Have you been stuck lately? Take a brisk walk for few minutes. It’s been found that walking can actually help you improve brain function Walking influences our thinking. Steve Jobs when he was up against something stubborn or needed to think through things more thoroughly, he’d take a walk. Stanford Study Finds Walking Improves Creativity…
Can I say “sorry” to my Kid?
Have you ever said sorry to your kids? We as a parent, teach our kids to ask sorry for their bad behaviours or mistakes. If we don’t ask sorry for being late to pick up, forgetting to put their favourite toy in school bag or not taking to their favourite movie etc., will they learn…
Do you know your parenting style ?
Being a parent is a wonderful thing However it is not always easy…. We all want our children to be very smart and intelligent. We want them to be respectful and have good behaviours. We want our kids to study well , get medals in extracurricular activities. Some parents even try to reflect their…
How to mitigate the effect of Peter principle? In one of my job, during my orientation I met with one functional head who is very senior, but was struggling to answer my key questions . Soon he cut short his orientation citing some reasons and sent his manager to tackle my questions and remaining part…
Does your job match your personality? Person-job fit is defined as the compatibility between individual’s personality, knowledge, skills, and abilities and the requirements of a specific job or task According to John Holland’s theory, most people are one of six personality types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional. Realistic: The “Do-ers”. These are people who…
Do you always follow the crowd ? Are you interested in what your friends are doing ? The bandwagon effect refers to the tendency people have, to adopt certain behavior, style, or attitude, simply because everyone else is doing it The more people believe it or follow it, the sooner other people “jump on the bandwagon” without…
Is choosing between sympathy and empathy is often challenging?
Empathy is finding the echoes of another person in yourself – Mohsin Hamid We often confuse between sympathy and empathy. As human beings, our life is full of emotions, experiences and feelings to the situations and to the people around us. We wants to be understood and understand others equally. Recently, my friend went to…
Is there any tips and tricks in Time Management ?
Is it true, 24 hours duration is same for everybody however we slice it ? Be a servant or Master, be it an employee or CEO, time never differentiates and distinguishes you. Everybody knows time flies, always. Time a variable which can be hard to control and monitor , but we never realize is that…
Is Learning integral part of life?
Why do we learn? Is the learning is deliberate and purpose oriented ? Is not true one way or other, no matter where we go or what we do, we learn everyday knowing and unknowingly.? Learning is an integral part of life . But do we need the motivation and motives for learning. Recently I…
Do you like Positive or Negative life ?
“A positive life is free from toxins like stress, depression, rejection and revenge” This may seem like a stupid question because most people are going to quickly say they want positive life, of course. But it is important that you make the conscious decision to pursue it. The decisions are choices. Decisions are easy when…
Shortbites with Lakshmi 