Is your past weigh too much on your soul? I often ask this question to myself and to people who show symptoms of regret and guilt. On other side, sometimes I find people too much obsessed with their dreams that they don’t value the importance of today. There are so much simple pleasures of life that needs to be experienced today else they would not be there ever again.  The irony is that most of us don’t realize the difference between things that we lose forever than the things we …

If you have read one of our previous posts ‘Importance of Time Management: Get Your Basics Right’, then probably you are better prepared to challenge the ticking clock. There is deluge of literature related to time management and almost every other person seems to be equipped with ‘techniques’ to get more out of your twenty four hours.
However, when it comes to actual application and utilisation of these theories and techniques, no one is sailing smooth. This is so basically because they have their basics wrong and approach confused. It …

Call it Anxiety or the habit that has got developed over a period of time but if you worry a lot then this article is for you. We all worry and there is nothing bad about it. The problem occurs when the extent to which we worry increases to an amount that it starts to affect our routine life. The most worrisome situation includes fear of losing someone we love, fear of disease, fear of accident, fear of unknown happenings etc. The other form of worry can be situational like …

The more I have studied about winning, the more I am convinced that apart from numerous abilities they share some traits which are common across. Incidentally all abilities do fall in some sort of combination that makes up a winner.  The great thing about winners is their attitude that makes them stand apart. They have an aura around that makes you experience a magic in anything and everything they do. No, you don’t get winners only in sports but if you look around you would see them at your home, …

Do you talk to yourself? Do you listen to your thoughts? Your answer can be anything but truth is that each one of us does a self talk. Some people like to talk aloud while there are others who would prefer to keep the conversation in their minds. There is a voice within us which is our best friend and critic. It validates our decision and has the courage to stand against it too. But over a period of time our voice gets attuned to things we believe strongly about …

What is your source of motivation? Do you derive motivation from within or you depend upon external factors. Intrinsic Motivation is the ability of an individual or employee to derive motivation from within rather than depending upon external factors. An intrinsically motivated person is internally mobilized to achieve his goals in life. It is a feeling that come from inside that may or may not have any objective reason. The best example of intrinsic motivation is your hobbies. You enjoy reading, writing, gardening etc. just because you love doing that. …

Recently I was involved in a discussion where parents were much concerned about the way their children are being brought up in current environment. Just like every other parent they do everything for their children but still deep inside they feel something is missing and there is a gap that needs to be filled up. It seemed every parent had something which they do not like in their children and cannot do anything about. Problems may seem small from the outside but it was big for the parents. Soon I …

No one would ever understand the importance of recreation till the time they experience the values and benefits of it on their own. It is more of a fun embodied in the form of activities to refresh ones body and mind. While type of recreation varies from individual to individual, spending time in something that rock your senses is an experience in itself. The forms of recreation include from simplest of listening to music to the likes of parachuting or bungee jumping. Excess of recreation is called escapism and is …

There is no denying the fact that time management has become a synonym of efficiency and a crucial key to success. Imagine a situation where we have all the time in the world to do whatever we want. What will happen? Well, no prizes for guessing. Probably, every one of us will complete all the jobs in hand and achieve what we strive for. Such a situation is best left for fantasies only; as the fact that the time is limited is as true as sunlight. Sadly, there are a …

Big or small, everybody has goals in their lives and they work hard to achieve them. Creative visualization is a step that involves tuning your brain in a manner that it can feel and experience the success beforehand. It is important to manifest your own reality in order to make the journey to success a pleasant one. This starts by seeing yourself achieving your goals from the time you have taken your first step. Believing in your dreams and seeing them turning out in your thoughts is an important step …

Things happen and they happen for good. A decade ago, I had never thought myself to be in the position to help someone especially when I was struggling in this world for my own needs. I understand that people contribute to charities, give donations, and have set funds to help the needy but they are the league apart. I was also conscious of the fact that some people, irrespective of their current status, have developed a habit to give small portion of their salary to needy. This subject was not …

I love being alone, away from my laptop, to spend some time and listen to what I love to think about. I am sure most of you would agree that being alone gives you an opportunity to connect to yourself and think about things that make a real difference to you lives. Being a Loner is not an evil till the point you use it as a way to escape and get your act together.  But situation is different if you are forced loner. A person who had developed a …

If I ever want to achieve perfectionism, I want it to be in the field of Personal and Professional Development. But it is a journey and I am enjoying every bit of it. I have my own goals and this blog is a reflection of where I am and where I want to go. Starving for Perfection is a human trait that everyone tries to achieve in one field or the other. We want to be successful, we want to be famous and only thing that can make it happen …

I have some of my favorite places to read more and more books online for free. This post is an attempt to share some of nice sources to read entire or complte books online for free with readers of Mystic Madness. Reading Books is one the best habit and I personally respect people who read a lot. On contrary I do realize that it is not easy to get time and maintain this habit due to hectic schedule. The beauty of reading free books online is that you don’t have to carry them, you …

The easiest way to bring a change in any person is by bringing a change in their environment. While we all know how human beings have an impact on environment, what we miss altogether is the potential which environment holds to affect the life of the people. The first time I talked about this subject was in my blog post titled Emotional Meltdown where change of environment was suggested as one of the measures to come out of the bad emotional situation. In this post my attempt would be to …