Henna Inam on Adaptability, Midlife Crises, Growth, Self-Reflection Questions, and Self-Compassion
This post is an excerpt from my interview with Henna Inam. This excerpt sheds light on overcoming mid-life crises, self-reflections daily questions practice, self-limiting loops, practicing self-compassion during tough times and bringing soul to work. You can check out my full interview with Henna here Henna Inam — Wired for…
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Creative Labour and Defining Success
How do you define success for yourself? I’ve been very curious to know how people define success for themselves. I started the podcast in 2020 with the clear intention of building skills and relationships with people, and I’d say that I am super successful as I’ve been achieving what I…
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Belonging and Courage to stand alone — Resources from Brené Brown
The theme of Belonging has shown up for me over and over in 2022. I’ve asked myself questions such as who am I? What am I? Where do I belong? Who are my true genuine friends? in exploring the landspaces of inner being and authenticity. Who better to know more…
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The Art of Ending Things and The Lost Art of Closing Rituals
Endings are always hard. Trust me, I’ve had to end many things internally and externally in 2022. I found this fantastic article The Art of Ending: 3 Steps for Pruning Your Life and I’ve read it dozens of times. Below is an excerpt from this article which I personally read…
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Loving, Growing, and Healing together in Relationships
Dear friends, I’ve been contemplating the below musings from different authors including mine to heal and grow in dating, romantic relationships, and all kinds of relationships. This blog post is brought to you by my new co-creation of a spiritual retreat from Oct 7th-Oct 9th 2022. You can check the…
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A Letter to Fear
Dear Fear — “I hear you, I understand you and I know that you’re trying to protect me. I don’t need your protection now. My heart is open. My old wounds are healing. I just want you to be a good friend and not run my life. I hope you…
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Making Sense of Life’s Changes
I’ve been contemplating these quotes on clear communication, healing emotional triggers, awakening, stepping into a universe of possibility, deep connections, and much more. Please enjoy. “If something you want is slow to come to you, it can only be for one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence…
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Probing Questions to Enter The Landscape of Heart
I love exploring open-ended questions for deep inquiry. The same questions give different answers in different contexts and at different stages of life. To get quality answers, you get to ask good-quality questions. I found the below questions from different sources. If you know me, I love to share whenever…
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Heart-Opening Meditations
Living a Heart-Centered life has become very important to me in the last few years. There are many modalities to open your heart or heal it from past wounds. In this post, I share some safe meditations I’ve come across recently. I’ve been practicing heart-opening meditations every morning for the…
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Quotes, Musings, and Contemplations
This blog post is the result of sitting in silence in the mornings, reading other people’s blogs and posts. In this post, I attempt to highlight some of my writings and others. I hope this piece will spark a passion in your inner-being and open up new passion and possibilities.…
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Contemplative Questions to Wander and Wonder
As I’m taking a deep dive into certain areas of my life, why I do, what I do, who I’ve become, and who am I becoming — I’ve been asking myself some questions in different contexts such as vocation, love, and relationships, friendships, podcast, etc. These questions can be applied…
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Self-Reflection Questions in Dating and Relationships
Below are some questions that came up in my coaching session with Amanda Jade. I absolutely adore her. Amanda has been on my podcast, I reached out to her to coach me when I was going through some anxiousness in my dating and relationships with women. These are powerful questions…
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The Place I return to Myself
When I write, I feel compassion for myself. When I write, I feel love for my inner child, my younger self, and my older self. My writing is a refuge where I find comfort in. This is the place where no one judges me. This is the place I can…
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Do you have a desire or do you have a longing? (there’s a big difference)
Words longing and desire have been used interchangeably. These are similar and yet not the same. One morning, on my quest to understand the difference between longing and desire, I started to read a bunch of articles. The reason being is to understand is if I am longing to attract…
