Welcome back to another episode of the Smart, Opinionated and Fabulous podcast! Today, Aileen and I look at breaking the cycle of negative thinking – goodness, is it ever possible? – and together, we review some tools to empower us towards positive thinking – yes, it is possible – and achieving our goals and dreams. [...]
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Welcome back to Episode #14 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is about smart and sensible interactions at the workplace. What are some things you can do to position yourself as a reliable, trust-worthy and positive person? I don’t know about you but this one was a long-standing challenge for me early in my [...]
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 [...]
Welcome back to Episode #12 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is to explore smart and effective ways to end conversations politely and yet firmly and in such a way that you still leave the best impression to boot. Life creates so many ways to engage with people and if you do enjoy interactions, [...]
Welcome back to Episode #11 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is all about tapping into your motivation and creating motivating interactions while among others, and some thoughts on the essence of motivation itself. Where do you get your motivation? How do you tap into the inner source of it deep inside you?
Welcome back to Episode #3 of the Smart, Opinionated and Fabulous podcast. In this episode, we talk about the difference between love and understanding. Yes, they are different and one does not come with the promise of the other. Our need to be heard and understood is a natural human desire, but when it goes [...]
Welcome back to Episode #10 of The Daily Interaction podcast. The weekly interaction today is about learning to argue smart in your relationships. How do you cultivate fair, effective and kind arguments rather than try, without success, to eliminate natural disagreements that are bound to come up between two human beings? That is our topic [...]
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 [...]
Welcome back to Episode #8 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is around memorable dialogues that we can create on the road. Just back from London and writing this from Toronto, I am fueled with energy from traveling. In this episode, I talk about making your interactions memorable and even unforgettable with the people [...]
What can you get from two opinionated minds with an insatiable desire to experiment and talk about the art of living well and the pursuit of the highest self in life? Aileen and I met in Blogworld 2010 in Las Vegas and our connection was instant. Aside from our friendship, we happen to possess an [...]
Welcome back to Episode #7 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is about interacting with the world around you when you are not feeling well. What do you do? Do you hide? Do you pretend? Do you lash out? In return, how should you interact with others when they are not feeling well or [...]
Welcome back to Episode #5 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Inspired by an unsolicited, inaccurate criticism that I received about my blog, I am devoting this podcast to my best practices on handling constructive feedback and harsh criticism in your life. If you are putting yourself out there, doing something you believe in and making [...]
Welcome back to Episode #3 of The Daily Interaction podcast. In this episode, I shine a huge light on respect in our daily interactions, how to show it, expect it and receive it in return. This can be both in person and in our virtual communications. Respect may seem simple and obvious on the surface [...]
Welcome back to Episode #2 of The Daily Interaction podcast. In this episode, I picked a topic to which we can all relate: having clarity in our communications and interactions. In today’s show, I focus on the interactions and communications that happen to us in person and how we can recognize the clarity – or [...]
What does an intense desire to connect with your readers, a passion to share a message and a lot of heavy-duty audio equipment bring you? It brings you Prolific Living Media, which is going to be the home for all things media here – videos, audio – and we are kicking it off by launching [...]
What does a blogger do? If I had a penny for every time I heard this, I’d be living in Maui and doing yoga on the beach and basking in the glory of Mother Nature’s sea turtles, humpback whales and spinner dolphins everyday, but you know what, I’d probably still be blogging!!!
How beautiful to see that timeless poetry and literary classics preserve their relevance across generations. How awe-inspiring that they transcend all nationalities, religions, ethnicity and apply to our life today. How extraordinary that such wisdom usually comes to us from the sages who have suffered greatly in their life. How fortunate for us that such [...]
I have a ritual with my books – first, to come into possession of book (through some generous source as I rarely buy books), read/inhale/digest the book, write a deeply personal blog post on book, keep book on shelf (if I loved it)/donate book to library (if I didn’t love it)/give book away to anyone [...]
Yesterday marked the end of my 31 day yoga and meditation challenge. For the entire month of May, I committed to a minimum of an hour of daily yoga practice and a few minutes of daily meditation. Like most great ideas born of small stuff, this one started from a casual question; I shared my [...]
It is with a basket full of sweaty yoga laundry and a heart filled with ecstasy that I write to you about my first experience from a 10-day yoga challenge. My goal was to complete 10 straight days of yoga, without injury or over-exertion. The yoga sessions needed to be between 60-90 minute sessions each [...]
It is not easy to find time to practice things we love. Yoga can fall in that melancholy category. To practice regularly, we need to spend a few minutes every day or every other day on the mat. It is a commitment to the mat and to ourselves and it takes discipline. Discipline has a [...]
