Category: Enjoying Life and Work
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113/365 A tale in Career Recovery
In 2010 I was at a crossroad with a mounting debt, no clear idea of a possible career even after spending 17 years in an Industry that has been booming all the while. In short I did not know what skill of mine can be sold or projected as being employable. On a September day…
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112/365 Decisions that might have cost me my career
There are decisions we take in our life that can cost us either immediately or in the long run. I have experimented a lot with my career and also made decisions and if I look back it has had its impact. I think it would be nice to reflect back. There is a price…. The…
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111/365 When I failed to blend Passion & Work
Find a way to get paid for your passion and you will not work for another day. That is what I have heard over and over again. You must have too… And magically your Passion and work becomes one and the same. How beautiful is that. Definitely worth trying. I have tried and failed.. not…
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110/365 Why do we work?
Work is the biggest part of our waking hour. For some folks the sleeping hour is so minuscule that work is all they have in their life. So Why do we work? Next few days I want to share with you some personal thoughts about work every day. I sometimes feel an alternative to work…
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109/365 My Failures from Lack of Motivation
One should learn from failures they say… true but my problem is choosing from all those failures in life. But even more my problem is I have kept on repeating a few things with out any attempt of learning anything. Why would that be? I often wonder… why would someone be doing that. You know…
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106/365 The Confessions of Quitter
The first time heard about the sunk cost fallacy, I felt like quitting every crap I was doing then. To be honest it felt like I was in this never ending journey and the things that I dread repeating itself. But that was a few years ago.. And Yes I quit what I was doing…
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105/365 Join from home & Work from home
The excitement of joining a new company might have changed a bit I feel. During the past one and a half years most people who joined across the various levels of the corporate machinery must have joined remotely and started delivering value in a remote setting. It is both interesting and challenging. When the Lock…
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101/365 How do you look at a Busy Day
Whenever you ask people how the day was, they say Busy… Busy Busy and I wonder… is it really busy. Do people feel happy or unhappy when they are busy. I sometimes feel it is not about busy but being meaningfully busy. If what we do is not meaningful then it does not matter whether…
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90/365 Staying Healthy | Part-2 | Pushups
There are things we thought we could never do in our life and then we start doing it. We feel good… We also start translating that to other things in life. Things move on… When I was a kid, in order to give me company, my dad also joined me for Karate. He was probably…
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67/365 Negative people on day 1 at work
I don’t know if you have felt this way. Your enthusiasm of being at work on the first day is burst like a balloon by people who tell you have bad things are…. what kind of a mess you have gotten into… OK may be not day 1 but as you go by the week.…
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