Tag: Change
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Thoughts on being useful and visible.
It’s an interesting question, especially because we often assume the opposite of useful to be ‘useless’. That’s not true. There is a wide space between the two. In that space, many of us simply exist, present, are involved, visible but not really adding any specific value. None of us can be useful 24×7. And that’s…
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Can 2026 be about Value
December 31 is always a strange day for me. It is like turning a chapter or even a new book. While I know I will inherit everything from last year, the good and the bad. Yet I feel January 1 is a new thing and demands more action. Maybe December 31 asks us for more…
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Some days feel so ordinary, but..
Some days feel ordinary, yet they leave you with a quiet insight. Today was one of those days. Nothing remarkable happened, but it reminded me of something I’ve been working on: the simple act of building relationships by judging less and listening more. I’ve never been the kind of person who instantly likes everyone. I…
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Having a Decade View of our Life
Yesterday, I was listening to James Clear (author of Atomic Habits) speak to students at Ohio State University. One question and his answer really stuck with me. The question was about short-term and long-term goals and how we manage both. Personally, I’ve never been a great goal setter. I am trying to change that.Without goals,…
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Having a Good attitude for no reason
Recently I read something. I don’t even remember where, so apologies if you’re reading this and it was your idea. The point was simple yet powerful: “Have a good attitude for no reason.” It made me pause and reflect. We always have reasons for being in a bad mood, things that frustrate us, disappoint us,…
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Being Authentic
Sometimes it is a coincidence when you end up watching or listening to something that you have been thinking about. Yesterday I listened to an interview that Jason Averbook was having with Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic on his podcast “Now to Next” where they talk about Tomas’s new book “Don’t Be Yourself: Why Authenticity Is Overrated…
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I don’t know how to do it
Telling we don’t know how to do something is very important and it just helps us and the company we work for. It gets us the help we need to learn and do our job better. Now the question is does our company and our team and our manager give us that freedom to say…
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Writing is not easy
I had a request from a publisher to write a book since May last year, and I even started writing it, only to find out how difficult it is. The sheer energy needed to bring your thoughts to words. I realized it was not for me. Last week the publisher reached out to me and…
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How we spend our time
Today with so many options, there is so much that craves our time and attention and not all of them are useful to us. Some of them we know are useless and yet we do them. Some of them we only know the uselessness in hindsight. This also means we sometimes know how useful things…
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Happiness of being used
In Ichiro Kishimi‘s ’The courage to be disliked‘ there is an interesting sentence that comes to me over and over. It goes something like this, or that is how I understood. “Happiness and self worth comes from being beneficial to the community, by being of use to someone else.” This is a profound and deep…
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