‘Salt vs Rice’
10th July 2024 If you were to cook 3 cups of rice, would you add 3 cups of salt to it? Certainly not! So, in every preparation of rice, the rice always outnumbers the salt, yet a little salt makes a huge difference /impact in the overall outcome. In the room in which you currently […]
‘Face your Fears’
9th July 2024 Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youths’ rite of Passage? The father takes his young son into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. The son is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun […]
‘The Cookie Thief !!!!’
8th July 2024 A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of cookies, and found a place to drop. She was engrossed in her book but happened to see, that the man sitting beside her, […]
‘Sometimes… Beautiful lines by Robert Drake’
7th July 2024 Sometimes, I feel I want to go back in time… Not to change things, but to feel a couple of things twice… Sometimes, I wish I was a Baby for a while… Not to be walked in the pram but to see my mother’s smile Sometimes, I wish I could go back […]
‘Make yourself a priority’
6th July 2024 Are you the most important person in your life? How often do you make time for yourself? Conventional wisdom centers around giving more of yourself to others in your life, than you would to, what you want to accomplish. You’re taught to make sacrifices and put your needs secondary because that’s how […]
‘Don’t stress about things you can’t control’
5th July 2024 Scientists estimate people have about 70,000 thoughts per day. Many of those thoughts incite feelings of self-doubt, fear, and discouragement. There’s a brutal truth about life that some people refuse to accept—we actually have no control over many of the things that happen to us. People who resist this truth fall into […]
‘Hemingway’s Lost Suitcase’
4th July 2024 In 1922, Ernest Hemingway was a 23-year-old aspiring novelist working as a foreign correspondent in Paris for the Toronto Star newspaper. The young Hemingway, who was recently married and embracing the culture of Paris, would work for the paper during the days and then work on building his body of fiction work […]
‘Gaman’ – The Japanese way of facing hard times’
3rd July 2024 Life always brings with it the ups and downs, the peaks and valleys. True character is revealed during both the occasions. Abraham Lincoln said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power,” But, adversity too brings out the best in some & […]
‘Focus’
2nd July 2024 Steve Jobs was once asked, what he thought was his most important creation, most thought, he would answer the iPad or the Mac. Instead, he said it was Apple the company. Making an enduring company, he said, was both far harder and more important than making a great product. How did he […]
‘What it takes to win a Billion Hearts & a Billion Rupees’
1st July 2024 The feeling of elation & the Hangover of the amazing victory by Team India still persists. While wondering & reading about what made it possible & how it was done perfectly, it was definitely something that goes beyond talent and attitude. Gary Kirsten, the former India team coach, spoke about it long […]