Sohil Parekh shares ten tips on caring for aging parents when they live in a different country. You are NRI from the USA? Working for MNC with ESOP? Probably you are HNI wanting to make FDI? Previously PIO having OCI? There is GOI scheme. You can open NRO/NRE/FD/DEMAT (but not HUF) with INR. We are definitely needing PAN. Can get from ITD. You must link Aadhaar and submit KYC. Next year, Re-KYC via eKYC or CKYC. Then if you are…

Jessica Lackey shares a sage reminder designed to inspire you to keep on walking your talk. A post of yours gets only a handful of likes. Your newsletter list is growing oh so slowly. You get no feedback for a presentation or a meeting you prepared so hard for. And yet…. The clients you are working with start echoing back your words to you. Or your team and peers start mirroring your behavior. Colleagues and friends start picking up books…

If you are thinking about your personal brand or how you are perceived online, Paul Sims shares an article that may help you define the traits that are important to you. I attended the funeral of a close friend last week and, as those things often do, it caused me to reflect. I thought about the question, “How do you want people to describe you?” There have been many articles written about what you want on your tombstone, what kind…

Since the beginning of 2022, James Stranko has been on the road and writing articles about his travels. In this post, he shares where he has been and what he has learned.  Where I’ve been New York City, which continues to be a leading light in the post-Covid travel recovery. In the last two weeks, I sat in one sold-out Broadway and one sold-out off-Broadway show. More importantly, I had the only-in-New-York feeling of being in a restaurant where diners…

Rahul Bhargava shares an article and advice on how to stay motivated by following the strategies of high output achievers.  Few years back, I was part of a ‘merger/acquisition management’ project. These projects are unusually stressful. As a professional, you are not sure of your next role for weeks or months. It’s like the phase after an exam and before the results. One just waits, and waits. The numerous failed attempts of mine always keeps me curious about the secrets…

Start your week with the right mindset. Amanda Setili shares a perfect post for a Monday morning.  “Some beliefs become so ingrained that we don’t even question them. We just count them as truths. These unexamined beliefs can imprison us.” Key points include: We all do this We should learn to dismiss the negative thoughts that hold us back Trust that the integrity of our actions has the impact to carry us onwards and upwards   Access the link to…

Jane Licurse shares a post and a poem designed to remind us to take time lying in the grass and contemplate the wild and precious in our lives. Harvard Business School asks graduating MBA students each year what it is they plan to do with their one wild and precious life. I remember thinking there was a “right answer”, one Harvard wanted to hear: to create a company, do something BIG, to show up in Forbes magazine’s top 30 under…

Darryl Stickel shares a few best practices for parents who want to improve the bond of trust with their children.  When it comes to trust, kids are a special case.  They tend to trust us more than they should when they are young and less than they should as they mature.  Unfortunately, our kids tend to trust us least when they could use our guidance the most.  As they mature they are making life changing decisions and at risk for…

Glenton Jelbert examines passages in the Bible to extrapolate fallacies, fallibilities, and the philosophical merits within.  Was Paul a deluded apocalypticist? In other words, did he believe the apocalypse (i.e. some kind of dramatic end of world event) would happen in his lifetime? The answer to this is almost certainly yes. My friend, Mark Smith, recently wrote a nice summary of the failed second coming (available on Amazon) responding to the various theologies that try to get around it. Of…

  In this article, Amy Giddon reveals what her team discovered when they asked the public about courage. What we learned when we asked 250 people about their fears. ‘Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.’ — Brené Brown We’re having trouble seeing each other these days. It’s always been hard to show up in our full complexity and contradictions, and now we have social media further tempting us to filter and edit our stories. We fear…

In a world that has an abundance of aphorisms and rules for every occasion, Robbie Kellman Baxter suggests that the community of professionals think twice before following advice.   Other than maybe the golden rule, I am hard pressed to think of any saying that is always true. And that shouldn’t be surprising, as the answer to so many questions is “it depends.” “Should I let my daughter go to the late night party?” It depends…on your child’s age, maturity,…