I TOLD YOU SO

In a world obsessed with counting calories and clocking active steps in a day, it’s so easy to succumb to measuring progress (and invariably success) with numbers. Being a compulsive planner and do-er, I sometimes find myself trapped in my own wispy web of dates, targets and deadlines – treading slowly so as to not undo the sheer magnificence of the warp and weft of the web. And as exhilarating as it is to smash the goals straight out month after month when in a state of flow, the ebb can then be equally dissuading.   It’s almost second nature to co-relate success with an accomplishment. But what we often forget is to account for the time spent laying the...