You reach your wits’ end and your current way of being isn’t working for the life you want, so you decide to make a real change. You have built enough awareness to discover a pattern of self-sabotage you’ve been repeating throughout your life.

Being an employee doesn’t make you less capable, driven or courageous. It could simply mean your personality traits aren't fitting for entrepreneurship, at least at this time.

The world we live in seldom encourages authenticity, at least not genuinely, I often feel. We may hear words of empowerment to be authentic, but when we do we are often reprimanded for being too real.

Unless you want your life to end exactly the way it is now, a healthy dose of fear of not changing is just as valuable as your fear of changing. And the better you can imagine your life becoming, the more uncomfortable you will be about it not changing.

For three months, I spent most days at home in solitude. I turned off sound notifications on my phone. I prioritized self-care through rest, whole food, exercise, and meditation. I chose to spend time with people and on activities that energized me.

I was looking for a way to gain insights, a way to cultivate higher human capacity, and I chose to go to Zanskar, the oldest Buddhist valley in the world.

I’ve known all my life that the path the world would choose for me could never satisfy me, but I couldn’t see any viable alternatives until I took steps to begin exploring the world without a plan or preconceptions of how my life was supposed to go.

Finding our life purpose isn’t always a clear and easy journey. Most of us take many detours, trials and errors until we find that thing we know we have to do and keep doing.

Tiny changes in your daily routine can sometimes make a surprisingly big impact. It may not be noticeable at first, but it can start a chain reaction that propels a series of other changes in every area of your life.