The Art of Learning from Setbacks

There is either success or learning. There is nothing called as failure. Many of us understand this by now, and most leaders and positive thinkers would say that they learn from every failure. But hold on, there is 'art' in learning too. It is not that simple to learn.

Learning can be revengeful, promising or self transforming. It all depends on why we want to learn...read on...

Creating Positive Chains - A Social Service Sitting at Home.

Over the last few years, during my interaction with thousands of my book readers and fans, I realised that there are so many of them who want to contribute to the society and the world around them, but are unable to do so for lack of time.

So, for all of you, who want to be a part of this change and impact our society positively, here is a simple way which my daughter recently learnt....

Enjoy The Differences

The perspectives can be different, the intent could be different, the goals could be different, the person himself / herself could be different.... But that is where the beauty lies - in the differences that we carry. When my daughter encountered this strange phenomenon while doing her science holiday homework project last week, she learnt a few lessons on life... read on...

Time is the essence : Take quick decisions

Many times in life, we are afraid of taking a decision for the fear of taking a wrong one. But here is the fact. No decision is right or wrong, as long as you decide within a reasonable time frame. On the other hand, a delayed decision leaves you mostly on the losing side - because more than the value of your decision, you lose the most important ingredient, which is Time. 
Here is what my daughter learnt last week...Read on...

It does not matter how much you have

It does not matter how much you have, what matters is what you do with what you have. 

Like me, you must have heard this umpteen times in your life. It was only until my daughter narrated me its real meaning, that I realised its true power.

Dots connect only in retrospect

Ever wondered why a particular unfavorable incident happened in your life? Why is that you are mostly at the receiving end of all unwanted incidents? Why are you the chosen one? What have you done wrong? Actually, there is nothing 'wrong' in the picture. It is just that you are unable to connect the dots today. It is just a matter of time before the picture reveals itself....read on...

The Gold Coin

Have you ever felt that you do not have the time to do what you love to do? Rajesh was struggling with the same constraint, until he met his mentor friend- Varun - who told him a simple technique to generate time for his passion...Read on..

A pigeon's priority

In the race to earn money, we kept following the herd mentality and started building our so called 'careers'. We got so sucked up in our professional lives that we forgot why we started to earn money at the first place. Are you defeating the very reason you wanted to earn money? Find it out from a pigeon...read on....

Discipline....A game of energies

Whether your child wants to achieve extraordinary results in his or her school, or you have a career ambition to fulfill or you have some extraordinary goals to be achieved in life - each of these will require a lot of effort and hard work - which needs immense energy reserves within you. And if you haven't learnt to optimize the energy reserves within you, it becomes all the more difficult to achieve those goals. Let us see what optimizes this energy level within us...read on...

An Apple Tree and our dreams

Sapna was just turning 7. Her parents had inculcated social values in her from a small age. She wanted to plant an apple tree on her birthday, But she was clear - she wanted to plant a 'big apple tree' that can bear fruits quickly..Will she get one? or will she help all of us learn some beautiful lessons of life?

Start giving more...and then trust the universe

On a vacation trip, we happened to visit a place which had a river as well as a lake.  That a child can ask such soul searching questions was only re-affirmed that day. What is the difference between the water in the lake and the water in the river, and what does it teach us about life? Read on...

Time is the only currency

Vansh spent his entire life building wealth, for himself and his family, so that they can all enjoy their life one day, until death knocked at their doors - unexpected and uncalled. Vansh starts to interact with the messenger of God, who has come to pick him up, and this interaction turns out to be a lesson for all of us...Read On..

Life lessons from a dying pet

HE teaches us something in every interaction, every failure and every disappointment. But if we do not learn our lesson, HE, like any good teacher, will continue to teach us, create more situations for us so that we can learn and become a better person. How fast we learn from our disappointments, is all up to us. God is in no hurry.

When life squeezes you !!

Inflation and cost of living has been a challenge for sometime now, but by gods grace, we usually do not think about it when it comes to giving the best to our children. All is well if things are falling in place, but what happens when life starts to squeeze you?