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Blank Page - A Gateway To New Opportunities?

  What does it feel to start afresh? Exciting, anxious, nervous! Well, these are the common feelings or emotions encountered as we grapple with new opportunities or scenarios that come past our way.   Whether it is your first job, a new career, a new place or even a new skillset, there are countless instances in your life where you are often thrusted with new scenarios that spark a deviation from the normal state of affairs.   It may sound surprising, but it is often noted that quite a number of us get into defence mode and view these deviations as challenges that hinder us from achieving what we truly desire. But what if we could adopt a more holistic view and look at these challenges as greater opportunities for success? That’s right, if we choose to change our outlook towards these situations, not only do we attain new results – we leapfrog our way across the learning curve!   Many a times, we are caught up in our daily 9-5 routine that we have accepted it as the norm an
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The Never-Ending Spiral!

We are soon nearing the end of the sixth month of the year 2023! Well, that was quite a fast one.  How have the months flown so quickly? And why do we feel as though we are caught up in this  never-ending spiral of unrealistic goals and ambitions? All of this goes to point out on how busy and dragged down our lives have become in recent times. With all due focus and attention given on meeting endless targets and deadlines at our workplaces, we have no choice but to admit that we are caught up in this so-called ‘hamster wheel’ of high  expectations everytime, everyday. It is no surprise that this has become a precedent of our lives, and  has shaped our relationships and interactions so much so that we have lost the true focus we need  on our personal wellbeing and the people around us.   More so than ever, our corporate cultures at workplace have played a key part in galvanizing this spiral of high expectations and demands. As companies worldwide seek to strengthen their safeguards to n
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Rethinking Apprenticeships...

  Source: Time Magazine (time.com) In this article, I would like to discuss a subject often overlooked when reflecting upon matters affecting today’s modern-day workplace worldwide. It is a subject that affects all of us, especially those of us looking for jobs after having completed our higher studies at reputed educational institutions. We do not realize it until we have immersed our feet into the corporate world – a world with its unique set of challenges and adversities we need to entrust upon ourselves as we make haste with the realities of our current generation and era. There is no other better word to refer to this term we would have commonly heard about while at university or college in our localities – the so-called ‘Internships’ or ‘Apprenticeships’ as it is often referred to in the workplaces of our age. Internships or Apprenticeships are short-term work contracts that provide students or fresh graduates with the opportunity to immerse themselves in real-life practical w
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Reconnecting…

It is one fine Friday evening. As the sun sets, a group of crows can be seen flying in circles preparing to head to sleep after a very long day. A lot of other birds, now absent to end the day with cheerful voices and a chorus of noises and sounds. The sound of bikes and vehicles fill the air as people head out happily from their houses for parties, weddings, the Sunburn festival as it is the month of December. As the sun has now gone beneath the horizon, a group of night insects and mosquitos join in to fill the village atmosphere as hill tops echo the pumping music around villages nearby. Dogs remain on their guard as gatekeepers of the night as occasional strangers make their way from around the vicinity. The cool village breeze blows around silently, adding in a new vibe and rhythm to the atmosphere. It is indeed a feeling of great joy to reconnect to the village of Parra – the place where both my blogs originated. A cacophony of voices, memories, lessons come to mind as I reco
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Uncertainty - The New Certainty?

A couple of weeks back, I was deeply reflecting over some of the key happenings and events that shook the world in the last six months. As I spent my time, in mere introspection of these events right from the last straws of the pandemic, to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis, the growing stagflation worldwide and the recent FTX scandal along with the massive layoffs at Meta and Twitter, it suddenly occurred to me that in all these scenarios, there was but one thing they all had in common - the never-ending 'uncertainty'.  Uncertainty or as I would put it 'an anxiety over what lies ahead in the future' is usually something that we encounter in our day to day lives and circumstances. Whether it is in our lives as students, as freshers, as working professionals or even as bachelors or spinsters - there are no dearth of examples to explain these small or minute instances of uncertainty that we encounter on a daily basis. This so-called 'uncertainty' forms a unique ch
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The Evolving Conscious Mind...

A while ago I was scrolling through my social media feed as on normal days. While I was busy keeping my senses pre-occupied with this gratifying task at hand, all of a sudden I had a great epiphany. I was left beyond mere wonder upon making this crucial discovery and would like to enumerate more about it. A creative insight into what I would describe as the 'evolving conscious mind' or 'rational mind'. Conscious thinking is what I would describe - a state of mind optimally attained where one is able to think rationally in the moment. In other words, adopt a clear lens in distinguishing between a truth, a reality and a fantasy. It is an aphorism to how we live our present-day lives right from our teenage years, to adulthood and finally the receding years of our lifespan. Conscious thinking in a more broad sense dictates the very choices we make, the decisions we take and more importantly how we choose to streamline the natural course of our existence on this Planet Earth
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Infinite Mindset- A Necessity Or The Need Of The Hour?

In this blog article, I would like to talk about a subject that has entrenched me over the last couple of weeks and months. It is something that I have only started to discover in recent times, given the level of complexity that characterizes our day to day lives and situations. It is definitely something worth re-examining and giving a thought over, knowing how every aspect of our lives are modelled around this very theory or belief that has started to emerge in as recent as the 21st century. It is none other than- 'The Infinite Mindset'. The infinite mindset or rather 'infinite thinking' can be defined as a state of mind, characterized by constant learning and unlearning, constant reworking and tuning of past beliefs and attitudes and more importantly, the cultivation of a growth mentality when approaching any situation or circumstance that involves other people around with similar interests. It seeks to create or stimulate a world, where all people shift from aggress
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