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Celebrate Life

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  Did you notice - As soon as you die your identity becomes a "Body". People use phrases like: "Bring the Body", "Lower the Body in the Grave", "Take the Body to the Grave yard", etc...People Don't Even call you by your Name, whom you tried to impress your whole Life.... Live a Life to Impress the Creator not the Creation. Take chances.. Tell the truth... Learn to say "NO"... Listen to your Heart... Spend money on the things you love... Laugh till your stomach hurts... Dance even if you are too bad at it... Pose stupidly for photos... Be child-like.... Moral - Death is not the greatest loss in life...Loss is when life dies inside you while you are still alive...Celebrate this journey called LIFE... Enjoy life...

Teach to Learn

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  According to research we remember 10% of what we Read 20% of what we Hear 30% of what we See & Hear 50% of what we Discuss with others 75% of what we Experience ourselves   and a staggering 90% of what we TEACH to someone else. So the best way to get a grip on a topic is to TEACH the same to someone else. This forces your brain to connect the dots and helps you imbibe the knowledge in a manner where you understand the topic and are able to explain it to others in your own words.   So go forth share your knowledge with others, it will actually benefit you more than the those being taught. It will help you understand and retain that topic much better.

Top Skill for 2020

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  Year 2020 will be remembered for a long time for the string of unexpected and unpredictable events that have happened and continue to happen, impacting lives of people across the globe. This has caused us to adapt to a lot of changes very very rapidly in a very short span of time. Staying indoors, maintaining personal hygiene, social distancing, work from home, wearing mask, valuing human lives etc. It has surprised everyone how a tiny virus can bring the entire world on its knees. And people are now bracing themselves for biological warfare as experts say that this is definitely not the last pandemic... In the Pre-covid era, there was a lot of discussion around 'CHANGE’ and being a change agent - how the world is changing very fast and that we all need to embrace change with examples of giants like Kodak and Nokia who failed to change with time and so on.  However, in the last few months everyone has embraced change either voluntarily, forcibly or reluctantly. People have ...

Comfort Zone

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  If you want exceptional results then you have to be prepared to do things that exceptional people do. They challenge themselves. The push the envelope continuously.   You can also fulfil your dreams. Get out of your comfort zone. Quit playing safe. Do something new! Embrace change. Face your fears. Push the envelope. Achieve stellar results

Tappers and Listeners

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  This is by far one of my favourite stories which is truly timeless and very apt for the corporate world. And the perspective this story/experiment  provides is so powerful that once you read it, the lesson will stay with you for the rest of your life and will help you be a better leader. As leaders, many of us have to manage a diverse group of people, who are often, scattered geographically and usually from different cultural backgrounds. Now throw in couple of more ingredients into the mix - remote working and the various modes of collaboration like text chat, emails, online meetings and you will realise how important it is to communicate effectively and get your ideas across to the other team members, colleagues and even to your own supervisors.  In 1990, a psychology student at Stanford University, conducted an interesting experiment.  It was referred to as the " Tappers & Listeners " experiment.  The rest of the world first heard of it when the authors...