Category: Life
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EP 223 (160/365) Today I felt like quitting
Let me be very honest… today I really felt like quitting this project… I had a pretty low day when everything I do was staring back at me and asking me for a reason. I think it is not just this one thing… I feel like quitting every thing that I am doing and focussing…
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EP 213 (150/365) I should not have done this
When pandemic hit we were all in a position of uncertainty and the immediate goal was to ensure how we can make things better for ourselves… what many of us… or at least I did not think was of many other people who were less privileged than me…. I have spoken and written about how…
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EP 211 (148/365) A total stranger makes your day
I know it is a cliche… you might have heard it many times over and over that a kind gesture from a total stranger can make your day… But what the heck… if it happens to you, you need to talk about it.. loud.. let people know… the world needs such news… more than ever.…
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EP 206 (143/365) Four Thousand Weeks
If we live up to 80 years we would have lived around four thousand weeks. That is true… but I did not think about it till I read Oliver Burkeman’s book ‘Four Thousand Weeks’…. Time Management for mortals…. The book reminds us about both time and our mortality. The first thing I did as soon…
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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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EP 203 (140/365) Making meaningful Connections
I grew up liking the company of people… always wanting to be around others…. May be that is how I chose sales after college… but I left that profession a few years later… when I moved into management and Agile…. but over the past few years I have become much distant from people… I am…
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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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134/365 A bad day like any other bad day
A day can be bad for many reason.. today was one such… today means the day I am writing this blog… I am not sure which day you will read this… May be you will read this on a bad day for you…. I usually don’t have much reasons to feel bad on a day….…
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132/365 Workable Multi Tasking
Does Multitasking work..? or even better… is there any workable multi-tasking… Growing up I have heard two different sides on the Multi-Tasking debate. One was that it is perfectly ok to multitask… because things don’t need to be perfect and the other was obviously.. don’t multi-task.. even Leonardo Da Vinci was not able to do…
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