Is it hard? Thinking makes it hard………..
Photo by Florian Bernhardt on Unsplash In the past few of weeks I have done a few scary hard things which were on my plans for a long time. Previously the thinking part was tiring me out and making the start harder and harder. Writing a blog, making a video, making my own website…….I had promised myself…
Contribute generously first, and receive later (if we need to receive at all)….
Photo by Dakota Corbin on Unsplash As a regular guy, my default mode of looking at any action was “what’s in it for me?” I have been blessed with many great friends, leaders, teachers who showed me otherwise. Their posture has always been: contribute first. Give first. And then receive later, as if the…
What exactly is Facebook?
Photo by William Iven on Unsplash What is Facebook to you? For the owners of Facebook, it’s definitely a huge money generating machine. They are probably the happiest of all among the Facebook community (if for them happiness=amount of money.) For me it’s a really useful place for finding lost friends, or to connect…
I’m scared, but I am doing it anyway……..
Photo by Yeshi Kangrang on Unsplash I had been thinking about writing a blog for couple of years now, I had been telling myself the story (lie) that I needed to set up the website first, I had to design it “properly”, and that I had to decide whether it would be ‘weekly’, or ‘monthly’ or ‘daily’, or…
“Have to do it” or “Get to do it”…………..does it matter?
Photo by Ben White on Unsplash It matters if our experience of each living moment matters. It matters if we want a smile on our face.. Which one will make us happier? Which one will make us more miserable? “I have to have lunch with the queen “ or “I get to have lunch with the queen…
Is what I am about to say/do, generous to the recipient?….
Photo by rawpixel.com on Unsplash What I am about to say to someone, is it generous or not (to her)? The feedback I am about to give to my teammate, is it generous? Is it going to help him on his journey? If not, how can I change it to pass the “generosity test”? …
Humanity maximising…………
Photo by eberhard grossgasteiger on Unsplash We were having a discussion about “behavioural economics” and the normal term used most of the time is “profit maximising”. Someone chipped in with a new one : “humanity maximising”. Those two words shifted something inside me. Immediately all the positive qualities of being human came to mind, tolerance, generosity, kindness,…
Just sit down and DO IT!
Photo by Iván Tejero on Unsplash I am doing a little video and a small resource on “The ABC of meditation and ……..”Put your bottom where your heart wants to be”….. I decided to give a simple tip to begin the video. And it dawned on me that the best tip and simplest, most effective tip…
I am lazy. Mentally and emotionally lazy.
Photo by Stas Svechnikov on Unsplash I am lazy. Mentally and emotionally lazy. I am used to being boring and comfortable. 95% of the time. (The other 5% of the time, I am the guy who does weird and outrageous stuff!) That makes me sort of “normal” I suppose. Well, 95% of the time. …
Are you refusing to be “average”…….?
Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash “Average” is like gravitational force. It’s everywhere, all the time. It’s like “status quo”, or doing today what we did yesterday , again and again. It drives most of us. It feels safe and comfortable to be average. All these mental imprints are carried around our minds like useless heavy…