Category: General
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Your news channel
Someone once said “Evening news is where they begin with “Good evening” and then proceed to tell you why it isn’t.” Cut to today. We have 24×7 news channels. You are like a news channel. Every moment you are broadcasting news. To yourself. To others. What are you communicating? How…
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Happy harvest festival!
We reap what we sow. Every thought is like a seed. Plant the garden of your mind with care. With your purpose. Your dreams. Aid their growth. Harvest them. Happy harvest festival (Pongal, Makar Sankranti, Bihu, Lohri)! Photo by Maryna Bohucharska on Unsplash
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Pain and suffering
There is a person who used to cause me a lot of hurt. Inflicting pain through caustic language. Sometimes it would get very difficult for me to handle. I would get entangled and suffer. As I was trying to work my way out of this, I read this old saying:…
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Marvel in a mistake
In 1968, Spencer Silver of 3M was working on making a super-strong adhesive. A mistake led to a weak adhesive. Post-its were born as a result. I perform and teach music. Mistakes happen while performing existing ideas or compositions. They result in new ideas or compositions. “If you are not…
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Happy Monday
Mondays are usually associated with hectic activity and sadness. Sundays with relaxation and bliss. How do we make Monday a Sunday? By finding out who we are. Our true purpose. And aligning what we do to it. “Solitude is not to be found in forests only. It can be had…
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Focus on the action
The Bhagavad Gita is an amazing spiritual work that is full of insights. We may have read or heard the verses earlier. But connecting to the verses in the present moment throws up amazing insights. One of the most quoted/heard verses is: karmanyevaadhikaaraste maa phaleshu kadaachana | maa karmaphalaheturbhoormaa te…
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Mind the gap
I saw a sign yesterday near an elevator that said “Mind the gap”. We usually focus on what is before and after the gap. So much that we do not even notice the gap. But the gap is so significant. Especially in the busy lives that we run. The gap…
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Assumptions
A coachee of mine has a very high “need to know”. She starts joining the dots by herself, especially where data is scarce. She can seek clarifications from the people involved. Instead, she speaks to her close confidante who has this uncanny knack of joining the dots exactly the same…
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Letting go
Are you fretting over a team member who resigned and joined another team or organization?A student who left your class/school and joined elsewhere?A business partner who wants to do something different?A child who has relocated to a distant place for work? We hold on. We try to control. Things. Situations.…
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Words and communication
“Earlier my team used to meet in person. Now we only communicate via online calls. The videos are off. Misunderstandings have grown.” shared a leader I am coaching. Words are great verbal forms for expression. But it turns out the non-verbal cues speak volumes. Prof. Albert Mehrabian did a lot…
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The inner weather
I live in Chennai. The last few Decembers have been very eventful here. We had heavy rains, cyclones, floods. Come December, weather is on everyone’s mind. We are very cautious. We check the weather often. Taking the cue from this, one thing that may help us in our daily lives…
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The magic word YET
What is the one thing that limits you the most today? That you wish was not true? That you wish you could transcend? 1) Write it down as a sentence. 2) Here is a magic word you can add to it. It’s the simple 3 letter word “YET”. Add it…
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Self-esteem
One of the things I encounter very often in my coaching work is low self-esteem. We are often told we are not good enough. By our family. Friends. Teachers. Bosses. Others. Or we perceive the same, for example, via social media by looking at the “success” of others. And that…
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