I begin each day with gratitude when I light my lamp in the morning, just before I have the coffee and breakfast going. Today, I am grateful for these three things. Grateful that living healthy is a joyful journey This morning, as I cleaned the curry leaves after stripping them from the stalks, I was filled with gratitude to my mom…
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Personal development
How to understand and manage your emotional triggers (9 tips)
by Vidya Sury June 7, 2021As humans, we are wired with emotional hot buttons or emotional triggers. One moment we are fine – then someone says something or something happens to push that hot button, bringing an intense emotional reaction. We become upset. We’re thrown off balance. We are unable to think or act irrationally. Not surprisingly, these reactions may be way out of proportion…
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Personal development
10 effective tips to improve your time management skills when you work from home
by Vidya Sury April 23, 2021How we make use of our time can mean the difference between happy and unhappy. I’d say time management determines success and failure, but you know what I mean. I’ve found that regret over losing time is one of the worst things to live with. I’ve come up with my own easy time management exercises to help me avoid that…
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When it comes to managing our daily schedules, many of us become worrywarts over time. The suggestion of taking a lifestyle break seems ridiculous. It is only natural, especially if we have made chasing to-do lists our life goal for some years now. We’re plagued with questions like: Have we been productive enough today, or this week? What happens if…
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Nobody’s a stranger to rejection. Each of us experiences it at some stage. Who hasn’t been scolded or criticized by a parent? I certainly have. Why, I’ve even had a parent walk out of my life. People we know, acquaintances and friends turn into hypocrites and become judgmental. Boyfriends/Girlfriends break up. Projects we put our life and soul into, come…