Author: vinodnarayan
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37/365 Can you shake the world? Should we?
The world is changing.. some changes are good and some are not so. Either way we adapt to survive. This has been happening for thousands of years. Yes the change now is more accelerated than before and so should our ability to adapt. In earlier days the world needed a bit of shaking because it…
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36/365 Being Individuals in a Community
We live in a world that is getting more and more individualistic. I am not against that but when it also rides at the cost of community, I think we should start talking. One important book I read last year was ‘The Lonely Century’ by Noreena Hertz The book is more on how lonely we…
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35/365 So how do we become happy?
I think there was a time when people used to say they want to succeed and the general consensus was that if you become successful you will be happy. Over the last several years I have personally seen that thought change. The people who say they want to be happy has increased. Does that mean…
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34/365 Is there a good in everything?
There are so much happening around us. Some are good and some are bad as we look at it. but the question that I have heard being discussed is if there can be a good in everything. Can everything have a good side to it. I know that sounds so cliched and motivation kind, and…
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33/365 Where are we heading to?
Everyone of us have plans. Some work some don’t work. I had a lot of items in my plan just before pandemic, some of which I had to shelve and others I had to postpone and a few I was still able to continue. Making a plan alone will not solve the problem, but it…
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32/365 How Positive should you be?
I run a company called Penpositive, but I am not always a positive person. And I also have an issue with toxic positivity. I mean I don’t believe that just talking positive would solve problems. May be I am skeptic because I have read so much motivational books and somewhere down the line I felt…
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31/365 When Failure becomes so important
The world celebrates success more than failure and we all can understand that. We all want to succeed. But that does not mean ignoring the existence of failure. Not just existence, I mean ignoring the fact of how important failures are. If we raise kids without them knowing what failure is… without them knowing how…
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30/365 Can we have it all?
So it has been 30 days since I started this project. It is not a 30 day challenge by a 365 days. The question is Can we have it all? There are so many things we want. And we all want it now. If you have followed by posts I would have sounded overwhelmed at…
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29/365 They all say we need goals
In this year and age saying Goals are important will be an understatement. But the fact is even today many people struggle in this area. And the struggles are both genuine and varied in my opinion. I personally struggle with it. It is not setting Goals, but setting them really long term and also prioritizing…
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28/365 We never look in the right places
I am not sure about you, but I have always misplaced things and then it was in places I never thought it would be. or in other words I always look for it in places that I think they should be. Like they know where to go and hide. Such is the case with us…
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