The problem is not with working too much. It never has been! The problem is in the type of work that you do and how you feel about it. It is in the people you work for or with. It is in the nature of the actual work. It is in the measure of purpose [...]
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Welcome back to Episode #27 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is how to professionally ask for your money back and how to reverse transactions with either a service provider, a vendor or a membership organization or whatever the case may be. How well do you manage this sticky situation in your life?
Jet lag and I have been at it again this week. I had been up most of the night but at 3:30am, I closed my book and decided to go to sleep. Reading always makes me sleepy and The Autobiography of a Yogi is about the spiritual path of Yoginanada through self-realization. The calm, relaxation-inducing [...]
Are you waiting to get a nod of approval from your parents for pursuing a career or a life outside their ideal one for you? Are you hoping to be embraced by your friends about your recent decision to travel the world or choose an unusual lifestyle? Are you expecting a positively happy reaction from [...]
Welcome back to Episode #18 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is how to make awkward requests without making anyone – you or them – feel uncomfortable. It goes without saying that no one of us enjoy making those awkward requests and yet, we wish so badly that we could speak up. I have [...]
The pursuit of massive wealth can be a wonderful thing, but it is the most beautiful of all when pursued with meaningful work on your own terms. A little over six months ago, I embraced uncertainty like a long-lost friend and walked out of my corporate “career” of some 12 odd years because I could [...]
Have you ever wondered what would happen if your limitations and imperfections, your worries and anxieties, or your doubts and fears, neither mattered nor materialized as you so desperately persist that they do? Just what if …
Welcome back to Episode #13 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is on interacting with your inner voice and inner calling. Are you listening to yourself or shoving aside the voices from deep inside of you on your direction in life? This is my tribute to Steve Jobs, his contribution to our world, his [...]
Welcome back to Episode #4 of the Smart, Opinionated and Fabulous podcast. In this episode, we talk how you can say no and feel good about it and how you can get to yes on something that you really want. What are some of the root causes that compel us to say yes all the [...]
I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the Astonishing Light of your own Being. ~Hafiz It turns out there is after all a name for that irrational, incessant and intrusive behavior which we so precisely insert between ourselves and success. It doesn’t take a psychology degree to recognize this [...]
Tell me, where do you go for corporate career advice when you need it? Whom do you trust to tell you the truth about how things run behind the corporate walls? In the early years of my 12 year corporate career, I went down a lot of dark alleys; I came up to a lot [...]
There Is No Reason To Do What You Hate There is no reason for you in 2011 to be doing anything that you hate. No reason good enough, no explanation worthy enough that you will want to whisper back to yourself after the sun has set on your youth, your beauty, and your opportunities as [...]
Welcome back to Episode #9 of The Daily Interaction podcast. The weekly interaction today is not about an exchange with a person but rather with a feeling. I am thinking of calling these the self-series, where the interaction focuses our own emotions and finding ways to “interact” with them through analysis, conversation, acceptance, and grace.
Welcome back to Episode #2 of the Smart, Opinionated and Fabulous podcast. In this episode, we talk about something that is vitally important for success and empowerment in our lives: Confidence (it even has a Wikipedia entry, imagine that!). We talk about the lack of confidence and the presence of self-doubt. We look at the [...]
Knowledge alone cannot always help you move through your fears in life. In fact, knowledge is precisely what we blatantly ignore whilst saying “I know, I know!” in response to the whole world around us. Sometimes, it takes more. Forget knowledge then! Have you ever tried the power of your imagination, which, for all you [...]
