Productivity Resources And Tools
For Children, Teens, Adults And Parents
Why Living in the Now Is the Secret to Happiness, Clarity, and Inner Peace
- What Is Living In The Now? Living in the now is living in the present moment and feeling good in its natural stimuli and banality. Although for millenia before us, people had been doing exactly that, albeit with a little day dreaming here and there, only...
Why Living in the Present Feels So Hard (and What Actually Helps)
- What Is Living In The Now? Living in the now is living in the present moment and feeling good in its natural stimuli and banality. Although for millenia before us, people had been doing exactly that, albeit with a little day dreaming here and there, only...
How to Raise Calm, Resilient Kids: Family Strategies to Reduce Stress and Build Emotional Strength
Improving Our Family's Wellbeing Teaching children how to manage stress is key to their emotional and physical well being. Here are some practical strategies that you can use to improve the quality of your children and the over all wellbeing of your family....
Here’s How Big Tech’s Court-Ordered Ads Will Look Like
Year 2118 Here's a hypothetical scenario of the future of our technology revolution. Big Tech companies, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google, lovingly known as FAANG, have spent decades manipulating the levels of dopamine of humanity by making our...
How To Be Human: What We Can Learn From Animals and Why It Matters
- When Being Human Was the Upgrade I grew up watching Indian movies and rubbernecking at street fights in my hometown. Most often during the most dramatic moments of these events, one person would be challenging another with, "Are you a human or an animal? Are...
Why I Fell Off the Workforce Treadmill
- In a 2014 Gallup poll, more than 2/3rds of adults said they were not engaged at work, or were actively disengaged. Worldwide only 13% of adults call themselves engaged at work. - One evening this January, while pondering my decision to quit the...
Thoughts That Changed This Life ~ Musings, Quotes And Proverbs For An Optimal Life
- “When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown...
Want to Transcend the Plight of Life? Meditate.
- Why this guide: (Long claim.) It has no hyperbole or BS.Things you will need: Just your phone. BUT, out of reach on a 20 minute timer. Nothing else, not even a Sanskrit prayer or an orange robe. - What is meditation: The action of inaction Nothing but...
The How and The What Of Eating Animals
- "As in any kind of factory, uniformity is essential. Piglets that don't grow fast enough - the runts - are a drain on resources. Picked up by their hind legs, they are swung and then bashed head first onto the concrete floor. This common practice is called...
Who On Earth Are You?
- This is an invite I drafted for an upcoming employee resource group ice-cream social. The event aims at promoting diversity discussions among peers, thereby enhancing our modern global work culture and the strength of our social networks. - Tell...
Dear Lena: An Open Letter
- I feel sorry that you did not write a mind-blowing autobiography. There was not a single sentence in your book, Not that kind of Girl, where I truly laughed out loud. The irony being that, only if this entire book was fiction, I would have laughed hard at the...
Now – A Poem on Time
- Of all the things I have and can desire to have, my time on this earth, and the time my kids will have of mine is finite. I am mindful of that. What I am also painfully mindful is that I do not choose well how I spend it. As an adult, time and the freedom to...
Temples in Our Hearts – A Poem by Rachana
- While others make smoldering burial grounds in memory,those who have never made promises to make us laughbuild their own temples in our hearts. Stories that don’t need our mother’s tongue at all,are these secret wishes that transcend cultures and...
The Wishing Well and an Empty Tummy – A Poem by Rachana
- - I call my boss and tell him,I won't be in until late.Over a crisp morning coffee I work out logistics. I plot the distance between school and home.. 500 yards..I aim for taking cover.While setting up my equipment at hand's reach, I caution my...