When do we deliver the best? Whenever we are motivated by a higher purpose or have a dangling sword on our heads. But that is not the case in our everyday work. We do not need to go to extremes. We deliver best when we are comfortable in our house or office. By comfortable, I…
Category: Life

Difficulty in setting Short Term goals?
Read the following We all have learnt the need to set Long term as well as Short term goals. It is recommended in personal as well as professional life. It lessens the burden of planning before any endeavor. If it is in alignment with the goals then it aught to be beneficial. This is a…

Spontaneity vs Method
What would you prefer: Spontaneity or Method? Would you approach an issue with your spontaneous reactions or would you spend time in studying it indepth? I have some opinions regarding both. Let me begin with sharing an experience. I remember Prof S N Mitra, my literature teacher, for more than one reason. He has always…

Of Rejections!
The office wore the same look it had for the last five years. Officers had come and gone but the employees stayed behind with the same work and the same surroundings. She climbed the stair case, not with the same ease as she used to a few years ago. He was standing near the door…

Where there is a Will, there is a Way!
We always look at our hands. The criss-cross lines intrigue us quite often. Do these lines hold goodness, well-being, luck? Or are they just those: criss-cross lines like the innocuous lines of the brow? One could never know for sure. Belief is the only true thing. Omniscience is not for us humans. I think God…

Punching the Comfort Zone!
One of the reasons why people do not venture into different domains, eg from service sector to business area, is the fear what if after doing everything right, there are no takers for the new thing they started? This fear is the first thing one has to deal with before changing course. If you want…

Yardstick of success is personal!
Many a times people look at others as objects. They value the things that are external to them. The more percentage, the more degrees, the glamorous job, the fat paycheck, the more number of followers or assistants working under…. these are the yardsticks people would always measure success with. All these things are extrinsic. All…

With Perfection should come Happiness!!
I love him and he loves me. But we don’t love each other in the way each of us want the other to. And that is the root of the problem for majority of us. We always want the other to love us in the way we imagine love to be. Or obey us in…

And pine for SATISFACTION!
This happens with most of us. Either we live in the irrevocable past or the unseen future. May be this is Satisfaction then…. this living in the PRESENT!!! To be aware of the sounds and smells and hues and touch and people and animals and birds and trees and flowers and the Sun and the…