Stop feeling powerless and take charge of your own life
Let me guess? You dream of getting noticed in your circles and climbing the social hierarchy. Because, who doesn’t, right? You want friends and acquaintances to trust you and depend on you for advice. You aspire to be someone whom they hang on to for every word. In short, you want to know how to …
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Imagine that you have a crystal ball. One that can show you how your current relationship looks like after 10 years. What will you see? Will you be still holding hands, completing each other’s sentences? Or will you be at loggerheads with each other? Or even worse, will you be living together as two polite …
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Some people seem to have a magic touch… You meet them, and before you know it, you’ve hit it off with them. Interactions with them are satisfactory beyond words – almost cathartic. You feel that they are listening to you; that they can see you. But that’s not all… They seem to have a bounty …
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Admit it. You’re jealous. You see some people handle uncomfortable conversations like a pro. They seem to have some magic touch – that you don’t. It’s almost like a Teflon coating; nothing ever sticks on them. They come out unscathed, no matter how tough the conversation gets. You want to be like them. After all, …
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Another year passes by with no progress on your career goals. No remarkable assignments, no recognitions, no promotion. Nil. Nada. You feel unnoticed and invisible at work. You wander about the cubicle bays like a mouse scurrying amongst the nooks and crannies in a maze – hoping, praying even, for someone from “those cubicles” to …
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Be More Assertive Read any article on winning at life and you’ll see some variation of this advice. Want to get noticed at work? Be more assertive. Need a promotion? Be more assertive. Easier said than done right? It’s like the oblivious hot guy sharing dating tips: “You want to date that girl out of …
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Finally! Some solitude!’ Some much needed “me time”, away from the ever-present demands of work and family! You look forward to the blessed hour with a rush of anticipation akin to the wait before the arrival of a lover. But the phone rings. With mounting dread, you silently mouth a prayer and look at who’s …
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You’ve had enough. Enough with comparing with others and always falling short. Enough with the opportunities lost and attempts missed, only because you thought you couldn’t handle them. You have identified (maybe rightly so) that your low self-esteem, that has been hounding you forever, is the main culprit. You are determined to do something about …
There’s that feeling again. The one that pops up like a Whac-A-Mole when you least expect it. Only it’s much uglier and won’t go away easily. The feeling of being just not good enough. Desperately, you try to shove it down, afraid of the Pandora’s box it might open if you delve any deeper into …
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A hurricane raged through my mind. I waited in a sparsely crowded Pune airport at 3.20 am. The departure was still one hour away. I had bought the penultimate ticket for this flight, at a premium, that afternoon. Like a river with violent undertow, I appeared, by all means, calm and composed. But inside, I …
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