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Picture this. The birds are chirping, announcing the birth of a new day. The sun has already shone its warm rays over your bedroom window. So, it’s time to drag your butt out of your cozy bed. You start making your bed.

Halfway through, you head over to the kitchen and place your coffee on the cooking stove so that it can be cooking as you finish making the bed. Instead of going back to the bedroom to finish making the bed, you start mopping the living area.

Organizations are constantly evolving with the change of process and technology. The dynamism of business processes is constantly pushing them to adapt to new scenarios and environments. Something as recent as Covid-19 forced many businesses to adopt changes that would’ve otherwise not been implemented.

The process of bringing changes and ensuring the changes have a desired result and impact is termed as change management. Change management is an intricate part of any business considering it is the only means of assessing whether the implemented changes are having the desired change or not.

Sacrifice. A 9-lettered word most of us are familiar with, though in almost every case, not in a good way. The thing about sacrifice is that it’s never pleasant. When it comes to sacrifice, it’s always about trade-offs, something that you’re having to let go of for something else. What often breaks people is the dilemma of choice that comes with it. It’s never as easy as choosing one thing over the other. With a choice comes a whole lot of self-imposed pressure as to whether the choice was right, the trade-off worth it, and the sacrifice count?

Many of us living life behind a mask. A mask of self-confidence, confidence, power, wholeness, performance, etc., when we hide who we really are? The problem with masks is that when they become the norm, we lose ourselves in trying to please others.

When someone describes a person as a “mask wearer” the meaning is usually negative, but there are appropriate times and reasonable reasons for wearing the mask.

Do you feel like your life is in limbo right now? You are stuck in the anticipation of a certain event or thing, and you justify it by saying things like “Everything will get better after I do this..”.

Do you feel that your present is overshadowed by an imaginative future?

When we talk about wellness, people usually relate it to absence or recovery from illness. However, according to researchers, there are varying degrees of wellness just like varying degrees of illness. To further describe the health status of a person, they illustrate an Illness/Wellness Continuum by relating the treatment paradigm with the wellness paradigm.

The Socratic question (sometimes referred to as the Socratic Method) involves a decent and thoughtful conversation between two or more individuals.

By using consistently focused and open-ended questions, we can open our trust and the confidence of others.

In education, we can remove the concept of ‘sage on the stage’ even if it is temporary. Instead, the teacher pretends to be dumb and acts ignorant of the matter. The student, rather than being inactive, actively helps to push the conversation forward.

Perfectionism is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, it inspires you to work at a high level and deliver high-quality work. On the other hand, it can cause you unnecessary anxiety and slow you down. How can you use the positives of your perfection while mitigating the negatives? What actions or practices can you use to keep your perfection in check? Do you need to list the help of others?