Someone came up with the idea of creating an index of their articles on Medium and I finally caught up with it. Here is a categorized list of my articles which I will keep on updating as I write new ones.
I am a Gen X who has quit competitive…
Three weeks ago, I started writing on LinkedIn regularly. Imagine my surprise when I watched my connection swell, 10–60 comments on my post and whooping 490+ subscribers to my newsletter that is just two weeks old.
It is not that I have become a great writer overnight. I am still…
I love writing. I hate having to write.
Each day is a struggle to meet my commitments, whether to write books, articles, or social media posts. Steven Pressfield, the author of the bestselling book The War of Art, calls it Resistance. Resistance is a mythical force that acts against human…
A website is an absolute must for authors. As soon as a reader finds a new author, the first thing they do is check their website.
Your website is your home on the internet. Your readers should always be able to find you there. It is the best way of…
I am participating in a 30 Days LinkedIn sprint with 80 other participants run by Tom Kuegler. We are going to publish 30 posts in 30 days. It just started on 10 January, and I have already seen some fantastic results.
My first post, I Hate Sprints, got 1877 views…
The Oracle had declared — whoever would undo the knot that tied the chariot of the founder of the city of Gordium (in present-day Turkey) to the pole would be the future conqueror of Asia.
But the knot was so intricate that many had tried and failed.
When 20-year-old Alexander…
I am a mediocre writer. I have not written anything that stands out. When I walk past, no one says, “Whoa! Here goes the writer of this year’s bestseller.”
I have failed at more things than I have succeeded at.
But I am still effective. I am still standing in…
My husband goes for a walk every morning. Come hail, snow, or fires; he is out of the door at 5:30 am and has been doing that for more than 20 years. …
We are obsessed with productivity. I am not talking about companies; I am talking about individuals, although companies are the ones who have ingrained in us the notion that we should be efficient at all times.
Everywhere I look (myself included), I find people trying to milk more out of…
This is primarily true with all projects, but with books, it is gospel. A book tends to get out of your hands and become a monster. Expect your brain to rebel too. It would want to do everything else but work on the book. The only way to finish a…
