Work has a place in your life. An important place, even. But it’s not the whole house. It’s more like the kitchen: functional, necessary, where certain important things happen. But you don’t live in the kitchen. You live in the whole house.
This is what it means to work to Live. You work to pay for housing, food, healthcare, and maybe some experiences that make life richer. The work is a means, not the end.

The rat race isn’t a place; it’s a mindset. You’re chasing the next thing: the promotion, the car, the bigger house, the latest smartphone. The finish line keeps moving. But here’s what nobody tells you: you can stay exactly where you are and still be free. You need to stop optimizing for rewards and start building towards a vision. Same job, different game entirely.

I assume that you want to be successful, but have you asked yourself what exactly success means for you? Do you have a personally crafted definition of success that reflects your values, and not the expectations of what success should look like? We are going to examine the invisible script running your life, your definition […]

Picture two people, both 35 years old, both living in the same city, both earning similar incomes.Person A wakes up Monday morning, hits snooze three times, scrolls Instagram for twenty minutes before getting out of bed, rushes through breakfast while checking email, sits in traffic thinking about how much they hate Mondays, arrives at a […]

Where does our sense of purpose come from?Is it written in the stars, preordained and waiting to be uncovered, or is it something we build as we engage with life? Many of us have been taught that purpose is something assigned — that we are like finished products rolling off a divine conveyor belt, each stamped with a […]

Success is probably one of the most used English words in books, articles, talks etc. By the time an average person finishes high school, he or she has already started thinking of success and how to become successful; what career paths to take, what skills to learn. In fact, religious institutions today have been a […]

“Get a wife.” Three simple words. My colleague typed them casually in response to my WhatsApp status, where I had joked about needing the willpower to do laundry. But those words carried more weight than he probably realized. In that moment, something clicked for me. I saw, in sharp relief, how deeply society has conditioned […]

We live in a world where many working-class people feel like cogs in a giant machine—barely engaged, just showing up for a paycheck. According to a global Gallup study on workplace engagement: In other words, most people don’t find meaning in their work. But here’s the thing: maybe the real problem isn’t just low pay […]

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” — Rumi. Many people think of purpose as something mystical—you’re “born with” it, and if you’re lucky, one day you’ll stumble across it like buried treasure. But the truth is, no one is born with a pre-packed purpose. I know […]

Introduction Passion is the spark, but purpose is the fire that keeps burning when the spark fades. Growing up, I often heard the phrase: “Follow your passion.” It’s not bad advice in itself, but I’ve come to realize it’s incomplete. Passion alone can get you started, but it rarely sustains you when life gets tough. I […]