Write It Down
Finding something in a messy cupboard or cluttered drawer is always difficult. Not only do we waste a lot of time, it agitates us. It is the same with our mind. We have so many thoughts and emotions surfacing constantly, that we often find ourselves agitated and even...
Are We Making Enough Time For Ourselves
In a fast-paced world with so many things we plan to do, we often struggle to find time. Suddenly opportunities and resources seem easier to come by, time is at a premium. In our quest to achieve our goals and live up to our responsibilities we keep ourselves so busy...
Burden Of The Past, Weight Of The Future
Any system that gets overloaded tends to slow down. An overloaded vehicle struggles to climb up an incline, a good runner loses steam and speed with weights tied to his legs. We may not realise it, but we too load our emotional system with two things that we carry...
Learn To Pause Before Reacting
When we look back on how we may have handled ourselves in situations and in managing our relationships, we may well find that often we have reacted only to wish we had done it differently. The issue is not that we didn’t know better, if we reflect back we may well...
Building Our Emotional Immunity
Doctors have told us that we need to build our immunity to prevent falling sick. We know that the physical discipline of food, exercise, and rest is critical to our well-being, but how often have we stepped back and focussed on building our emotional immunity? When we...
Keep Failing
We grow up often hearing that if we have not succeeded, we have failed. This conditioning not only builds sub-conscious fear, we often restrict the free flow of the best in us, for ‘fear of failing’. When we take a step back and reflect on what failure means to us, we...
Not Every Glass Is A Magnifying Glass
A magnifying glass not only allows us to see things larger than they are, but it also has an interesting property of burning the paper below it if sunlight passes through. And yet, an ordinary block of glass will at best warm the paper below but cannot create the...
If We Stop Talking, We Stop Walking Together
As relations grow in age they often change, and what changes is communication. We may well find few people in our life with whom we carry on the relationship but don’t carry the same openness and free flow of conversation. In our minds, we may have good reason for the...
Watching Our Spending Habits
It is always good to be aware of our spending habits, being careful that we are neither too stingy nor getting carried away. We regularly take stock of what we have spent on and whether it was money well spent. However, money is not the only thing that we are...
Are We Making Enough Time For Ourselves
Our day often feels like a shopping bag, we keep filling up the space and stuffing it with things to do and people to meet, and before we know it, we’ve had a full day, are tired, and it's time to check out. Time seems to pass too quickly and even as we keep ourselves...
