People get absorbed in work and before they realize their current situation they spend days, weeks, months, and even years on a routine task that gets them stressed out furthermore. The sad thing about it is that people who are stressed are the first to deny their current state. I was in that situation a…
What is your personal value list? I have posted an article about the list of values — A Comprehensive List of Values. It is a comprehensive list that most probably you can find items that you already possess or are working on. I would go through the list and identify and reflect on the list…
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson In Part I of this two-part series, you learned a step-by-step process for eliciting and prioritizing your personal values. Now in Part II, we’ll explore how to live with integrity to your values, using them to make decisions and…
I’ve read many books that stress the importance of understanding your personal values, getting clear about what’s most important to you in life. But at the time of this writing, I haven’t yet come across a source that covers this incredibly useful concept with sufficient depth. Most of the values coverage I’ve read takes you…
Have you ever wondered about the various values you were thought early as a child. Do you still remember them? Whether you remember them or not, chances are, some of the values from the list below are already in your system; living by them daily. The list of values below is comprehensive enough to guide…
Stress has a number of meanings, and as defined, it could be any of the following depending on usage: (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; “the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area” wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given…
Have you ever fallen off track while trying to install or maintain a not-quite-daily habit such as exercising 3-4 days a week or getting up at 5am on weekdays? This article will share some simple ideas to help you maintain such habits more easily. If you perform a certain task every day for weeks on…
Not everyday is an energetic and bright day to wake up and go to work. Once in a while we open our eyes in the morning feeling all sleepy, the weather is nice and cold, there isn’t any deadline or deliverable throughout the day at work and we find ourselves dragging our feet to work.…
When you want to make a change in your life, especially a big one, you’ll typically meet resistance along the way. An effective strategy for rendering such resistance powerless is the strategy of overwhelming force. This is a military strategy of course, but we can co-opt it for our own personal development as well. Instead…
One of the conscious growth principles I’ve been teaching for years is the principle of Love. This principle states that you’ll grow significantly faster — and enjoy the process of growth much more — when your life is rich in supportive, encouraging connections. People violate this principle constantly — and to their detriment when they…