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Oct 1, 2020

your precious TEA

protect it and use it efficiently Listening is generally considered one of the easiest tasks. It’s not if you do it right. Your Time, Energy (mental, physical & emotional), and Attention (TEA) are far too precious to splurge them unnecessarily. Consider these options: Asking people to stop talking about things…

Life Hacking

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your precious TEA
your precious TEA

Oct 1, 2020

Work on your education and take classes at your job

Let’s take a look at it. — Most of us look at our jobs as a means of earning a livelihood. And somehow we feel secure at our jobs. Until the job ceases to exist, you underperform, the organization ceases to exist, or you simply get fired by your corrupt boss. Our mentality says — We must…

Financial Freedom

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Work on your education and take classes at your job
Work on your education and take classes at your job

Aug 12, 2020

If you are a part of the Formal Education System…

then you are merely a puppet in the hands of community control and your performance in the system has nothing to do with providing what you really need from the system. While there are schools, colleges and universities to teach, train and educate people from a very young age. The…

Human Behavior

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If you are a part of the Formal Education System…
If you are a part of the Formal Education System…

Jun 12, 2020

We need everyone to be like a therapist

A few basic skills of professional therapists among all of us will do a lot of good in this world. — I have always wondered at the obviousness of communication, especially speaking. Speaking comes too easily to all of us. It’s one of the most basic skillsets that we are capable of acquiring — most inherently and naturally. We hardly require any formal training, education or guidance for speaking.

Mental Health

6 min read

We need a lot of therapists in this world.
We need a lot of therapists in this world.

May 17, 2020

The World is selling you Modern lifestyle drugs — Peace, Happiness, Tranquility, and more.

Complaining is not good. It’s not good for anyone and for any purpose or reason. I personally see complaining as a method to vent out your emotions while losing the focus on the true action you could have followed instead. “The World is selling you..” is again very naturally might…

Life

4 min read

The World is selling you Modern lifestyle drugs — Peace, Happiness, Tranquility, and more.
The World is selling you Modern lifestyle drugs — Peace, Happiness, Tranquility, and more.

May 16, 2020

When we forget to be kind to… Ourselves.

A very simple analogy for a humble display: You are trying to teach basic Mathematics to a 6-year-old. You are patient, polite, fun and being highly creative in making that kid understand one digit subtraction. Now, even after spending an hour on this simple ( — for you) mathematical operation…

Kindness

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When we forget to be kind to… Ourselves.
When we forget to be kind to… Ourselves.

May 15, 2020

“It’s time to pay up your rent, sir!”- An emotional side of pandemic.

I have been receiving quite a few calls and messages from people who are under distress due to their inability to pay up their housing rent or business space rents. Their nights are going sleepless and their days are filled with anxiety and stress. …

Rent

4 min read

“It’s time to pay up your rent, sir!”- An emotional side of pandemic.
“It’s time to pay up your rent, sir!”- An emotional side of pandemic.

Jun 7, 2019

Trauma is when it is. But who decides?

Just the situation in itself is not traumatic. The internal makeup of the person who went through that situation decides if the situation was traumatic or not for him/her. An accident, abuse, divorce, breakup, deaths, failures, financial losses, job loss, and many such situations in life can be traumatic for…

Mental Health

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Trauma is when it is. But who decides?
Trauma is when it is. But who decides?

Mar 7, 2018

What might it take to keep Employees Happy in the 21st Century?

I hear a lot of aspiring young students, fresher’s and young professionals that they wish to do something that could impact society and impact people’s lives directly. Somehow they feel that by becoming a doctor, or an engineer, or by doing any other professional, technical, or regular course (BA/B.Sc./B.Com.) and…

Management

7 min read

What might it take to keep Employees Happy in the 21st Century?
What might it take to keep Employees Happy in the 21st Century?

Feb 12, 2018

Why embracing pain, discomfort, or suffering, is a need for happiness?

We human-beings are in never-ending search of pleasure, and in the lookout of avoiding pain. We detest discomfort and change. We try to accumulate as much resources as we can; and then we fear them losing away, then we try to accumulate more. We are creature of habits, routine and…

Life Lessons

4 min read

Why embracing pain, discomfort, or suffering, is a need for happiness?
Why embracing pain, discomfort, or suffering, is a need for happiness?
Abrar Raza

Abrar Raza

Counselling Psychologist | India | https://www.abrarraza.com/

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