Apologizing is an amazing gesture

Among the most difficult choices one has to occasionally make, apologizing perhaps ranks pretty high on most people’s list. As honest, good and objective individuals we would unhesitatingly state that if we are on the wrong we will always offer an apology. The reality though is quite different. Here are 4 reasons why we find [...]

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Let the truth prevail

Telling the truth may have often resulted in embarrassing situations, perhaps have left painful memories too and may have even triggered anger and fury completely disproportionate to the facts as revealed. Perhaps we may also sly grin at the escapades that we managed by suppressing the truth or outrightly lying. Look back dispassionately and perhaps [...]

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Finding your way in life

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.  Howard Thurman Many of us meander through life with a sense of regret that we have neither achieved anything nor made our mark in this world. One reason [...]

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How to make best use of criticism

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”  Winston Churchill Most of us are natural critics but very few of us accept criticism with an open mind and the right attitude to learn from [...]

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The art of being smart

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.Solomon Short In our own way, each of us would have some competencies that give us the edge over others but that does not necessarily mean that we are smart. When we can recognize our competencies and simultaneously be aware of our deficiencies and work [...]

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The secret to your future

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. Frank Tyger All of us, me included have a hundred different reasons and excuses to justify why we haven’t realized our full potential. The reality though is that nothing absolutely nothing is going to chance the past. Yet irrespective of one’s age, social status, financial [...]

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Make no mistake…

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. Bertolt Brecht Observe a tiny tot making his/her first move to becoming a toddler. It would first attempt to stand and promptly fall for it lacks the balance and the strength in the legs. Yet the natural urge to [...]

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Reap as you sow…

Results are what you expect; consequences are what you get. Anon Every morning we get up in the fond hope that we shall attain some worthwhile and tangible results during the course of the day. We maybe unsure of what exactly we expect but we are fairly sure that it has to be something that [...]

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Fear not…

Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed. Anon With the advance of technology, the concept of dark rooms and developing of negatives is almost nonexistent but the reality of fear will always lurk as long as mankind exits. The concept of fear takes on various hues. While many are irrational fears, there [...]

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More than enough…

More than enough is too much. Anon Just check your wardrobe and see how many of those clothes have not ever been used in years and yet occupy a lot of space in your cupboard. Check out the unused things lying in the attic or the numerous odds and end that one has carefully hoarded [...]

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