Develop a Growth Mindset – Change the Way you Look at Setbacks
Have you ever heard yourself say to yourself or others, ‘That is just not me’, ‘I am not good with numbers’, I do not have creativity’, ‘There is no way I can become an athletic person’? Does this sound like a growth mindset to you? Ever since the concept of genes was...
Winning Without Planning
Planning is overrated. In fact, moving ahead without a plan can ensure you stay flexible, adaptive, and relevant!
Using Boredom to Rekindle your Life
Terrible addictions have occurred due to the need to remove boredom from our lives. Take these steps to benefit from boredom.
Recover from the Pain of Being Left or Dumped
Learn how to recover from the pain of being left. It is grieving a relationship lost, a future imagined! It is also an opportunity for a new start!
How to Embrace the Pain and Live Life to the Fullest
Accepting pain, embracing it, going through it is essential to be able to live life to the fullest. There is no complete human experience without pain. Here’s how you can learn to embrace pain.
Avoid the Dangers of Emulating Successful People
Success is not achieved by copying successful people. That strategy is full of pitfalls and is unlikely to get you to where you want to be. Understand the dangers of copying successful people and what you should do instead!
Success and Happiness, Understood!
One of the most significant challenges to all my arguments about happiness has been how happiness causes one to become too relaxed and mellow to have determination, ambition, or the competitive edge to succeed. The thing is that happiness and success may be correlated...
Learn the Difference between Resting or Being Plain Lazy
Tell whether you are being lazy or denying yourself the rest you deserve. This is how you can identify which category you fall into. Find solutions to combat an unhelpful habit and mindset.
5 Life Lessons I Learned by Having a Child
Child is the father of man – this phrase has a different meaning for me. I often call my son my spiritual guru – and here’s why!
Equality or Equity or Humanity – How do you Present Yourself in the World
Present yourself in the world without biases and stereotypes. Learn the difference between equality, equity, and humanity and operate from a place of one-ness!
6 Steps to Quit a Job you Hate
Job satisfaction is hard to come by these days. Depending on which survey you look at, the proportion of employees who hate their jobs or are just disengaged ranges between 66% to 90%. Given that we spend a substantial amount of time at work, this would make for a...
Compelling Reasons in Favor of Small Goals
I remember when I first thought about goals. It was the time I was getting out of university and stepping into the corporate world. I was going to have a regular monthly salary and I would be financially independent. There was a lot of talk about dreams and...
Learn to Speak Up – 6 Tips for Effective Communication Against Bad Behavior
I have always been known to be someone who speaks up against things that I did not agree with or things that I felt were unfair. In fact, I wondered why others did not speak up. I was loud and vociferous and very opinionated too. It did not do me much good either. I...
Climbing the Ladder to Empowerment – 4 Key Stages of Being Empowered
Empowerment is a word that is mostly associated with women's empowerment these days. However, this is not what I had in mind when I chose the empowerment niche as the area in which I would like to coach. Empowerment, to me, signifies the ability to be the best version...
Bridging Differences – Diversity and the Dog
I am taking a course from the University of California, Berkeley, called Bridging Differences. For this week, when I could not think of a topic to write about, I decided to write about what I am learning there. It seems like a great way to recap what I am learning and...
Knowing your True Desire – How to Understand What YOU Want
Doing what you want and truly desire is really what empowerment is all about. The bigger challenge, however, is not doing what you want to do but knowing what you truly want. This is not to say that doing what you want is easy. But it is to emphasize that when you...
Develop a Growth Mindset – Change the Way you Look at Setbacks
Have you ever heard yourself say to yourself or others, ‘That is just not me’, ‘I am not good with numbers’, I do not have creativity’, ‘There is no way I can become an athletic person’? Does this sound like a growth mindset to you? Ever since the concept of genes was...
Winning Without Planning
Yes, you read the title right. We are going to explore the value of NOT planning. In the over-achieving world that we live in, you are considered a loser if you do not have a plan. It’s all about goals and then creating plans to meet these goals. Corporate trainers...
Using Boredom to Rekindle your Life
‘Bored to death’, ‘bored stiff’, ‘bored out of my wits’, are some of the phrases that come to mind when one starts to think about boredom. Just thinking of the word brings about a certain ennui and feeling of fatigue. Interestingly, we have become increasingly more...
Recover from the Pain of Being Left or Dumped
Many years ago, someone I know came to speak to me about how she could make sure that her (then) husband did not leave her. I remember asking her this one question, ‘Why would you want to be with someone who clearly does not want to be with you?’ In our discussion,...