I read this interesting article by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox in the Harvard Business Review. Titled “In praise of extreme moderation”, it speaks of the trend of workaholism being a badge of honor, and extremism is becoming the norm not only in our professional lives but increasingly in our personal lives as well. People take up sports and …
When was the last time you felt this way? If you had the choice, wouldn’t you be this way every day of your life? Isn’t that what life is…a celebration? Then what stops us from being our natural self? Whatever be the circumstances… Think about it… and YOGA…
So there was a surprise waiting for me at office today. Suddenly, around noon, everyone started to act a bit odd – seemingly coordinating something on the hush…and before I knew it, I was on a Google Meet with our staff in India, Abu Dhabi and of course, the ones physically present in Dubai. They …
Do you see your true self when you look in the mirror? How far have you come in your journey…and are you on a path that you wish to be on? An infinitesimally small spot in the vast spectrum of time, is when you exist. Can you make a difference? Does it even matter if …
And so tomorrow, sometime in the morning, I would complete 47 cycles around the sun, as per the Gregorian calendar. Birthdays are all about wishes. And you get a lot of them. Ever since the explosion of email, one even gets wishes from the bank, the neighborhood e-grocer and your bike servicing company. Everyone is …
It is said… शत्रुणा न हि सन्दध्यात् सुश्लिष्टेनापि सन्धिना ।सुतप्तम् अपि पानीयं शमयत्य् एव पावकम् ॥ २३ ॥ śatruṇā na hi sandadhyāt suśliṣṭenāpi sandhinā |sutaptam api pānīyaṃ śamayaty eva pāvakam || 23 || One should not make friends with an enemy, even if he seeks a truce. Because, no matter how much heat is given to water, …
Maniac Monday was expected, but reality was a bit better. I was able to breeze through work, with not too many distractions. Did spend a lot of time on the desk and the phone though. And so Day 3 of the fitness challenge called for a slightly different strategy. Shifted to three workouts of around …
पूषन्नेकर्षे यम सूर्य प्राजापत्य व्यूह रश्मीन्समूह ।तेजः यत्ते रूपं कल्याणतमं तत्ते पश्यामि योऽसावसौ पुरुषः सोऽहमस्मि ॥ १६ ॥ pūṣannekarṣe yama sūrya prājāpatya vyūha raśmīnsamūha |tejaḥ yatte rūpaṃ kalyāṇatamaṃ tatte paśyāmi yo’sāvasau puruṣaḥ so’hamasmi || 16 || 16. O Sun, sole traveller of the Heavens, controller of all, Surya, son of Prajapati remove thy rays and gather up thy …
Back in the Kyokushin days, we used to have a 45-day training camp before any tournament. Every athlete has a seasonal training schedule – while they do train off-season as well, it is when competition is a few months away, that peak training happens, day after day, over extended periods of time. The Kyokushin camp …
A few days of festivities are entering a short pause – tomorrow being Govardhana Puja, followed by Bhai Dooj on Sunday, and then someone’s Gregorian birthday a few days later. Days will speed past though. We will be staring at the end of 2024 soon, and the promise of another year that hopefully brings less …
