selfdev
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It might be tempting to look at analyses of books, movies or any other work of art. This is specially useful as sometimes art can feel so esoteric so you want to understand what the whole noise is about! With Internet, there are a range of analysis videos now, which delve from the superficial to…
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Knowingly or unknowingly we can sometimes fall into the trap of competing with others. Maybe when someone casually mentions they travel at least once a month, we take it as our own goal. Or we start following someone’s lifestyle of excessive workouts and try to live up to their definition of a good workout. As…
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In the current times, it can be so easy to passively live away your life consuming content. There is nothing wrong with this. However to achieve anything worthwhile, you need to assimilate and integrate your learning and lived experience and generate energy, ideas and work from it. Being generative and producing work performs many functions…
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advocate (v) – to speak in support of an idea or course of action The past month I was thinking of how advocating for what you believe in and stand for is so important. It might come naturally for a few of us, and for others it might be tough to build this skill. We…
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It can be sometimes be addictive to keep working on ourselves and strive to be a better version. Never living the life which we currently have as a result. It is important to be aware of areas where we need work. Where there is room for growth. And we can consistently work on these aspects.…
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There is the oft quotedFailing to plan is planning to fail So we end up planning our days by the minute with things to do. There are many apps and planners which help you do this (to the extreme sometimes). You are asked at the start of the year/month/week to meticulously plan ahead, tack your…
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You want to things to be always prim and proper. With proper decorum. You get frustrated with minor inconveniences. Life problems can be stressful to handle at the best. The truth however is that life’s difficulties touches everyone in their lifetime. Isn’t the whole growing up, being mature, about being more resilient when life happens.
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A flyer pasted on my dance class notice board had in bold colorful lettering ‘Why do you dance? What do you feel when you dance?’ and the like. It was amusing when I saw it first, but I keep coming back to those questions every now and then. I used to learn dance over the…
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Time feels so real and yet fleeting at the same time. Usually it feels as though we have an unlimited supply of it. However, all of us need to work with this rigid container of twenty four hours in a day. There is a lot of pressure to maximize the output from this container. The…
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Life is hard. Many a times you will get punched in the face when you are least expecting it. But what matters is how you are able to dust off the sand and get back up again. Get back to what you were doing. With better understanding perhaps, but you persist. Much is spoken about…
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