Our mind is occupied with our urges. These could be self-created around our desires. Our desire to be someone we are not. Desire is like a void, the wanting to make an elephant run at a horse race. Marketers and advertisers have been selling us hope. Hope aligned with our purchasing power to become someone. …
Category Archives: Random Thoughts
Frustration
It is so easy to get frustrated over anything. It can be as small as over a sugary cup of tea to an illogical conversation. We will be in anger or frustration because of other party or their actions. How much help it does to us? I would say NONE Why do we have to …
Hiring
Hiring is not a challenge and is never a pain for startups. If you are running a startup, as a founder it is your job to spearhead the hiring process. Early employees are no less than owners of a startup. These simple questions will in itself give you the answers: Are you honest with your …
Competition
We are competing in every sphere of our life. From finding college sweetheart to campus placements. From promotion to offshore opportunity. Even getting love and attention from siblings and parents we are competing. What about competing with our allocated time in this life, how are we utilizing it? How about competing with ourselves, killing a …
Service
I keep hearing about the funding news and how a startup is now a unicorn. I wish there was a similar announcement of metrics for customer satisfaction. If I am paying for a service, I expect it to be delivered well. While the price of luxury has increased over time, services have gone bad. Ask …
Listen
I have never been a great listener. Ben Franklin and stoics considered listening as an important virtue. I am realizing this as my weakness and trying to work on getting better at it. At the same time, I had opinions on everything. It resulted in fostering animosity with many.
Fear
Fear brings the worst out of us. We end up imagining many unreal events. It makes us weak. Fear has fostered in creating many communities and religion. The fear of isolation resulted in forming many unwanted relationships. Why is it so easy for us to be fearful? Is it more to do with our consciousness, …
Journey
We all have our own life journey. We all face our own set of challenges throughout our life. Obsessing and cloning someone else’s journey will only do harm upon us. Our journey is like self-learning and self-healing. I am writing about it after interaction with dozen-odd friends of mine. Some have taken early retirement while …
Self-acceptance
How difficult it is to accept who we are. Why do we have to feel pity because of our height, skin color or eyes? This is something we inherited via the DNA. Is this something we have to be sorrowful or sad about? Is this something we can change? We should strive to channel all …
Harmony of life
In the teachings of Judaism, one finds the following anecdote: If there are ten people and one will be someone who criticizes you no matter what you do. This person will come to dislike you, and you will not learn to like him either. Then, there will be two others who accept everything about you …