Happy Birthday: Simplicity, decluttering and knowing when to say no will help you avoid temptation and costly mistakes. Be true to yourself and the ones who have always been there for you. Life choices will fly at you a mile a minute, and being able to reflect on the outcome and make wise choices will be a telltale sign of what's to come. Discipline, a unique plan and high energy will lead to something concrete. Your numbers are 9, 17, 23, 27, 30, 34, 47.
Then I started noticing something interesting during my interviews over the years-these meticulous dressers often shared certain qualities that seemed increasingly rare. It wasn't about vanity or showing off. After interviewing over 200 people for various articles, from startup founders to burned-out middle managers, I began to see a pattern. The iron-wielders weren't trying to impress anyone. They were operating from a completely different mindset-one that psychology suggests is becoming endangered in our instant-everything world.
Leadership is often thought of as managing teams, strategies or organizations. But the truth is, leadership starts with managing yourself. A leader who lacks discipline in their personal life, whether in health, time or energy, will struggle to lead others with clarity and consistency. Without personal self-management, even the best leadership strategies fall apart. This is why self-discipline is often called the hidden foundation of leadership success.
In the second chapter of the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali begins his discussion on how to practice yoga with the word tapas -and he's not talking about Spanish cuisine! Sometimes tapas is translated as "learning from our suffering," but it basically means "to burn" in the way that you might burn away impurities by heating gold. This is why I often call yoga a form of alchemy.