Posts made in March, 2008
How to Make the Most out of Meet-Ups
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A big part of our social life revolves around meeting and chilling out with friends. Depending on your age group, you could be hanging out at a MacDonald’s, Starbucks, dance club, wine bar, pub, golf clubhouse, private clubs or even local joints where the cheapest beer is sold.
Until recently, I don’t really like to hang out much. I thought I was a quirky-alone, but it turn out I am just bored with the run-of-the-mill conversations that dominate these sessions.
A year ago, I attended a leadership course and got to know a new group of friends. We shared a deeply bonding experience and became very close in those 3 months. Thereafter, a small group of us continued to meet up. As it turns out, I really liked those meet-ups.
This article is about what makes those meet-ups fun for me.
Read More5 Reasons to Start Blogging
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Over the last couple of years, I’ve started a number of blogs. I wanted to get a taste of blogging and learn how it could be applied to the corporate world where I’m doing some consulting work.
During that time, I’ve started quite a number of blogs on various blogging platforms – Mephisto, Tumblr, TypePad, WordPress and Zanga. I’ve also blogged about different aspects of my life – business, trivial, food, hobbies, etc.
In the end, I could only last up to 3 months in each of them, leaving a messy trail of content bits all over cyberspace. I realize I’ve blogged for all the wrong reasons.
This articles lists the reasons why I am back, blogging with a vengence ;)
Read More8 Ways to Beat Procrastination
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We all know what procrastination is. Personally, I’ve been fighting it ever since primary (grade) school. And till today, I’m still not entirely free from its lock, succumbing to it every once so often.
I know that I should not procrastinate. I know I should strive to be conscious about what I do with my time. And I know delaying one thing for any period of time takes out the emotional equivalence of doing it for that duration.
Procrastination is a formidable opponent. It is as smart as you are. There is no ‘one way’ to beat it all the time. You need to arm up many different strategies to beat it in the long run.
This article gives you 8 more ways to beat procrastination with.
Read MoreHow to Handle Conversation Droughts in a Relationship
Photo by Michael
A conversation drought is the inevitable phase of a relationship when the couple basically runs out of interesting topics to say to each other.
It is one of the toughest tests that you can put a relationship on. From a quick survey I made with friends today, most simply don’t survive the challenge.
I am very interested in conversation droughts because I put a premium on having very deep and engaging sharing in a relationship. My 7-year-old relationship has been threatened on multiple occasions and all I can say is that we’ve been lucky to have weathered them.
Today, I am going to embark on a quest to know the formidable nemesis and develop strategies to overcome it.
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