We are always looking for ways to increase our happiness. In his excellent book Flourish: A visionary new understanding of happiness and well-being Martin Seligman, Founding Father of Positive Psychology, offers an easy practice called the Gratitude Visit exercise to increase well-being and lower depression. The Gratitude Visit, as a practice,…
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More and more people are turning to the world of business these days, and it is not hard to appreciate why. After all, when you start your own business and run it successfully, good things are in store. Not least of which is the fact that you can expect to make some…
Dubai has been on my must-see travel destinations for years—nope—decades. Right from the time I got a job offer there that I had to decline, to all the occasions when friends moved there to settle. Yes, they’ve been inviting me to visit and enticing me with interesting things to see in…
Leaves on a stream exercise is a soothing cognitive defusion practice where we learn to let go of thoughts that cause emotional suffering. Sometimes we are so bogged down with our thoughts that they gradually appear true—it’s like we convinced ourselves they were real. Also referred to a cognitive fusion, this…
Most of us try to practice mindfulness, but are we guilty of being too distracted to notice the nice stuff, the small stuff? I am currently running a daily mindfulness tip series on Instagram and going by the lovely comments, it is nice to receive a daily reminder especially when we…
I know—this is different from my usual topics. This post is the result of a very interesting panel discussion I attended recently about customer retention. Also, I have an MBA and work with businesses. For any business, customer retention is one of the stepping stones to success. During my corporate career,…
It’s the joy of giving week, Daan Utsav, India’s festival of giving, celebrated every year from October 2-8. In keeping with the theme, I thought I’d share a sweet story attributed to actor Katharine Hepburn shared with me by my classmate. Here’s how the story goes. When Katharine was a teenager,…