Enjoy Every Moment
It all started one lazy Sunday afternoon in a small town. Two school-going friends had a crazy idea. They rounded up three goats from the neighborhood and painted the numbers 1, 2, and 4 on their sides. That night they let the goats loose inside their school building. The next morning, when the authorities entered […]
Let’s Climb The Mountain
If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and […]
This Week For Myself
Bill Gates is known to go for retreats twice a year which he calls Think Weeks, during which he isolates himself to do nothing but reading, do deep work, and think big thoughts. It’s this ability to do ‘Deep Work’ that Cal Newport in his book with the same title, defines as “Professional activities performed […]
MY SOUL HAS A HAT
~ Mario de Andrade ‘I counted my years And realized that I have Less time to live by, Then I have lived so far. I feel like a child who won a pack of candies: at first, he ate them with pleasure, But when he realized that there was little left, he began to taste […]
Life
“Life,” John Lennon said, “is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.” We have seen ample proof of this in the last year or so. However, here is a tool, a mental model, a practice that can help us minimize the shocks that the unknowns and unknowables of life render us […]
Struggle
There are days when nothing seems to be working, nothing going your way & life seems an uphill struggle. You just feel, is it really going to be worth it, worth all the trouble, worth all the pain & you feel it is time to quit & move on. Mostly at these times, I always […]
Don’t Judge Others
I don’t judge anyone for two main reasons, Because I have too many faults of my own & because I don’t know the battles others are fighting. When I was younger, I wanted to change the world but as I grew older & wiser, I felt it was better & easier to change myself. I […]
We Must Learn How To Say Thank You
I love this line, which comes from a quote by Melodie Beattie: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a […]
Dodge’s approach to Firefighting
In the month of August 1949, a wildfire took place at Mann Gulch in Montana, United States. This is a place between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains. A team of firefighters was dispatched to control the fire. By the time the team reached there, the fire was raging. They could see the clouds […]
The Journey Of Happiness Begins
One of my favorite prayers is that of Saint Francis of Assisi where he says, “That it is in Giving that you Receive.” Giving is the biggest secret of a happy life full of abundance. The more you give, the more flows back to you. I recently met someone who helps and counsels a lot […]