Insights
No negative thoughts, please!
No negative thoughts, please! I have been coaching a professional who seems to be processing a lot of negative thoughts. As a result, this is leading to self-doubt, low self-esteem,…
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InsightsWhat to do if you are worried about To-Dos
You are worried about your To-Dos. Well, let me share my experiences with you. From the time that I can remember, I am quite organized. Consequently, for many years, I…
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InsightsHow 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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InsightsCelebrating Life
Basha ji, the gardener, who hails from Bagalkot, Karnataka, visits our home every Sunday. Basha ji replaces Gopal about whom I had written rather glowingly in an earlier post. However,…
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InsightsWhat every parent needs to know about relationship
Recently, I met a friend after several years. Ours has been a time-tested relationship. As we got talking, I realized that he was quite frustrated with his 25-year old son.…
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InsightsWhy are we faking it?
Why are we faking it? I was at one of the outlets of an international coffee chain in Bangalore this week to meet a friend and discuss a new and…
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InsightsOpen the window of your Life
For 25 out of the 30 years of my corporate career, my workplace was centrally air-conditioned. My cubicle was a part of a large community of cubicles set in a…
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InsightsWhy 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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InsightsWhy expressing your opinion is critical
Expressing your opinion is critical! Many of us are tossed around in life by others’ opinions of us. For some of us, having others approve our actions is an integral…
