Accepting oneself is the best gift you can give to yourself. Look around yourself and you will find people constantly struggling with their identity, their life remains a constant process of adjusting to everyone’s feedback. They keep on doing this, hoping to be perfect, they suppress their originality and never reach the worldly desired image….
Returning to work after a long leave is not always an uplifting experience. The mind and metabolism are likely to have adapted to a more leisurely pace, and one may have taken active steps to dissociate from work pressures during the period of leave. This is especially true if the period of leave has been…
Without doubt, wellbeing is the ultimate objective of human existence. Paradoxically, we often wind up surrendering well-being in order to earn money, and then spend a major part of the earnings in attempts to regain it. These efforts are invariably fruitless – so why do we do it? More often than not, the only real…
Financial stress can adversely affect a persons? psychological state. This negative psychological state has a tendency to percolate down to the affected person?s workplace and ? in fact ? into all social interactions. Surveys have shown that financial stress is among the root causes of decreased performance at work and a steady decline in physical…
Are you married to your job? Have your family, personal hobbies and social life taken the back-seat? For how long has this state of affairs been going on? If you do not have a healthy work-life balance, chances are that your stress-levels are on the higher side. You may be able to detect some of…
It?s not certain which way the economy is heading right now, and saving money from your salary may currently figure high on your priority list. It should because it looks like the global economy may go through more frequent and deeper recession cycles over the next decade. This would mean that the regular yearly pay…
Life for corporate employees has become so hectic these days that if they blink, they may miss something potentially important. It is almost impossible to be fully present in the moment with someone constantly on the phone, the report on the desk and the unanswered email in the inbox. Today, employees? attention is divided among…
There is nobody who has not had problems at work, and these problems invariably involve one?s supervisor, co-workers or even boss. Workplace conflicts are common ? but the skills to handle them adroitly are not. Many employees react to workplace conflicts the way they would in any social conflict situation ? from the gut. This…
It is time to rise in the ranks in your company, and you are convinced that you deserve a promotion. You could always ask for one, but how would such a request be received by the Powers That Be? Asking for a promotion may not be the best course to take. A wiser and far…
Troublemakers at the office come in various shades, and they have different styles and approaches to making their presence felt. To be fair, most of them may not even know how disruptive they can be ? then again, some do. However, the sincere and focused always has a bad time with them. Maybe you cannot…