The Take-Away Series: The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
If you had met me a year ago and told me that I am on my way to becoming one of those ‘wake up with the sun, chirpy as a bird’ people, I would have given you the stink eye. If you had told me that I would actually be writing about a book called The Miracle Morning in an attempt to convert people to waking super earlyism, I would have just walked off. And not even looked at you again. Ever. But I guess things change as you get older and closer to thirty. My early twenties, like most people, were spent mostly chilling out with friends, partying, reading…
The Take-Away Series: Podcasts that will Blow your Mind, One Lesson at a Time
Welcome to the second edition of my take-away series! In the first edition, we talked about a book that not only gave me an excellent perspective on life, but also talked to me about values, the importance of saying ‘No’, happiness, suffering and so many other beautiful things. You can check out that post here! In this modern life ours, with so many conveniences to make things faster and easier and reachable, we have gone ahead and gotten ourselves into the exact opposite situation. We have made our lives inconvenient and complicated. One such inconvenience in many of our lives is the commute to and from work. Like so many…
The Take-Away Series: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
One of my favourite authors George R. R. Martin once said, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” Reading has played a very important part in my life. Being an only child, reading gave me friends, someone to hang out with, took me to imaginary lands that people with siblings go with their brothers and sisters. Reading fiction, according to a young Shalvika, was one of the best things that she could do with her time. And trust me, not much has changed. Today’s Shalvika loves reading a good novel too. But what’s different is that she realises that books…
