Parth Sawhney

As we start living a minimalist lifestyle, the more we declutter and discard, the more spaces start showing up in our homes, workspaces and in our days. As we have been conditioned to fill up every space we have, we may find this emptiness out of the place and weird.

Where there is clutter, there can be no clarity. Clutter impedes our ability to think clearly, solve problems and arrive quickly at decisions. We can easily get distracted and lose our focus if we have too much clutter accumulated in our mind. Not only do we need to sift and

As we live our lives, we try and hope to find goodness from things outside our realm of control — good news, good weather, good coffee, good luck. We need to stop relying on external circumstances for goodness. Goodness starts from within us. It’s a treasure within our soul waiting

As we get glued to our glowing screens, we become so absorbed with our consumption that we lose track of time and forget why we were on that website or app on the first place. We enjoy scrolling, it helps us cope with boredom, it helps us ignore reality, it

Letting go is not easy. It’s like a muscle, it takes time to build it. We need to constantly put ourselves through pain, discomfort and resistance. It hurts in the beginning but with time as the muscle grows and becomes stronger, things get easier. Not only do we need

Everyone is running around in a rush to get things done so that they can check them off from their list and feel better about themselves. The current ‘multi-tasking’ culture is training people to become shallow and ignore excellence and depth. As Steven Pressfield points out, “The disease of our

Overcoming urges is not easy. We need to train our minds relentlessly to do so. Resisting and fighting urges is futile — the more we do that, the more we get trapped in them. Urges are like Devil’s Snare. We just need to stop fighting and let their grip over

Don’t let your intellect overpower your heart. We can be logical as much as we want but there are times when we need to act in accordance with our hearts. In order to understand other people, sometimes reading their minds is not enough. We need to read their hearts

It takes time to get over bad habits. We need to constantly interrupt those patterns and most importantly get off the path of self-sabotage. When our bad habits operate on autopilot, it’s important that we become conscious of our acts. Our every compulsive act that is detrimental to our