Our reaction comes in stages. First we feel something, then we make a decision about it, afterwards we convey it in words, and finally react upon it. But often it happens that although we have felt something and thought about it, but have never...
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27th Jul 2024 | Updated at 12:45am 27th Jul 2024
When things don't go as per your expectations
- 25 Jul 2024
What happens when you expect something so much, but it does not happen?
Focus on the issue at hand
- 03 Jul 2024
Focus on the issue at hand - you might have come across this phrase a number of times in your professional life. In a meeting when some employees divert from the main topic, the chair advises to stay focused on the issue at hand. This concept is also used when one delves too deep in any subject or spreads too wide, more than needed. You can't afford to spread yourself too thin or try to do everything at once. In such situations, we advise him/her to focus on the issue at hand. This strategy helps...
Everything is changing. And they are changing so quickly that we are not getting time to absorb what has already happened before a new change comes. The transformation from the Machines Age to the Internet Age and now the forthcoming Artificial...
A friend called me from Airport, asking if there was any way I could help with regard to the stamping of the USA visa to the new passport since the old one was cancelled. I couldn't help. Disappointed, the family deferred their journey and returned...
We all are vulnerable. Though reason and degree might differ, there would be hardly anyone breathing on this planet who has overcome vulnerability. Some people are vulnerable because of their past, and others because of their emotional weaknesses....
- 21 Mar 2023
There is an old story. Two friends were studying in a Gurukul. They spent their childhood together and acquired different knowledge from their Guru.
Some locks have more than one key. They cannot be opened without using all the keys, in the correct combination. Unless you put the keys in a predefined sequence, the lock doesn't open. So is life. Many of the locks in life can be opened not...
How do you tackle daily tasks? Are you the one who likes to make a To Do List in the morning or belong to the category of people who take the day as it comes? There are both categories of people, even at higher positions, who have been quite...
In today's time, it is a fashion to be busy or at least appear to be occupied. Even those who are unemployed are saying that they are hard-pressed. No one has time. People are permanently in a hurry and have no time for simple things in life....
When one works selflessly, without any expectation of reward, the fruits are much sweeter. Although the message of Bhagawat Geeta is very clear that one has right over his work but not over its result, a few individuals can follow it in letter...
Kindness was the buzzword during Covid-19. People have shown unprecedented empathy and generosity towards each other. The Hobbesian view that the natural condition of mankind is a state of war in which life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish,...
