There’s a quiet tax we pay when we choose to do something different, meaningful, or ahead of its time. It's not money or effort or even risk, though those are part of it. The real cost, the one no one prepares you for, is being misunderstood. Not briefly, not occasionally, but often for long, … [Read more...]
You Taught Me the Long Game: My Mom. My Architect. My Coach. My Mentor. My Inspiration.
There are moments in life when we pause and reflect on the people who’ve shaped us. We often look to teachers, leaders, or great public figures for guidance, but for me, the most profound and enduring influence has always been one person: my mother, Pushap. It’s no accident that her name, which … [Read more...]
You Can’t Cook Rice Without Rice
There’s something refreshingly obvious about the idea: you can’t cook rice without rice. It’s a phrase that might sound silly at first, even laughable, but it carries a truth so foundational that we often forget it in our daily hustle to do more, be more, achieve more. Because in all of our … [Read more...]
Better Than Yesterday: The Quiet Science of Becoming Exceptional
No one is born a top performer. It’s tempting to think otherwise - to assume the most impressive people we encounter are just wired differently, gifted in ways we aren’t. But when you look closer, you see a more ordinary, more hopeful truth: they’ve simply built themselves differently. Not … [Read more...]
The Conservative Loss Is a Masterclass in Failed Change Management
For all the noise, the talking heads, the threads, and the spin, the most fascinating part of the recent Conservative loss in Canada isn’t political - it’s organizational. It’s a textbook case in failed change management, delivered in real-time, by a party that had all the momentum, all the … [Read more...]