Category: On Life
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263/365 Reflect, Accept & Correct From professional life to Personal Life
As Human Beings one of our most treasured abilities is that we can (if we want) reflect on what we do and accept the outcome and correct what we feel is not right. But it is not a common act because Acceptance and Correction are not the favorite phenomena for most people. In business and at…
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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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249/365 Thinking on Your Feet – A Page from Memory
I was in Bangalore in 2020 and this is where I started my career years ago and felt like going down that memory lane and picking some old episodes. I started my career selling computers. We used to buy parts and assemble PCs, Provide a Warranty to customers and sell and support them. This was the 90s…
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240/365 Say ‘NO’ when you have to; And do it with Confidence
When I was starting my career someone told me that I have a problem with ‘NO’. He said I was one of those people who will say ‘Yes’ to everything. He said ‘NO’ is such a powerful word that only people with real purpose can say it. I laughed him off. But the words kept…
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239/365 What my Mom taught me about Prioritization
As an agile practitioner I always tell my team and those I work with the importance of prioritization. If we prioritize we can contain waste. I believe prioritization is the first step towards going lean. The need to decide what is it that we want to do now. What is it that brings maximum value…
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230/365 And I knew it was time to chase something else
We have all chased something or the other in our life. Sometimes we get it… Sometimes we don’t.. and at other times we leave one thing and focus on chasing something else… just like puppies chasing balls. Getting what we chase and not getting it depend on a lot of factors including our ability, situation…
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228/365 When you are told you are not welcome
You are not told.. you just sense it… I don’t know about you, but I have sensed many a times when I was unwelcome in a place. I don’t want to play the victim card here so let me be open that in some cases I would have done the same because how else could…
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226/365 Feeling a dead body for the first time
I saw a dead body for the first time when I was in High School… If I remember correct it was when my Father’s younger brother passed away. But I never touched the body. I watched from a distance. It was probably also the first time I saw people gather when someone died. The sorrow..…
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223/365 My Battles with Smoking
I started smoking when I was 18 years old. During my college days. Before that I had tried it a few times. Even as young as 6th grade. While I was in school in my 10th grade.. there were a few of my batch mates who regularly smoked. There was this Juice shop outside the…
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EP 265 (201/365) Thinking about Death and Life
Can we think of life without thinking of death..? Or is that what we should do…? People often don’t want to think of death.. or speak of it and yet it is something that is for sure to happen.. whether you had a great life or not… We have a life means we will have…
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