Author: vinodnarayan
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292/365 Why do I look so different 😜
After going to office again, often you have to attend meetings in the conference room with large TVs showing you on it when camera is on. I often think, why I look so different while everyone looks exactly the same. This thought kept coming to me every time and I started thinking. I realized that…
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291/365 Why Write Daily like a To Do List
The goal is to write daily. Non necessarily write daily in the same place. I say that because some days I would post on Social Media or on my my other blog and then will realize, Oops I did not do my journal. And then I scramble. When I have already done my daily writing.…
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290/365 You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
Yesterday was the first show of ‘You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown’ at my son’s school and he was doing the character of Woodstock. This is his second play after he got into High School. He played Charles Wallace in ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ last year. A Wrinkle in Time was done when the Mask…
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289/365 Starting to Thank People
Yesterday I felt that I have never given any Thank You Notes. I have said Thank You to people. I think I do that enough, but my wife and kids might not agree because they have caught me more than once not doing the same. I think I will agree with them. So Thank You…
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283/365 Our Likes and Dislikes
Last weekend I watched the movie Morbius in the theatre. but before watching it I checked on the reviews. Usually people read the reviews and then decide to watch. I did the other way. I checked on Rotten Tomatoes and the critics had given a poor 16% score while the audience had given a score…
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282/365 When I walk past smokers now
I have not smoked for two years now. I used to be a heavy smoker and I have also quit a number of times. I have also written about it before but wanted to talk about how it feels when I walk past smokers today. Quitting smoking for two years is good and feels good, but the…
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281/365 Tying my shoe laces
I recently bought a pair of slip ons. That is what I have been wearing often. But I also have a pair that have laces. The few days back I picked that up and I put in the right shoes and started tying the lace. I felt something was not right. Not as it should…
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280/365 Yesterday I did not write because life came in between
It is a coincidence that yesterday I made a video about free flow of life and how time boxes in our calendars impede the same. And look at what happened. I did not find time to write yesterday. The point I was making in my video yesterday was that when I look at Calendars and…
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279/365 Are you Safe at your workplace?
Psychological Safety is such an important thing in today’s professional world. If you want teams to perform to their best abilities. You want innovation and be a step ahead of the curve, you have to check the psychological safety in your work environment. Are people talking, raising their opinions, agreement and disagreements without fear. There…
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278/365 Compassion over Competition
I don’t have to tell you that we live in a competitive world. Hyper Competitive some would say. And this starts from very early childhood. We have transformed the ‘Survival of the Fittest’ to ‘Competitive is the Cutest’. But I have a difference of thought. Compassion! When we hear that we often relate that to…
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