“Did you hear what I said?” Active listening may seem like an oxymoron to some of us. If you think listening is a passive activity, I’m afraid you’re mistaken. It’s one of two things (or both): you’ve not been listening properly or you don’t know what it means to listen. As humans, there is an […]
Category: Personal Development
‘No‘ is the common boundary-setting word we all dread. ‘No‘ is not just a word. It’s a game-changing sentence. In this post, we’ll see how saying ‘No‘ can improve your life. We all want to come off as kind, cooperative and warm, isn’t it? However, we can be all of these things while being as […]
Self-care simply means taking care of yourself- body, spirit and soul. You might have spent so many years caring for others but it takes longer to understand what looking after yourself truly means. Self-care is not selfish because we can’t give what we don’t have. When we are physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually depleted, we […]
Time and again, we hear the popular mantras: “You are enough, believe in yourself!”. The subject of self-esteem is a topic we’ve read about in self-help books or heard of on TV. Self-esteem is a striking concept in terms of the level of attention it has received over the decades. It is one of the […]
As at December 10, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest man to have received a Nobel Peace Prize. He was only 35 years old. Yet, he had made such seismic impact on interracial relations in the United States of America. From the mid-50s until his assassination in April 1968, King advocated for non-violent […]
There are so many acclaimed words of wisdom. Sayings about life that we know like the back of our hands. They may be popular but not necessarily true. Let’s discuss these myths, shall we? Popular Myths What will be will be (Que Sera, Sera): This portrays the defeatist notion that we have no control over […]
I didn’t cheat death to live a half life. -Anonymous What happens the day after the worst day of your life? Near-death or traumatizing experiences have a kind of hype around them. There’s usually supposed to be a lesson to learn. So much existential euphoria- another kind of high as you tell and retell the […]
Stressed? Bewildered? Often lost in thoughts? Maybe you need to pause, reflect and make sense of it all. There’s a very simple and cheap way to go about it- journalling. Most of the writing we do is for an intended audience. We rack our brains and string words together to make an impression. That’s the […]
For some of us, failure is outright inability to do something. For others, it is the inability to record the same amount of success over and over again. In the case of a singer who has just released a hit single, s/he is thinking “what next?”. His or her inability to top the charts on […]