I am participating in a hackathon this week - called Give Back Hack(https://givebackhack.com/). In essence, it's about a group of strangers coming together to launch a business by the end of it. The caveat is that the company has to have a social impact.
I chose to work with ...
My dad has been talking about this guy called Sri M for a couple of years. Sri M has written a few books, and my dad has read them all. The topic of Sri M came up again recently, and I decided to give his books a try. I share my dad's kindle - clicked on the book and voila downlo...
The dictionary meaning of normal is 'conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.'
Like, as an Asian child growing up - to be 'normal' was to work super hard, get excellent grades and a get a good job. Continuing further, it also meant that you married a nice boy that ...
With the coronavirus shutdown, I am finding it easier to go inward. I had already started an introspection journey this year, so the lockdown came as a pleasant addition.
I wanted to share some experiences with you.
Engineering Days: I was not happy about the fact that I got ad...
Have you ever woken up in the morning deciding to make someone's else life hell? If yes, then it is better that you don't get out of bed. Jokes aside, earnestly when have we wished to hurt another person. If you are like an average person then your thoughts will be focused more o...
I would like you to meet our Shiba Inu pup - Aki (which means Bright Prince in Japanese). He is two years old, and honestly, I don't know what life was like without him. All the secret to success mantras like positive thinking, the power of thought Aki knows them all instinctivel...
I sat down to write my blog, and I didn't know what to write. Usually, I have an idea that I have been toying with and then its just a matter of letting it all flow on the paper. This time was a little different. I looked at my backlog, racked my brains, but nothing came up, so I...
Happy New Year All. This year we were in Sydney for the New Years and decided to do what we never did even once in the seven-year we lived in London. Watch the fireworks in person. A well-organized event in Sydney. There are different vantage points. The one we chose was the McMa...
"It is easy to fight a war, but it's the day to day life that wears us out." Like all things that have something to teach us this quote stayed with me. The words might not be the same, but it does convey the message. It is easier to tackle a big crisis than with the minutiae of o...
A bunch of us were talking about our holiday plans for the year-end. The person sitting on my left was telling me about how he and his wife had gone to Brussels and spoke to this young girl who was traveling Europe with just a backpack. And I responded with, "I didn't like Brusse...
Adam and I were walking to a coffee shop downtown. I saw this lanky young man with a head full of thick curls walking towards us. He was talking non-stop and was holding onto his pants. As he walked past us I realized that he was talking to himself and not on bluetooth as I had a...
I have a hard time listening to others. I am very good at listening... to myself - I am beginning to realize that I love the sound of my own voice. And recently with the change in my role as a people leader I find myself coming back to the listening more and more. Maybe, its beca...
Let's take two scenarios. Scenario 1: You are having a really busy day - rushing from one thing to the other. You have had a whirlwind day - and you have got 15 minutes before you get on tube. You have been looking forward to the 15 minute break all day long and one of your old a...
In our recent trip to London I could not help but wonder on how different my mind and body react to being in London. The tall buildings - crowds of people around you - the buzz of the tubes, buses which you do not notice anymore. I automatically start to walk fast, whiz through t...
Let's take a scenario: You have a early morning meeting at work. And for some reason you slept late the previous night and woke up late. You forgot to make your lunch and it's your turn to take the puppy out for a morning walk.
I am sure all of us have experienced the following ...
When I was in London I took up Bikram Yoga and took it up with a vengeance - I went almost daily for two years until one day I decided it was too much and stopped doing yoga for six months. And now I practice Ashtanga Yoga at a more moderate pace. It is all about the golden mean ...
In one of my previous blogs(https://www.anumorris.com/?p=15715) I had talked about the 10 Paramis or Virtues. Today I want to talk about one of them which is
6\. Khanti: Patience May I ever be patient. May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others. May I ever be toler...
As some of you know I am a big time bookworm - fantasy being my favorite genre.I devour good books like there is no tomorrow. I recently read the Demon Cycle series by Peter V.Brett(http://www.petervbrett.com/). Reason I like fantasy books is because they all have a spiritual, ...
In my current role I have to manage a team of people - mostly project managers. And every month we have a strategic meeting and some kind of a fun activity either within ourselves or with other teams we work with. If I chair a meeting it has to be fun at least for me - otherwise ...
Let's say you have a poisonous tree in your backyard - it is infected by some insect which is causing it to be poisonous. The infection is in the roots of the tree. You keep cutting the tree down and telling yourself that the problem is solved. At a superficial level it does look...
My parents were visiting me in London while I was working for British Telecom. It was around that time when I had told my parents that Adam and I wanted to get married. We were discussing the details and we had an disagreement. I remember my mom walked off and I was so angry that...
As some of you know I have started learning swimming. I can swim now - except the breathing part. I still use a swimming snorkel but I am more comfortable in water and have more stamina. When I first started off I couldn't even take 2 strokes and I was swimming next to little kid...
For a while I was into these quotes thing and I had picked up this greeting card at the yoga studio - it called out to me at that time. _"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms ...
I remember when I moved to Columbus from London - it was an identity crisis of sorts. The first step was to recognize that my identity was tied to working as a Project Manager in British Telecom and having a MBA degree from London Business School. I identified myself with these t...
This blog follows the last one(https://www.anumorris.com/?p=15938) where I talk about the different ways in which we can accept or not accept other's judgements/opinions.
In this blog I am going to talk about how to increase the "effort" factor in implementing the different wa...
This blog follows the last one(https://www.anumorris.com/?p=15932) where I talk about the choice we have in accepting or not accepting the judgements from others.
In this blog I am going to talk about how we can exercise that choice. I will start with the quote from Ramana Mah...
I remember my hindi teacher at school telling us this story. It went something like this: _There is a bus that is going from A to B. On the way to B it runs into a oncoming truck and everybody on the bus dies. People come running to the accident to help any survivors and all they...
We have a mentoring event at office and one of my friends is on the panel. He asked me if I could speak at the event for a few minutes and give my testimonial from last year. I obviously said yes - I love being in the limelight even if I obsess about it before. !(/images/Mentor...
It's Sunday evening and you are thinking about all the things that you haven't done. You have a busy day ahead and want to get to bed early but at the same time you have not had a break. Anyways you go to bed with the unfinished business hanging over your head.
You wake up in th...
When I first met Adam one of the my very emphatic statements to him was that I am not going to cook. Coming from India where it is assumed that girls will grow up and cook for their husbands and family, I assumed that Adam had similar notions. I was all set to make it straigh...
This post is about the following quote from Steve Jobs. !connectdots(/images/connectdots.webp)
An example from his life: _He dropped out of college due to various reasons \Read the prestory here(http://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505/)\.Reed College at that time o...