Category: Enjoying Life and Work
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EP 205 (142/365) Withdrawals of a Lifestyle Change
Can we ‘Think Uninfluenced’…? what does that even mean…? before you jump into any conclusions… I need to tell you that whether we agree or not, it is very much possible that we are all influenced by many things… I am.. and the funny part is most of the influence I myself am not aware……
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138/365 Should I give way to my madness?
Don’t we all have our share of madness? I think so… Some of the madness is so common that we think it is the norm… And some we hide though it is so OK… we hide it because we find it uncommon… We have this urge to gel in with the crowd.. to blend into…
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136/365 The “Love My Work’ Week
There was a 2019 book by Marcus Buckingham ‘Nine Lies About Work’ that he had coauthored with Ashley Goodall.. I highly recommend you all to read it…. In fact the Episode 9 of the Penpositive Outclass Podcast was about that… The book again came to my mind recently as I started reading and writing about…
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135/365 The Great Resignation
Two days back as part of the Penpositive Journal on the Penpositive YouTube channel… I did a video on The Great Resignation… some personal thoughts… I did not have any intention of repeating the same thing here.. but it was interesting to note some comments that came on my Social media Channels and I thought…
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124/365 On our deathbed we will not feel we could have spent more time in office
Talking about death is not considered the best thing in most cultures.. but there are many cultures where death is discussed… As mortals I think we all need to think about ourselves in deathbed and imagine how the world around us should be at that time. How we should feel… and how others would feel……
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123/365 It is not enough to be on the right track, if you don’t move you will be run over
There are times when I question myself…. if I am on the right track…. What we navigate in life is not always black and white and there are so many grey areas. The question is if we are on the right track and it repeats itself. And we need to answer.. but it is not…
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122/365 Life is shot at you point blank; it is here and Now
We all have limited time… though when we are young we think otherwise. The first time we hear death or see it we know life will end but we always feel that is a long time in the future. We have time.. And then years later it dawns on us that we have to be…
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118/365 How I loved my Daily Commute
I really loved my daily commute which started at the end of December 2010 and continued till August of 2012. I used to commute for 2 hours daily back and forth to office. And I loved it. No I am honest… I loved it.. Why…? There are many layers to why I liked it. The…
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117/365 My Remote Work Chronology
Pandemic was a time when many people who had not done remote work started doing it. I was someone who had experienced remote work for several years in my career. But that did not matter because it was different now. I started remote working immediately after college when I started out on my own assembling…
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114/365 Corporate Handicap
I started working for the first time in a large corporation 5 months shy of my 40th birthday. Spending 17 years in the Tech field working in small companies and unsuccessfully running my own ventures. Finally there comes a first day at work kind of experience after 17 years of working. The place I got…
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