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Month: November 2020

Decision Making- Science Or Art?

When it comes to decision making, all of us struggle with some types of difficult and complicated choices. You are a business leader, and you have been asked to execute a redundancy program, and you have to let go of Read more…


Who’s Your Company?

I love the words of Jim Rohn, a personal hero of mine who said this. ” You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Consciously or otherwise, people we engage with regularly have a Read more…


Don’t Suffer Your Problems

There is a quote attributed to the Dalai Lama that goes, “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” When I was younger, I also spouted this wisdom to others without really understanding the essence of what it meant. “When you encounter Read more…


Do Your Failures Teach You Anything?

I have written a couple of times about how failure is a great teacher that helps us grow. I will qualify this comment. Failure in itself will not help us grow. It is only when we introspect, reflect mindfully on why we Read more…


Avoid Failures Of Regret

In our lives, we experience two types of failures. The first type is failures associated with results. Imagine a game of Badminton. You are facing off against an opponent. Both of you play a tough and competitive game, and you Read more…


How’s Your Self Belief?

How’s Your Self Belief? Your potential is limited to the belief you have in yourself. Your potential is not a function of what your parents, immediate family, your teachers, or your supervisor believes you to be capable of achieving. It Read more…


How Do I Know If I am Making Progress?

When we are on a journey of self-improvement, there are instances when we regress into old habits that we are looking to change. We slip up. When we slip up, we tend to judge ourselves very harshly. We are our Read more…


What’s The Point?

I enjoy watching the old James Bond Classics. I must have seen each of the movies in the James Bond Series at-least four to five times each. In each of these movies, there are some scenes that are indelibly etched Read more…


Everything Is A Perception

Everything is a perception. Our experience of life is not the way things happen outside us. It’s the way we “Perceive” the way things happen around us. No matter how objective we try to be, it is through our brain’s Read more…


The Universe Is Benevolent

The universe is benevolent. It will give the best that everyone deserves. We may focus on what we want, but it focuses on providing us what we need. It is like a Parent. A child may want a tub of Read more…