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Aruna Gobalan is the creator of the personal growth blog, Partably.com. Aruna is an entrepreneur and runs her own software design and consulting services business. When not writing, she loves to train for and run marathons and is also an avid cook.

Aruna enjoys undertaking personal growth projects and hopes to inspire others to do the same. A well-traveled citizen of the world, she lives in California with her family.

Learning to Release Expectations

My coworkers expect me to show up at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday to answer questions on Zoom. Mortgage and credit card companies expect me to pay my bills on time. The elderly seniors who live with me expect me to have their meals ready on time every day. These are expectations borne out of social contracts—with […]

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Published on November 21, 2025 08:38
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“And then, some of us were stragglers who didn’t have the talent or the looks described above but we were also too proud to trail after the ones that did. Mostly we were what has come to now be known as nerds. Kind of. Sort of. Back then, we had a more forgiving term to describe my lot—the thinking ones.”
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