Helping folks with practical tips to manage themselves better
July 21, 2021
Tal ben-Shahar is a professor at the Harvard University Teaching a top-rated course on Happiness. He has postulated the Hamburger Theory to metaphorically represent four different archetypes of people who approach life differently. The model looks like this. Type 1- Read more…
July 20, 2021
Most of us go through life trying to do our best at whatever we do. But in many domains which are important for us, we find ourselves getting stuck. We keep doing our stuff, working hard, but we don’t seem Read more…
July 19, 2021
A couple of days back, I wrote about how defining the fear is an essential first step to overcoming fear. I had a reader reach out to me wanting to check how we can define our fears, particularly when the Read more…
July 18, 2021
We feel strong emotions only when something matters to us. Conversely, we tend not to feel any strong emotion to stuff that doesn’t mean much to us. On any given day, we go through a range of emotions- anger, envy, Read more…
July 17, 2021
All of us sometimes suffer from some fear or the other that holds us back from living up to our full potential. There is a voice in our head that keeps telling us, “It’s not safe. Hold back”. Here is Read more…
July 16, 2021
In 1963, Nelson Mandela was jailed for 27 years. He was initially kept at the Robben Island Prison for close to 17 years. During his incarceration there, the amount of humiliation and pain that he had to endure at the Read more…
July 14, 2021
Tantalus was a Greek mythological figure, most famous for his punishment. The story goes that Tantalus was banished to the deepest underworld Tartarus by his father, Zeus, as a punishment for having committed filicide(a parent killing a child). In the netherworld, Tantalus was Read more…
July 13, 2021
When I entered the workplace for the first time, I was fortunate to have one of my early supervisors insist that I read a book by Peter Drucker titled, The Effective Executive. I am sure that I must have browsed Read more…
Whenever we start on something new, a new job, a new role, or a new task, we are always eager to get on with it and show results. We start with trying to understand the current situation, and then we Read more…
July 11, 2021
Quotes are a great way to capture powerful life lessons into pithy and memorable one-liners. So whenever I come across any quotation that catches my attention, I note it in my journal of quotes. Here are five messages from Read more…
