U can carve YOUR own way !

I have been working from home since last 2 months and I was raving about it in the beginning and i still continue do but as this activity is progressing everyday, I can also see the downsides of working from home, in the long run. Through the use of humour & cartoons,  I wanted to highlight few of the risks but first the awesomeness - 1. No COMMUTE:-  It's the start of a brand new day, and we're off like a herd of turtles or cattle, depending on our mode of travel.Work from home means travelling time saved that can be spent on doing what you like to do, money saved on travelling can be  spent elsewhere & less pollution outside. Amazing, isn't it ?  2. FLEXIBLE schedule :-   No need to compulsorily spend long hours in our cubicles staring at neon bulbs even after completing our work 'light years' ago because the work etiquette forces you to do 8+ hours shift OR just because your other pale colleagues are doing the same OR they ...

I want to narrate 2 fascinating stories that i read and how i look at these stories from time to time for inspiration in my career and life - #Story No 1 - Did you know that nobody knew the airplane was invented for almost 5 years since it's invention? Yes, this is true. The story goes like this - First in 1901, many newspapers were laughing on the idea that 'a man can fly like a bird'. 2 years later, on 17th December 1903, Orville & Wilbur Wright did the impossible - They make the first successful flight Orville piloted the aircraft, which stayed afloat for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet on it's maiden journey. But the story has a fascinating twist  - After they conquered their first flight, nobody seemed to notice. Nobody seemed to care. Several years went by before the government, press & the general public could take notice on what the Wright brothers were doing. It was not until May 1908 - nearly 5 years after the 1st flight - that reporter...

As the saying goes, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'; in the same way, I can see & experience some positive things happening around, hence i have decided to focus and list down 5 bright spots - small but worthwhile shifts amidst our current chaotic condition. It will be worthwhile to keep looking at the 'bright' side of the existing situation. 1. Family members are spending a lot of time together -  Now, frustration and boredom can creep now & then which can raise differences and conflicts too ( i am a testimony to that) but if we are able to find a 'common' ground then I believe, this has presented a rare opportunity to build and strengthen our relationships by focusing on the positives and addressing the conflicts (if any). If you have a child, other than playing and watching movies with your child, to begin with you can instil lessons of courage, honesty, meditation, develop their language & presentation skills and everything else wh...

For me, Breaking Bad is a masterpiece in execution. The creators (Vince Gilligan & team), very brilliantly, executed a simple plot and turned Walter White aka Heisenberg in to a household name. I am not writing this post to describe the show but to put together 5 lessons that I learned from the series and if you ask me, each and everyone of us can learn these lessons and can put to practice in our daily lives – As resilient as Walter White -  There was a classic NEVER GIVE-UP lesson that was on fully display throughout the show. Walter White faced numerous obstacles while building the meth business but whenever his back was against the wall, he always used his resilience,  mindset and a sharp presence of mind to come up with a magic bullet and always got the better of the situation. Now we can question the ways and means of finding the solution, which were mostly illegal but what i want you all to take away is to develop that resilience and never give-up att...

Presently, the majority of us would be unaware of today's date and day. Such are the times. Each day is getting dragged monotonously, not only for those people who are not working from home but also for people who are doing meaningless (mostly) and stressful work from their homes. Right now, we are experiencing the most uncertain times in the history of mankind and merely ‘binge watching’ on Netflix won’t ease the pain of being confined to our homes 24*7. We are still looking at another month or 2 of lockdown ahead of us. So, how do we cope? I have come-up with a couple of ideas from my own experience of being isolated since last 2 months - 1. Stop ‘over-thinking’ & worrying. This will take us nowhere; rather it will make matters worse. How do we distract our minds then? I would suggest setting yourself in some sort of a routine in the weekdays (From Monday – Friday) – like getting up every morning at the same time and doing similar activities through out the day an...