Success and Failure

Mind body interconnection | Being a star player | Open to inspiration

Mind body interconnection According to Indian philosophy, our body and our psychological self are interconnected, with the psychological self having four dimensions: Manas (perceiving mind), Buddhi (Intellect), Ahankara (Ego), and Chitta (Memorizer). This perspective offers new insights: Mind and body cannot be viewed in isolation. Working on one also needs working on the other. “The …

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Repetition can be phenomenal | The nurturing voice | For fun sake

Repetition can be phenomenal To learn something very well keep learning the same thing each day.To make someone your friend repeat interacting with them each day.To build a new belief repeat referring to the same evidence that affirms the belief. In my second grade, I voluntarily learned the 7th tables by simple repetition. Since then …

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Agape Leadership | Drama Triangle | Create your own goals

Agape Leadership Is ‘Love’ relevant in Leadership? In the book Trillion Dollar Coach, leaders often described Bill Campbell as someone who loved people. He gave bear hugs. He took people out. He generously donated his time. He held people accountable. Bill Campbell demonstrated Agape Leadership. To demonstrate selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love, is key in agape …

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Embrace our current selves | Rationalizing | Building beliefs

Embrace our current selves We are constantly changing ourselves consciously or unconsciously. One day, our gradual changes become visible to us and others. We are quick to draw comparisons with our older selves, while others want us to get back to our older version. For Instance-We might say to ourselves, “I used to be someone …

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Feeling successful | Charisma | Unsolicited advice

Feeling successful Even the most well-accomplished people can feel defeated. Why should someone feel so even after winning? It could be because(1) The price they paid to win in one area may be too high at the expense of other areas of life(2) They won but not on their terms(3) They had hoped to experience …

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Enjoyment as criteria | Midnight rule | On his blindness

Enjoyment as criteria More than half of our lives are filled with chasing goals. We usually make SMART goals and evaluate our activities against the performance criteria. We often ask ourselves ‘Did I give my best?’ for everything we do, without knowing what best means in some cases. Then one fine day we realize that …

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Defining productivity | Tribute to Wordsworth | Exhaustion and default

Defining productivity Living on a farm can shift our perspectives about how we define work. As I watched the people carry about their work caring for their livestock, cleaning the pens, I wondered how they define their productivity. Working on the farm is hard work with a lot of uncertainties and constraints. Yet, Farmers seemed …

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Tradeoffs | Offering help | Gaining confidence from failure

Tradeoffs Our choices of who we want to be would mean we make choices of who we don’t want to be. This is applicable both in business and life. Successful businesses choose to serve specific customers and their needs which means they say no to others. e.g. Walmart stores do not serve people in Manhattan …

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