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…
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…
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…
Ingredients of a Kickass Life Résumé: Part I
How many of you love food? I mean, food is one of the most important parts of our lives. For a lot of people, food is life. And if you were to stop and ask one of these food-lovers about their favourite, favourite recipe, I am sure a lot of it would go like this: “Well, to make this favourite dish of mine, you would need a cup of this, a pinch of that, a handful of those and of course, salt to taste!” Or as the famous chef Jamie Oliver once said, “Real food does not have ingredients. Real food is ingredients.” With the last post we looked at…
