A close examination and measurement of my growth
What I focus on, expands and grows. The many distractions invading various aspects of my life have defined a good part of my life. In some ways, I have let myself become my distractions, confined to living as a shadow of my potential self. The distractions have kept me from reaching the other side of my dreams.
Jaya, our cook, is very good at her job and she is very honest. She called up on a Sunday morning last month to announce that she would not be … read more.
Recently I read there have been many studies on willpower. They show that we all have a limited amount of this resource and every time we draw from it, the resource gets depleted. The conclusion is, beyond a limit, our will power reaches a breaking point.
“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… Or so says the legend.”
This has been an unusual break for me from my blogs. Sure, I felt parched by my absence from here. Yet strangely, I stayed tethered to vacant thoughts and feelings … read more.
It is a beautiful sight to see people praying – eyes closed in concentration, lips moving whispering prayers, or in utter silence, deeply engrossed, their face radiating a rare peace…..
Going through all the 13 criteria given in Sue Knight’s NLP at Work was an enjoyable experience. It helped me to arrive at an outcome that resonated with what I … read more.
I learned many lessons at the Practitioner Course in Cherai. There is however a chasm to cross between gathering knowledge and internalizing them to grow out of them. Being in … read more.
Last year, 365 days passed by, much like an apparition. I have much to be happy about. The beginning of 2014 found me in a better form than I was … read more.
These days I hunt for compliments. So, after completing my blog post about my experience at the second NLP Foundation Course conducted by Ramesh Prasad of Onefluencer, I shared the post … read more.