Why do we know so many people who spend their lives doing things they don't like to do, buying things that bring them no lasting joy, and working hard at goals that offer no real fulfillment? We have all experienced...

About five years after launching, The Wishing Chair was in expansion mode. In addition to our three outlets, we wanted to open brick-and-mortar stores in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chandigarh. But most of our earnings were being plowed back into developing...

This week we’ve been trying to conjure up optimism to keep working on the things we care about and problem-solving on some of the biz woes. So, we're going to take a momentary break from the navel-gazing self-pity that we’ve...

In business, as in life, there are very few sure things. Plans can go poof, sales projections can be wrong, circumstances can change and that rainy day fund you collected at the back of your safe can evaporate.  However, according...

They say when it rains, it pours.  Though it literally may not be true for Delhi this week (we could use more rain), it felt that way figuratively as far as The Wishing Chair was concerned.  June was a month...

It’s Father’s day today. So we thought we would kick off the newsletter with this poem:  Those Winter Sundays Sundays too my father got up earlyand put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,then with cracked hands that achedfrom labor...

Hello from a mist-laden, lake-front coffee-shop in Chiang Mai where we are perched on cushioned day beds shaded by willow trees sipping on Iced Caramel Macchiatos and feeling guiltily smug about escaping to this paradise while a dusty heat wave...

This week’s newsletter ended up being quite wordy, so we’ll keep the introduction short other than to tell you that we have FINALLY booked our tickets for Thailand this week. We were supposed to leave for Thailand to meet our...