Greatness Lies In What We Don’t See
Last evening, it was a treat watching Novak Djokovic play in the semi-finals of the Rolex Masters tournament in Shanghai. At 37, he took on a younger 25-year-old World No. 7 Taylor Fritz, and the performance by both players was music on the court. On our drive back to...
Life Changes When We Decide We Want To Change
There are many things about our life we want to change. We have often tried but landed up with half-hearted attempts and partial success. Over time we wonder why we cannot bring about the changes we know we want, we are capable of making and yet are not making...
Break It Up Into Smaller Parts
Often we get overwhelmed with a situation we are faced with or a project we have decided to undertake. Even as we start with enthusiasm, the tasks and complexity that present themselves can feel too much to handle. When we review things not as one huge whole, but as a...
When We Lose Our Smile, We Lose A Lot
As simple as it seems, our smile reflects much more than we may have realised, making it one of the most precious things in our life. If we are not careful, we may become materially richer but not necessarily wealthier because despite all that we have, if we lose our...
A Mistake I Thoroughly Enjoyed
I read about the play – ‘A Perfect Murder’ being staged at Opera House. Being an Alfred Hitchcock adaptation I enthusiastically went for it, buying an extra ticket from a lady at the venue. Seated next to her, I overheard her asking her friend, “ I hope you understand...
Unpack The Day
To live a full life we want to make the most of our time and pack our day doing things we enjoy that will give us purpose and meaning. Time is the one thing that we cannot reverse, we must make the most of it. Our decisions and quality of life improve significantly if...
To Find Ourselves We Have To Lose Ourselves
Self-importance can become a big silent factor for us. Even though we may outwardly maintain a certain demeanour, our internal makeup often gets disturbed. It remains so for days and sometimes months when we feel offended, hurt, or criticized. The phases of feeling...
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...
