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Confession time! I walked past Stephen R. Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People on bookshop shelves for years, sitting there among all the other bestselling management titles. I never felt compelled to pick it up. In my head, I dismissed it as one of those 'hustle culture' books telling you how to squeeze yourself dry for success. No, thank you! Guess what, I'd mistaken 'effective' for 'efficient', which are in fact two very different concepts. Fast forward a few ye

"The President is unsuited to lead" - the first piece of leadership feedback I've ever received. I read this line sitting in the dimly lit private room of a rundown wine bar near university, surrounded by a few carafes of cheap Zweigelt and my fellow boardies from the student organization that elected me as their new President 6 months before. We were going through the members' feedback on our work so far, halfway through our mandate, and some of it was frankly... quite harsh

"This girl is unbelievable," I once overheard my mom telling her friends. - "Once she gets something into her head, she doesn't rest until she achieves it." I must have been around 13 at the time, having just been admitted to the secondary school of my choice. It was heavily oversubscribed, and I had spent many evenings and weekends preparing for the entrance exam. Back then, I had no idea that what I was practicing was the yogic principle of tapas. The Yogic Approach to Self

During my first trip to India 15 years ago, I made an observation as a traveller from Europe: Beneath all the apparent chaos on the surface, there seemed to be an underlying calm and a general sense of contentment. In contrast, Europe appeared smooth and organised on the outside, yet there was often frustration and dissatisfaction simmering underneath. When I shared this observation with a friend in India, he acknowledged there might be truth in it, but he also felt that this

The winter holidays are over, so are our days of eating, drinking, resting, and generally being merry and carefree. Let's face it: many of us start the new year with a strong sense that we need a general reset. A January detox. A dry January. A Veganuary. It is no coincidence that Google Trends for the search term “cleanse” show noticeable spikes just after Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The yogic principle of saucha, usually translated as 'purity', teaches us that cleanliness