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Backpedaling to Blissful Life
by Anil Bhatnagar
We humans often have unreasonable expectations from others.
Our own good intentions are often hidden so deep that we are sometimes not even consciously aware of them. And our reactions are usually so deeply ingrained and spontaneous that we seem t... |
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Is curiosity a cousin of creativity?
by Shalu Wasu
Curiosity is made up of an open mind, acute sensing abilities and an urge to seek and find. As a child, you had natural curiosity and a sense of wonder. Hungry for novelty, you were always on your toes to welcome the next moment... |
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Are Good Listeners Almost Extinct?
by Pawan Sarda
The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and to be understood.The best way to understand people is to listen to them. Listening is by far the simplest process a human body undergoes. But most of us have yet to learn the art of list... |
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Goddess Saraswati: rocking the creativity
by Danielle LaPorte
Saraswati, by Pieter Welteverde www.sanatansociety.com
Saraswati is my #1 Goddess. She rules what I dig most. I'm surprised she's not up there with Kali and Aphrodite in mass popularity. Saraswati is regarded as the Goddess of knowledge and the ar... |
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Why Not Legalise Corruption?
by K R Ravi
The CEO of a large company asked me to meet with his HR manager to discuss the possibility of conducting workshops on Lateral Thinking for his colleagues. I sought an appointment with the HR manager only to find the man was not interested in meeting me. I suspected that he did not like the idea of being told whom to meet. |
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Success is just like riding a bicycle
by Keith A. Shaw
Let’s take a look at success. For many people, success or being successful is just as scary as the first time they rode a bicycle. Naturally, many people want to be successful. However, there are few that truly have the motivation to put forward the needed effort and action, and make the necessary sacrifices to get what they want. |
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Staying Motivated
by Chitra Jha
Sometimes when I try to explain my dream to my family and friends, I get blank stares. My enthusiasm does not find an eager audience. Most of the times, I try and avoid this situation by just keeping quiet about my dreams, but there are times when I can’t contain my excitement. I do understand that everyone operates from their belief system, just as I do. But how come the belief systems are different in the very same family in which we grow up? |
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3 myths related to training and learning
by Shalu Wasu
Myths have a way of perpetuating themselves. There are quite a few related to training and learning too. Everyone seems to believe in them. So much so that they have become sacrosanct and no one even bothers to question them. |
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Resolving new-year resolutions!
by Dexter J Valles
Ho ho ho ho! The merry season is here. Jingle bells, tinkle bells, plum cake and pudding. Christmas joy and cheer. The yellow brick lane to renewal, resurgence and restitution. Down the lane from Yuletide, is the corner to a big bang new year! One filled with promise, hope and resolutions. Oops !! Where did that slip in from? |
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Priming the pump of life
by Ada Porat
Did the past year deliver what you wanted? Did you attract the outcomes you really desired? If life did not meet your expectations, perhaps it is time to prime the pump first! Let me explain. |
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Set No Wake-Up Calls in 2010
by Rachana Sharma
The countdown for the New Year has started. Immature persons are thinking hard to decide on a remarkable New Year resolution which can transform their life in a night and experienced persons like us, who are guilty-ridden about breaking their resolutions every year, are working seriously on the reasons of failure and finding a failure-proof resolution. |
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Texting Too Loud to Hear
by Guest Tickler
Don't make the mistake of assuming your employees are good communicators. Just because you trained them on what to say doesn't mean they know how to say it. There's a mighty fine line between efficient and rude. Caring is what people want. |
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Losing and gaining are two sides of the same coin
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If I live to be a hundred, I’ll still remember Friday, January 28, 1983. It was a bright sunny day, and I blissfully sang “I’m on the top of the world!” off-key as I dressed for work. The day before, the company physician had confirmed what... |
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The gratitude attitude
by Eric Garner
Gratitude is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. It may not look as good as money, a big car, a palatial house, or the latest makeover – in fact, you can’t see it at all – but, as I’m going to show you, gratitude has more power t... |
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Reinventing Yourself
by Ann Ronnan Ph.D.
You are a beautiful essence expressing your own unique genius. Yes, I said genius. And no, I don’t mean like Albert Einstein. We each have something that delights us, that we enjoy doing and most times a yearning to share that with others in some... |
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How to get more done in less time
by Drew Stevens
Owning a business is an audacious task. There are numerous things that need to be completed in a day. It gets so frustrating that owners and fitness professionals question how all will get accomplished. The crux of the issue lies not in the amount of... |
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Do you face all disagreements the same way?
by Rachana Sharma
I do not agree. Whenever we hear these words the appropriateness of our thoughts comes into question. Mostly we react to disagreements the same way regardless of the source of their origination. We do not realize that it is fruitless to try to sort... |
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Teaching the teacher
by Dexter J Valles
The arbiter of knowledge and skills, the teacher, is a revered figure around the world. In India, the teacher is known as the guru, the wise one who can be trusted to lead the knowledge-blind and shine the light of competence and skills in the darkne... |
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How to Handle Control Freaks
by PK
Control freaks are always in a hurry and in their hurry end up destroying quite a lot of things around them that they themselves have built up. The trick is to let them rant but keep the control of the final action and pacing in one’s own hands |
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16 habits of highly creative people
by Shalu Wasu
Many people believe that creativity is inborn and only a chosen few are creative. While it is true that creativity is inborn, it is not true that only a chosen few are creative. |
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Why Not Legalise Corruption?
by K R Ravi
The CEO of a large company asked me to meet with his HR manager to discuss the possibility of conducting workshops on Lateral Thinking for his colleagues. I sought an appointment with the HR manager only to find the man was not interested in meeting me. I suspected that he did not like the idea of being told whom to meet. |
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15 elephant tethers that stop you from being creative!
by Shalu Wasu
As you grow up and gain experience, you absorb assumptions which then drive your life and limit your choices. You can break away from them with a simple tug if you want to but you don’t. As you acquire more and more experience, your repertoire of blind assumptions grows too, correspondingly limiting your choices. Your experience becomes a hindrance in your being creative. |
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Let 2010 be the best year of your life!
by Jessica See
It’s that time of the year again to reflect on how we have fared in the year which is about to draw to a close and to make New Year resolutions – promises to ourselves that something in our lives will get better, our finances, our relationships, our career. |
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Why be creative?
by Shalu Wasu
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. – George Lois
The popular perception is that creativity is just for writers, artists, scientists and advertising people. Not... |
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