We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit – Aristotle Every night for the last few months, I used to crawl into my bed and open my iPad to binge on something. This had become such an autopilot activity, it was seamless. I had no control and many a time I was up until 1 AM. My morning routine took a big hit due to this. I made a subtle change a few weeksmore
Category - Personal development
“Your success does not define you and neither does your failures. Your attitude during the both do” I am an optimistic person. I truly believe you could change the things for better. Suppose you are interviewing for a vacancy at your company. This job requires the person to be good at communications, handle things well with a customer, and be a firefighter on most occasions. Theremore
As per the statistics, there are 4.1 billion internet users in the world as of December 2018. People spend an average of 5 hours per week shopping online. Content has been at the center of our lives these days. The advancements in technology and the affordable data prices have made sure that we are streaming content like never before. Gone are the days when we had to think so much aboutmore
In this post, I talk about the dangers of a victim mindset and how we can take steps to come out of it.
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.” – Benjamin Franklin I remember the first time I read a book (apart from my academic books of course! ). I was maybe 8 years old and it was a book about Ants. I had to read it for an extracurricular exam. It was a very small book. And I finished it in a week or so. I got tomore
The start of this year, I wanted to lose a few pounds. At this same time, my colleagues came up with a bet amongst ourselves – whoever hits the agreed-upon goal, wins the bet and the loser has to pay the winner 1k. This was just the motivation I needed. I went ahead and paid for a 3-month gym membership and started my goal enthusiastically. 3 months rolled by and we all lined up to checkmore
A journey of thousand miles begins with a single step – Chinese proverb This is probably one of the oldest and meaningful proverbs we have all heard. If you ever tried to run a half marathon or a full marathon or even asked an athlete who has done it, “Did the distance seem daunting at the start?” and you would have received “Yes” more often than not. But once theymore
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life – Muhammad Ali Most of us do not like the idea of changing something very easily. It just doesn’t come quite natural to us. Humans are mostly habitual creatures. We create a certain comfort zone in our lives and we seldom like doing something to get out of it. Although there is nothing inherently wrong withmore
The meaning of luck as per Oxford dictionary is – “Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions”. We have all been influenced by luck at some point in our lives. Some of us believe highly in the hand luck plays in our lives and few not so much. It’s not uncommon to put our belief in luck, I mean it does play some role inmore