Aruna Gobalan's Blog, page 11
April 7, 2023
Busyness Is an Excuse: How To Reclaim Your Time
The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness. John Maxwell.I’m probably not too far off in my guess that a majority of us believe in the power of meditation to help us gain peace, focus, and contentment. Yet only a fraction of us actually take the time to actually sit down and meditate regularly—myself included […]
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March 31, 2023
Knowing Is Not Doing: Stop Preparing and Start Doing
Knowing is not doing because, as John Maxwell said, “The greatest gap in the world is the gap between knowing and doing.” We all have “reasons” for why we procrastinate on our most important tasks. Our pencils aren’t sharp enough to write, the installed software isn’t quite adequate to code, the weather’s too windy to go […]
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March 24, 2023
It Could Happen to You: How to Cope with the Adversity Coming Your Way
I won’t blame you if the title of this article turns you into a doomsday prepper and sends you scampering off to the office supplies store to stock up on bubble wrap. That’s not my intent. At least don’t bother with the bubble-wrap. The truth is, adversity isn’t just something that happens to others. It […]
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March 17, 2023
Does Purpose in Life Really Matter? Or Should We Just YOLO it?
Everyone from Aristotle to Homer Simpson to my neighbor’s cat has opinions on what “purpose in life” really means. The reality is the definition of a purposeful life isn’t as abstract as it sounds and, judging by what research studies have shown, it really helps us to have some purpose in life. Sorry YOLO’ers.Mrs. GreenbergIn […]
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March 10, 2023
Why The Battle for Decency Matters
It’s easy to look all around us, especially the online spaces we inhabit, and conclude that decency is dead. But the truth is, it’s possible to disagree with decency.Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have an inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control. Steven Pinker.Monkey see, Monkey […]
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March 3, 2023
Why We Need to Play the Long Game
We overestimate what we can do in a year, but vastly underestimate what we’re capable of in a decade. Thanks to our inability to play the long game, we get disillusioned and quit before we start to see results.I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. […]
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February 17, 2023
Do We Need a Muse to Inspire Our Creative Pursuits?
A muse is a reference to either a literal person or to a supernatural force that serves as someone’s source of artistic inspiration. For centuries, we’ve believed in the power of the muse to guide our creative pursuits. The question is: how far does the muse help us in our creative endeavors and is it […]
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February 10, 2023
Main Character Syndrome: Why We Are All Movie Stars in Our Heads
Move over, Tom Cruise. There are new superstars in town, or at least, in our imaginations. Us—You and me. Okay, we may not be shooting down enemy planes or blowing up restaurants and running out in slow-motion, but we still have central casting in the movies constantly running in our heads. Our ability to see […]
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February 3, 2023
The Grind: Shine’s Unsexy Partner
Behind every shine, there is a lot of grind. Everyone wants the shine. The grind? Not so much.What’s in a name?Parents name their child after a famous person or character sometimes as a tribute, but often hoping that simply by sharing a common name, the child will somehow inherit a few of the core characteristics […]
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January 27, 2023
Survival Instinct: Why We Freak Out Over Everything
People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It’s a survival instinct. Tony RobbinsIn 2020, after the pandemic hit, the NY Times published an article titled “The island brokers are overwhelmed.” The […]
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