivating a one-dimensional perspective towards our professional life. But what if instead of making our work all about doing the “one thing” and considering it as a monolithic activity,