Take Control of Your Life: Be Proactive

The easiest thing for you to to do is to blame your circumstances on something or someone other than yourself. Someone makes you mad. The professor made the test difficult, so you failed. Your boss is inconsiderate, and that’s why you didn’t get a raise. Your girlfriend/boyfriend didn’t understand you, and this made you break [...]

Overcome Social Programming

“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” – G. K. Chesterton This is the first of three parts in a series on taking a leap of faith. I’m breaking this topic up into a series for the sake of clarity. [...]

Transform Your Talents Into Strengths

Today I’m going to introduce you to a side of yourself you may not be acquainted with just yet. Meet, your talents. Each one of us is born with a set of talents. Your opinion towards this statement is mainly influenced by whether or not you have been able to identify your own talents. If [...]

Build Character

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.” – Horace Greeley Stop. Take a few moments to evaluate your character. How would you describe yourself? Are you courageous? Generous? Arrogant? Manipulative? Optimistic? Pessimistic? Resilient? Judgmental? Hateful? Loyal? Haughty? Humble? Easygoing? Respectful? The words listed above [...]

Learn to Use Your Intuition

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” -Lao Tzu Have you ever faced a tough decision, and miraculously known what action to take without consciously thinking about it? Somehow, your subconscious mind knows what to do, and it makes the decision [...]

Live In the Now

“Nothing is worth more than this day.” – Goethe What’s all this hoopla about living in the now? Of course you’re living in the now! You’re breathing, moving, and existing in the now! Everything you do is being done right now; so what could people possibly mean by live in the now? Remember when you [...]

Get in Touch With Your Inner-Self

Do you know yourself? I mean, do you REALLY know yourself? Do you know your greatest talents? Your life’s purpose? Your passions? Your deepest beliefs? It’s easy to get caught up in the rhythm of life and forget to seek the answers to these important questions. When I hear the excuse, “I’m too busy to [...]

Choose Conscious Growth

I know what you’re thinking. “I’m growing every day, and I’m conscious of it. Five years ago I was only 5 feet tall.” Unfortunately, that’s not the kind of growth I’m talking about. I’m talking about mental growth. Growth you actively choose when you decide to confront areas of fear and unfamiliarity in your life. [...]

Who's behind this blog?

Welcome to Take 20 – a Blog exposing readers to unique personal development concepts and ideas. Hi. My name is Rahul Bhambhani. I’m 23 years old, and I live in Austin, TX. I was previously a student in the Business Honors Program at The University of Texas at Austin. Somewhere in the midst of my [...]

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