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Feisal Alibhai — Book Recommendations on Meaning, Purpose, Innovation, Business, Money
I’ve had the honor of connecting Feisal Alibhai over the video for about 3 hours and I am thrilled to learn about his life and story. How we connected – that’s a separate story! Life always flows in synchronicity and I am grateful to connect with him. This post illustrates…
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My Personal Favorite Podcasts from 2021 and 2020
Whenever people asked me what my personal favorite podcasts are, I always struggled to answer this. I always responded with a smile — “how can you differentiate among your children, who’s your favorite and who’s not?” I found myself repeating the same and realized that it’s time to write about…
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The Top 30 Episodes of The Nishant Garg Show from 2021
Thank you to all of you to make The Nishant Garg Show successful and take it to the next level. It would not have been possible without your support. I hope this mission will help you live mindfully and learn new habits and routines to live with abundance and manage…
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Friday Newsletter Snapshot – This is How it Looks Like(with examples and resources)
This post highlights a few samples of new newsletter emails I send out every Friday to all the subscribers. You can find the newsletter link here. The email contains details about what I am learning new, recent podcast updates, things I am experimenting with, books I am reading, or anything.…
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Ora Nadrich — A life Unexamined is Not Worth Living
This post is a selected excerpt from my interview with Ora Nadrich. I read the whole transcript and highlighted the important sections that I personally want to read and revisit. For my own convenience, I decided to put the highlighted sections in this post so that you can also learn…
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Awaken and Connect to your Divine Feminine
I’ve been enjoying learning about Masculine and Feminine energies. Masculine and Feminine are not gender-based. All humans have it, if you believe it or not. It’s so interesting to see that how much we overvalue one energy over the other. Rather, it’s about finding a sweet healthy spot in these…
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Lessons on Toxic Masculinity and Femininity, Healthy Masculine Energy, and More
Masculine and Feminine are part of every human being. We can’t deny one over the other. These are the energies, we all have it, and we get to integrate both of them. It’s a myth that Masculine is strong and Feminine is weak; only males have Masculine energy and Females…
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Sean Sessel — Seven Layers of Reality or Seven Planes of Existence
I’ve known Sean for about 6 months and I’m impressed by his vast amount of knowledge in multiple dimensions. We both are part of a collective where we get to hang out with really amazing people to discuss all the facets of life. This collective is led by Dr. Mickra…
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Dr. Keren Tsuk — Wisdom To Lead
As the saying goes, if you don’t have twenty minutes to practice meditation, practice for an hour. Being mindful means that we must feel every emotion we experience in every moment, without disengaging and letting our emotions manage us. This post highlights a written interview with Keren Tsuk, Ph.D. I…
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Reflections on Relationships, Childhood, Healing, Clarity, and More
As part of my morning routine, I love writing down my thoughts and they just flow through me. In this post, I mention some of the things I wrote in the mornings – these cover healing, inner-work, my childhood realizations, relationships, and more. I also add some great short writings…
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Payal Nanjiani: Globally Acclaimed Leadership Expert — Sharing Short Advice and Experiences
This post highlights a written interview with Payal Nanjiani. I sent her a few questions and she’s been kind enough to send me the responses. She and I connected on LinkedIn, and it’s my pleasure to bring forth her experiences in this short post. I crafted a list of 10…
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Sergey Young — The Ultimate Book Recommendations
I had the real honor of interviewing Sergey Young on my podcast recently. The interview is coming out very soon. Sergey recommended some great books in our conversation on happiness, peace of mind, improving quality of sleep, and in other areas. I love to know about new books that happy…
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Teresa Quinlan on All about Podcasting: How to Start, Finding Guests, Editing, Purpose and Vision, and More
I wrote down 40 questions based on my podcasting experience and refined them by keeping in mind how to map out a podcasting life cycle journey in a simple and fun way, and someone who’s on any spectrum in their podcasting journey can take the bullets as the foundation and test their hypothesis. I didn’t know…
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Monique Russell — Short Advice, Experiences, and Wisdom From The Best In The World
