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While I was walking on the streets of Adliya last night, a shop with bright lights caught my attention. I went inside and started looking at things. On a shelf I saw a soap which was already open. So I grabbed it and tried to figure out its smell! And I kept it back. So far everything was cool. Continue reading The Soap That Crushed My Ego!
My first reaction used to be to utter a big and passionate “ReAlLY!” as a quick reflex to anything unusual. Until I realized the zeal and energy I put into saying ‘really’ was not really experienced by others. It simply wouldn’t reciprocate. Rather than sharing my enthusiasm, I used to get all kinds of strange responses: Continue reading Why I Stopped Saying “Really!”
Imagine this: At last you’ve decided to take fitness classes you’ve been putting off for so long. Gone are the days of looking in the mirror and feeling sorry for yourself. Now you’re all motivated and psyched up to start something new, something to look forward to. You’re so excited about it that you can’t keep this a “secret” anymore. You want all your friends to know about it. The virus of this secrecy is so contagious you can’t live without spreading it. It’s a child-like fascination. Finally you’ve got yourself a candy and now is the time to showoff. Continue reading Why It Is Better To Keep Your Personal Goals A Secret
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You can imagine how bad it feels when someone calls you a liar – and you didn’t do anything wrong. Something similar happened to me yesterday.
Let’s say you heard something unusual; a new discovery, news about your friend’s arrival or all your favorite actors appearing in one movie. What would be your first reaction? A glowing face with raised eye brows? Half-smiling cheeks while still trying to make sense of what you just heard? Or strange words murmuring out of your subconscious vocabulary?
I asked her a very simple question, “Can I have a teriyaki chicken sandwich?”. This was clearly a yes or no question. But her response cracked the innocence out of me. Check this out:
Have you ever felt the temptation to announce your goals to your friends?
A horse is a horse. The sky is sky. A person is a person. That’s what I learned today from Tal Ben-Shahar’s “The Pursuit of the Perfect”. Sounds simple ‘eh? That’s the law of identity and it has serious implications on our understanding about world and ourselves. 
It’s not enough to say, “It’s human to err… nobody is perfect”. Although that’s true, it says nothing about the real perils of a perfectionist attitude. The realm of perfectionism is deeper and wider than what we normally thought. Does the following sound familiar? If yes, you have perfectionist tendencies which need to be cured: 