https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/ Field notes on change, habits, and growth across the 8 spheres of life — by Dipesh Majumder. en-in https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/a-blueprint-not-a-sermon/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/a-blueprint-not-a-sermon/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Club I didn't write a book to be admired on a shelf. I wrote one to be dog-eared, argued with, and used. Here's how to actually put it to work. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/from-agartala-to-fortune-500-rooms/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/from-agartala-to-fortune-500-rooms/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Founder & India A small-town kid ends up running multi-million-dollar relationships in glass-walled boardrooms — and the impostor voice that came along for every ride. Here is what I learned to do with it. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-shame-i-carried/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-shame-i-carried/ Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stories & Scars I was abused as a child and stayed silent for decades. This is what the shame cost me, why I finally said it out loud, and what changed when I did. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/hiring-early-adopters/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/hiring-early-adopters/ Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Founder & India The people most open to risk are your real change champions. Here is how I learned to spot them, recruit them, and let them carry the rest of the room. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/master-the-mundane/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/master-the-mundane/ Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres Luck isn't a lightning strike. It's the quiet sum of hundreds of unglamorous micro-actions. Win the boring stuff, and one day people call you blessed. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/discipline-is-a-bridge-you-burn/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/discipline-is-a-bridge-you-burn/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks Willpower isn't a lifestyle. It's a temporary bridge across the hard part — and the whole point is to walk it once, then burn it behind you. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-club-manifesto/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-club-manifesto/ Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Club I haven't arrived. Neither have you. That's not the bad news — it's the whole reason the Club exists. A manifesto for people still on the road. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-mind-is-a-rudderless-ship/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-mind-is-a-rudderless-ship/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres I had a beautiful manifestation scrapbook and a mind full of dreams. None of it moved my life an inch. Here is what finally did — and why action beats imagination. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-startup-i-shut-down/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-startup-i-shut-down/ Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stories & Scars I hired them with big promises, then closed the division and let them go. Here is what failure actually does to a leader, and what I wish I had known. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/on-the-outside-on-the-inside/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/on-the-outside-on-the-inside/ Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks A two-layer device from the book for cutting through any problem — separate the symptom everyone can see from the root only you can feel. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/jeevan-deep-tradition-vs-innovation/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/jeevan-deep-tradition-vs-innovation/ Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres My mother stopped my son from blowing out his birthday candles. What she said next reframed how I think about raising modern kids without erasing where we came from. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-t20-version-of-self-help/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-t20-version-of-self-help/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT Founder & India Most self-help books ask for a Test match. I built mine for a T20 crowd — any chapter has to pay off in ten minutes flat, or it doesn't earn its place. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/gratitude-is-a-performance-tool/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/gratitude-is-a-performance-tool/ Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres For years my negativity quietly taxed my output, my relationships, even my sleep. A boring three-line journal fixed more than any productivity hack ever did. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/identity-over-goals/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/identity-over-goals/ Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks Goals point at a finish line you cross once. Identity changes who shows up every single morning. Here's why I stopped chasing outcomes and started casting votes. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/my-grandmothers-ledger-at-age-eight/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/my-grandmothers-ledger-at-age-eight/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT Stories & Scars My first job was keeping accounts for my grandmother's lending business in small-town Northeast India. It quietly rewired how I see money, debt, and risk. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/garbage-in-garbage-out/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/garbage-in-garbage-out/ Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres A debugging rule from my coding days turned out to be true for my body. What I fed myself decided my energy, my mood, and everything I built on top of it. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/letting-go-forgiving-yourself-first/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/letting-go-forgiving-yourself-first/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres Before you can change, you have to put something down — including the blame you've been aiming at yourself for years. A confession, and a way out. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/spectator-sport-and-counterfeit-dopamine/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/spectator-sport-and-counterfeit-dopamine/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks Why we watch others win instead of playing — and how to spot the borrowed reward that feels like progress but moves nothing in your own life. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/intrapreneur-vs-entrepreneur/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/intrapreneur-vs-entrepreneur/ Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT Founder & India You don't have to quit to build. The quiet case for changing things from within — and why the safest seat in the room is often the best place to make change happen. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/b2b-b2c-but-really-h2h/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/b2b-b2c-but-really-h2h/ Sun, 07 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres Every deal, no matter how it's labelled, closes between two humans. In a trust-deficit economy, trust isn't a soft skill — it's the only moat that doesn't erode. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-missed-call-identity/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-missed-call-identity/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Stories & Scars In college I was the boy who gave missed calls. Then I bought a Nokia 6601 and quietly became someone else. A story about how our things rewrite who we think we are. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-law-of-least-effort/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-law-of-least-effort/ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks You don't choose the good thing or the bad thing. You choose the cheaper one, then call it your personality. Here's how to make the good path the cheap one. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/what-the-qr-codes-unlock/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/what-the-qr-codes-unlock/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Club The book is frozen the day it prints. The resources behind its QR codes are alive. Here is how that living layer actually works — and why I built it that way. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/how-to-measure-if-a-change-worked/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/how-to-measure-if-a-change-worked/ Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres Watch behaviour weekly, results quarterly. Why leading indicators tell you the truth long before the numbers do — and how to stop baking a cake with no timer. