Entrepreneurs and Adventurers

I am writing this sitting on a hill. Well, not a hill, a mountain. 8,400 feet above sea level in one of the most serene places in northern Pakistan. The internet here is dodgy but I have managed to upload a few pictures for those interested in seeing pictures of very...

Finding Limits

“Know Your Limits. Then Ignore Them.” Complacency should be treated as a sin. It has cost me years in lost time and hundreds of thousands in lost revenue. It doesn’t matter, I say. But I say that because I am good at justifying things to myself. We...

A Road Map to Financial Freedom

The voice on the other end was female and had a heavy accent. She was speaking in Urdu. Very to the point. No formalities. No run offs. “You said this on your application, please confirm,” type of questions. Felt as if she was reading from a script. I had...

Sitting Still

For a lot of people, meditation is when you do nothing. I think they miss the point. Meditation is stillness. It is allowing the torrid rain of thought to fall unhindered. To test and to find purpose. Ideas are generated, nurtured and destroyed. All authority is...

How to Live a Life of Adventure

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear “adventure”? Did you think of Indiana Jones? I don’t know why, but for the longest time ever, adventure for me meant a mission to exotic places, a hat and a whip. But of course,...
Your Desires Vs Your Duties. And the Winner is…

Your Desires Vs Your Duties. And the Winner is…

We sit at our usual table. I sit with my questions, he sits with a coke and a smile. I ask him about his plan of extended travel to the other side of the ocean. “I am almost ready. The tickets are on their way ,” he says. He has been saving money for...