Aruna Gobalan's Blog, page 16
March 18, 2022
Learning To Learn: What Autodidacts Can Teach Us About Self-learning
Whoever came up with the expression easy as pie probably never made one. So many rules to follow when making a pie: don’t overwork the dough, keep the butter chilled, coat every part of the flour with fat, and on and on. I wouldn’t describe any of that as easy. Similarly, self-learning sounds like fun […]
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March 11, 2022
If You Could Retire Today, What Would Your Ideal Day Look Like?
What would you do if you had a blank slate and could design your day any way you choose? What does your ideal day, or for that matter, your ideal life look like? And no, this isn’t a pointless exercise at creating a pie-in-the-sky vision of a world where you have a zillion dollars and […]
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March 4, 2022
Five Superpower Micro-Skills For Success
When you see the words self and improvement together, it’s not uncommon to visualize a drill sergeant barking in your ear about what you should and shouldn’t do. But it needn’t be that way. Like Disney movies, we can cloak our self-improvement efforts in the warm fuzzies and expect happy endings. How? Through the less […]
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February 24, 2022
Why We Spend Way More Time “Thinking” versus “Doing”
I woke up this morning, ran twelve miles, made myself a green smoothie, and meditated for half an hour…in my dream. My reality isn't so rosy. I presume you have similar experiences too. While imagination is a valuable tool, most of us spend way too much time thinking versus doing. Brain not storming I've spent a […]
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February 18, 2022
The Power Of Compounding: Why You Should Aim To Get 1% Better
It is not often you see the words janitor and philanthropist used to describe the same person. Okay, maybe if a rich person squandered away all their money and had to work as a janitor to make ends meet. Thankfully, the story of Ronald Read is quite the contrary. It’s a feel-good, inspirational account of […]
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February 11, 2022
Do Hard Things. Or Be Mediocre. Your Choice.
Ask anyone how life is, and you'll get a variation of the same theme—"busy." And while we're busy doing urgent but often unfulfilling work, our dreams and aspirations often lie relegated to the back burner for us to work on "someday." The truth, though is, it's daunting to get started on these someday projects because […]
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February 4, 2022
Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Easy Way to Inner Peace
When your head hits the pillow at night, does your brain immediately tell you to run over all possible scenarios? Again? Some of us just can't help it. We like to worry. About things that matter and things that don't. We feel responsible for world peace but pay for it with inner peace. But it doesn't […]
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January 28, 2022
Personal Growth Roadmap: 10 Steps To Reform Yourself, Not Others
Finding a personal growth roadmap is easy; it’s wanting to grow that’s harder. I spent years trying to improve other people in my life—family, friends, coworkers even. I gave them advice (often unsolicited) on how to live, work and be better. Let’s just say my project failed. Spectacularly. Not because I handed out poor advice (well, […]
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January 21, 2022
How To Turn Your Passion Project Into Reality: 10 Lessons I Learned From Writing 100 Posts
This is it. A milestone event for this blog. Post #100. Today’s post is a recap on what worked and didn’t, but more importantly, it’s a testament to the power of passion projects. If you’re wondering whether your bucket list items/someday goals are worth spending time on, the answer is a resounding YES. Hear me out. […]
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January 14, 2022
Buyer’s Remorse Is Worsening. Here’s Why and What You Can Do About It.
We overestimate the pleasure our purchases will bring us, which eventually leads to disappointment and severe buyer's remorse. In a world driven by savvy marketing, it's now that much more important to know how to avoid buyer's remorse.The '80sOne of my fond memories of growing up was the local corner shop—a tiny but colorful mom-and-pop […]
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