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…
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…
What is Life Résumé?
This is the beginning of a new year and I’m sure a lot of you have been thinking about new year resolutions. I mean, isn’t that what most people talk about in the first few weeks of every year? So, like everyone else, even I have been wondering what resolutions I should take up for this year. I have also been wondering what experiences I should aim to have in this year, what new things I should learn and what old things I should go back and work on. As a species, human beings have always wanted to learn new skills and hone their old ones. Which brings me to…
