A light in the darkness

This topic is one of my favorite because I was full of fears before joining my first profession. I had doubt about what I would do after completing my high school. I feared what would be the outcome of competitive exams. What would happen if I could not make up the competitive exams? The author learned it in his personal development program; that's why he disliked his schools. He says that the traditional schools produced A graders, and the rest all were a lump of fear. The schools taught me how to score marks and come first, but when it came to practical application, I was zero. One harsh truth I learned in my first job's first practical class was that all you have learned, you know not how to practically use in real life. I saw my other siblings, who were not A graders and good like me, but they practically applied these principles quite well in their lives. This was the turning point that told me to learn the things in such a way that you know how to use them in practical li...

I still remember the days of my life when I wanted to write a perfect path of my life right in the beginning of my journey of life—I wanted to figure out everything before I began my trip. The truth is life doesn't operate on this theory. There is no perfect pathway, and no one has ever been able to write one perfect path as such. Life is a "mystery box of our choices."  We all, in some way or the other, happen to be in the place of making choices—I remember when I had to choose between my favorite food and playing, and I chose to play; then when I had to make choices of subjects in my 11th standard, that ultimately made who I am now; the choice to begin a family, which decides what I will do thereafter: look after kids or choose my passion.  So, in search of a path of life, the most integral part is played by our "choices." How do we make our choices? I remember choosing nursing, my first profession, because everyone in my family said, "You will have a pai...

 Now, this is the right place- HOW TO FIND THE PATH OF LIFE? I still remember the day when I left my first job and was reflecting where should I go now? That made me to think the purpose of my life. During that time only I laded up on the book, "The purpose driven life" by Pastor Rick Warren. Since I was searching for purpose, this book seemed to be best solution. I wanted clear cut answers about how my life should be so that I could escape all the uncertain challanges that shakes my life like anything. In simple words, I want a peaceful settled life where my purpose was just one goal.  Yes, that book was quite helpful but it also did not give me a clear cut picture. I is something like how we make a sand house on a moist sand in the beach. We put our foot and pile up the sands and then we smoothen it with our slippers and then we slowly but carefully pull out our foot, the sand house still stands. The purpose of our life is also like that. We wish to create something out of ...

I like to read books right from the first page, but this book is something different. I just started with preface and my mind is already smiling. I don't remember, I have given this importance to preface page but this time it meant so much to me. So, it begins with my favorite question: What is your life's goal? Thus, it begins like this: " What do you want to be when you grow up? " The author answers this as : " I had many interests as a kid, and it was easy to choose. If it sounded exciting and glamorous, I wanted to do it. I wanted to be a marine biologist, an astronaut, a Marine, a ship’s officer, a pilot, and a professional football player. I was fortunate enough to achieve three of those goals: a Marine Corps officer, a ship’s officer, and a pilot. I knew I did not want to become a teacher, a writer, or an accountant. I did not want to be a teacher because I did not like school. I did not want to be a writer because I failed English twice. And I dropped out...

This season I am taking inspiration from the book "Cashflow Quadrant" by Robert Kiyosaki. The preface of the book drew me in even more than his concept did. I will talk about this in the next post; before that, I would like to describe his cashflow quadrant concept. It is also known as the "ESBI model." I title this post as income corner because we chose any one or two of these income corners.  Image credit:   Nathan Dumlao  on Unsplash &  Alexander Schimmeck  on Unsplash                              Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦  on Unsplash &  Ibrahim Rifath  on Unsplash. Created by me on canva. So this cashflow quadrant talks about four ways we can produce income.  1) "E" stands for as an employee. So as an employee you basically trade your time for money. Your pledge to give your time in return for the money you get. Here your income is predictable. 2) ...

  Today I would pause here from passion mindset and craftsman mindset to quarter-life crisis. The topic charms me because this is which we all face and there is no one to guide us at that time.  What is a quarter-life crisis? It is the throbbing question we pose to our own selves, “What am I doing with my life?”coated with anxiety, self-doubt, and pessimism about our future. We all have heard of mid-life crises. What is the difference between a mid-life crisis and quarter-life crisis?  Mid-life crisis  According to (American Psychological Association) APA, a mid-life crisis is the emotional turmoil stage faced by individuals between 35 through 65.  “It is the phase of life transition when he/she starts reflecting on what they have accomplished till date and do they still find satisfaction and purpose in them all,” as quoted by Michael G. Wetter, Psy.D., a clinical psychologist practicing in Los Angeles. If this reflection causes them to feel that they have not...