I crafted a list of 10 life’s philosophical questions that I wanted to answer for myself. I thought—what would it look like if I ask the same set of questions to the best in the world from the different domain—so that I can learn from them—what they do, how they…
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Book Recommendations — New Possibilities, Healing, Love, Connection, and More
In this post, I briefly describe a handful of books that has made so much impact in my life in 2020 and 2021. I consider these books for life to revisit many times. The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life: I don’t exactly remember how I got introduced…
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Ruminations on Healing, Awareness, and Inner Work
I started capturing each and everything I learned on the web in Evernote since 2021 started. It’s better to capture what I’m learning so that when I look back a few years later, I can go back to my notes and see how far I have come. If you’ve been…
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Contemplating Surrendering, Allowing and Letting Go
“Letting go doesn’t mean erasing a memory or ignoring the past; it is when you are no longer reacting to the things that used to make you feel tense and you are releasing the energy attached to certain thoughts. It takes self-awareness, intentional action, practice, and time. Letting go is…
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How I Approach Busy Powerful People and Influencers — Experimenting with Multiple Templates Included
The podcast “The Nishant Garg Show” started without knowing anyone in the mental health and mindfulness industry. Why am I specific to only the mental health and mindfulness industry? When I reached out to people, usually their first question was “what’s this podcast about?” Therefore, I had to pick a…
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Lessons from Abraham Hicks — Synchronicity, Letting Go, Surrender, and More
I’ve been in a state of surrender and letting go of expectations, outcomes, and attachments. I had heard of Abraham Hicks from Wayne Dyer’s teachings, but I never studied Abraham Hicks’s work. I was on vacation in September 2021 in the mountains of Idaho, and something shifted in me to…
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Let’s Try to Forgive and observe Life’s Miracles
Make your amends with adversaries. The simple formula to attain peace and happiness is forgiveness. By radiating the forgiving energy outward, you will find the positive respectful energy flowing back towards you. Try to be big enough to make amends, replace the energy of anger, bitterness, and tension with love…
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Crossing the Bridge: A Letter to Myself and Friend
There is a bridge between our great ideas and their fulfillment. We get to meet naysayers, obstacles, rejections, failures, and disappointments on this bridge. They are the teachers. These teachers may scare you and tell you to go back to where you come from. If you just carefully listen to…
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Justin Brady — Lessons Learned and Short Advice
I crafted a list of 10 life’s philosophical questions that I wanted to answers for myself. I could easily answer the questions based on my thinking. I thought—what would it look like if I ask the same set of questions to the best in the world from the different domain—so…
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End-of-life Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Psychedelics Awareness
Why am I writing a post on Psychedelics? A good friend Michael Ostrolenk asked me a few months ago — if I wanted to interview William A. Richards (Bill), and my response was hell yeah.
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Esther Perel — Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
The real questions are these: Can we have love and desire in the same relationship over time? How? What exactly would that kind of relationship be?
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A Letter from My Older Self to Current Self
One morning over a cup of coffee in one hand and pen in another hand, I allowed the pen to flow on paper as if my older self—my 40 year old is sitting with me and trying to sooth and advice my current self. This short piece of exercise gave me deep satisfaction and peace deep within. This journaling exercise can be done over and over whenever you feel distracted in life, need a pause in life, or as a self-reflection.
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Courage and Hope for Love and Broken Heart
This post isn’t about habits and practices to achieve something, but rather being hopeful during the times of distress, darkness and when our heart is broken. Being hopeful isn’t easy when we are discouraged and disappointed. If ever you feel emotionally down, I encourage you to just be with your…
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Lessons, Realization, and Relationships from Interviewing 150+ Experts
I may have an unhappy day at home. Things may not go right. I can’t control – but when that light goes on, I control my environment. And then, how many people get to control their environment? So, when I hosted a radio show every night or television show every day or wrote a column, I controlled the question I would ask. I controlled my environment.
