Author Archive for Dexter J Valles

For most of us, childhood is when life is most enjoyable. Bereft of responsibility, we are taken care of, sheltered, fed, clothed, educated and kept in good health. All we have to do is savour every wonderful moment to the fullest.

Here is a Do It Yourself Kit that each individual would find useful in the marathon race for survival and growth especially in these times of uncertainty.

Sunday morning caught me uncoiling lazily in my bed, stretching the sleep out of my body and squinting against the sunshine streaming on the pillow. Choices had to be made – should I leave the safe zone of my comfortable quilts or uncover myself to the sunny reality slowly invading all corners of my bedroom? [...]

Life promises to surprise. Just a while ago we were polishing our shining economy and patting the bloated belly of our envisaged future. Suddenly the winds of fortune turned out to be gas! A case of the economy suffering from grave dyspepsia with the indigestible servings of the high and swinging life of over-indulgence. A [...]

I have come across several articles and books on “Success” and all of them have very special messages for the reader. It is truly motivating to read and learn how people are making their dreams take shape. We can certainly benefit from the lessons learned by those who have driven themselves on the road to [...]

When we join our lives with another, as we do in marriage or at work in teams or professional partnerships, what we seek is a blend of lifestyles: of competences, of outlooks and approaches, where often one lifestyle leads another at different points of time, very much like rotating leadership. There are times when the [...]

The seal of approval is almost as coveted as the mysterious and elusive Holy Grail. Both are the result of man’s quest for “divinity by proximity” because possessing either would mean raising of the mere mortal to the realms of the supreme spirit. From nothingness to everything, finite to infinite, inconsequential to undeniably intrinsic, banished [...]

Ho ho ho ho! The merry season is here. Jingle bells, tinkle bells, plum cake and pudding. Christmas joy and cheer. The yellow brick lane to renewal, resurgence and restitution. Down the lane from Yuletide, is the corner to a big bang new year! One filled with promise, hope and resolutions. Oops !! Where did that slip in from?

Sometimes in life you do things you do not understand and yet they deliver positive results.  At a shallow level of analysis, the reasons underlying this can usually be found in some commonplace answers, everyday rules, basic values and perhaps a way of life that has been adopted not by choice but by old habit. [...]

The arbiter of knowledge and skills, the teacher, is a revered figure around the world. In India, the teacher is known as the guru, the wise one who can be trusted to lead the knowledge-blind and shine the light of competence and skills in the darkness of ignorance and incompetence. Over time it has been [...]

The children of today and their parents are subject to innumerable stressors and pressure cooker like circumstances of a competitive, crazy world. Managing daily life itself is a stupendous task. There seems to be no time or patience for anything or for that matter any person out of sync or even slightly out of alignment [...]