Helping folks with practical tips to manage themselves better
May 25, 2022
Every few months, I gravitate to writing about one recurring theme- Listening- to remind myself to keep working at becoming a better listener. Often, we mistakenly equate communication with talking. But “not talking,” listening is as critical if not a Read more…
If you want to be good at solving problems, you need to be good at getting to the root of issues. Since most things are done or not done because someone decides to do it a certain way, we can Read more…
May 24, 2022
“How does one deal with a Perfectionist?” A colleague asked me recently. Without knowing the full context, I couldn’t share a cookie-cutter view of how one could deal with a perfectionist. But I provided my colleague with a few perspectives Read more…
May 23, 2022
There once was a frog that lived in a well. In the dank confines of the well, Insects were ever-abundant, so the frog never went hungry. Cool, clear water was always available, and therefore the frog also never went thirsty. Read more…
May 22, 2022
Via Negativa- It’s an ancient Latin phrase, and it means “by way of negation.” The origins of this term can be traced to a concept in ancient theology which sought to understand God by negating everything that God was not. Read more…
May 21, 2022
Steve Jobs once famously said something profound. “People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that Read more…
May 20, 2022
Last weekend I was re-reading Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search For Meaning. I came across a paragraph on Success that I had highlighted during one of my earlier reads of the book. It is a good life mantra worth adopting. Reproducing it below. Read more…
May 18, 2022
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. ==================================== There can be no better Read more…
May 17, 2022
A wise old owl lived in an oak, The more he saw, the less he spoke The less he spoke, the more he heard, Now, wasn’t he a wise old bird?
The kind of life you are leading today is a compounded consequence of all choices you have exercised all your life-up until this moment. The tricky thing with our day-to-day choices is that the consequences are never evident in the Read more…
