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Month: January 2021

Three Choices We Have In Life

Take a moment and think about this question. What are the three choices we always have in our life? I picked up the answer to this question as a nugget of wisdom from a Biography, The Almanac of Naval Ravikant Read more…


Know Your Worth

A man was once cleaning the attic in his house when he discovered a hundred-year-old watch that his father used to wear when he was alive. The man called his twenty-year-old son and said, ” take this watch to the Read more…


Success Never Happens Overnight

Today, we live in a world that is overdosing on the overnight success drug. The media and the world are having us believe that success is happening overnight to other smart people, and if you are struggling, you are a Read more…


Generosity Always Pays Back

There was a gentleman in a city who loved Mandarin Oranges. In front of his house, there was an old lady selling oranges. Every day on his way back from the office, this person would go to the old lady Read more…


Peak End Moments

Our lives are full of significant and memorable events. I can vividly remember the moment WHEN I saw my Roll No published in the newspaper indicating that I had passed my School Certificate program with a first-class. The Dean awarded Read more…


A Lesson From Cold Showers

About a decade back, my mentor introduced me to a great ritual- of taking cold showers. Taking cold showers has great health benefits like better mental alertness, improved blood circulation, and enhanced feeling of well being. For me, coming from Read more…


Buridan’s Ass

A hungry and thirsty Ass is made to stand midway between a hay pile and a bucket of water. The Donkey keeps looking left towards the hay and right towards the water, trying to decide-“hay or water, hay or water?” Read more…


The Advice I Would Give The Younger ME

Google Photos has a nice feature that pops up old photos as memories. This morning a set of photos from about 15 years back popped up as a notification on my phone. I clicked the notification, and pictures of a Read more…


The Missing Awareness

Once upon a time, after he had studied Zen for a decade, a monk attained a Zen teacher’s rank. The monk wanted to meet his teacher, the Zen Master, and convey his gratitude. So, one rainy day he went to Read more…


Focus On Your Life Satisfaction Score

I wrote about jealousy yesterday, and I wanted to explore the idea in today’s post a little more and also introduce an interesting concept- Life Satisfaction Score. Why do we suffer from feelings of jealousy? As humans, we are all Read more…