I am not sure why but sometimes I know exactly what all need to be done, yet I don’t do it. I tried to check if it is procrastination. But no, it is something else. It is a hold up that is stopping me from acting. Today driving back from office, that is what my thought was throughout. Rather than doing it, the thought was … Continue reading The cost of inaction
Why do we have an issue when someone criticizes us ? Maybe it does not bother you, but it sure bothers me. Even when I ask for a feedback and I initiated it, the moment it starts sounding like a criticism, it starts hurting. An uncomfortable feeling that grows inside. A point comes when everything falls silent and there is a roar that slowly erupts … Continue reading When I get criticized
Two friends meet after years and spend a few days talking about career and life. One friend has had a great career in science with double doctorate and spends his time in United states and the other chose a simpler life as a meteorologist in a remote place. A life of evident obscurity and financial insufficiency, yet calm and serene.. living with his wife, books … Continue reading Success and Waste
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 idea in a world where time and again people feel … Continue reading Happiness of being used
After many years of doing it, I guess now I am officially certified to do it 😁 I wrote my PMP and they have confirmed that I passed. But why now…. after so many years being in this profession why get a certification now…. Here is why… I first heard about PMP in 2000 during a banking project in the middle east when I met … Continue reading My PMP Certification – Why now
A while back Infosys founder Narayana Murthy mentioned that he was disappointed when companies moved to a 5 day work week. He had also said youth should work for 70 hours instead of 40 a week. The simple question is “why..?” Our body & organs have to work 24 hours a day. It stops life stops. If we need our body to work properly we … Continue reading 2025 Thought: How many hours should we work?
Sometimes we know it is going to be tough. We know we have a lack of knowledge. We know we have less time. We know the expectations are high. The stakes are high. What do we do ? We can do a lot of things. But that is not the point. what would be the best thing that can happen to us. Having people who are … Continue reading When it gets tough — Be Vulnerably Honest
Sometimes a whole week of work with all its turbulence, confusions, learnings and self reflections finally boils down to a few minutes talk on a Friday and you say “that was a worthwhile week… Not perfect but productive”. And yes you say a Thank You! a big Thank You ! This ‘Thank You’ can be to someone specific or it could be in general to anyone … Continue reading A Work week coming to an end
I wrote this piece on the birthday of the “Father of Nation” in India early this year. I want to take some of his quotes and share a thought about life and work. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”.We know what Gandhi might have meant it in his spiritual self, but it is so relevant in our professional self. If … Continue reading Remembering Mahatma Gandhi in the context of my work and career
Write every day. No need to post it. No one needs to read. Just write…. It does not have to be great writing. Or good writing. It just need to be honest. What else can all of us be other than being honest ? What do we write you might think. How does that matter if we don’t care who reads. But experience every word. … Continue reading Perfectly Imperfect
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