Archive for the 'Short Posts' Category

Why You Can’t Do What You Love (Digest)

This is a digest version of a longer essay. If you like it, explore it in full detail.

“Do what you love to do.” I’m sure you’ve read it before.
But do you really feel like it?
If not, that doesn’t mean that you are lazy or coward. It simply means you are too depleted [...]

The Most Engaging Activity in Your Life (Digest)

This is a digest version of a longer essay. If you like it, explore it in full detail.

When we think of what makes life fun, we tend to think of activities like traveling, eating good food or spending time with family/friends. I am not about to dispute that. But there’s something bigger and [...]

How to Get Ready to Meet Your Soulmate (Digest)

Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on preparing yourself for an encounter with your soulmate.

Here are 4 areas in which you can work on to become a person fit, ready and available for an encounter with your soulmate.

Be Self Sufficient. If you’re looking to fill your loneliness, you’ll only find [...]

Hidden Truth about “Begin with End in Mind”

It’s another one of Covey-isms, but as widely accepted as the concept is, I am afraid many of us simply don’t get it.
To create an outcome, you need to create it twice: first in your mind, and then in the physical world.
Many of us are troubleshooters, problem solvers.  We get caught up in solving problems [...]

5 Roles of Process-Oriented Goals: Setting up Infallible Success (Digest)

Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting.  If you agree with the points made here, read the original to understand all the whys and hows.  Also, read the previous installment.

Instead of the common yet ultimately unreliable grounds on which to base our goals, we need to explore a different set [...]

7 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Set Goals (Digest)

Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on goal-setting.  If you agree with the points made here, read the original to understand all the whys and hows.

The common approach to setting and pursuing goals has a potential to keep you away from living a joyful, satisfying life.
See if any of the 7 [...]

Indecisive? The Hidden Truth That Makes Deciding Easier (Digest)

Note: This is a digest version of a longer essay on decision-making.  If you agree with the points made here, read the original to understand all the whys and hows.

Decisions can be pretty stressful. Some folks fear it so much, they hate choosing.
Where does this fear come from, and what can you do about it?
Fear [...]

Path over Destination: A Little Known Secret to Satisfying Life (Digest)

Note: This is a digest version of the original entry on Path over Destination.

If you choose careers and vocations, or even projects based on the benefits and destinations, you’re sure to have an unenjoyable life.
Because life is what happens when you’re on the way.
Instead, choose based on how enjoyable the process is. Because [...]

Low Self-Esteem Is the Root of All Problems (Digest)

Note: this is the digest version of the extended essay analyzing how self-esteem is the root cause of all personal problems.
All your personal struggles boil down to the single cause: a faulty self-esteem.
The lower the esteem, the more fearful you become. It permeates in all areas: learning (all growing involves risk), school or job performance, [...]

The Folly of Being Likable

Imagine yourself on a crowded bus, or a train. You’ve secured yourself a seat. Lots of people standing.
One of them is an oldish looking lady, with a few bags that look heavy.
You get up out of your seat and gesture to her that she can sit down.
Her disgruntled response: “Hey, don’t insult me. [...]