The role of Religion is like an anchor in your life. Religion helps in creating a moral and ethical framework and also a regulator for values in day-to-day life.
25/05/21 The role of Religion is like an anchor in your life. Religion helps in creating a moral and ethical framework and also a regulator for values in day-to-day life. This particular approach helps in building the character of a person. Thus, religion helps in building values like love, empathy, respect and harmony. Generally, religion […]
C’est le ton qui fait la musique : Its not what you say but how you say it
24/05/21 Consider these two statements: “ 370000 test Covid Positive today; “ 430000 people recovered from Covid today.” If a message is communicated in different ways, it will also be received in different ways. Negativity sells, so most headlines are negative and don’t concentrate on the positive aspects. In psychologists’ jargon, this technique is called […]
Always ask yourself, “have you helped someone today beside yourselves?”
23/05/21 Give support to get it, give praise to receive it, give your best to attract it, give more respect to experience it, and give more love to become a beloved. The Buddha taught us that a person giving alms to monks or virtuous people gains five blessings: The affection of many, noble associations, good […]
“God helps those who help themselves”.
22/05/21 Haven’t we all heard this since our school days? Yet, how many of us truly understand self-help and self-care? While we try and do our jobs perfectly, we forget ourselves somewhere. This often leads to burnouts, depression, frustration, lack of enthusiasm towards work and a slew of problems we often fail to acknowledge. You […]
Karma
21/05/21 Stephen Covey wrote, “You are free to make whatever choice you want but you are not free from the consequences of the choice” Sadly, consequences are what we fail to put our attention to as we make decisions under uncertainties. It’s not that we are not aware of the consequences; it’s just that we […]
Dr. Dan Goodman once performed surgery on a middle-aged woman whose cataract had left her blind since childhood. The cataract was removed, leaving the woman with near-perfect vision. A miraculous success.
20/05/21 The patient returned for a checkup a few weeks later. The book Crashing Through writes: Her reaction startled Goodman. She had been happy and content as a blind person. Now sighted, she became anxious and depressed. She told him that she had spent her adult life on welfare and had never worked, married, or […]
During my school days I was one of those shy & distant kids who would just sit in the corner. For me, my books were my only world. Even during breaks, I used to just sit in a corner of the ground and see others play.
19/05/21 It was not like I wasn’t interested in joining others or making new friends, I always felt myself below par when compared to my peers. I always had a preconceived notion in my mind that my advances towards new friendships would be restricted & I just didn’t want to suffer a rejection. Once during […]
It’ll-get-worse-before-it-gets-better fallacy
18/05/21 A CEO is at his wit’s end: Sales are in the red, the salespeople are unmotivated, and the marketing campaign sank without a trace. In his desperation, he hires a consultant. For Rs 50,000 a day, this man analyses the company and comes back with his findings: “Your sales department has no vision, and […]
Hope Once a king announced a death sentence to two convicts.
17/05/21 One of them knew that the king is very fond of his horse. He went up to the king and told him that if you spare my life, I will teach the horse how to fly in the next one year. On hearing this the king became very happy that he will be the […]
AS TIME GOES BY …..
16/05/21 As time goes by, You will loosen your grip on that rock, The one you always thought was home, And you will realise that home is not a place, It’s a state of mind. Let it go … As time goes by, You will learn to see yourself more clearly, The person who was […]