The Take-Away Series: The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
If you had met me a year ago and told me that I am on my way to becoming one of those ‘wake up with the sun, chirpy as a bird’ people, I would have given you the stink eye. If you had told me that I would actually be writing about a book called The Miracle Morning in an attempt to convert people to waking super earlyism, I would have just walked off. And not even looked at you again. Ever. But I guess things change as you get older and closer to thirty. My early twenties, like most people, were spent mostly chilling out with friends, partying, reading…
Building a Successful Life Résumé: July 2019
As I sat here on my table writing the title of this article, I had to pause and stare at it. I had just typed ‘July 2019’. It just suddenly dawned on me that we are in the second week of July 2019. More than half of this year has passed. And it has been half a year since I launched this beautiful blog, Life Résumé. When I first started thinking of Life Résumé as something that should be a part of everyone’s journey, I was unsure of the shape and form that it was going to take. As most things in life, it has been a constant work in…
8 Ways Meditation will Transform You
These past few weeks, I have had an injury on my wrist. I had to take some time off from blogging as well as work. Which left me with a lot of time to do the thing I enjoy the most: Reading! (You are probably rolling your eyes, but yes, I can connect any damn topic to reading!) One of the books that I am currently reading is Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, a book by Yuval Noah Harari. While I was checking out Harari on Wikipedia (Yes, only reading books is not enough for me, I have to check out and read about the authors as well!), I…
A Super Awesome Way of Improving Yourself: Lifelong Learning
When looking at the world around you, do any of you ever think how fortunate you are to be born as a human being? Be it your ability to speak and communicate (Imagine being married without this), your ability to understand humour (Lord, life would be so dull otherwise!), your ability to adapt to anything (I mean, we have inhabited some extremely harsh regions, from frozen lands to deserts) and of course your ability to learn and comprehend (What would the world look like if human babies couldn’t be trained to become civil!). Most creatures in the animal kingdom don’t possess these abilities. Have you ever wondered how unique our…
The Curious Incident of Hobbies in a Lifetime
Yes, I did name this blog post after the Mark Haddon book. After all, when talking about hobbies, shouldn’t one begin with a reference to one’s own? And reading has been one of the most important parts of my. I am sure you remember when we talked about reading in this post from the take-away series. But I digress! According to me, having hobbies is one of the most crucial ingredients of your kickass Life Résumé. This is something that each one of us, irrespective of your age, gender, social status, marital status, country of origin, religion, beliefs, spirituality, should have. Then why, you ask, do I call it ‘the…
Journaling: How it Changed My Life and can Transform Yours too
Last week, for the long weekend, we decided to step out of town and go to the beach. Three days: disconnected from everything and everyone. We packed up a nice, small bag, beach clothing and tons of sunscreen. That’s all we needed to have a wonderful couple of days. Well, almost! Because I also had a nice bag full of my journals. Yes, journals! We have, so far, talked about various ingredients for building a wonderful Life Résumé. In the last week, we talked about habits. Habits, which are truly crucial for building your mind-blowing Life Résumé. And one of the habits that we talked about was Journaling. Today, we…
Kickass Habits for a Kickass Life
How many of us think, “I am surrounded by people who have their shit figured out”? I have always had those friends who wake up early or who work out everyday or friends who have dedicated time set aside each week to work on their hobbies or crafts and I have wondered and wondered for years how these people actually manage the time? As I started my journey into personal development and growth, there were a few things that kept popping up. But at the base of it all, there was one underlying constant that every development guru kept talking about, that one thing that seemed to be a theme…
The Take-Away Series: Podcasts that will Blow your Mind, One Lesson at a Time
Welcome to the second edition of my take-away series! In the first edition, we talked about a book that not only gave me an excellent perspective on life, but also talked to me about values, the importance of saying ‘No’, happiness, suffering and so many other beautiful things. You can check out that post here! In this modern life ours, with so many conveniences to make things faster and easier and reachable, we have gone ahead and gotten ourselves into the exact opposite situation. We have made our lives inconvenient and complicated. One such inconvenience in many of our lives is the commute to and from work. Like so many…
Ingredients of a Kickass Life Résumé: Part II
In this quest to find your passion, fulfil your destiny and achieve all that we want to achieve, we find many distractions. Some of them good, some of them not so good. To give you an example, one of my recent distractions is calligraphy. I have become obsessed about my lettering and I have even enrolled in an online course to better myself! This is what I call a good distraction. Because this is something that definitely adds to my Life Résumé. But what about all that time I have spent just scrolling aimlessly through my social media feed or binge watching a TV show ? It is a distraction…
The Take-Away Series: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
One of my favourite authors George R. R. Martin once said, “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” Reading has played a very important part in my life. Being an only child, reading gave me friends, someone to hang out with, took me to imaginary lands that people with siblings go with their brothers and sisters. Reading fiction, according to a young Shalvika, was one of the best things that she could do with her time. And trust me, not much has changed. Today’s Shalvika loves reading a good novel too. But what’s different is that she realises that books…
