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Month: December 2021

Weekend Parable-Two Ways To Be Positive

Two ways to be positive

This morning as I was driving my son for his tuition class, we chatted about how one can keep a positive outlook even when things don’t go according to plan. I narrated a small parable to make my point. A Read more…


Guy In The Glass

Guy In the Glass

I recently came across a brilliant poem, ” The Guy In The Glass,” penned by Peter Dale Winbrow Sr in 1934. In this poem, the author asks us, readers, to remember to live by our own conscience. We all pursue Read more…


What Would You Say To Your Best Friend?

Negative Thoughts

There are two types of people. Those who HAVE negative thoughts and, Those who SUFFER from negative thoughts It is a natural human tendency to HAVE negative thoughts often. Some people can take the negative emotions in their stride and Read more…


Playing Safe Is Not Safe

Playing safe

A common tendency that I notice in many people is their unwillingness to explore and experiment when it comes to doing their job. This is because they are afraid of getting it wrong. Most times, people choose to take up Read more…


What Are You Looking For?

Job Change

I meet many people who come to me asking for guidance on what they should do when it comes to some job offers they have in hand. “I have this offer, and I am confused. I don’t know whether I Read more…


It’s The People

It's The People

I recently completed reading Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, a book dedicated to shining the light on Bill Campbell. I hadn’t heard of Bill Campbell until I read this book. (which I incidentally picked up because the title Read more…


Responsibility Fault Fallacy

Responsibility Fault Fallacy

When it comes to problems, many are often reluctant to take responsibility because they believe that to be responsible for the problems means also being at fault for the problems. Responsibility and fault often go hand in hand in our Read more…


Meaningful Work

We want our efforts to count for something. This is the essence of “Meaning” that we seek in our life. Doing meaningful work means doing something that changes something for the better. It means you have made a difference to Read more…


You Are Like The Blue Sky

A few months back, I published a Blog, We Can See At Three Levels, in which I wrote about how we can see through our senses, through our mind, and through our consciousness. Level 1: Our senses can observe everything that is Read more…


A Decision Making Model

Decision Making Model

Ratan Tata, the Chairman of the Tata Group, was once at a University interacting with a group of Management students when someone in the audience asked him, ” Sir, how do you make good decisions.” Smiling wryly, Ratan Tata gave Read more…