July 22nd, 2010
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken – Samuel Johnson
All of us have a habit, or two, that we want to get rid of, but can’t. The bad habit stays with us and soon we accept it as an integral part of our being. Every now and then the realisation dawns upon us that our life would become much better if we got rid of the bad habit. Kicking a bad habit out of our life, however, is easier said than done.
Here is what I think we should do when we are trying to quit a bad habit.
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July 15th, 2010
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I have always wanted to attend a writer’s conference, but living and working in a small, remote town has ensured that my wish to attend one remains just that – a wish.
Today, however, as I was browsing the Internet I came across the Annual Muse Online Writers Conference. The site claims to be the only free conference of its kind, and further adds, “No matter where you live, what you write, at what point you are in your writing career, you’ll find a workshop that fits your needs during our week long conference”
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June 16th, 2010
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“We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.”
- Peter F. Drucker
Motivation, as a concept, has intrigued experts for ages. The above quote by Drucker succinctly defines all that we know about motivation. New books on the subject, however, keep coming out every year, and each of these books sells quite well because, each one of them claims to take the level of your motivation to a new high. But, does that really happen?
If you are anything like me, it does.
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June 9th, 2010
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“Well begun is half done,” Aristotle said. And Aristotle, as we all know, was a very smart man. This quote by Aristotle, however, presents only one part of the picture, and the picture is quite incomplete without the other half, which is as important as the first half. This other half can be summarised with Shakespeare’s line, “All’s well that ends well”.
In my discussions with friends and peers, I often come across instances where someone starts writing something, and then, somewhere in the middle, they lose interest and give up. I myself have done that many times. An idea strikes me. I sit down on my computer in right earnest, and then, half way through, I feel that the idea was not as exciting as it initially seemed. I lose all interest in completing what I had started, and the piece remains unfinished forever.
Does that ever happen to you?
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June 3rd, 2010
NeoBluePanther
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Once, many years ago, I was walking down a road, when a hand suddenly came to rest upon my shoulder. I jumped in surprise, and turned to see a man looking down at me. He was staring at somewhere around my waist. The word “PERVERT” immediately formed itself in my mind, but before I could react, the man said, “Wow, your wrists, you must play cricket?”
“Ummmm, Yes, a little!” I said. Everyone in India plays a little cricket.
“You must be a batsman,” he continued. Now, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t flattered. “I have not seen wrists like yours… they are almost like Sachin Tendulkar’s, or Brian Lara’s,” he finished. If you don’t know who those two are, suffice it to say that they are the best of the best in the game of Cricket. I was flattered earlier, but I think the English language does not have a word to describe what I felt now. We talked for a little bit more, and then we parted ways.
Till this day, I sometimes feel, that I made a wrong career choice. Maybe I was born to be a cricketer.
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