Category: Life
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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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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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268/365 Even when our goals don’t come true !
Today I heard someone say that goals can prevent us from seeing the meaningful part of our lives. Or maybe he was saying all goals are not meaningful for us. I did a Malayalam Podcast yesterday on using our time in a more meaningful manner. I feel we all give meaning to what we do…
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261/365 Will I like or dislike
Yesterday out of now where a thought came up… will I like or dislike something… nothing in particular just.. a plain thought… But then it all moved into another thought… how much we bother at times… if people will like or dislike what we do…. What I like is not necessarily what people like.. and…
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257/365 To Have Kids or Not
Yesterday I was chatting with my mom and as always, a discussion about her grandkids came up.. I said I don’t think they will be having any… unless their current view of the world changes… they don’t consider it important.. Nor do we… Being a Grandparent is not something I am aiming for… It is…
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255/365 To be Insignificant
Sometimes I want to be so insignificant… Maybe because it makes you review yourself better free from so many notifications from the world of expectations. 11 years back when I left running a business and stepped into independent consulting… sitting in a desk and doing something with my team I felt a new found freedom……
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250/365 War, Life, world & some random overdue rant !!!
When you find this world unbearable and some of the people in it difficult to get along with or some news bothers you out of your own body.. it is time to invent something new… Maybe a new world…. or at least a new perspective for yourself…. one that will make you understand and adjust…
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245/365 Two things by Dostoevsky that I read today.
I just started reading Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment… Not just reading…. I have been doing a mix of reading and listening so I can utilize time better… I read when I can on my mobile and I listen to the audio book in continuation when I am driving or walking. This is also my way…
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233/365 When a childhood fear came true
As a child I used to have conjunctivitis quiet often… it is also called pink eye… You get it in one eye and you know you will get it next in the other eye. So when you get it what you do is just sit home… No TV.. No books… Nothing… and wait for it…
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233/365 Some thoughts on knowledge from Plato’s Protagoras
In Plato’s Protagoras there is an incident where one of Socrates’s young friend Hippocrates (not the Hippocrates of medicine) comes knocking at his door early morning and tells him with so much excitement that Protagoras is in town…. Socrates then asks him “What is the matter? Has Protagoras robbed you of anything? For which Hippocrates…
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