How many times in our lives we set ourselves against those things for which we know nothing. Life is full of surprises and it has more shares of failures than successes. You can take failures as path to success but that would be true only when you have the courage to rise and pursue the goal again. What you expect and visualize can be quite different from what you eventually face. Dealing with unexpected is like walking in a dark room and making sure you do not hit something on …

I can’t think of a good time where I would not have a good book beside me to read and enjoy. It is a luxury for me to have books of my taste and the ones that give a kick to my senses. Yes, I do like watching movies but both are just incomparable. My taste is different and more inclined towards how we can make difference to our lives. On contrary my wife likes fiction and loves to live in world of imagination. I still remember hours we spent …

Life has always been and would always remain monotonous and there are few who dare to be different. We live in a social system where what we do in our life has always been more predictable than ever. We wake up every morning to live and do things that are no different from what we did yesterday. It’s a rat race and we are one of its participants who have to live and enjoy life within specific set of boundaries. But do things end here- Definitely not. We do have …

The lure of quick and fast money is just irresistible. I am sure every one of us at some point in our life has got lured by things or ways that promise to make some quick and fast bucks. Search internet and you would find tons of articles that boast of helping you to make that fast money. Some suggestions are just not practical while there are others which are not quick in real sense. Money has got lot of importance in human life and the desire to posses it …

Sometimes my job is everyone’s job. At times I have been given a job which eventually turns out to be everyone’s job. So if you finally turn up handling such jobs, you tend to have plenty of opinions and advice from almost everyone who is involved with you. The situation becomes more complicated when you have to take a decision and everyone has an advice for you. How smartly you handle opinions and advice determines the level of maturity you demonstrate on your job. And yes it is an important …

There is no better time than today. There is no better moment than Now. Wake Up Rockstar, this is your day, this is your moment to Rock. Not many of us realize that this is only one life that we have. Where will we go afterwards? No one knows and no one would ever know. If our days are fixed in this world then why not do things that make us happy? Why not do things that we love to do? I understand that we have responsibilities towards ourselves and …

This post is not about the bully game or ant the bully movie but it is about dealing with bullies you face in everyday life. They can be just anywhere like in school, workplace, neighborhood or streets.  The Bullies command a position by virtue of their some quality that makes them beatdown or take other people for ride in an unruly manner. Intentional or unintentional, the truth is that their behaviors do give some problems to people who are at receiving end and make them feel helpless or bad about …

This post is dedicated to one of my friend who got fired recently. It is not about his experiences but what I could learn from him. There is a clear understanding that one can derive on how job markets operate and why almost everyone is susceptible to market changes. Getting fired not because you are not required but because company cannot afford you anymore is common in worse market situation. If you happen to be a victim of any such related situation where the reason is everything except you poor …

Ever imagined why some people posses the problem solving skills while other just scout for answers? Everybody at some point in their lives has wondered what it takes to develop skills and posses techniques that make them rock the right way. The answer is no different from all the hacks we do apply in our life but the approach one takes definitely varies. Our caliber determines our standing in the industry which indirectly relates to our ability to solve difficult and peculiar problems in our lies. A problem does not …

The world is divided into two kinds of people, the one who wait for the opportunities to come to them and the other who grabs them from their environment. For the former one has to be very lucky to get successful in life. It can be a stroke of luck that work their way that they seems to get right things at the right time. Talk to these people and they would say success just happened to them. On other hand if you are not lucky then your story would depend …

The Question to answer your life purpose becomes difficult as you dwell more into it. I have not taken this question seriously until recently when I thought it to be an important question to answer from Personal Development point of view. It is not an easy task and I have spent some quiet moments to answer this honestly for myself. It indeed involved lot of drilling on my end and answering some tough questions which somehow was ignored till now. Yes, it was not an easy one and I hope …

Questions are integral part of human conversation to know the real of people. It is an art which if used wisely has the potential to get excellent mileage and trust with people. The art is to get what you want without offending your subject. On different note the art is also to please people by showing genuine interest in them. While we will talk more about it, first it is important to understand what open ended questions and closed ended questions are and how they differ from each other.
 
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Ever wondered what inspire the employees and what turns them off. An organization may never know what they are doing is either right or wrong just because small things build over the time. Human psychology plays an important role to understand small situations that have an everlasting impact on the performance of employees. Some companies invest lot of resources to create environment which is conducive to growth while there are others for whom such things may not matter at all. Regardless, the fact that cannot be ignored is that employers …

Ever wondered why Job Interview Advice, Questions, Answers, Tips, Techniques etc seldom or never works. Why no body is willing to give you a break as per your caliber. Why even after having everything in your arsenal you just remain short of making the mark. While there can be many answers to this question but the focus of this post is to concentrate on how to sell yourself the way things get sold to you in everyday life. Yes, look around yourself and see why something sells why others not. …