Life will not always be a bed of roses. Your dream job will not be handed to you on a silver platter. These are the simple realities of life. However, it doesn’t mean the opposite. You are not stuck in a bush of thorns, or permanently jobless. Getting to where you want to go takes […]
Posted July 13, 2017, BY Gurbaksh Chahal
As a society, we’ve become obsessed with possessing what we don’t have. We fantasize about places, people, and things we want to have, all while abandoning the precious moments right in front of us. How many times have you seen others take pictures of the most routine moments of their lives just to post them […]
Posted June 12, 2017, BY Gurbaksh Chahal
The amount of suffering in this world is unimaginable, and children (and with them our future) are the most vulnerable victims of crime and outright atrocity. In this day and age, child labor, child sex trafficking and abuse still are the gruesome reality of too many countries. These children are robbed of their childhood and, […]
Posted June 7, 2017, BY Gurbaksh Chahal
Although I dropped out of high school at the age of 16, to pursue my dreams in business, I have never downplayed the importance of education. Quiet to the contrary, I have often stated in all of my guest lectures for students to stay in school, and to never stop learning – for it is […]
Posted June 1, 2017, BY Gurbaksh Chahal
As first appeared on Forbes.com by Melissa Thompson. Gurbaksh Chahal, a successful American-Indian internet entrepreneur who in 2007 sold his company to Yahoo for $300 million, leads the fight against discrimination with the Chahal Foundation. I recently wrote about how entrepreneurs deal with setbacks. There’s little doubt that the life of an entrepreneur is often full […]
Posted May 31, 2017, BY Gurbaksh Chahal
Think of one universal quality that is shared by every successful man or woman in history. Is it ambition? Hard work? Luck? Insightfulness? Probably. But there’s one more thing that is imperative to succeed: fearlessness. How Gurbaksh Chahal Overcame Failure and Found Success “Be fearless. The road to success is paved with failures. If you’re […]
Posted May 11, 2017, BY Gurbaksh Chahal
True success goes hand in hand with generosity and willingness to make the world a better place for those near and far. The readiness to share the secrets of one’s own success is no exception: successful entrepreneurs know how to handle these insecurities that sometimes make people feel that their own achievement might be at […]
Posted May 11, 2017, BY Gurbaksh Chahal
Having a rough morning? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? That’s called purpose. Don’t ever give up. Everyone struggles with insecurities. They make us vulnerable. And, they either make us or break us. We all have them, after all we’re humans. It’s how we deal with them that separate us. We have this inner voice […]
Posted May 10, 2017, BY Gurbaksh Chahal
One of my favorite segments on Oprah was when she brought in a special guest by the name of Randy Pausch on October 2007. Professor Pausch was an esteemed professor at Carnegie Mellon University, a devoted husband and father who was fighting pancreatic cancer. He gave an abridged version of his speech of his “Last […]
Posted May 3, 2017, BY Gurbaksh Chahal
It’s true, the most successful individuals in the world have the most struggling stories. It’s not that they’re looking for trouble, but pursuing the things they are pursuing in life puts them in some complicated situations. Believe me there is no book out there that says, “You’ve just become successful, if so, here all the things […]
Posted April 23, 2017, BY Gurbaksh Chahal