Author: vinodnarayan
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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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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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