Author: vinodnarayan
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277/365 When Discipline Descends on You
Sometimes a discipline descends on you. It happens (for me at least) when I am not in control. It does not have to be for the entire day. May be a few hours a day. If I have a few hours that is not in my control and I just have to play to what…
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276/365 We are the product of our responsibilities
Responsibility is a heavy word. It is an important word. I don’t say that because I have fulfilled what came my way. The fact is I am far from that. Both on a personal and professional level. But I realize that responsibility had a big role in who I am. The good and bad of…
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275/365 And the Oscar goes to….
My first memory of Oscars was in 1990 when Daniel Day-Lewis got his Oscar for best actor for his role in My Left Foot. That said I have not seen the movie for what ever the reason, I don’t remember. But I have watched movies and Oscars as Daniel received it again twice for ‘There…
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274/365 We don’t get old… people just conspire against us
What is getting old. I think there is a physical and mental aspect to it. While we will physically get old at some time. Health and life are not eternal. We all will get old. That is the physical aspect. But we can get old mentally at any age. Sometimes a movie or a book…
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273/365 Let us try a writing prompt
So today I want to write something from a writing prompt in our Penpositive Community. Here is the prompt“You are in a new city for a day. Your meeting got delayed and you missed the train. The next train is in 24 hours. Develop an incidental narration or story. (max 2000 words)” A new city…
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272/365 Finding Meaningful Work
I was reading an article on meaningful work and if I remember correctly I had also put my thoughts on in this blog. Well I don’t want to go back and see what I said back then. But there is another thought that comes to me now. This is also a question that came up…
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271/365 Finding my voice
It has more or less become a cliche but I think every writer wants to find their voice. I don’t mean to say others don’t have to. Just that when I am blogging here, I am more worried about my voice. Maybe worrying is the last thing one should do when searching for their voice.…
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270/365 There are two ways I can continue
I was taking a look at this writing exercise and I saw two different kinds of writing. One is just random musings that are more diary-like and other was more on a career, work life format. A Self Improvement style writing. And now my question is what do I follow. When I started this writing project,…
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269/365 How is Ginger doing?
For those who don’t know who Ginger is. She is our 5 months old Puppy. We got her from a shelter in January. My panic when I figured out how tough it was to take care of a Puppy, I returned her back to the shelter. They have a 90 days return as many owners…
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268/365 Even when our goals don’t come true !
Today I heard someone say that goals can prevent us from seeing the meaningful part of our lives. Or maybe he was saying all goals are not meaningful for us. I did a Malayalam Podcast yesterday on using our time in a more meaningful manner. I feel we all give meaning to what we do…
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