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Dr. Gabor Maté — Compassionate Inquiry, Healing the Wounds of Trauma, Authenticity and Attachment, and More
“Trauma isn’t what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you.” – Gabor Maté The very first thing I do in the morning right after waking up—I listen to Gabor Mate. Healing isn’t a linear process. The word “healing” comes from the Anglo-Saxon word for wholeness and the essential nature…
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The Creative Process, Be fascinated, Work hard, and Taking Things to the Next Level
“Instead of being crushed by the gap, I became fascinated. I wanted to know more.“ – Scott Shute While preparing for the interview preparation of Scott Shute, I found this LinkedIn article that he had written a few years. I felt a strong desire to share it with others with…
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Tim Ferriss — How To Build A World-Class Network
“Don’t dismiss people, don’t be a dick, and don’t rush. Play the long game.“ – Tim Ferriss This post highlights some of the podcasts by Tim Ferriss I’ve listened to several times which I enjoyed immensely and helped me a lot in my podcasting, how to connect with people, how…
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Attachment Styles, Communication in Relationships, Fear of Commitment and Healthy Boundaries — Lisa Scott
Attachment Styles, Communication in Relationships, Fear of Commitment and Healthy Boundaries — Lisa Scott
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Trauma and Addiction: Resources, Podcasts, Blogs, Books, and More — Gabor Maté
“Trauma isn’t what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you.” – Gabor Maté This post highlights some of the resources by Dr. Gabor Maté I read, listened to, recently which I enjoyed immensely and helped me in gaining a better understanding of myself, my own trauma, coping mechanisms, and…
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My Lessons learned on Love, Relationships, Sex, Eroticism From Esther Perel
The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives. Esther Perel I am very fascinated by learning new things about love, relationships, sex, and how the quality of our life shapes when we cultivate deep and rich relationships with ourselves and others. I am deeply in love with…
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Susanne Grant — Short Advice From The Best In The World
I crafted a list of 10 life’s philosophical questions that I wanted to answers for myself. I could easily answer the questions based on my thinking. I thought—what would it look like if I ask the same set of questions to the best in the world from the different domain—so…
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My Short Journey: Letter To A Friend on Pain, Rejections, Experiments, Books, Meditation, and Much More
My Short Journey: Letter To A Friend on Pain, Rejections, Experiments, Books, Meditation and Much More. A friend asked me what books I have read or re-read in the last few years that might have made the most impact on my life. I thought it’s a good opportunity to reflect back in life and take notes of the books I’ve re-read so far, how I started meditation, and other resources.. Before I get into the resources—I’d like to share my short journey starting 2017 which I have never written about.
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Katherine Hofmann—The Art, Philosophy, Mindset, and Fundamentals of Podcasting
I wrote down 40 questions based on my podcasting experience and refined them by keeping in mind how to map out a podcasting life cycle journey in a simple and fun way, and someone who’s on any spectrum in the podcasting world can take the bullets as the foundation and test their hypothesis. I didn’t know…
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Lisa DeAngelis — Short Life Advice From The Best In The World
I crafted a list of 10 life’s philosophical questions that I wanted to answers for myself. I could easily answer the questions based on my thinking. I thought—what would it look like if I ask the same set of questions to the best in the world from the different domain—so…
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My Recent Favorite Learning — Books, Podcasts, and Much more
This post will share the most impactful learnings that I’ve had in the last few weeks, podcasts I listened to, quotes I am pondering, etc. This is a sneak peek and not a comprehensive list. If you’d like to learn more about what I am reading, new documentaries, what I am learning new, recent podcast updates, things I am experimenting with, or anything —which I share extensively in my weekly short and sweet “Friday Newsletter”.
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Sally Helgesen — Short Advice From The Best In The World
I crafted a list of 10 life’s philosophical questions that I wanted to answers for myself. I could easily answer the questions based on my thinking. I thought—what would it look like if I ask the same set of questions to the best in the world from the different domain—so…
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Ultimate Books I’ve Loved — Alisa Cohn, Cara Bradley, Marc Lesser
This blog post highlight the books mentioned by Alisa Cohn, Cara Bradley, and Marc Lesser on my podcast “The Nishant Garg Show”. My goal is to tease out the habits and routines from the experts in their fields. We don’t have to reinvent the same wheel when someone else has already invented it. Take the approach, tweak it and experiment with it based on your environments, constraints and variables.
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Paul Zelizer — Tools, Techniques, and The Mindset of Podcasting
Paul Zelizer is one of the first business coaches to focus on the needs of conscious entrepreneurs and social impact businesses. He also works with leaders to help them increase the transformational impact that they have. Paul is the former Director of Social Media for Wisdom 2.0, one of the…
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The Top 20 Blogs Visited from 2020
This is the list of Top 20 blog pages visited(in decreasing order) in 2020. Some of the blog pages are a result of the podcast.
Blog page visit is different than a podcast download/listen. Every blog page(corresponding to a podcast) covers guest details, links to the podcast, how to connect with the guests, and much more.
