When I was growing up, it was almost preordained that I was to become a physician myself. In the Indian community, families really push their children to become “one of the big three” with regards to profession: doctor, lawyer, or engineer. Anything less than entering one of those professions felt as if you failed […]
October is my favorite month of the year. The leaves start turning incredible colors around my property. And although this is the month when temperatures start to drop, it has not gotten to the point where you feel like you have to be trapped indoors. As an added bonus October is the birth […]
In the service industry, which as physicians we certainly are a part of, a popular saying is that the customer always comes first. The implication is that in order to thrive in an industry you have to cater to the customers/patients as it is they who will ultimately decide where they take their business […]
In the beginning of my financial journey, I envisioned retiring around the age of 53. The reason for this odd mile marker choice was that this would be my age when my daughter went off to college. I figured if I retired earlier I would still be bound to my daughter’s school schedule. […]
I enjoy perusing the web and reading blog posts and articles that catch my eye. Some of the great posts I have come across I share with my readers through my Grand Rounds series. Sometimes a particular passage in an article is thought provoking and I thought I could highlight/elaborate on it in […]
Twenty-four hours! Can I make it? I’ve never gone this long without before. I definitely would not have had the willpower on my own to do this previously. But here I was, forced in a situation where I indeed had to go “cold turkey.” For those unfamiliar with the term “cold turkey,” it usually […]
Today marks the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As it is women that keep us guys in check and make the world go around, it is important that precautionary steps be taken to ensure that you do not leave prematurely (having the XY component of our population left to our own […]
Follow your dreams. If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life. We have all heard the above advice, but how does one actually go about doing it? We may find ourselves stuck in the corporate world and only daydreaming of what it would be like to be […]
For my regular readers, this post is a lot different from every single post that has previously been published on this site. This difference is not due to the actual content of said post, but rather the timing, and more specifically, when this post was created. You see, all my previously published posts […]
Well last week I officially became an ex-con, having attended my first FinCon conference. FinCon has become a mecca where financially oriented individuals undergo an annual pilgrimage so that they can be immersed in activities with other like-minded individuals. One of my biggest regrets after starting this blog in April 2018 was not attending […]
