shutterstock.com Whenever I find myself searching for directions in my professional life or struggling with productivity, the first thing I rely on is Google – to be more precise, the Harvard Business Review website. Whether the HBR nuggets help me with solutions to my problems is altogether a different question, but I’ve always enjoyed pondering …
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So, it has all begun..again. The two-week complete lockdown lay ahead of us, like an ocean stretching beyond the horizon, spreading and engulfing us for a time that seems like forever. With more and more rules emanating by the day—to restrain and cripple our physical movement—it's no wonder we feel as though we've been granted …
Whoah. It has been so long since I sat down to write. I mean, writing is indeed a part of my job, but this free-flow writing is different. A lot different that after a few blank moments of staring the cursor on the fresh doc, thoughts just start turbulently gushing out. And man, this feels …
If you’ve landed here thinking this is one of those posts about relationship advice, it absolutely isn’t. Of course, there’s no doubt about the popular saying we’ve all come across “Every relationship is built on trust”, but that exactly isn’t the kind of trust we are going to talk about here. Then what? It’s about …
Thoughts about "So good they can’t ignore you” by Cal Newport In today’s world where there is too much emphasis on the need to be passionate about work, this is a very very different perspective. This book blurb that caught my attention as I was mindlessly scrolling through Amazon, kindled my curiosity and I couldn’t …
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Well, we all have it. The bad days. For some, it occurs as an episode—a series of off days—while for others, it's a sporadic phenomenon. It takes various forms and characteristics, but all that matters is bad days do occur and for most of us, they occur quite often than we anticipate and are armored to …
"So, this is it?! This is what it is all about?" The transition from childhood to adulthood is a different experience for different people and individuals have their own unique approach of coping up with reality and coming to terms with the life that unfolds in front of them. And this turned out to be …
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I've been pondering over my life for a quite while and I seem to have found a peculiarity—which I would like to assume are the traits of a perfectionist. I think I belong to that category of people who strive to accomplish every single task—however trivial it might be—with a marked level of perfection. For …
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