Category: Words of wisdom

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Gain perspectives – You shan’t see the whole picture!

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ouldn’t you love it if someone could hand you a recipe to solve all your problems? Or at least a handout to one problem of yours – that which if you follow, you’d get exactly what you hoped for? But hold on – are your problems so unique that no one in the rest of the world faces them? And if not – are there really no people or books suggesting a solution for them? And even if you do follow up with one diligently – do you reach the same expected outcome as promised? … Read More >Gain perspectives – You shan’t see the whole picture!

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Mindset: the weather within!

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hilly cold mornings, you aren’t a fan of those, are you? Depending on the part of the world you are reading this from, there are certainly gradients of the winter chill. Sometimes snowclad, sometimes with black ice, sometimes with no ice but bone-chilling cold air. Regardless of the version of cold we experience, staying within the warm covers is constant. And yet when we eventually do step outside, we encounter a rare breed of individuals jogging, chatting or nonchalantly going about their business. It seems as if they are completely unaffected by the cold! Have you wondered why? What makes them special? Let’s find out cogently! … Read More >Mindset: the weather within!

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The owl, the raven and the lesson.

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Once upon a time lived a family of owls: a mother owl, a father owl and a month-old baby owl on a Pine tree. Content in their newly established world, the mother owl took care of the baby owl happily, whereas the father owl would happily hunt extra and successfully so for his family.
One day a pack of ravens made their own nest on a nearby cliff. This terrified … Read More >The owl, the raven and the lesson.

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If it’s important only for today, then it’s not important!

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One of the challenges we face daily is identifying the activities that matter to us. Often we are late in acknowledging that we got engrossed in ‘the wrong’ or more precisely, the unplanned activities. How often does it happen that late in the evening we realize that we were certainly busy the whole day and something just happened to pop up? Can there be a simple way to be more conscious of the activities we do and not end up regretting the choices we made? Let’s find out cogently! … Read More >If it’s important only for today, then it’s not important!

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Streaks vs Averages – What matters really?

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Scrolling through social media feeds and glancing across the status updates leads to a lot of quick bursts of emotions. All the information ranging from who’s dating whom to where one is vacationing or visiting clubs becomes available at one tap. Tapping through them eventually you land up on some screenshot that flaunts an unbroken streak of some sort. It could be that of gym visits, meditations, cycling or even of Snapchat. … Read More >Streaks vs Averages – What matters really?

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The ‘I don’t know’ zone!

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Who doesn’t love those days when everything went as planned beforehand? No unexpected turns, no unexplained mysterious encounters and a simple straightforward day. That exactly means we love being in our comfort zone, the zone where we know when, how and why things happen. But do we always stay in this zone? Not really.
Even the ones that try very hard to stay within this zone encounter something that they’ve never seen or experienced before. We get restless and often stressed when that happens. But can this situation be always unwanted? Or could there be some merit in the exposure to them? Let’s dive in cogently! … Read More >The ‘I don’t know’ zone!

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Dealing with cancerous thought processes – A mental surgery

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Cancer, as most of us are aware, is one of the most infamous and deadly diseases that mankind has endured over the years. The scope of the disease is broad and the very lethal nature of it makes it one of the encounters that a person never hopes for, in their entire lifetime. However, unfortunately, if we do happen to meet this nemesis, we certainly hope to get the treatment as earlier as possible.
But all this while we are only considering the cancers that are physically traceable. Could there be some other invisible cancer tumours? How about thought processes? Can they be carcinogenic? Can they damage you from within? Let’s find out cogently!
… Read More >Dealing with cancerous thought processes – A mental surgery

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Shedding untimely death: A Suite of the Strong

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Deaths are termed almost always untimely. If a person dies in their teens or up to their early 30s, the possibilities and the unfulfilled dreams make a case for the ‘untimely’ nature of death. On the other hand, a death in the 60s can be termed as “they couldn’t enjoy the retired life” or a death in the 40s – “terrible: middle of nowhere” – aka untimely. … Read More >Shedding untimely death: A Suite of the Strong

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Everything Matters!

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“Come on! It doesn’t matter!” – a phrase you’ve heard all your life. Maybe you’ve even said this to yourself in different phases of your past. But have you thought about why this thought even arises? It hints that you are about to take a step that you don’t normally identify yourself with. But does it really have no effect on your life, as it seems to be the case? Can it always be the wrong step? Let’s find out, cogently! … Read More >Everything Matters!