In sports, winning a title may be challenging, but retaining it is even more daunting. A marathoner who clinches a victory often struggles more in defending their title during the next race. This is true for boxing and other individual sports, as well as in team sports.
Let's say we are dealing with a very short timeline, maybe of 30 days. What would you like to achieve in the next 30 days? If you have to put up your goal post for next one month, where will it be? What would it look like? What satisfaction will you derive from it?
Have you ever noticed how similar cultures exist across the globe? Sometimes we travel to a faraway place and be surprised to see many customs and traditions comparable to what we have seen in our part of the world. It may be cuisine, music,...
Using aggressive body language is a sign of an inability to find appropriate words to express your feelings. You might be angry and would like to convey it, but can it be done without raising your voice or being aggressive? Can the displeasure...
Have you ever spent more money trying to get the worth out of already sunken costs? Sometimes we keep investing more to keep an investment afloat. Constantly pumping money into a loss-making company to keep it running is such an example.
Winner of the Nobel peace prize Wangari Maathai, in her book 'The Challenge for Africa', starts the introduction title as 'On the wrong bus'. The phrase refers to an action of moving in the wrong direction by taking the wrong bus, being there...
Gallup did a survey of the American workforce. The result showed that 33% of the workforce was 'actively engaged', meaning genuinely interested and committed to their work, but 16% of the workforce was 'actively disengaged', which means genuinely...
How do you catch a person who is lying to you? Is it possible to know when someone is saying the truth and when not? Psychologists have tried to find ways to get hold of a person who is deceitful. But is it possible to get into someone's heart?...
This week I read two news in a Kenyan newspaper. Both of them were related to the Kenyan athletes performing in the Commonwealth Games 2022 and winning medals. One of them won silver medal while the other one got a bronze one. What was striking...
Everyone has some magic. It is pre-installed in his/her system. A powerful way of creating a unique impression. Everyone handles different situations in their own magical way. Someone is good at soft skills, others might be in hard labour. A...
As mentioned last week, I attended 10 days' Vipassana (Vipashyana) and would like to share my experience with readers. The following striking features of Vipasana are worth mentioning.
When you read this article, most probably I would be in Vipassana for ten days. It's a different kind of experience where I won't have any means of communication, and the condition is not only silence of speech but complete silence, noble silence...