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/commitment-vs-interest/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/commitment-vs-interest/ Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks Interest does it when convenient. Commitment does it when it isn't. One line decides whether anything in your life actually changes. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/money-mental-models-i-wish-i-knew-at-25/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/money-mental-models-i-wish-i-knew-at-25/ Sat, 07 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres Pay yourself first, the Rule of 72, margin of safety — three tiny tools I learned the hard way, including the one that cost me 70% of my savings in 2008. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/ambulance-to-my-final-exam/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/ambulance-to-my-final-exam/ Wed, 21 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Stories & Scars A scooter spill a week before my final-year exams, and what trauma taught me about getting back up — not by gritting harder, but by lowering the cost of the next step. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-valley-of-disappointment/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-valley-of-disappointment/ Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks Reward lags effort. The dip in month one is normal, not failure — here's how to survive it until the new behaviour automates and goes effortless. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/designing-a-life-on-purpose/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/designing-a-life-on-purpose/ Mon, 21 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres Most of our days run on autopilot — and autopilot follows the herd. Here's how I stopped sleepwalking through my own life and started designing it on purpose. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/why-change-initiatives-fail/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/why-change-initiatives-fail/ Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT Founder & India The plan is usually fine. Adoption is where change goes to die — and that's a design problem, not a strategy one. Here's what I learned the hard way. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-presence-mismatch/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-presence-mismatch/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres My mother was busy when I was young. I was busy when she finally had time. A hard look at the supply and demand of love — and the window that doesn't reopen. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/make-the-right-thing-the-easy-thing/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/make-the-right-thing-the-easy-thing/ Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks Stop spending willpower you don't have. Redesign your defaults so the good behaviour becomes the lazy one — and the bad one needs effort you won't bother to spend. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-eight-deep-dive-books/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/the-eight-deep-dive-books/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT The Club The first book mapped 8 spheres of life in one volume. Now each sphere becomes its own co-authored book. Here is the roadmap — and how you get to write it with me. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/seeking-vs-believing/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/seeking-vs-believing/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres A full cup has no room. Why I think I don't know is the most powerful spiritual position you can take, and how it quietly makes change easier. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/losing-70-percent-in-2008/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/losing-70-percent-in-2008/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Stories & Scars I learned margin of safety the expensive way — by watching 70% of my money vanish in the 2008 crash. Here is the lesson, minus the tuition fee. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/dfrm-deferred-mastery/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/dfrm-deferred-mastery/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks I wrote Discomfort, Focus, Resilience, Mastery as four things to be. I was wrong. They only make sense as stations on a road — and the name itself, DFRM, is the clue: Deferred Mastery. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/carrying-my-sons-weight/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/carrying-my-sons-weight/ Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres My five-year-old climbed onto the bathroom scale. The number he showed was exactly how overweight I was — and it changed everything. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/building-in-bharat/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/building-in-bharat/ Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT Founder & India India didn't adopt UPI because of awareness campaigns. It adopted because the new way was unmistakably better. What that decade teaches anyone trying to make change happen. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/job-loss-playbook/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/job-loss-playbook/ Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres Lost the job? The first 30 days decide the next three years. Keep paying EMIs, don't raid your EPF, and protect your runway — here's how I learned it the hard way. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/knowing-isnt-doing/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/knowing-isnt-doing/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks You already know what to do. So why isn't it done? The bottleneck is almost never information — it's the gap between knowing and doing, and that gap has a design. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/chief-destruction-officer/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/chief-destruction-officer/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT Stories & Scars I broke things to build them — once, our tin-shed home. What that taught me about creativity, risk, and the rare gift of real feedback. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/dunbar-depth-over-breadth/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/dunbar-depth-over-breadth/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres Your brain can hold about 150 relationships. So why are you collecting contacts instead of deepening the five who would show up at 2 a.m.? https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/why-i-wrote-making-change-happen/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/why-i-wrote-making-change-happen/ Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT The Club The book I needed at 20 and didn't have — a blueprint for dealing with change across 8 spheres of life, not another sermon about willpower. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/you-dont-lack-willpower/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/you-dont-lack-willpower/ Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks Why the couch beats the gym every time — and how to redesign your defaults so the good behaviour becomes the lazy one. The real job isn't more discipline; it's better design. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/why-your-habits-dont-stick/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/why-your-habits-dont-stick/ Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks I have started journaling four times and quit four times. The reason wasn't weak willpower — it was that I kept skipping the arc that turns a hard new behaviour into an effortless one. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/first-generation-businessperson/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/first-generation-businessperson/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT Founder & India Building with no family blueprint means you pay tuition the hard way. Here's why perseverance beats pedigree — and how to stop white-knuckling the climb. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/leading-change-when-your-team-resists/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/leading-change-when-your-team-resists/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT The 8 Spheres Resistance is rarely defiance — it's an unmet need wearing a frown. Stop winning the argument and start locating the rung the person is actually standing on. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/chennai-at-16/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/chennai-at-16/ Sun, 21 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT Stories & Scars At 16 I left a small Northeast town for a city where no one knew my name. Here's what nobody tells you about independence — and what it actually cost. https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/two-kinds-of-effortless/ https://www.makingchangehappen.club/blog/two-kinds-of-effortless/ Sun, 07 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT Change Frameworks Comfort and mastery both feel effortless — but one is who you were and one is who you became. A field guide to the effort-to-effortless curve.