Happiness Is A Choice
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be,” said Abe Lincoln. But can one choose to be happy? Yes! Many happy people understand that happiness is a choice and that it is up to them to select it daily deliberately. Those who are content with their lives do not…
Pets Are Good For You And Your Family
The joy of having a pet cannot be fully described in words. It’s a feeling that must be experienced to be understood. Pets have an innate ability to provide comfort, companionship, and unconditional love to their owners. They can make us laugh, ease our stress, and give us purpose. Whether a loyal dog, a playful…
Fading Friendships
Friendship…Is it too early to bring it up, as we are still celebrating Valentine’s Day? 14 February observes not just romantic relationships; there is room for friendship to be honoured. I am sure all of you have best friend/s or a close-knit gang you look up to – a band that does all the crazy…
Handcrafted With Love
So, are you an aesthete? Aesthete is a word in the American English dictionary which means a person who loves and appreciates works of art and beautiful things – anything handcrafted! Are you someone going out of their way to look for handmade artefacts and curios? Do you travel to see art and craft festivals…
Tall N Short Tales For Kids
“Once upon a time” is a phrase most of us heard while growing up, and now our children hear from us. Storytelling is essential, “an interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener’s imagination.” How many of you grew up listening to stories…
10 Creative Ways To Make Time For Kids
Making time for your kids can be challenging, especially when you have a busy lifestyle. However, making time for your kids is essential, as it helps to create a strong bond and lasting relationship. One way to creatively make time for your kids is to set aside a specific amount of hours each week, such…
Little Ones Can Cook Too
“Cooking for children is not about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It is about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.” – Julia Child. Indeed, cooking is a beautiful experience – a harmony of the three ingredients mentioned by Ms Child and with a dash of unique aromas and tongue-tingling food. The age of two to ten is…
Resolutions 2023
New Year’s resolutions are the ideal opportunity for individuals who still need to start the changes they vowed to make next week, next month, or when winter arrives. If you have not already, now is your chance to sit down and designate a list of significant lifestyle changes you want to make, and we’ve decided…
New Year, New Me
Pause…Breathe…Reflect! Nature has its way of applying brakes in our life. It does send us feelers and reminders on how we lead our lives, but we tend to block the reminders or skip them. Instead, we use excuses to stave off cravings, our fast-paced life, busy careers, family time, and most importantly, ME time to get…
Do You Eat Breakfast
Breakfast is the meal that breaks our night-time fast of eight hours since supper. The first meal of the day is unlike any other meal. Yes, every other meal is considered significant, but breakfast is the most robust due to its numerous health benefits. It is why it is known as the “key day meal.”…
I Am Possible
“I am fabulous.” “I am awesome.” “I am good at solving problems.” “I can do anything.” “I am strong.” How often do you say this to yourselves? Yes, you may have your good friend telling you this, but do you do this for yourself? If you answer yes, then it is impressive. But if not, please…
Follow Your Dreams
Everyone has a dream. When you were a young, you fantasised about adventures such as slaying space pirates or galloping across a rainbow on the back of a unicorn. Your desires shifted as you got older, and now you envision a career in health, the fire service, or education someday. Can you recall any of…
Parenting, The Gender-Neutral Way
Pink for girls and blue for boys is passé now. Neither should colours determine the gender nor codes followed. Most of the globe now work towards (most) or has moved forward and are trying to leave behind stereotypes. Thanks to practicing gender-neutral parenting. Despite there are still people who follow stereotypes. A portion of the population…
Sway To The Beats And Tunes
Most of you would have heard of this: “Dance like nobody’s watching; love as you’ve never been hurt. Sing like nobody’s listening; live like it’s heaven on earth.” So how many of you sing and dance at home while doing work? Break into a jig while cooking? Just switch on the Music and sway? Have…
Time Is Money
People in the world that we live in now appear to place excessive value on monetary success. However, time is the most important resource to us and the one we value the most in our lives. When you miss even one minute, there is no way to get it back, no matter what you do.…
Get Your Girl Squad NOW
Good energy, positive vibes, 3 am friends, hangout buddies, impromptu movie-popcorn sessions, unlimited laughter, and crazy souls – all rolled into one are your girl buddies. If you have one, cherish them for life! I am sure all of you have such a girl gang who are ready to wake up in the middle of…
Happiness Quotient At Work
Years ago, I had journaled about negativity at the workplace. Those were my earlier years of employment. My first taste of negative people and office politics. As Interns, we were supposed to follow a hierarchy, do what is told and never question, and sometimes even fraternise according to how they wanted us to. If we…
Judge Not
We seldom put much thought into the reasoning behind why we should not pass judgment on others. We all pass judgment, and most of the time, we are not aware. However, there are other reasons to refrain from passing judgment on other people, many of which are beneficial to ourselves as well. Let’s be honest:…
Be A Cycle Breaker
“Cycle Breaker!” Ever heard this term? As described by therapists and experts – a person who identifies toxic or dysfunctional attributes that exist in the culture of the family and chooses to toss these markers and swap them in for a better practice or for a change. In short they are someone who consciously change…
Cesarean Not A Cakewalk
It is a general belief, that a woman who opts to have a cesarean is skipping out on the hard work of labour and giving birth. Amusing fact, many people still believe that she did not give birth at all. If a woman can become pregnant, then she is also able to give birth without…
Fall In Love With Libraries
