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Insights
Why letting go is key to your growth
Letting go is key to your growth. I will use pole vaulting as an analogy to illustrate this point. Pole vault As you’d know, pole vaulting is a track and…
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How quitting corporate life changed my world
Quitting corporate life was an event that happened exactly on today’s date, 5 years ago. Out of the 30 years of corporate life, I had spent 25 years in large…
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Seeds
An external perspective helps
Many a time, an external perspective helps. I was coaching a middle-aged senior executive. He was extremely upset with how things were going on at work. Obviously, he was going…
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Insights
Building Your Personal Brand – my 40 Motivational Quotes
Out of the 366 Quotes that I have created and compiled as a book titled ‘366 Insights for Life’ (book available here), I have chosen 40 of my Motivational Quotes…
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Taking risks is in your nature and I know it
For a long time in my life, I had never thought of myself as someone who has a habit of taking risks. We seem to have a larger-than-life notion on the…
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Insights
True Story – Sheer Grit
In the series, ‘True Story’, under Insights, I bring out human stories that will help us pause and reflect, stories that are certain to give us insights. In this edition,…
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Insights
Why courage is not what you thought it was
When my father was scheduled for a heart bypass surgery in 1992, it was a significant development in our lives. A man of medium built, my father had retired and…
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Insights
Why listening is critical – my story
Listening is critical. Here is my story. Marriage Jyothi and I got married in 1988. Ours was an arranged marriage and Jyothi had stepped into a new joint family. For…
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Insights
Why you badly need a compass
Most of us seem to be living life on an assembly line. We finish our education, get a job, get married, and become parents. We change jobs, manage relationships and…