Tag: Obsession
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If you want to begin 2017 with a bang, put your faith on four fundamental equations
There are 4 fundamental forces, which govern all what happens in our universe – gravity, electro-magnetism, strong and weak forces. Likewise, there are 4 basic equations that govern all what we do. We spend days and decades doing our things; but most of us fail to see how things are interwoven or interconnected. There exist…
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Our day to day dilemma or delusion – Schrödinger’s cat is dead or alive?
My wife is a cleaning freak and is currently on house cleaning spree because of upcoming major Indian festival. I had been expecting that any day my bedroom cupboard would be upside down, albeit organized as is where basis by her standard. But, it had not happened. Today morning, I walked down to my cupboard…
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It’s great to be good; but getting addicted to it is worse than addiction to bad
Highly successful individuals, industries or institutions suddenly come in limelight for a lame reason and their character or credentials take a severe beating. Among innumerable instances, current ones are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt for their marital issues, Volkswagen for emission scandal and past ones are golf legend Tiger Woods, soccer star Diego Maradona, iconic…
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World seems to promote random thinking and remembering; but that actually demotes you!
Pick up popular articles on personality development. One of the traits they encourage you to develop is to entertain random thoughts for innovativeness and creativity. Mentors or coaches would surmise that uncontrolled thoughts are pre-requisite to out-of-box thinking! Godmen, gurus and preachers would exhort you to keep god’s name on your tongue and picturize him…
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Whom to listen and follow – your heart or head?
Your spontaneous response probably would be – I should follow my heart! This is what you have heard, read or been told time and again by your role models, mentors, teachers or gurus, well known authors or leaders!! But, can you exactly pin point – this is the voice or thought from my heart and…
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Why we forget what we want to remember; but remember more which we want to forget!
Does it not happen to you often what you want to remember for sure, you are more likely to forget; but the opposite does not happen for what you really want to forget – it haunts you more? There are countless real life examples. You suddenly cannot remember name of known persons or places. You…
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Fine dividing line between Passion and Obsession or Dogma/Doctrine!
On the face of it, this topic may not be very interesting to you. But hang on a bit and think it over – you want to do what you love or you want to love what you do? Which of the 2 options you choose can make a difference of day and night! If…
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What simple and sincere employees or people can do to prevent being manipulated!
To be simple and sincere are invaluable qualities; but irony is employees or people in general, possessing these, are often at the receiving end! I have witnessed and I am sure, several or most of you have experienced how simple and sincere people suffer and complex personalities succeed. The latter walks over the former and…
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Creativity and Innovativeness come, when we kill fear and create freedom!
All of us need to be a good manager, supervisor or go getter; but that alone is not be good enough to keep us going. After a certain point, we experience a level of saturation, things appear to have come to a plateau or we face a knot. What was motivating becomes monotonous; excitement ebbs…
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A world of difference – “Just in time” vs “Just ahead of time”!
“Just in time” is a very popular practice by individuals and companies for punctuality, optimum use of time, productivity enhancement, quality improvement and cost/inventory control! Dell USA, iconic manufacturer of personal computers, revolutionized its manufacturing method by introducing “just in time” inventory from early years of its inception in late 1980s and that resulted in…