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We all deserve a break. Hang on! The question is: won’t we lag behind if we take a break? I come across many who take frequent breaks at the wrong times. What ensues is a disrupted schedule and breakneck workload. To cope with the load, guess what? Another break. Consequently massive chaos and the decision to avoid taking breaks from the next time. This doesn’t mean that breaks aren’t essential. They surely are! And this blog post is all about the importance of taking breaks. Given our age, we all have different notion of breaks. The ones who don’t really work in a productive way keep on taking breaks. On the contrary, the ones who work with passion often forget the importance of breaks. They say that they fall short of time to take a break. They fear missing the deadline. Surprisingly and contrastingly, a well-earned break will take them closer to their goal! Taking a break means truly separating yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally from that task to indulge in somet...

As Charles Darwin said, “The love for all living creatures is the noblest attribute of man.” I further state taking into account all human tendencies that whether you love an animal or not, you can’t deny the fact that they are nothing but a gift of nature and hello! We are animals too. Just because we have evolved into humans doesn’t mean we forget our roots. People have taken care of animals from time immemorial and yet, every time we watch an animal video on social media, our hearts melt. Let us take a moment to realize that we have actually invaded their territory for our comfort. The least we can do is to be kind to them. I will share an experience: once I waved my hand at an auto-rickshaw. My grandmother was with me and we were off to someplace. We sat in the rickshaw. The rickshaw driver wanted to make a U-turn but there was a dog sleeping there. He did honk but the dog did not budge. Unfortunately, he made a U-turn by putting the dog under the front wheel of his rickshaw. T...

It is rightly said that “procrastination is the thief of time.” The more one delays, the guiltier one feels. Of course, it also hampers one’s productivity. Many realize this, blame themselves yet get trapped in this cycle. I do have a simple yet effective solution to this. Making a checklist along with a deadline is a great help when it comes to procrastinating. A checklist sets a target and gets your brain into action. When you know you have to accomplish some tasks by the end of the day, you work towards it. Ticking off a task on the list gives a sense of accomplishment: Target achieved! That very sense of accomplishment becomes a booster. The more tasks you get done with, the more you will find yourself working to tick off the entire checklist. Bottom line: let the accomplishment of one task become your motivation to complete the next, and the next, and the next, and… hey, the list is ticked off! Congratulations! You can have a rest. J A common error while making such a list is ...

How many times has it happened that we have received a lot of advice and suggestions? Many times I believe. To add to it, many of these are similar to each other in some cases yet the point is: why is it that only some drive home the message? I guess there are surrounding factors to it. Maybe the experience we may be going through or the context in which we receive the advice… There is a lot of advice I’ve received but this one has stayed with me like no other advice. All of us were once a student and we have been there, done that: we have been typical students at a point in time. During my master's, I was facing some issues with one of the subjects (typical student problems ;)). As usual, we were playing the blame game and yes, you guessed it right, the blame was on the teacher and her teaching skills. A genuine and helping person that she was, we were concerned with her teaching skills at that point in time. We were standing next to the door of our classroom cribbing about ho...