Aruna Gobalan's Blog, page 17

Manage Your Time to Manage Your Life

Time isn't just a valuable resource. It is the most valuable commodity on earth. Yet, we squander it away like it's a renewable resource. To manage your life and steer it in the direction you want it to go, you need to find a way to manage your time. Whether you made New Year resolutions […]

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New Year Resolutions Can Be Daunting: Five Life-altering Changes You Can Make Right Now

Are you someone who makes New Year resolutions by taking a copy of last year's resolutions and simply changing the year? You are not alone. A staggering 89% of New Year resolutions don't last. For good reasons. But throwing the baby out with the bathwater isn't the solution. Resolving to get better is essential—whether you […]

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Seven Life Lessons I Learned This Year

I’m now a year older and hopefully a year wiser—although I’m convinced now that age has nothing to do with wisdom. That said, it’s the time of the year I feel the urge to ponder and reflect on the life lessons I learned over the course of the year. It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say […]

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My Top Ten Books Of the Year: 2021 Edition

Mark Twain: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.It’s recap season. No matter where you turn, you’re going to be inundated with a top ten list—cars, baby names, songs, movies, TV shows, etc., etc. Since I can’t beat the trend, I’ll join in with a top-10 list of books. Of […]

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How Habit Tracking, Not Willpower, Kept Me Moving For 700 Days in a Row

We've all grown up with the message, Where there's a will, there's a way. But, how do we find the way when the will to do something is weak, as it often can be? The answer is to create a "system"—a set of rules and routines that do not rely on the often finicky and […]

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Is Your Inner Voice Full Of Wisdom, Wisecracks, Or Is It Just Plain Wacko?

Our minds have a private soundtrack running all the time. It's the soundtrack of our inner voice, the one that we often converse with. It's hard to keep track of these conversations. We don't know when they start and end, who's doing the talking and who's listening. The inner voice is powerful, though, both in […]

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Overcome Indecision: How to Make Choices and Get on With Life

From the time we wake up until we go to bed, there is one thing we all have to do over and over again. Make decisions. What to eat, what to wear, where to go, what shows to watch. Some of these can be difficult choices and a drag on our brain cells and time. […]

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Don’t Choke Under Pressure: How to Keep Calm and Carry On

Cricket, for the uninitiated, is a sport—a bat and ball game with rules and formats that can take years to explain (and play, if you ask me.) In some parts of the world, though, cricket is sacrosanct—even more so than religion. It isn't surprising then that a trending hashtag on Twitter recently was #chokers, an […]

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Self-doubt: Will I Ever Get Anything Done?

Most people don't realize this, but the number one thing that keeps them from pursuing their dreams and ambitions is their self-doubt—their lack of confidence in their own abilities. While positive thinking alone cannot make us successful, getting rid of the negative self-talk can make the road to accomplishment easier to navigate. A tale of […]

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Pain Is Inevitable. And Necessary. Suffering Is Not.

The 2021 Nobel prize for medicine was awarded to two scientists, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, who independently worked out the impact touch and temperature have on the body’s nervous system. Turns out, our sensory system is quite complicated and well evolved. A core part of their research was on the subject of pain—a universally […]

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