Become A Great Problem Solver
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It’s Only A Situation As Long As You Do Something About It
Don’t seek for everything to happen as you wish it would, but rather wish that everything happens as it actually will – then your life will flow well. ~ Epictetus
Raising Resilient Kids: How to Teach Perseverance and Grit
* “I am not a genius. But I will have a calling and I will challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down, I’ll get back up. I may not be the smartest person in the room, but I’ll strive to be the grittiest.” - From Grit by Angela Duckworth * What...
Find Your Life’s Purpose Here, Only If You’re Looking For It
Disclaimer If you've been wondering about your life's purpose, only then you'll find this article useful. How Are You Doing? "Deeply insecure and extremely freaked out about my future." I hope not, because, I was expecting your staple answer,...
How to Stay Focused in a Distracted World: Proven Strategies to Grow Your Attention Span
* This past Wednesday afternoon, my 9 year old son kept switching between two tasks. Writing a full page of a mantra praising Lord Shiva, a homework from our Sunday Hindu school. (He hated it) Reading 10 pages of the comic book, Calvin and Hobbes. (He...
Here’s How You Can Extend Your Brain
What Is Brain Extending We usually don't live in the present moment, because we find ourselves overwhelmed in our heads with tasks that need to be remembered, facts we've just learnt and out-of-the-blue ideas that have sparked inside of us. At the same time, we...
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....
How to Get Your Teenager to Talk
* Embrace this thought for a second. As your teen's childhood ends and he enters puberty, your opinions start to mean nothing to him. Well, he would still like to make you proud, but his peers' opinions are what he will take most to heart. Around 12 years of...
Boost Your Life: What Is Personal Growth Factor and How to Increase It
The Nature Of Change Charles F. Kettering quoted once, "High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." We must ask your children every morning, "What do you hope to aim for today? What new things do you plan to learn and try today?" ...
Likability & Leadership And Their Relationship With Success
- Let's say, your child knows he has to work diligently and study hard if he wants a better future for himself. But, without the lights turned on in his path, how would he know where to go and what to begin with? A good parent turns on the lights for his child....
Where Do Your Roots Of Optimism Come From?
* If there's anything unifying about humanity's existence, its our solitary pursuit of happiness. Its the way in which we choose to define our successes and identify our failures. Its how we contemplate on how well we've spent our lives. Its our unbridled hope...
How to Lead Effortlessly: Master Leadership Without Stress
- Live and Lead Actively We're all leaders because we lead our lives. But, is there a way to live an optimal existence? Yes, here's how. Take Initiative: Sometimes all you've to do in a new situation is to take initiative to be labeled as a leader. Even...
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...
An Antidote To Self Loathing: How to Stop Hating Yourself and Start Living
Forgeting to Rescue Ourselves Imagine you're trapped inside a burning building and the heat from the engulfing fire is almost killing you. But, you've an opportunity to save just one person. Who will it be? If you answered your 85 year old next door neighbor,...
How to Meditate – Step by Step for Beginners and Unlock a Calmer Mind
- Start Here: A Beginner’s Guide to Stillness 1. Create a sacred bubble in your house. It can be a small mat or rug on which you can sit comfortably. Pick a favorite thing to give you company. It can be a pillow, a trinket or even a book. Now you have created a...
How to Practice Digital Minimalism and Reclaim Your Focus, Time, and Peace
- Continued from Part I: Hurtling towards a digital derailment. - What we're actually doing is creating an entire generation of mini little addicts that are getting hardwired to believe that their sense of self worth and their sense of coping comes...
How to Read a Painting Like an Art Expert (Even If You’re a Beginner)
- Walk up to the wall to a meeting place between the brush and the canvas. Wait for the art to show you a million muses that accompany it. Surrender yourself to its transformational power to change the way you feel. A good piece of art doesn't complete you. It...
How to Raise Gen Z in a Postfigurative Society
- A 2016 survey found that over a third of American men ages 18-34 still live at home with their parents. So ladies, this is where the guy you want to marry is – Playing Level 5 Grand Theft Auto in his mother’s basement. - Repairing Or Preparing? ...
On Diversity and Collaboration
- Scott Lanyon, Vice Provost & Dean of Graduate Education at the University of Minnesota said this at the U of M Arts Sciences and Engineering Graduate Commencement ceremony this afternoon. - "Earning a graduate degree is a significant...
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...