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We live in a world where perception is often created before experience begins. Every day, advertisements influence our choices from everyday products, restaurants to professional services and industrial solutions. Branding tells us what to notice, remember, and sometimes even what to believe. But are we making informed decisions, or simply following what is being marketed to us? Lets take an example of the food industry. Many people choose a restaurant after seeing attractive social-media posts, influencer videos, or glowing reviews. Some reflect genuine experiences; others are sponsored and carefully produced to create a favourable image. At the same time, viral videos may show poor hygiene or contamination against those same brands. Some reveal genuine problems, while others may present only an isolated incident or an incomplete picture to do negative marketing.  So, can we blindly trust everything we see online? The answer is simply NO One of the strongest forms of marketing has...

Assumptions and expectations are two different concepts, yet they are closely linked with one another. When we are not aware of the exact situation, or when we have not personally witnessed an incident but have heard only parts of the story, we tend to make an assumption.  On the other hand, when we want someone to act according to our wishes or have a feeling for others to look up to us as per our requirements, it becomes an expectation. At first glance, assumptions and expectations may seem unrelated. However, in reality, both are feelings that are deeply interconnected and, if not managed properly, can create misunderstandings and conflicts. We need to understand that assumptions create perceptions, while expectations develop emotional needs. This holds true in both professional and personal relationships. We can understand both with proper examples. Consider a situation where a site team receives a deadline from a client to complete a project within a specific period. The p...

There are 2 models over which any individual work: First is Instructive Work Model and second is Initiative Work Model The difference between Instructive Work and Initiative Work lies in the source of motivation, the level of supervision, and the proactive nature of the tasks performed. We can define Instructive Work by Tasks performed based on direct instructions, guidelines, or procedures provided by a supervisor or an established system. An executive in any company is generally expected to follow the instructions of his supervisor or leader. Through these instructions, guidance, and experiences, he develops his knowledge, skills and understanding of the work. Talking about defining an Initiative Work, Proactive, self-directed actions aimed at solving problems, identifying opportunities, or improving processes without waiting for instructions defines Initiative Work.  A manager or team leader is expected to operate under the Initiative Model. Team members look to him for direc...

From the moment we are born, a woman begins to shape our lives in ways we often do not fully realize. From nurturing a child and managing a home to building values and supporting her family with strength and dedication, a woman carries multiple responsibilities with remarkable balance. Managing all these roles together is not common — it takes an extraordinary woman to do it every day with love and commitment. Women bring life into this world and teach us how to live it. A mother is our first Guru and our first teacher. From our first step to the values we carry through life, women play a crucial role in shaping who we become.  Beyond the home, women also contribute immensely to society. They have a unique ability to nurture relationships, resolve differences, and bring people together. Today, women are also rising and excelling in every field, including business, leadership, and sports. Talking about myself, I feel truly privileged to have two incredible women around me who consta...

There is always a question inside our mind when we are communicating or explaining something to someone i.e. How should I behave? Should I be kind in my speech so that the other person doesn’t feel hurt? Or should I be firm and tell them strictly to stop doing things that are unwanted? When we are too kind to someone, the other person feels valued and safe. They prefer to stay around us. But what if someone is on the wrong path and we keep explaining with kindness every time. Will he listen? At first, yes. It may create a positive impact. But once it becomes a regular pattern, he may stop paying attention. He gets used to the words, but not to the change. Let’s take an example... Someone addicted to bad habits like drinking, smoking, or being on the phone all the time. In the beginning, our kind approach may affect him. Because of emotional bonding, he may realize his mistake once, twice, or even thrice. But if this becomes a regular cycle,  will kindness be effective? No, kindness...

In life, success is something we all strive for. From our academic years to the start of our careers, we put in our best efforts to achieve something meaningful—to get a good job, earn recognition, and live a life of value. But despite our hopes and hard work, not everyone reaches the destination they dream of. Why? Because wishing for success is not the same as planning for it. When we see someone driving a luxury car or living in a grand villa, we often think, “I wish I had that too.” It’s a common reaction. We desire those outcomes. We imagine ourselves in that position. But the real question is—how do we plan to get there? Hope gives us the vision but not the roadmap. A goal, on the other hand, begins where hope ends—with a question: “How will I achieve it?” This simple but powerful question turns a vague wish into a clear objective. It gives birth to action, effort, and strategy. Let’s consider a common aspiration: “I want to be at a managerial level within 3 years.” It’s...

The Motive Behind Exploring "Outer World vs Inner World" In a world where external achievements, appearances, and performances dominate our daily lives, we often overlook the most vital space we inhabit — Our Inner World . This is where our emotions, thoughts, fears, values, and dreams reside. It is the truth of who we are. The Outer World , on the other hand, is the space everyone else lives in — each person carrying their own invisible inner realities. Ironically, while real change and growth begin from within, we constantly strive to control the outer world — something that’s never fully in our control, as each individual lives by their own values, feelings, and perceptions. When we fail to influence it the way we want, we feel stressed, disappointed, and sometimes even angry with ourselves for not being able to control others. So, the question arises: If becoming a better person starts with mastering the Inner Self, why do we invest most of our energy trying to influence ...

