Get Unstuck in Life
I began the struggle by chasing money, status. Someone told me that’s cheap. Chase being a noble, caring human being instead. I did. Until I realized I was still chasing status – albeit a more sophisticated one. Then somebody told me – money, status are just symbols. What I was chasing is pleasure. A pleasurable …
I feel offended when people write about painful things happening in another part of the world, but nothing about the things that are happening in their own country or society. So fake! I feel offended when people write about painful things that are happening in our nation but selectively. So much bias! I feel …
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom” This is a beautiful quote by Viktor Frankl. This is often interpreted as our ability to CONTROL our reaction. So if someone insults you, your instinctive reaction might …
There are some people who can connect in a fantastic way with others or a crowd. Some connect in a flamboyant way using a lot of movement, hand gestures and stories. Some have an intense style, others have a funny style. Some have an intellectual style, sophisticated style, simple, erratic, loud, refined, aggressive or soft …
Psychological projection is a hard concept to understand for most of us. I felt this joke was the best way… After laughing, feel free to to reply and ask more questions 🙂 Husband: You are negative. Wife: and you are stubborn, arrogant, a low life, care about no one but yourself and your friends, all …
Do you know people who have hurt you? Do you know people who hurt everybody? Why do they do it? Maybe because they are cruel, evil, uncaring. Have you hurt people? Why do you do it? Maybe you think you don’t. But others have told you you do. Your name crops up in their list …
Can you think of someone who you really hate or are angry at? Maybe because of how they are, what they did to you, or said to you, or to someone you care about. Maybe its a person, a political leader, an ideology, a community, a parent, a relative, a colleague, spouse, ex-spouse a boss. …
Have you known some quirks about yourself which you wanted to change – but cannot? Maybe you speak hurtingly, maybe you criticise, maybe you are oversensitive, maybe you are a little more lazy, maybe you are easy to anger. You know it but still don’t change. And end up affecting others – many of whom …
Do you feel that your children, your spouse, your loved ones do not really share their fears with you? Have you wondered why? Generation gap, differences in values and all that is fine. But we are not asking why you cannot solve, but why won’t they even share? Why this ‘distance’? Why the hesitation? One …
We often do this funny thing. I have been guilty of it too. We make a humble observation that we have hit a plateau, that we need more diversity in our thought process, new ways of thinking. We go out and hire people who are diverse, think differently from us. Then we try our best …