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Fear And Anxiety

Fear And Anxiety

Fear is an evolutionary emotion that is meant to protect us from danger. Fear of heights, fear of darkness, fear of flying, fear of closed spaces, fear of snakes etc- there are different situations where we feel the threat of Read more…


Saying NO Is Good Skill To Have

Saying NO

A colleague and I were in a business planning discussion, and we got discussing a common challenge many of us encounter. We are constantly overloaded with priorities, and most days, it feels as if 13-14 hours are not enough to Read more…


Think Effectiveness, Not Just Efficiency

Have you ever felt this way? You spend the day finishing many tasks, but somehow, you think nothing much has been done at the end of the day. There is a simple reason for this feeling. You were likely to Read more…


Focus On The Vital Few

80% of any output,consequences or results come from 20% of inputs,causes and effort. Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian Economist, put forth the Pareto’s law or the 80/20 principle in 1897. According to this, in any population, a few things are likely Read more…


Good Times,Bad Times

Our life is like a wave that keeps flowing through time. We all will have our share of ups and downs. Our emotional state represents the amplitude of the wave. When things around us happen in a way aligned to Read more…


Problems Are Good

We live in an interconnected world. Every person’s success comes from solving someone else’s problem. When encountering any challenge of difficulty, do we see it as a problem, or do we see it as an opportunity? There were once two Read more…


Focus On The Process

My son was thrilled yesterday. He had a top score in one of his internal assessments. He had genuinely put in a lot of hard work preparing for this internal assessment. As a family we celebrated his achievement. While appreciating Read more…


Knowledge & Wisdom

There is a difference between knowledge and wisdom. They are not the same. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable. Wisdom knows not to include it in a fruit salad. Knowledge is knowing about budgeting, Read more…