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What Didn’t Work In 2025 and How I’m Redesigning Life For 2026
In 2025, rigid career planning proved ineffective. Navyug Mohnot promotes a shift towards life design, focusing on adaptability, empathy, and diverse roles.
When Passion Feels Pressure: How Students Can Design A Balanced Life.
The conventional advice to “follow your passion” can be misleading, often causing stress. Instead, passion emerges from actively engaging in experiences and observing what energises you.
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Three Things Indian Students Should Do Before Choosing A Career.
Our education system excels in churning out ranks and results. But what about nurturing joyful, purposeful people?
Why Life Design Should Be Part Of Every Indian University Curriculum.
Stanford’s popular ‘Designing Your Life’ course is helping Indian students find clarity, confidence, and purpose amid academic and career pressures.
The Power of Reframing: Changing the inner narrative to build confidence
Stress rarely comes from workload alone. It comes from the meanings and the narratives we attach to the workload.
Second Innings of Success: Reinventing Your Career After 40 Jobs
Most careers hit a turning point somewhere in our 40s or 50s. The path we’ve been on for years can suddenly feel unfulfilling.
Why most students struggle after 18: Understanding the confidence crisis in higher education
As students transition into adulthood, they face a tumultuous and unpredictable world. Conventional education emphasises content mastery over self-awareness and adaptability, resulting in anxiety.
Beyond Resolutions: How merging health rituals with life planning creates a more meaningful new year
Design a purposeful New Year roadmap by aligning daily health rituals with life planning, helping you build balance, clarity, and consistency throughout the year ahead.
The Power of Pause: Why Doing Nothing Sometimes Helps You Do Better
We live in a culture that treats constant movement as ambition and empty space on a calendar as waste. Often, in fact, the wisest thing you can do is pause.
Midlife Crisis: How To Achieve A Career Comeback In Your 40s & 50s
For many professionals, the 40s and 50s are a pivotal stage to rethink careers and embrace purposeful reinvention.
Quiet Quitting To Conscious Living: Redesigning Work In A Burnout World
The quiet quitting movement may have started in frustration, but it’s evolving into something far more powerful.
Reframing Success: Empowering Indian Teenagers To Design Their Own Futures
In a rapidly changing world where career paths are no longer linear, the ability to design one’s life with intention, adaptability, and self-awareness has never been more essential.
Designing A Life, Not Just A Career: Making Space For What Truly Matters
From the outside, I may have looked like the classic CEO. But inside, I was making more intentional choices.
Upskilling at Midlife: How Continuous Learning Fuels Career Comebacks
Those who stay curious, open to learning, and willing to experiment often discover that midlife is the perfect time for a comeback.
The Transition From Grabbing Every Chance to Selecting What Suits You Best.
FOMO is the restless pull to chase everything, fearing we’ll miss out. But chasing it all only leaves us scattered and unsatisfied. JOMO, instead…
Designing Your Comeback: Reinventing Work And Life After 40
The so-called midlife crisis often emerges from the disconnect between outward success and inner fulfillment.
From FOMO
To JOMO
Shifting From Chasing Every Opportunity To Choosing What Actually Fits.
Shift from the fear of missing out to the joy of missing out by embracing mindful choices, focusing on what truly matters, and creating space for balance and fulfillment.
Why India’s Students Need Life Literacy, Not Just Marks To Succeed In Life
India’s education system values marks over meaning, leaving students unprepared for life. Life literacy with resilience, choices and purpose is the missing piece.
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“What does “Success” mean to you?” with Navyug
The Champion Mindset Podcast
Are you designing your work life, or is it designing you? In this powerful episode of the Champion Mindset Podcast, Ikshwaku Sharma talks with Navyug Mohnot on how you can escape the autopilot mode & take charge of your career, build a work life that fuels both success & fulfilment and more!
Intentional Choices for Fulfillment
The Brand Called You Podcast
Ever feel like life just happens to you rather than for you?What does it really take to live with intention instead of autopilot? In this episode of Intentional Choices for Fulfillment, Ashutosh Garg and Navyug dive into the small decisions that quietly shape a meaningful life.
Are you “Collisionable”?
The 2nd Innings Podcast
This episode is a thoughtful conversation about career arcs, turning points, and the often-unspoken realities of change. Atul Nath, Suman Ghose, and Navyug explore how values, learning, and reflection shape what comes next.
Designing Your Life & Flourishing in Uncertainty
I See India Podcast
Navyug Mohnot, Abhinav Banerjee and Dr Megha Ghosh have a reflective conversation on life, work, and how experiences shape the way we see the world. Using India as a backdrop, the episode explores perspective, growth, and the choices we make along the way.
Life by Design
Inspire Someone Today Podcast
A thoughtful conversation on living with intention instead of default. Srikant and Navyug talk about choices, learning from experience, and shaping a life that feels aligned. It’s an honest reflection on pausing, recalibrating, and moving forward with clarity.