Category: Life and Happiness
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Having a Decade View of our Life
Yesterday, I was listening to James Clear (author of Atomic Habits) speak to students at Ohio State University. One question and his answer really stuck with me. The question was about short-term and long-term goals and how we manage both. Personally, I’ve never been a great goal setter. I am trying to change that.Without goals,…
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Why do we feel good about Fridays?
I often wonder why we feel good on a Friday and I asked our good friend ChatGPT and it gave me a few reasons to self reflect. The reasons it gave were these – Psychological release, The weekend being a symbol of freedom, The embrace of a social rhythm, The anticipation of rest, escape from…
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Slowing down with Carl Honore
Sometimes you feel there is no option to slow down and we have to keep running ! I listened to the Ted Talk by Carl Honoré in 2010 and then I read his “In Praise of slowness” and even connected with him on LInkedIn. Well that was a time when LinkedIn was all fancy 😜…
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The Art of Not Knowing
The art of always being ready to “NOT KNOW” what we have to say, and then to forget something completely and knowing that we had to say something but we forcibly tried to forget it. And succeeded. That is important. And then we start afresh like nothing happened. That is even more important ! I…
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Thanksgiving to New Year!
I have lived in United States for close to 25 years and Thanksgiving has been a tradition I came to know after coming here. Infact Father’s Day, Mother’s Day and Halloween were all alien to me till I came here. I had some sense of Valentine’s Day but not at the scale as it is…
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331/365 When do we choose Hope
There are so many bad things happening around us. So many things that you want to be involved in as well. It is like you feel guilty if you do not speak up. One after the other, the issues you want to speak about never end. And then a point comes when you think, why…
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310/365 Enslaved by Algorithms
I have heard people say we are being enslaved by technology and I agree with being dependent. In one way that helps us do a lot more than what we were able to do before. The question is does doing more be termed as progress and does it make us happy? That is probably for…
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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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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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137/365 Saying No to some of the things we want to do
We will never be able to do everything we want….and I get that… I hope you do too… but the bigger problem is saying No to some of the things we want to do.. Remember we spoke about value trade-offs…. Even when we are able to find the value and do the trade off.. there…
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