You can’t hide behind the perfect set of words — If you haven’t kept up with what’s going on pop radio, you are in for a treat. A song named “driver’s license” has taken the world by storm. Three days after the release, it broke Spotify’s record for most streams in a single day. “These are numbers that we’ve never…

There is no such thing called bad listener — Once I was volunteering a friend who needed a therapy client for his assignment. He was a psychology student and for his assignment, he needed someone who can act as a client as you would do in a normal therapy session. I stepped up to the task and he started…

When writing feels tough-fall back to basics — Writers are sensitive by nature. We are naturally sensitive to sounds, visuals, and feelings. Our sensitivity makes us observers of the world around us, but it also makes us aware of our inner feelings, our voices, and our intuitions. This inner sensitivity could be a curse to our ability to…

laziness is a serious problem we writers face, and here is how you can fight it — I don’t remember the last time I struggled with writer's block. I’ve no issue with coming up with article Ideas too. But I still can’t get any writing done. Why? Laziness. The problem I and many writers face is simply to sit and write. Some of us are just lazy…

I wish someone gave me this career advice when I was 13. — I remember my dad being mad at me for having no clue of what I wanted to do with my life. I was sitting beside him in a car as he was singing stories of how he always knew what he wanted to do in his life. I was 13…

#1 Focus on dripping of the faucet — I am afraid to tell people I am spiritual. Spiritual has become such a corrupted word that it has lost its essence. Simply put, spiritual is something that is not physical. Like gravity. You can’t see it, but it’s working as you and I sit here. …

The magic formula for developing a full proof self-esteem — “Speak loud and clear,” I said to myself as I stood in front of a music shop. Mustering up some courage so I could bargain with the shop owner without sounding like a wimp. I rushed over to the shop and grabbed a black cover bag for my acoustic guitar…

Beware of these non-verbal clues, they are often misunderstood — As little babies, our survival was dependent on reading non-verbal cues of our parents; decoding their smiles and tone of their voice. We were natural observers. As we grew older, this sensitivity was lost as we started paying more attention to our internal state and how people perceive us. As…

Last night my sister watched as I was writing patiently, “You have been writing for 5 months and your works seem to attract crickets” she paused for a second “how do keep writing with the same enthusiasm as you s begin with? If I were you, I would have lost…