‘Incorporate gratitude into your daily life’
13th August 2024 According to Oprah Winfrey, “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” It’s very difficult to feel fear or sadness while feeling grateful at the same time. Practicing gratitude is one of the […]
‘An Abundance mindset’
12th August 2024 One of my favorite quotes is, “The mind is everything, what you think, you become.” It is so true. Mindset is a critical component of success in business, sports and life in general. There is also quantitative research to back this up. Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck examined mindsets among young students. She […]
‘True Friends’
11th August 2024 Many years ago, just after I had got married, I was sitting on a couch on a hot, humid day, sipping a chilled drink and talking to my father. As I talked about adult life, marriage, responsibilities, and obligations, my father thoughtfully stirred the ice cubes in his glass and cast a […]
‘The Fosbury Flop’
10th August 2024 In most fields, you need to do things differently, to complete and win, whether in Sports, Business or life especially when the environment changes. Breakthroughs — whether personal, or for an entire domain — often start with individual experimentation, and only later do the principles of why it obviously worked become clear. […]
‘The carrot, the egg, and the coffee bean’
9th August 2024 A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed that, as one problem was solved, […]
‘The Ceramics Class’
8th August 2024 We all have goals that are important to us. But is it our drive to achieve a certain outcome that makes us better? Or something else entirely? In the book, “Art & Fear” authors David Bayles and Ted Orland share a surprising story about a ceramics teacher. This story just might reframe […]
‘Choose your battles wisely’
7th August 2024 After all, life isn’t measured by how many times you stand up to fight. It’s not winning battles that make you happy, but it’s how many times you turned away and chose to look into a better direction. Life is too short to spend it on warring. Fight only the most, most, […]
‘Marshmallow Challenge’
6th August 2024 Imagine a room filled with people, divided into teams of 4 persons each. Each team gets 20 sticks of spaghetti, a yard of string, strips of scotch tape, and a single marshmallow. They have 18 minutes to build a free-standing structure that will enable the marshmallow to rest on top. This is […]
‘Clear the Cobwebs’
5th August 2024 Once upon a time, there was an unfortunate poor man. His lived in a small, empty house & Unclean house full of mice and spider webs. People tried to avoid coming into his house – why should they stick their nose into those poor ruins? And the poor man thought that poverty […]
‘Happy Friendship Day’
4th August 2024 The greatest gift in life is friendship & I am thankful to God that I have received it in abundance. To have a friend & to be a friend is what makes life worthwhile. A lot has been written about friends & friendship but, This one’s one of my favorites by Charles […]