Just like books are a man’s best friend…ofcourse apart from pets and plants, libraries are a shangri-la for book enthusiasts! How many of you have old membership cards for libraries? I am sure if you are a bibliophile, you would have preserved them. They are a storehouse of memories for most of us. All emotions…
Time To Go Indoor Plant Shopping
Indoor Plants Usher Love, Peace & Prosperity. There is no delight like having plants at home. Having a green space at home means gifting fresh air to self and your loved ones. These days, there is a green thumb in every home. Gardening has become one of the most favourite and recommended activities, especially since…
Budget Travelling is Important
Every person who travels is technically a tourist in some sense. There are some who like to see all of the well-known tourist attractions. There are also people that seek out secluded areas that have not yet been explored. People who have a strong desire to experience nature often enjoy going on hikes and camping…
Spice Up Your Monsoon Wardrobe
The first rains, the earthy smells, hot kadhais with oil spluttering – sliced onions and potatoes jumping into the hot oil, and a good rainy walk. School-going kids wearing raincoats, jumping in the puddles, dancing in the rains – our fantasies of monsoon since childhood. Isn’t it? I just conjured a few scenes of the…
Long-Distance Relationship And How To Survive
Who you fall in love with is absolutely out of your control. It simply happens. In the same way, you can not just flip a switch and stop feeling these things, even if you get the perfect job on the other side of the world. Nobody enters a relationship anticipating it to be a distant…
Do Not Take Your Heart Lightly
I keep getting news about cousins, relatives, and people dearly and distantly known to me who have died of cardiac arrest or multi-organ failures. All in two years, the number of these cases has risen. To add, the aforementioned people are in the 30-50 age group. During the peak of Covid, these deaths were more.…
Please Talk Money
It’s not “a woman’s cup of tea !” Over the years, this thought has been repeated generation after generation. “It” refers to money matters. Until the 19th century, women were not entitled to work. Literacy spread much later. Nevertheless, women still stand backward in financial literacy. How do you define financial literacy? Straightforward. It is nothing but the…
Your Best Friend at Work
Human Resource refers to the folks who recruit you, give you mountains of paperwork to fill out, and offer you a job and who one day may dismiss you. For many reasons, including if you are underperforming, and or if the company wants to restructure or make a change. So, it’s probable for many to…
Change is Necessary for Life
Change… It may be a frightening thought. No matter how big or minor they are, most of us would like to avoid change. On the other hand, change is an important part of growing as a person and should be welcomed. Here are 10 Reasons Why change is the only constant in life. 1. Internal…
Lets Talk Sex
Is talking about Sex a taboo? Think again! The first fact I considered while I began writing was ‘why can’t we normalize the word sex and the act in real life.’ Here I begin by asking a few questions. What Social Media platform are you mostly hooked to? What kind of content do you scroll though on…
Imperfectly Perfect Moms
For a mom, quintessentially speaking… everyday is mother’s day. It’s the fact. I know it was last week we all had our celebrations, opened presents from our kids and received lots of wishes… Still I believe I have to write more about it. I thought hard about what I could write and here is my…
Early Reader Bird Catches The Bookworm
Books are a different world altogether. For me, it has always meant an alternate universe, lots of colours, different creatures and humans. For children, it symbolizes wonder, curious energy and lots of wild imagination. My childhood was brimming with words, a splash of colours and lots of friends in it. Truly, books were and are…
Travel and Unwind
Summer blues hitting you! Time for a quick getaway from the hot city. Enter: you zooming into the cool climes of a hill station, chilling beside a river bed, or going river rafting with friends and enjoying the rapids of the river. You may even visit a serene hill station, be in a resort –…
Get Your Match Points Ready
What you read above are matrimonial ads in a newspaper and if you are of marriageable age, there is a high chance that you must be familiar with them. You are either registered on a matrimonial site(s) or already appearing in newspapers’ matrimonial advertisements. Each one of us has a fair idea about the kind…
Books That Turned My Life
Books have their charm. The print is something that will always remain with you until death. No wonder books are called a man’s best friend. Books influence thoughts, ideas and they can shape your entire life. Each book that I have read, holds a special place in my heart! Ask any bibliophile (a name given…
Its Time for a Summer Makeover
I simply love how Ralph Waldo Emerson describes summer: “Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air”. Adding to his most romantic definitions of this hot season, I would add more to this beautiful quote: “Bring on a zing and bling to your wardrobe as well!” After a particularly dreary…
Saying Yes to Saying NO
“Freedom isn’t the ability to say yes, it is the ability to say No”. And how true is this! Ironically, we end up doing the reverse, saying Yes when we have to say No. We limit our freedom. Picture this, you are working on a project and receive a call from a colleague. He asks if…
Detox Your Friend List
Detox seems to be in trend now. Everyone going through a rough patch or wanting to end stagnation in their life is taking this route. The beginning of the pandemic till now has become “that” time for people to pause and reflect upon what was happening in life. Priorities have also shifted from a fast,…
In Love Perfectly Imperfect
When Valentine’s month is around the corner, every year, the “perfect love” quotes suddenly get more Google hits and clicks. Quotes go viral on all texting platforms. Online portals’ sales go up a month ahead so that the “perfect gift” reaches the respective Valentines. “So, what did u gift your Valentine?” is the chosen question…
Self Love
Appreciating oneself for little things, whispering sweet nothings to yourself, a little pat and hug to yourself for achieving something, or when you did some good deed is defined as self-love. Philosophically speaking, many of our saints have said this: self-love is a way to attain the highest levels of spirituality. If you love yourself,…
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