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The Top 20 Episodes of The Nishant Garg Show from 2020
Thank you to all of you to make The Nishant Garg Show successful and take it to the next level. It would not have been possible without your support. This podcast was launched in 2021 January, and by the end of 2020, we managed to publish 123 episodes. I hope this mission will help you live mindfully and learn new habits and routines to live with abundance and manage the struggles and challenges of life
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Lessons Learned From Tim Ferriss and Larry King To Interview The Best In The World
I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I’m going to learn, I must do it by listening. – Larry King Information is useless if it is not applied to something important or if you will forget it before you have a…
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Tools, Techniques and Basics of Podcasting to Play a Long Game
I have been asked lately several times how I started the podcast, what tools to use to record, edit, and launch, and much more. The podcast “The Nishant Garg Show” took its birth as part of my 2020 experiment in January. I wanted to give it a try for 6 episodes only to see if I really like it and want to continue. If I had set up a big goal for myself, I know I would have given up a long time ago.
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Dating and Relationships: Rejections, Confidence, Alpha Male, and Self-Reliance
I never shared that my story was captured in a video newsletter in 2017 by Corey Wayne, and this post reveals that secret. I read this 17 times in 3.5 months by July 2017.
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Happiness, Attachments, Thrills, Awareness
In the past, I continued to be unhappy in my unawareness. Now, I continue to be happy in my awareness. I can feel negative sometimes, but those negative emotions just come and go. They don’t define me, and I am not identified by them. I just observe myself in awareness and understand happiness. If you ask me-“what name would I give to the feeling after I achieve something?” I will be honest and blunt, and at the same time- I’d just say that “it’s a thrill, it’s an emotional high, and it shall soon pass.”
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Ask Better Questions To Get the Amazing Results
Asking good questions interrupts our old and natural way of thinking, and create possibilities to think differently, and perhaps in a new direction.
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Embrace Silence: Silence Is Not Empty
Embrace silence. Silence is not empty. No matter how many times you cut the silence in half, you still get the silence.
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Mindfulness: Mental Energy Recharge
Burned-down? I have been there! If you keep burning out the energy and don’t attempt to fill it — you will have an empty energy tank. Let’s recharge the Energy Battery!!!
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Mindfulness: Prioritize Good Sleep
Prioritize Good Sleep: You can rest even when you are not done. Or, you can rest when you are completely done(dead)
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Growth Mindset: Navigating Through Failures
Growth Mindset: How I applied this principle in learning English(my second language)
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Meditation: The Journey of Inner Peace
Mindfulness Matters: I have learned a lot of Patience and Kindness from Meditation. Meditation is simply closing your eyes, embracing your inner silence, observing your thoughts, listening to your emotions and inner-voice, and not being identified — by any feeling and emotion.
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Consistency wins over Intensity
Over a long-term consistency ALWAYS wins over intensity.
It is always easy to measure success in the long term than in a short time.
A lot of people give up on their dreams when they don’t see results in the short term.
Gratitude is a Practice
When life sucks, do you incline towards what you don’t have in life or do you just appreciate everything in life?
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Choose To Grow
We are spiritual beings having a human experience. We’re not human beings having a spiritual experience. Be kind and be loving.
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Create White Space
At the end of your life, you won’t say- “you would have worked more, rather you would say, you would have RESTED more.”Being busy is NOT always busy. We are constantly bombarded with new information and interruptions, leaving us very little time to think about ourselves. There is very little…
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How and Why To Be Yourself On Your First Date
Are you always successful in getting the first date but finding it difficult to set more dates with her? Do you feel like whatever you do on the first date, she doesn’t want to go out again? Have you ever wondered that why she doesn’t want to go out again…
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Raise the standard of your life!
Raise the standard of your life! Some people are so poor that they only have money. If you drive a small cheap car or if you drive Mercedes, the destination and the road remain the same.
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Have Patience with yourself!
How poor are they that have no Patience- Shakespeare.
Patience is really a virtue and so many people are suffering through this disease of impatience.
Physical Perfection — Confidence Makes You Attractive
If you fill different colors of balloons and let them go in the sky, which one do you think will go high?
The black or the colored one?
They all will go high.
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