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The story of Kavita

The whole of my life, I have looked for inspiration from the super-achievers. But after reading every biography of the super-heroes, somewhere you feel that they must have had extraordinary talent. Of course, hard work played a role but maybe I don’t have that talent. But for last few years, I have derived immense inspiration from one of our service providers and I am sharing her story in brief with you.

The one is our maid, Kavita. This lady starts working at our place at...

ok, so today let’s unlock the third secret of a have a Happy Married Life!

Nowadays, as couples get married at a later stage in life, they already have developed some strong interests before getting married. While in 80’s and 90’s I saw people getting married in the early twenties, now the age of marriage is gradually shifting to 30+ or even 35+ in general.

A fallout of the late marriage is that the habits and hobbies of both partners are well developed and the scope of change is limited. You...

I was asked on Quora – How do I rebuild my life after getting ruined almost fully due to a bad marriage?

This question rings a bell with lot of people who suffered due to a bad marriage, financial losses or another catastrophic failure.  Many of us get too focussed on something that we know will not help us in the long run.

It is understandable as this situation almost ruined you and all your thoughts keep turning towards it. I can suggest following way forward:

I was asked on Quora – How do I rebuild my life after getting ruined almost fully due to a bad marriage?

This question rings a bell with lot of people who suffered due to a bad marriage, financial losses or another catastrophic failure.  Many of us get too focussed on something that we know will not help us in the long run.

It is understandable as this situation almost ruined you and all your thoughts keep turning towards it. I can suggest following way forward:

Someone asked me this question:

I am 22 and I feel stuck in life. I don’t know what I want. What should I do?

My answer is as follows:

There are too many people, of all ages, who feel like this.

Not everybody is brave enough to admit it, like you have done. Feel good about it.

It is not easy to know what we really want. Very often we think that we want something. We run after it for a long time. When we get it, we realise that it is not what we actually wanted.

So, not knowing what you want i...

When in doubt, keep shut or ask questions

In my last post, I shared with you the first secret of Happy Married Life (HML). We talked about how to learn to listen and not wait for your turn to talk. Actually, communication is such an important foundation of married life that it forms the base of the second secret as well.

The happiness or unhappiness in any couple’s married life is determined by the harmony in their communication. The next step in being a better communicator is to learn wh...

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Don’t kill me for promising that there is something like a Happy Married Life (HML).

Believe me, it is not a fictitious character. It exists and so does its opposite – UnHappy Married Life (UHML).

I have seen both and most likely you have too, if you are married that is.

If Happy Married Life can make it feel like bliss unlimited, UHML can bring you crashing down faster.

No marriage can be Happy Married Life forever, in a continuum. The happy and unhappy phases keep alternating with e...

Don’t kill me for promising that there is something like a Happy Married Life (HML).

Believe me, it is not a fictitious character. It exists and so does its opposite – UnHappy Married Life (UHML).

I have seen both and most likely you have too, if you are married that is.

If HML can make it feel like bliss unlimited, UHML can bring you crashing down faster.

No marriage can be HML forever, in a continuum. The happy and unhappy phases keep alternating with each other, just like other fac...

Anyone who has thought even a little about their own health, is aware of the ill-effects of sugar. Specially, the refined sugar, the white sugar or its relatively innocuous cousin, the so called ‘brown sugar’. Curtailing sugar consumption is essential for any weight-loss program.

I have a sweet tooth from childhood. The sugar problem was compounded by my addiction to sweet tea and coffee.

I could live with bare minimum sweets or cakes and even gave up the aerated drinks like coke, pepsi as we...