 A person sees himself in many zones as per his daily activities that are going around. He tries to adopt himself as per the surroundings. So can we say that he is getting influenced by others? Influence means to control someone or a group and get ourselves to believe in what they are saying is true.  When we are young and in our growing stage, we always find people who try to motivate us to do some tasks. Those tasks can be negative or positive, right or wrong, hard or easy. A regular child gets up, goes to school, attends classes, comes home, does homework, goes to play, comes back and eats and sleep.  But Sachin Tendulkar, he started his journey of Cricket at the age of 11 years and today he is known as the God of Cricket.  Just 1 thing different from a common child and that was to grow himself to achieve his dreams.  Similarly a professional Person gets up, does some exercise or reads the newspaper, gets ready, goes to the office, completes his work, comes b...

In my last blog " Let's Redefine Our Own Destiny ", I mentioned about how the actions of our past lead us to where we are today. In simple words, A journey from Actions to Reactions is defined as Destiny. But sometimes we misunderstand our Destiny with Fate. Many of us are not aware of the Difference between Destiny and Fate.    A predetermined course of Action which is decided by a natural order in the Universe is known as Fate. In simple words, A journey of an individual which starts inside the womb of mother, growing of that child from kid to an Adult, performing his duties based upon his doings and then ultimately he dies, might be at a young age or might be at an older age. This is the course of action predefined by the Universe and so it is defined as Fate. But During his journey of life, whatever life makes him face and whatever actions are taken by him are the results of Destiny.  A Destiny is something that has been influenced by our own actions or Actions done b...

Let's start by understanding the meaning of Destiny " Everything that is happening in our life or something that is fixed and going to happen in the future means Destiny." But my first question is to ask our own selves that Whatever we are doing or achieving, whatever that is happening in our life isn't because of some of the events that took place where our life was involved and made us what we are today? There is a famous saying "We will achieve what we have done" which can be understood by The Law of Karma that " All the actions have their equal Reactions" Meaning that whatever we do today has a reaction towards that action in the future.  So it is not the fate that leads or does anything but it is our own action of past which has reacted today and kept us in a situation of what we are today.  Let's understand this with a common example of Mobile Addiction: A 5-6 year old child today doesn't eat without taking a mobile phone to play game...

Today in this Fast Life, we get many reasons for being Sad. Be it the reason over work load and pressure, the reason related to our personal problems or the reason of losing someone close to us. Let's take an example to understand this: There is someone in our life who became a very important person, whom we loved very much but that person cheated us. Now that person who cheated us is happy in their life, maybe with someone whom they love but on the contrary we became Sad. Seeing us Sad, our loved one's also started worrying about us and they became sad. Our colleagues who are dependent on us for the work alloted to us got dissatisfied because we were not able to focus on our work. In reality, the person who cheated should have received the Punishment but here it is us who are punishing our own selves as well as everyone connected to our life. Aren't we keeping ourselves away from reality just because of someone's wrong doings? Another example can be related to our ...

Are we a follower or a leader? We all know that a follower means following some person, their ideas, some rituals that we believe, the styles of our loved celebrities etc. And a leader means someone who tries to spread their ideologies amongst the people, tries to give knowledge to the people who are following them. By knowing this, everyone always think that they want to be a leader in the future where every other person follows them, praises them and tries to acknowledge them. But is this the real leader and a follower or are we just missing out something? Actually the truth is that every person falls in both the categories i.e. A leader as well as a follower. A person should be a follower of his observations. Observations that he did during his entire life cycle, observations that he did while working day and night, observations that he did while meeting new people. Observations means the things that a person don't just see but also try to understand it. When a person obs...

We all face a common issue in knowing the other person. At times, we cannot judge whether the other person is speaking truth or not. But we never try to understand why are we not able to take judgement in recognizing the truth. When we talk with any person, there are always 2 chances- The other person might be lying or the other person might be speaking truth. But how to recognize that person is the biggest question that needs to be answered. Truth is something that can be realized but lie is something that needs to be invented . Whenever a person lies, he creates a story to tell where he tries to cover all the facts in different manner and develops a new story which actually never happened. But when any person says truth, it's always natural. The whole story is exactly how he got to know i.e. the other person has experienced the story that he is portraying. So we can take our first judgement for knowing the truth by the story that he has experienced.  Next point that we need to ...

