Category: Opinions
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33/365 Where are we heading to?
Everyone of us have plans. Some work some don’t work. I had a lot of items in my plan just before pandemic, some of which I had to shelve and others I had to postpone and a few I was still able to continue. Making a plan alone will not solve the problem, but it…
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32/365 How Positive should you be?
I run a company called Penpositive, but I am not always a positive person. And I also have an issue with toxic positivity. I mean I don’t believe that just talking positive would solve problems. May be I am skeptic because I have read so much motivational books and somewhere down the line I felt…
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31/365 When Failure becomes so important
The world celebrates success more than failure and we all can understand that. We all want to succeed. But that does not mean ignoring the existence of failure. Not just existence, I mean ignoring the fact of how important failures are. If we raise kids without them knowing what failure is… without them knowing how…
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30/365 Can we have it all?
So it has been 30 days since I started this project. It is not a 30 day challenge by a 365 days. The question is Can we have it all? There are so many things we want. And we all want it now. If you have followed by posts I would have sounded overwhelmed at…
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20/365 When you rethink, reset and reach a Win Win.
It has been 20 days since I started this project and the format was that I write the blog and do a podcast on the same topic in my Malayalam Podcast. That was going all fine till two days back I felt that approach is in a way limiting what I write here. This is…
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19/365 The Fame Trap on Social Media
The urge to be famous has created a sorts of trap in the social media era. Earlier in order to be famous one had to do something in life. May be accomplish something that had to do a lot with talent and hard work but now it is different and anyone can be famous. Sometimes…
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18/365 It is our responsibility to keep some people away from us
Unlike before we are not just connected to just a few people. We are connected to many and we also get to know new people every week. The question is should we get close and be connected with so many. I think it is our responsibility to keep some people as far away from us…
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17/365 A Writing Project with your kids
When my daughter was in high school I had done a year long writing project with her and it was mostly a Q&A. I post a question and she answers me and then we would discuss about it and so on. We did that for 365 days. This was around 7 years back I guess.…
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15/365 My experience of not consuming news like before.
It has been more than a month that I stopped viewing the regular news that I used to watch. No YouTube, No following news channels on TV, No Social Media News outlets… nothing. That does not mean I don’t consume news. My news consumption has moved to Podcasts. very focused and as per my choice.…
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13/365 We are responsible for our time
Time is that only resource we all have in equal quantities. It is also one resource that we have some control over. Control over what value it generates. And yet we end up wasting a lot of it. I personally have lost time and also made good use of it over my lifetime like any…
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