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...
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27th Jul 2024 | Updated at 06:56am 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...
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...
Clean houses in dirty streets. Suppose you have come from a middle or lower middle class family, and your house is in such an area.
Dependance on non-punctual people can actually ruin your reputation in a big way. Many times, either in social or in professional circumstances, we are depending on people who is arranging some programme or meetings for us. And if that person...
There are chances that you might have come across a situation where nobody is at fault but still you need to identify someone who can be held responsible for certain incident.
