All Entries Tagged With: "Work-life balance"

A young man went to Gautama Buddha and sought the Master’s guidance on how to achieve Enlightenment. The conversation, which in my opinion must be required reading for anyone, went roughly as follows: Young Man (YM): Master, how long will it take for me to achieve enlightenment? Gautama Buddha (GB): It all depends on you. [...]

“So sorry, I’ve been busy.” “I’m just so busy with…” “I’ve been too busy too…” Busy? Get in line. If I ever tell you that, “I’m so sorry that I’ve been too busy to…” then I’ll pay $500 bucks to your favourite charity and get you a year’s supply of Haagen Dazs bars. Of course [...]

Creative types get typecast as meandering goal setters for a reason. They tend to meander. We resist structure (even tho’ we crave it.) We relish spontaneity (even tho’ we’re intrigued by five year goal setting plans.) We tend to be driven by inspiration (when we’re not obsessed with looking good on paper, or to our [...]

In my commitment to live bolder, truer, Me’er, I’ve got to be clear that I am not “a brand.” (Yep, that’s rather strange for a “branding expert” to say.) I earn my living by teaching about what I live. And it never fails that the more transparent I am, the more useful I seem to [...]

Have you come across anyone who is caught up in something very important and says so, which leaves you wondering what is so important about that task? Most probably you might have even faced such a situation where you are told to complete an important task and you drop everything else to do that while [...]

One tends to see a lot of stressed out people around nowadays, across gender and age group. Most seem to be running against time to complete a task or several of them. First, I am never able to understand the context of ‘running against’ time. Time is eternal and is a constant. Some people say [...]

Life is all about making the best of what we could do, in this moment; the sum such a zillion moments make the journey of life, and we owe it to our very existence to make all these moments filled with joy, happiness and fulfillment. That MUST be the basic tenet of life, and for [...]

A beautiful thing, though simple in its immediate presence, always gives us a sense of depth below depth, almost an innocent wild vertigo as one falls through its levels. Frederick Turner Writing and jamming all day, I need to to wrest my eyes from words and the screen. Even if I’m writing fluidly or fire [...]

I recently was speaking to a middle management professional about work-life balance and was telling him about a simple tool to evaluate if there is a balance between our work and personal lives. This is called a ‘wagon wheel’ and looks like a wheel with spokes on it. The spokes are representative of the various [...]

Here are a few sparks of The Burning Questions that I ask my Fire Starter clients: 1. What do people thank you for most often? What do they come to you for, or say about you most frequently {“positive” or “negative”}? Gratitude leads you back to your strengths. The greatest leverage you have for a [...]

In his brilliant book titled Job-Shift: How to Prosper in a World Without Jobs, William Bridges says we are living in a jobless society. What you ask? There are no jobs? Let me explain. In the US, the concept that we have of jobs has only been in existence for about the last 150 years. [...]

While engrossed in work at home or in office, if we can be anchored in an inner calmness, it greatly helps. This needs developing and training self-awareness. Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, the author of ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’, aptly describes this balanced state as being “Actively Calm & Calmly Active”. Some of the tell-tale signs of [...]

Work-life balance has become some kind of a cliche, and the more it figures in our talks, the less we seem to have of it. To begin with, the expression itself is a misnomer. Work is a part of life, how can we balance a part with the whole and is it not vain and [...]

Work-life balance is a tricky thing to opine upon. In the abstract, it’s kind of meaningless. It’s not like you can say, “1.5 hours of work is the equivalent of 2.2 hours of conscious life (removing sleep from the equation), and I’m at work for 9.5 hours a day on average, and my commute is [...]