I feel depressed sometime when I watch news. When I realised what's happening around different parts of the world, not many news can make my day lighter. All I notice is harsh reality. Watching the news last few days triggered my memories about World War II. I didn't live through it. My grandparents who lived... Continue Reading →
What did I learn from my bad times?
For every experience, there are associated lessons that you have to learn from it. I learnt that I have a choice to make the most out of it or live in that prison. I have a choice to ignore it or appreciate it as an opportunity. I remember at age of 5, I learnt the... Continue Reading →
Learning from Children: What does it really mean to change the perspective?
A strategy to change your current situation is to change your perspective. It is to challenge those perspectives you have as a common sense. Is it really a common sense? Is it really something you need to hold on to? These are some of the question to ask yourself. Let me share a story with... Continue Reading →
How to clear your glass of water?
I remember one of those days I questioned myself "How did I end up here?" This wasn't in the positive way. It was one of those days I questioned purpose of my life and what am I going to contribute to this world. At one stage, I felt overwhelmed. On the other stage, I felt... Continue Reading →
Learning from children: You probably need to force shutdown your brain…
After spending a busy week at work, travelling and staying at hotels, I can now feel it has definitely impacted me. Yes, there's physical tiredness but there were psychological exhaustion as well. As research had shown, physical tiredness can contribute to your emotional distress. So, everything was contributing towards this tiredness I was feeling. What... Continue Reading →
How can I determine a toxic environment?
Recently, I had a chance to support workshops which aimed to increase self-care and resiliency in the workplace. These workshops were conducted in various locations of an organisation. As I was just an observer, it was interesting to see what participants perceived as source of stress to them and what strategies they have implemented to... Continue Reading →
Why our mind is so busy?
Human mind is designed for automated responses. When an event happened, we instantly making meaning, association, and decision out of it. Do you have experience such as:- After work driving home, bypassing a shop and remembered that you had to pick up a bottle of milk because you have used it all up.- Talking to... Continue Reading →
When I had to spend few days with unfamiliar individuals…
For last few days, I was helping out to run workshops. I haven't visited domestic airport so many times in a week. It was within a state but flying out and back so often wasn't an easy task. Staying and visiting unfamiliar place weren't easy. Well, I know that's all part of organising an event.... Continue Reading →
What happens when we don’t have opportunities for dialogue?
I have attended workshops which aimed to improve self-care and resiliency of employees of an organisation. One of the main challenges highlighted by participants are lack of communication within team, colleague, and/or managers. Our society today encourages collaboration and teamwork. However, often organisations consist of employee lack of such interpersonal skills that become triggers of... Continue Reading →
How did I change the situation I was in?
I have encountered a stressful event last night. I was returning home from two long-day workshops very late at night, passing hours after my usual bedtime. Before that I was stacked in an aircraft for nearly three hours with noisy individuals. Before that I had to spent two full-day with two unfamiliar individuals who I... Continue Reading →
Journey of Personal Development 