Step-by-Step Guide to Decluttering Your Email Inbox
In the last blog, you read how I decluttered my Gmail inbox, and what it has done for me since then. After that article, I received some messages to share if I have any tips on how to do it efficiently. Well, sure enough, I do. 🙂 And yes, I use Gmail, however 95% of...
Feeling Stuck In Your Career Or Life? Here’s How To Fix It
Lately, I had been having so many questions about the direction of my career and business that my head was exploding with ideas, and not in a good way. I was confused not knowing which of these ideas should be my priority, and what my next steps should be. I was...
13 Ways To Get A Fresh Start After A Lousy Day
There are some days when nothing seems to be going your way, and the more you try to change it, the worse it becomes. Sometimes it's a big upset, and the other times it's just small things piling up. Such days can make you feel aggravated, sad, and downright defeated....
How To Take Action Without Worrying What Others Think
How many times have you stopped yourself from taking an action just because you were worried what others will think of you? Even though you knew that the action will help you, you hesitated at the best, and retreated at the worst. Today, I am going to share with you...
How To Ask For Help
After reading the last article on asking for help, a reader asked a question. It is a natural extension of what we talked about last week so I am going to answer her question in today’s blog post by focusing on how to ask for help so that you increase your chances of...
No. 1 Mistake That’s Costing You More Than You Know
If I ask you to guess what this one mistake is, I am sure, you will not even think about what I have in mind. We ambitious professionals want to acquire a variety of skills that will support us in our career and life, but we hardly ever think about “this” as one of...
How To Raise Children Who Believe In Gender Equality
Today is March 8th - International Women’s Day. Today’s question from a reader couldn’t have come at a more apt time. She asked this question after reading the last week’s article on gender equality. Today, I am taking this opportunity to not only answer her question...
Achieving Gender Equality – 2 Goals For Young Thinkers
In my recent trip to India, I had a pleasure of meeting quite a few young men and women - friends, people in the audience, and new connections. All of them are bright, educated professionals in their 20s or 30s. Almost always our chats turned into thoughtful...
How To Build A Strong And Happy Marriage: 3 Essential Ingredients
This is the last week of my vacation in India. In the last 2 months, I have enjoyed not one, not two, but three big, fat Indian weddings of my cousins! During the preparation of one of the weddings, the bride to be, asked me a question that really made me think. Being...
How To Deal With Bad Listeners
Today's blog post is written in response to a question I received from one of our blog readers. “Hello Manasi, could you please write a post on tips to maintain personal cool when we encounter people who ask you about something but care less about what you have to...