Fighting with self, what for, You must be wondering? Yes, I mean it, but for a constructive cause.

Stand before a mirror and look at your eyes; concentrate and focus deeply; withdraw yourself from the surroundings and look through your own eyes — deep within yourself!

Ask yourself a simple question: How many times you’ve pretended to be right, when you knew that you’re wrong.

I’m sure, there won’t be any, in the beginning. But, try again, and again, untill you accept one, at least.

And then, question yourself: Why you did so, and threaten yourself with dire consequences if you repeat it in future.

Get angry and challenge your ego, your self-respect and your self-esteem. And promise to yourself, that you’ll never do it again.

Close your eyes and open again, look at your face and feel the difference!

You’d be a better person, little, but better than what you were, before this session commenced.

Do it once, daily, and let me know your observation.

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“In a day, when you don’t come across any problems, then you can be sure that you are traveling in the wrong path…”  John F. Kennedy

What is a problem: An obstruction that’s not allowing you to do something you wish to; a disturbing thought that’s spoiling your peace of mind; or something you would prefer to ignore but unable to do so.

In short, problem is an act of interference in your life by unwanted persons or undesirable developments,  or both.

Many a time, I've noticed that our immediate reaction to any problem is to push it down the priority list – not now, later, approach – and focus on simpler tasks.

We develop a peculiar habit of ignoring the need to focus on 'problem solving' 
 by delaying appropriate action as much as we can, until it becomes unavoidable — perhaps, too late to work-out a practical solution.

Why we run away from problems? In fact, I’ve done it a number of times in my life — and faced the consequences too.

In one such case, I waited for more than a decade for letting things cool off. When that didn’t happen, I took a stern action – and surprisingly – it worked!

Good that it worked, but, it could have worked at that time also — 10 years ago. Unfortunately, I never tried just because I was scared to take action. Perhaps, I assumed that it wouldn’t work.

A wrong assumption kept me running away from that problem for 10 long years — depriving me of a normal life – before, finally, taking it on with full force — and working out a solution!

But I lost 10 precious years of my life and the sparkles of joy and happiness that could have been a part of it, had I acted then, in time, decisively!

So never run away from problems rather attend to it, and identify a workable solution as early as possible. Image Credit

Cross-posted from my blog Fighting Soul

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Further to my earlier posting on Daniel Pink- Intrinsic Motivators are Clearly the Primary Root to High Performance - with reference to an interview published on Time, let me now share with you, the details of another interesting encounter, I mean interview. Quite a few interesting questions by AARP - reports Carol Kaufmann - and equally interesting explanation by Daniel, author of the best selling book  Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, on your inherent desire to do better..

"If you reward workers, they’ll do more. But too often in companies or organizations we stop there. And that’s a shame because science tells us there’s this third drive—the desire to do stuff because it’s interesting, the desire to direct our own lives and get better at things and be part of something larger than ourselves. We’re leaving motivation untapped at a pretty significant cost both economically and even psychically." Read more Here

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Originally published on my Personal Blog: Life