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Tag: gratitude

  • My Rich Life

    Rich could mean fancy food, it could mean a month long vacation each year or just picking up kids from school. Rich life can mean different things to different people. Let no one version be your truth; observe, seek and define your own rich life.

    Basically rich life is your version of freedom. It could be the freedom to climb professional success without guilt. Or the freedom to build a business you always dreamt of. It could be the freedom of choosing slow life and personal peace over conventional success parameters. Sometimes it could just mean the freedom to be mobile, on your own two feet and be in a healthy state of body and mind.

    What you consider luxury could be condemned by another. & you could very well be loathing or despising another’s way of life. It’s only wise to choose your own path, something that is uniquely yours. As per your life goals, current lifestyle and priorities. Chasing a dream life which isn’t your own dream is like living a nightmare of sorts. Cos you would be chasing objectives which deeply don’t mean anything personal to you. Such struggles won’t add value to your life in ways which would be significant or sustainable. The why to choosing a rich life and striving upto it should be uniquely yours.

    Define your own rich. It should be yours and not what you see around you. Or what is conventionally considered being rich or a status symbol. Not owning a house is not a failure. Not having kids is not a failure. Not building a business empire is not a failure. Not climbing corporate ladder is not a failure. Not being a stay at home parent is not a failure. Not having a millionaire partner so that you can go without earning a single day is not a failure.

    Rich is when you have peace. Rich is when you have happiness. Rich is when you are content. Rich is when you are healthy, grateful and blessed for what you have. So go on design your life around the riches you treasure and hold yourself accountable for them.

  • Science of Gratitude

    Making it more than a good vibe or nicety. It’s can become an intentional act that reshapes how one experiences life. If one can focus on what’s already here and not on what’s missing – one can grow the capacity for joy.

    Neuroscience studies show gratitude activates parts of brain responsible for regulating emotions and improving decision making. Growing the brain’s neural pathways stronger. It’s like strength training for the brain – the more you do it, the easier it gets.

    Don’t mistake gratitude for an act of denial. It’s more like an act of defiance – a self-refusal to be consumed by negativity. A hack to thrive even when life itself isn’t perfect!

  • Perspective : Half full or half empty ?

    It’s all about perspective isn’t it? And mine can be different from yours. As long as we each own it!

    Our happiness doesn’t depend on what happens but is based on how we interpret what happened. Our interpretation of what happened is filled with assumptions, experiences and conditioning – and all of these are internal to us; far moved from the reality of what happened now. So your reality is not what happened but how you chose to see it.

    A sweetmeat from the Himalayas

    Start seeing failures as feedback, setbacks as stepping stones and challenges as opportunities. If you see the glass full you would be grateful while if you see it half empty you may always complain. So choose to control your perspective and you shall choose happiness.

  • Being human

    To be human is to ‘be’ and not to be ‘done’. So there may never be a perfect you, because you would always be a ‘work in progress’.

    And that’s great news! As everyday you are a 0.01% better than yesterday and that my friend is nothing but progress. That is to ‘be’. And that is the greatest gift as you are alive and kicking.

    But aren’t we supposed to be perfect – the best spouse, parent, sibling, child, friend that ever walked on the earth. Yes you are but sadly being the complex human ‘being’ that you are it would take many a lifetimes to be there. So you do you and you be you. Here and now, rather than waiting to be the elusive epitome of perfectionism. It’s a mirage so rather live for today than worry for tomorrow.

  • The right time

    Is there ever a right time? Or rather can the timing ever be wrong? To action, to grow, to be yourself? To move out of the comfort zone, to feel the pain, to have those difficult conversations? To hustle, to sweat, to ache?

    Or is now the best time? Or is today the best day? Or here is the best place to be?

  • Yellow 💛

    In sickness we all cherish health,

    But then were we not busy chasing wealth!

    In loneliness we look for companionship,

    Longing for relations we couldn’t help but nip.

    In darkness all we need are ray of hopes,

    To stop behaving like a bunch of mopes.

    So to sadness, illness and despair we say,

    Not today my friend, not today ❤️