Does what you’re doing feel shameful?

A kid is told “no” 400 times a day while growing up.   So as we morph into adults, that behavior gets reflected in everything that we do. It results in “no” being our default response to everything. This has never been done.Are you crazy?What’s going on in...

Is it okay to fire your friends?

Our energy gets drained.Enthusiasm lowers each time.There is no feeling of being cared for. These are the experiences we have with some of our friends.  However, we were not born into those relationships. We chose them.Since we chose them, we can also choose to...

Using the hurt to grow

How do we respond when we are hurt?Do we blame the person who did that to us?Or carry the baggage of that hurt forever? Here’s a simple question to ask:“What is this trying to tell me?”  We’d probably get nowhere getting to the root cause of hurt.However,...

How do we respond after making a mistake?

We’re entering the elevator from the 10th floor.Have to go to the 20th one.By mistake, we pressed the ground floor button. In the haste to correct that mistake, we instantly press that 20th floor button.Forgetting that the elevator will go to the ground floor...

What if we achieve our goals?

We work really hard.Give up on all pleasures.Sacrifice valuable family time. All in order to get to our goals.  Unfortunately, sometimes we are not able to make it.Our dreams are shattered.So does our hope go for a toss. And sometimes, we do achieve our goals.Of...

The messy clean up process

When the ink in the pen gets over, we keep the pen under the tap to clean it. And that’s a messy process. Ink all over. More than you thought there is.  However, after that, the pen is absolutely clean.Ready to write again with the newly-filled ink. Any...