Starting with the Stats, according to World Health Organization, 1.23 million people worldwide every year die due to traffic accidents that are taking place. That means the issue of traffic sense is quite more serious than Covid-19 as well. But if we try to think this with a different perspective then we can understand that the overall traffic sense is directly dependent upon our attitude towards taking responsibility of our own self as well as others who are connected with us. Let’s try to understand this in more detail by highlighting the attitudes in our regular life.  1. PATIENCE : We all might know that a person should have a good amount of Patience level for bringing any kind of solution. But we are losing our patience very easily. We have got that habit of reacting immediately without understanding the situation which will ultimately generate more problems rather than solving anything. This is directly related to the traffic sense that is required to solve the traffic prob...

We all have fear inside us in different forms. Children have the fear about their upcoming school exams, students have fear about how to get a job after college, some parents have fear about their children leaving them alone even after raising them with utmost care and love and almost all of us fear about death at every moment of our life. But one thing to notice about fear is that it will be related to our future. And the only result that we gain out of fear is pain, depression, mental instability and separation. We are always in the fear of future, trying to secure the future with happiness, but we need to think over one point, is trying to secure our future happiness by giving up today's happiness viable? If we are not able to seize our today's happiness then how are we going to achieve our future happiness? Let's take an example to understand this. In 2010, you decided to secure something for your future by giving up some important thing/person from your life for some s...

We always try to remain self-motivated , but are we aware of the ways to stay self-motivated?? Below mentioned is the cycle which will not only help you in self-motivation but also will help you in continuous development of your skills. 1. Knowledge 2. Planning 3. initiatives 4. Confidence 5. Change 6. Mastery 7. Satisfaction 8. Knowledge When we start taking interest in some sector, we start gaining knowledge by learning new things. This knowledge helps us in proper planning required for taking any initiative because we all know, to achieve success, proper step wise planning is required. Now we are ready to take our first step towards the planning that we have done i.e initiating towards execution. This will help us in gaining experience, also can improvise our plans from the mistakes we made while executing, ultimately gaining confidence over that sector. This confidence can help us in becoming stronger and thus feel the change that is required for our self-development. This developm...

In the previous “Borderline" article  (https://varunthakkar3.blogspot.com/2020/01/borderline.html?m=1)  we saw the effects of attachments which makes us cross the borderline where everything we read was related to mind, so it becomes important for us to understand what exactly mind is and how it works. Mind is not a physical part of body but it’s actually a spiritual part of brain where each and every activity is noted down and signals are given to every cell in the body for performing its functions. Mainly mind contains of 3 parts which are • Conscious mind • Subconscious mind • Superconscious mind Conscious mind and subconscious mind are like iceberg where the small portion floating above water which is the visible part is related to conscious part and the part which is not seen is related to the subconscious mind. Conscious mind gathers the information from the surroundings and this information is stored in the subconscious mind. Now whenever we need to act upon s...

There are so many feelings being felt by a normal human. We experience anger, sadness, love, hatred. But out of all these feelings, do you know what makes us the most vulnerable? It’s none other than the Attachment. Attachment is an accumulation of all the feelings which includes Hatred, love, trust, anger, happiness, sadness and many more which makes us a vulnerable person. These attachments are the only reason for any person to always keep his mind busy. Either he must be thinking about love that he got from some person, sadness he got due to breaking up of any relationship or hatred that he felt when his boss scolded him. Ultimately all this thought processes that keep taking place in any person is due to the attachment that he has with that particular person. And these attachments are the reason to keep us on a borderline of normal thinking and overthinking. What do you think is the reason for any misunderstanding or miscommunication taking place between 2 persons? It’s non...

First of a Very Happy Diwali to all the readers. When you hand over your 10000 hard earned money to your friend and he burns that money within a moment, how will you feel??? That's the exact same scenario which is created while burning crackers. You pay to the shop, and burn that in the sky. But yeah of course we won't accept this fact because we humans are experts in one particular thing, and that's making excuses. "We just burn crackers once in a year" "Firing crackers bring happiness in our lives" "Children get flattered by playing with crackers" "We just burn 100 rupees crackers not more than that" Just read 2 days before on some social media where someone is saying that the government has problem with firing crackers for one day and what about the rest 365 days where traffic and everything causes pollution. First of all, do you really think that only air and noise pollution are the problem by firing crackers?? If yes then I guess...

Studying in prestigious college like Oxford University, Stanford University, Harvard University and many more is always a dream and a proud feeling for anyone. But how many of us are really able to study in that kind of universities??? Negligible.   Still we go there to study in the private and state universities. I am not here to demotivate anyone going abroad but just trying to clear some facts which we usually don’t think. Talking about the major reasons for going abroad to study: Easy availability of Green Card and PR . Nowadays migration has become somewhat difficult then before due to which going to study in abroad university can easily result you into getting the PR of that country. Freedom - Freedom from family pressures, freedom to live life on your own terms & do anything at anytime with no-one around to scold you. And the main reason due to which parents are also encouraging their child to go abroad is Money as we all have that mentality that he...