If you care for someone and enjoy spending time with them, it’s only natural to mourn their absence when they leave. Even a temporary separation isn’t always easy to bear. Tending to emotional wounds is just as important as treating physical ones. You might not need stitches or an ice pack, but a little self-compassion can go a long way toward healing your pain. You’ve experienced a loss, and you’ll […]

I looked at the influence of political skill among employees. Political skill is defined as a positive social competence that helps people network, influence others, demonstrate social astuteness, and appear sincere in their dealings with others. Sometimes the wrong people get promoted. They might be deceitful and unscrupulously manipulative (what psychologists call “Machiavellian”. Impulsive and thrill-seeking without any sense of guilt (psychopathic); or egotistically preoccupied with themselves, having a sense of grandiosity, entitlement, […]

Satisfaction is what fulfils our heart and success is what fulfils our desires. Let us analyse different permutations and combinations of both of these. Person who got success but working for satisfaction. Person who is successful but not satisfied. Successful to earn lots money but never satisfied with it. Success means a sense of accomplishment after you have toiled a lot and have got the desired result whereas satisfaction means […]

Like all forms of exercise, walking encourages your brain to release endorphins — a neurochemical that boosts your mental health, decreases your sensitivity to stress and pain, and can even make you feel euphoric. Ready to get walking again? Doing so can be crucial for your health, not to mention helping you to take off the weight you put on during stay-at-home restrictions. As we get older, fat that used to primarily […]

It’s frustrating when someone ignores what you say. Why do they do it? Reduce it to one point. Make sure you are satisfied with this one point, and state if clearly, then wait.  Look for signs that the other person heard you. If you observe that they aren’t following you, stop and say, “What do you think?”. You lost them early on. As simple as this sounds, it’s the number one […]

Absolutely. There are several benefits to working out with a personal trainer: For beginners: You will learn new exercises and proper form, which is crucial to produce results. Motivation and discipline: A specific appointment will make it more likely that you regularly workout, arrive in a timely manner and allocate the appropriate time to a useful workout. Safety: It is risky to push the envelope of your capacity without a trained person […]

How to Greet People Indians greet one another with the Namaste (palms together with a slight bow). Its good manners to return it. In business, handshakes are now more common. Indian women may not shake hands with men; Western women should also wait for Indian men to extend their hands. Embracing is common between friends/colleagues but is only done with someone of the same gender. How to Address People You […]

People, in general, do not like uncertainty.  We seem to be built in such a way that we want to know what is happening, why it is happening and how long it will last. Some people like total control over a situation, other people are ok with some element of control. Uncertainty defines our times. Whether it is in relation to climate change, disease outbreaks, financial volatility, natural disasters or […]

Looks matter. People who look good have an unfair advantage over the others. Beautiful people are more likely to get a people-facing job. One reason for the widespread interest in looks is that it has the potential to reduce the degree of bias underpinning human decisions.  For example, meta-analytic studies have long highlighted the pervasive nature of bias in hiring and recruitment. But one of the most prominent biases is hardly […]

Humans were earlier thought to be either left-brain or right brain creatures, where each side of brain contributes to different aspects of thinking process. The left-brain one were thought to be more logical, analytical and objective whilst the right-brain ones more intuitive, thoughtful and subjective.  In more simplified terms, the left-brain ones try to break down things into simpler easy to understand stuff whereby understanding with logic and reasoning, like […]