Keep Smiling One of my favourite Travel quotes “Take nothing but memories, Leave nothing but foot prints” by Chief Seattle This is dedicated to my colleague Amit.C, who was part of my team and often we used to commute to office together. Though he was my direct reportee and have given him enough leadership advice on various occasions. During our commute back home, he regaled everyone with his steady stream…
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Communication Disorders Good communication is an important life skill. It is so important that allows others and yourself to understand information more accurately and quickly. This is something we learn very early on in life. There is an important aspect related to communication which is disorders. A child having a communication disorder has trouble communicating to others. The child may have difficulty in understanding or making sounds of speech. Sometimes…
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Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible One of my favourite quote about reading by “Barack Obama”It is a special day for me, today is Enid Blyton’s Birthday. She is an English Children writer whose books are enormously popular and have been among the world’s best seller since the 1930s. My library teacher Ganpole Ma’am had introduced me to this magical woman Enid Blyton. I grew…
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Wise & Otherwise Sudha Murthy is someone who has been a role model for me since my childhood. I am inspired by her simplicity. Today I wanted to write about the book “Wise & Otherwise” A Salute to Life written by her. I just love this book for not only the simple stories but the way it is presented to the readers. Her style of writing makes it relatable.This book…
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What can I give? I was really excited to receive a book from my friend “What can I give?” on the life lessons of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam written by Srijan Pal Singh. This book is a tribute to a teacher par excellence by his student. The author has shared the lessons in a beautiful manner which are taught beyond classrooms. He had this gift of empathy and whenever I talk…
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The 4 Interior Empires I was introduced to Robin Sharma’s books by my friend Poonam who was the guest speaker in the last week’s episode of Kapi Poha Session. I recently read this book 5am Club which was pending in my list for a very long time. The book primarily focuses on “Own your morning, Elevate your Life “. I loved the concept of 4 Interior Empires shared by the…
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Gratitude Jars This week is very special for me as it began with a photograph from my friend @sukanyalal3 Being grateful does not happen at once & needs constant practice. Just sharing an idea about having a gratitude jar at home.These are known as happiness jars as well; the basic idea is that you write down when you feel grateful for something and put it into a container to read later…
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Six Thinking Hats From last 3 months, I have been reading a lot of reference material on life skills in order to get content for my upcoming book and workshops. I came across a very interesting old book “Six Thinking Hats” by “Edward de Bono” from my treasure of books.The concept is thought provoking, we generally take decisions in our life which are based on pros, cons, feeing, facts etc.…
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Pebble stories I spent my initial 10 years in a daycare when my parents went for work. In my early childhood days, I picked up new languages, habits from my caretakers and my daycare mates. I remember Akka, who always told me stories while putting me to sleep during the afternoon time. She used to tell there are beautiful round stones (pebbles)in the river faraway and each of them had…
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New Found Love for Doodling From past few months I was struggling to take out time to work on my social cause initiative along with my fulltime job and writing content from my second book. I came across my old school time diary where I used to scribble everything in the form of drawing. Then I realised that during my childhood I was very lazy to make notes so would…
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Smitha Umesan
