The 8 deep-dive books coming next | Making Change Happen

A reader wrote to me last month, and the line stuck: “The chapter on losing a parent — I read it four times. I wish it were a whole book. The rest I skimmed.”

That stung in the right way. Because she was correct. The book was never meant to be the final word on anything. It was a map — eight spheres of life, one volume, a place to stand and see the whole terrain at once. Business, Finances, Relationships, Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Family, Lifestyle. A jump-in-anywhere reference, meant to be used, not worshipped.

But a map is not the territory. And some of you don’t want the map. You want to walk one valley all the way down.

Why eight books, not one fatter one

I could have written a 900-page doorstop. I’m glad I didn’t. Here’s the honest reason, and it’s the same idea that runs through everything I write.

What’s effortless to do is just as effortless to neglect. And a book so heavy you never open it is the most neglected thing in the house.

A single thick volume has terrible UX. You buy it, you feel virtuous, it goes on the shelf, and the spine never cracks. The effort to start is enormous — where do you even begin? — so you don’t. That’s a Delta-4 problem in disguise: the gap between “I own this” and “I’m using this” is too wide to cross on a tired Tuesday night.

Eight focused books flip that. You’re going through a divorce, you reach for the Mental and Relationships book — not a tome that also covers crypto and elderly care. The right book for this season of your life, light enough to actually finish. The good behaviour becomes the lazy one. That’s the whole game.

The roadmap

So here is what’s coming. Each sphere gets its own deep-dive, keeping the chapter anatomy that worked in the first book — a vulnerable personal story to open, the real challenges named plainly, and for each one a split into what shows on the outside (what others see) and what happens on the inside (what you actually feel). Tools and trackers at the end, always with free options, because a method you can’t afford isn’t a method.

Business — resistance to change, communication and direction, scarce resources, new tech landing faster than teams can absorb it, and the quiet question nobody asks out loud: what does success even mean now? Written from the trenches of a first-generation businessperson, not a case-study deck.
Finances — economy shifts, the financial earthquake of early parenthood, money in the digital age, and the one I know in my bones: adapting your plan when the income disappears. Indian realities, not imported spreadsheets.
Relationships — moving in together, the way people change shape over a decade, the tug-of-war between independence and connection, and what the phone in your hand is doing to the person across the table.
Physical — weight, chronic illness, sleep we keep sacrificing, aging we keep denying, and how to adapt to a changing body with grace instead of war.
Mental — trauma, mental health inside a family that doesn’t have the vocabulary for it, loneliness in a hyper-connected age, relocation, the slow grief of a breakup. The book that reader wanted.
Spiritual — the stagnation that creeps in when you ignore the spirit entirely; mind, body and spirit as one system; and what spiritual principles actually offer leadership, beyond the posters.
Family — raising kids in the digital age, gender and sexuality and the courage to keep learning, diversity, the wrenching transitions of caring for elders, tradition arm-wrestling innovation at the dinner table.
Lifestyle — designing a life on purpose instead of by default, breaking procrastination, rewiring the limiting habits that run on autopilot, and the hard, useful work of self-reflection.

Eight valleys. Walked all the way down.

Here’s the part I’m nervous to say out loud

I’m not writing these alone. Each one will be co-authored.

Not ghost-written, not crowd-sourced into mush — co-authored with people who have actually lived the sphere. Someone who rebuilt their finances after a job loss should be on the Finances book with me. Someone who navigated a child coming out, or an aging parent’s decline, belongs on the Family book. I have lived some of these — I lost my mother Pramila after a long medical fight, and that grief is woven into why I write at all. But I have not lived all eight, and pretending otherwise would be the corporate fluff I left behind.

This is the bit that scares me, because it means admitting I am not the expert. I never was. I keep saying I am co-learning, co-hustling, co-building with my readers — still travelling, not arrived. These eight books are me putting my money where my mouth is. If change is execution and not information, then the people who executed should hold the pen with me.

How you get in

If a sphere is calling your name — if you read that list and one of them made your chest tighten — that’s the signal. Maybe you co-author a chapter. Maybe you test the trackers before anyone else and tell me where they break. Maybe you just send the story that’s too raw to publish under your own name, and we figure it out together.

Start with the free resources. They’re the same tools that will sit at the back of each book, and they’re the cheapest possible way to find out whether a sphere is genuinely yours or just interesting from a distance. If you want to know whether you’d trust me as a co-author, the honest place to start is the author page — small-town kid, burned-down houses and all.

The first book gave you the map. These eight are an invitation to help draw the territory. I can’t make the trek effortless. But I can make sure you don’t have to walk any of these valleys alone — and that the book waiting at the bottom was written by someone who’d actually been there.