“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.” — René Girard. I grew up wanting to make money. My father and everyone within his orbit…

I think most people have one top idea in their mind at any given time. That’s the idea their thoughts will drift toward when they’re allowed to drift freely. And this idea will thus tend to get all the benefit of that type of thinking, while others are starved of…

“In poverty as well as in other misfortunes, people suppose that friends are their only refuge. And friendship is a help to the young, in saving them from error, just as it is also to the old, with a view to the care they require and their diminished capacity for…

When asked what I write about, I always seem to struggle for an answer. Of course, it doesn’t bode well for me to find the right audience. But that’s another story. My usual reply is that I generally write within the self-help domain, but I share stories from my own…

Many, many years ago, when I was in college, I was stuck in a toxic relationship. It was clear to my friends that I should walk away, but I didn’t. The relationship ended after she unceremoniously dumped me. I didn’t have the strength to leave, and I suffered accordingly. Last…

1. On Spirituality Whether we are entrepreneurs, soldiers, poets, engineers or nurses, we are also human beings. Whether we are religious, atheist or agnostic, we are all struggling to make sense of our worlds. In one way or another, we are trying to connect to something bigger than ourselves, to some universal divine…

“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us.” — Steven Pressfield For the fifth day in a row, I sit in front of the computer screen and write nothing. Not a paragraph. Not a sentence. Not a word. However, today I’ll give…

Last month, I travelled to Lebanon after my elderly father was rushed to hospital. This time around, I didn’t stay in Beirut but instead at his house in a small town, just outside Tyre. Whether it was the internet that was so sporadic, the cold rainy February weather, or how…

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu Over the last month, several events have conspired together to leave me feeling helpless and lacking control…