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Month: July 2020

God Comes In Different Forms

In a village, there was once a priest managing the temple and living within the temple compound. One monsoon season, the river flowing through the village is in spate and threatens to inundate the entire village. A young lad anticipating Read more…


Don’t Say “It’s Not Fair”

Whether in our personal life or a professional setting, we often encounter situations where decisions involving us, are taken. Some of those decisions we like and some we don’t. For the ones we don’t, we sometimes say “it’s not fair.” Read more…


Don’t Leak Your Life-Manage Your Distractions

I wage a war against distractions every day. Many days I think I win and some days I know I lose. This afternoon, I took out my phone to look at my calendar, and the next thing I knew, I Read more…


Be Objective

When you are emotional, be careful about what you say and what you do. Imagine your friend comes to you asking for advice on some grave personal issue he is facing. If you had to help him, you would think Read more…


Part 2- Strengthening Your Self Esteem

Yesterday, I shared details about the two key elements that make up our Self-Esteem- Self-Efficacy, and Self-Respect. Self-Esteem issues manifest in many ways for different people. You feel you are not smart and inherently slow-witted. You think you are unattractive, Read more…


Part 1-How’s Your Self-Esteem?

Many of us have struggled with self-esteem issues at some point in our lives. In my thirties, despite being successful professionally, I suffered from low self-esteem. I felt that I was not good enough. Despite all the professional growth I Read more…


Be Careful-Watch Your Internal Language

You can say that you have transformed and changed only when the internal language you use for yourself changes. What others tell you will not change you. What you say to yourself is what will change you. If everybody around Read more…


Deal With The Problem, Not The Symptom

One of the operating challenge we have in our daily lives is dealing with and solving problems. Unfortunately, many times, our problem is that we don’t even know what the “Real Problem” is !! Most of us try to solve Read more…


Sharpen Your Axe

An unemployed man in a village goes to a Timber Merchant seeking a job. Seeing that the person to be strong and fit, the Merchant offers the man a job to chop trees with a target to cut down 15 Read more…


Are You Rich Or Poor?

All of us have deep-rooted desires and aspirations that we want to manifest as reality in our lives. Ambition is the willingness of our commitment, effort, and labor to achieve our deepest aspirations. When we achieve anything we aspire for, Read more…