What is Self Help
On this page, you can browse videos, articles and workshops on how to improve, how to be better, how to be more productive in work and in one’s life. Most articles are in English, most videos are in Urdu.
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Life Planning: The Simple Technique That Works (it’s not annual planning)
Imagine that you have your whole year planned. You look at your calendar and you know exactly what needs to be done on that day. And as you do that thing, you know in your heart that this little action will bring you closer to your yearly goals. And once you achieve...
Do You Talk to Yourself
You should talk to yourself. Really. I know you already do that. But you must talk to yourself intentionally. The answers are all there. You just need to ask the right questions. +++ Time: Years ago. Location: Somewhere irrelevant. +++ "Fix me," I say. "But are you...
The First LifeETC Local Meetup. In Lahore
These are all people who are doing something and now want to do something more! Add more adventures, more awesome into their lives. 🙂 The scale of what you are doing doesn't matter: one runs a site with 25,000+ paying members, one has the largest selling design in an...
Let us meet.
Are you a lettuce or an apple? A lettuce will take three months to grow and you can use it in a salad. That is why it's commonly called salad leaf. Now once the lettuce has been used, you need to replant a new one. Salad leaves are healthy and quick to grow. An apple...
Work-Life Balance: Why you should not do it
I met an old friend. Works in one of the largest banks in Pakistan. He has a high ranking post: he manages the operations for pretty much half of the country. He told me a little story. “I was at this opening ceremony on behalf of the bank,” he said, “and one of my...
Do This to Live a Boring, Mediocre Life
Beginner's Luck is the ultimate mistress, always there to seduce me into thinking I am good enough. You try something for the first time, and you surprise yourself. The first time I let go of the arrow, it hits the bullseye. The first time I send in an article to a...
Journey of a Thousand Miles begins with THIS
Journey of a thousand miles… Someone somewhere is baking a cake for the first time. The cake comes out OK: it’s eatable. But it tastes funny. On a scale of 1 to 10, ten being the best and one being the worst, the cake is hovering between minus 3 and minus 2. A few...
Job, Career or a Calling
There are three ways to look at our work. Either we think it's a job, it's a career, or we think it is our calling. And at least one of these categories is very, very bad for us (no prizes for guessing which one though). +++ There was a study done by Dr Amy...
The Job and The Struggle
Recently we talked about identifying our job. We also saw how we can ritualize the work: show up everyday for our job. My job is to write. To design. To solve problems. Not necessarily in that order. I do it every day. I must. That's my decision. I have also outlined...