I recently watched the movie - 'The White Tiger' on Netflix. It is one of those movies which has more than just a basic storyline. It depicts India, and it's culture - things that probably most Indians don't even think about anymore. But it goes a lot deeper than that. I have not...
Adam and I were discussing cartoon movies we have watched in the past like Cars, Toy Story, How to train your dragon, Kung Fu Panda and Up. The storyline for these movies except Up is primarily based on personification. Up is truly an outlier - 'a little out of this world', espec...
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...
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...
I recently attended a CPM(https://theraoinstitute.com/) alumni retreat in London. And it has been a decade since I took the course first at London Business School. In the first class Prof. Rao invited us speak about what we want from the class. And at that time I was at crossro...
We recently visited Ashville, NC. And this is our second trip. First time we were passing by and spent a day here exploring the downtown and cool eating places. To be honest it was a)Dobra Tea House(http://www.dobratea.com/) b)Chai Pani(http://www.chaipaniasheville.com/) that...
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 ...
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...
"A problem is a problem only if you define it as a problem."
I remember when I was doing my engineering in Bombay - I had to take a share auto to my college from train station - Santa Cruz. And during exams or important classes that used to be my prime worry. I did not want to s...
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...
Growing up in India words like Gurus/Meditation/Yoga are white noise because a) they are so common- it's like asking a fish what is water (we might not know what it really means but we know) b) there are a lot of charlatans and you are always wary when these words are mentioned.
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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 ...
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...
In the 10-day Vipassana(http://dhamma.org) courses Goenkaji tells us some stories during the discourses. The one below is similar to the one Goenkaji narrates during the course.
_There once lived a great warrior. Though quite old, he still was able to defeat any challenger. Hi...
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...
As some of you might know I run a small business on the side which is teaching Bollywood Dance. As a part of that I got contacted by Bollywood Musical Company Taj Express(http://www.tajexpressthemusical.com/bollywoodmusical/) asking if I wanted to partner with them.
It was on ...
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It was summertime and I remember very vividly that my dad who is usually very fit kept sleeping for an entire weekend - non-stop. He had just made a trip to Delhi or some other city for business and when he came back all he did was sleep. His...
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...
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Vipassana meditation(http://dhamma.org/) retreats that I keep mentioning in my blogs are free - they are run on a pay it forward or donation basis. You pay with what you can and pay only i...
Raymond Fiest(http://www.crydee.com/), one of my favorite fantasy authors writes in his book, "The Magician"
> we are the architect of our own prison
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What does he mean by that? Let me tell you a story.
A rich couple are blessed with a baby boy aft...
I practice Ashtanga Yoga - Mysore style. I started it in London at Hamish's studio(http://astangayogalondon.com/ayl-teachers/hamish-hendry/) who is one of the most content people I have ever known. And I admire people who are content - truly content with what they have because ...
As some of you may recall from last blog(https://www.anumorris.com/?p=15782) that I just finished a MasterCleanse(http://themastercleanse.com/) detox. It's a liquid diet. You don't eat any solid foods at all. The minimum you can do it for is 10 days and I did it for 15 days l...
1. An Adult is trying to learn gymnastics and during the back flip practice which she was able to do so well last class - she falls down.
2. An adult is trying to learn swimming and is having trouble blowing bubbles into water. So she does the bare minimum she can and then lea...
I just got back from serving at a 10-day Vipassana Meditation Retreat. Vipassana means to "See things as they are" and it's one of the many ways to reach enlightenment or at least get started on the journey. It was bought to India by S.N.Goenka to whom I am very grateful.
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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...