I was at the gym yesterday morning and finally made my way upstairs to the weight machines after a multi-year hiatus. It’s not that I had stopped exercising, just that weights had taken a back seat for a while. So I tentatively sat down at the leg press and loaded…

Before I started my first business, I had an exciting career in the intelligence services. I worked with some of the most brilliant people I will ever know, got to do some really meaningful work, and lived in parts of the world that I would never have seen otherwise. Early…

For most of my adult life, anytime I set myself a target or wanted to grow my business, I threw hours at the problem. I figured if I worked hard enough and long enough that anything I wanted to do would get done. And to some extent I was right…

​I don’t know about you, but at some point every day I find myself feeling bad about where I’m not. It might just be that I have an over-developed sense of guilt (I mean I went to Catholic school for 13 years and come from a big Indian family, so…

When I was in high school, I was desperate to be a supermodel. I had heard somewhere that Kate Moss had been discovered while she was waiting at an airport, so for years after that, every time I flew, I would get breathless with desperation for some talent scout to…

I don’t know about you, but there are days — especially in the lazy days of summer! — when I really struggle. It’ll be approaching 4-o’clock and I’ll be wondering where the time has gone and what I have to show for close to a day’s work (and then panic…

When I was starting my first business ten years ago, my partner and I held a board meeting and set out targets for the year ahead and the ten years ahead. …

We’ve all heard the saying “A penny saved is a penny earned”, but in my family, my mom often reminded us that “A penny saved is two pennies earned…” What she meant by that, I think, was that earning is the hard part so saving what we earn and being…

Over the weekend, I found myself getting really irritated as my husband was reading “The Ugly Duckling” to our daughter. I’ve never realized it before, but that popular children’s tale is based on a totally false premise. The only reason the duckling is considered “ugly” is because it is being…