Why you should keep your personal goals known only to an inner circle — Let’s talk about goals. A goal is something that you want to achieve in life and for which you not only have a desire but also a plan. It is something you are acting on. …

A verse to live by — ‘Twas a time of ominous happenings And now we hope its end is near, A lot has been learnt and circumstances Will teach us more as up we gear. We bore losses and pain still abounds But inspite of all, we mustn’t fear. We are apart — far away from…

Why keep going even when self-confidence is hit hard? — Life is lived in mysterious ways. As we get exposed to the many facets of life, we tend to be overwhelmed by them and by the power of circumstances. The question — “why do we get overwhelmed?” can be answered in two ways. …

Choices we make in the face of adverse situations and uncertain challenges reveal our true character What happens around affects us all. The kind of environment we live in at any instant of time potentially drives our thoughts, actions as well as our choices. …

Jarvis, sometimes you gotta run before you can walk — How tough is decision making? Sometimes, life brings us to crossroads and then tests our innate ability to make decisions. But, again, is the ability to make decisions really something innate? Yes, all of us are naturally capable of taking decisions. But, like many natural processes in the world, decision…

To fight the real enemy, we need to accept coercion as a (democratic) measure of perilous times and extend complete support — Michael Sandel, in his very first lecture of the Justice series, a course on Justice offered by the Harvard University (known popularly as the Harvard justice lectures) talks about case studies of moral dilemma where no matter what actions you take in a given set of circumstances, the idea of…

Process information wisely, follow discretion and keep love alive — Life can become very uncertain, sometimes. Especially, the world that we are living in has an enormous potential to change whatever we believe about it. We live in a time when information flow is so vast and so free that it can, with ease, influence, cloud and modify our judgment. …

Ups, downs, distance, silence or disappointments — true friends never really part — We are all born in different families, belong to different cultures, follow different traditions, evolve differently, think differently and live differently. We do not control where and when we are born. We do not choose what culture or place we will belong to and we do not choose the family…

Where to look for strength, motivation, and inspiration when utterly alone and in tough times — They say that change is inevitable — that it is the only constant. I agree. Not only is it the only true constant in life, but it is also one that can cause a lot of pain and panic. Life never moves in a straight line, it moves in a…