Category: Random Thoughts
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82/365 I went fishing and became Tired
Some days you are very tired and you have valid reasons for it. For me when I get tired like that, it also kind of stops my energy in many things including writing this blog. But then some activities have to be done to get the tiredness behind. I am tired for a reason. I…
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53/365 A Ritual for initiating a change
Change is always an interesting topic for me, may be because we talk about it a lot in our agile world. But the change I wanted to talk today is about personal change. It is true that on a personal level change happens always. Some knowingly and some unknowingly. And at other times we have…
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51/365 Thoughts that make you feel stuck
Sometimes a thought comes to your mind and refuses to go away. As I struggle to make sense of it… as I try to understand where that thought came from and what its significance is it continues to grow… And it gets uncomfortable. I am not sure if you have had that similar feeling. Now…
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39/365 An Act of Kindness
I end all my podcasts this way..“Be Content.. Be Penpositive… Be safe and please be kind…” and that has been my routine irrespective of the language the podcast is in. but I just realized I never speak much about Kindness. So let us spend some time on that.. I have been blessed with random acts…
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38/365 The Cost of being ourselves
I always used to tell people that we should be ourselves and there are so many quotes out there that say so. But then I wonder, why is it difficult for us all. Why do we always succumb to what others want us to be. Why is there a constant struggle for someone to be…
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36/365 Being Individuals in a Community
We live in a world that is getting more and more individualistic. I am not against that but when it also rides at the cost of community, I think we should start talking. One important book I read last year was ‘The Lonely Century’ by Noreena Hertz The book is more on how lonely we…
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35/365 So how do we become happy?
I think there was a time when people used to say they want to succeed and the general consensus was that if you become successful you will be happy. Over the last several years I have personally seen that thought change. The people who say they want to be happy has increased. Does that mean…
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34/365 Is there a good in everything?
There are so much happening around us. Some are good and some are bad as we look at it. but the question that I have heard being discussed is if there can be a good in everything. Can everything have a good side to it. I know that sounds so cliched and motivation kind, and…
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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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