I may not have been much of a sportsman, but I have always been someone who exercised. I could, at best, be described as a nerd. I never played sports with any particular regularity or success. I don't know which was the cause and which was the effect! But [...]
Do you write down “Have breakfast” on your To-Do List? What about lunch, dinner, or your evening cup of tea? Probably not. These are part of your daily routine. You don't need reminders for things you do automatically. But what about the other things you need to do? Should all of [...]
All of us who live in large residential societies know that WhatsApp group where the messages never seem to stop. Someone has parked in somebody else's parking spot. Someone has brought a ferocious-looking dog into the smaller passenger lift. A group of children has damaged the common lawn. Someone [...]
American statesman and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin famously observed: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Our modern world is, in many ways, safer than that of earlier generations. We have better medical care, fewer deaths from many infectious diseases, lower child [...]
As a productivity coach for knowledge workers, I spend a lot of time talking about being organized at work. And when I say "organized," I usually mean organizing our digital world. A task. A document. A bookmark. A checklist. An email. A note. Most of what we work with [...]
“I will remember that.” Those four words have probably created more unnecessary mental load than we realize. We say them when we put something somewhere “for now,” when someone gives us a piece of information, when we notice that something needs to be done later, or when we tell [...]
When I stand on the balcony of my flat on the 17th floor, with just a metal grill between me and about 150 feet of empty space below, I still feel safe. I wonder, if there were no grill, would I be comfortable standing there? Probably not. The grill [...]
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins My rating: 5 of 5 stars One of my mentors once suggested that I read The Moral Animal by Robert Wright. Within the next hour, I had bought the e-book and started reading [...]
It’s perfectly understandable, it’s hard to complete REx course with the ongoing juggle in our lives. We don’t have luxury of time. In fact, we don’t even remember when we had it last! But learning cannot be stopped. It’s the 7th habit of Steven Covey’s The Seven Habits of [...]
I am a dreamer. Well, not in the traditional sense. What I mean is that I spend much of my sleep dreaming. I don't say that with any sense of pride—it's simply a fact. My nights are often filled with long, vivid dreams. So when this topic came up last [...]