Beauty in Resilience
Photo Credit: Atanu Chakraborty “Ladakh Old Lady – Hard Labor for Living”
Note: This is a narration of a true personal experience of a profound mental shift, I went through. This was originally posted on Infinite Living on December 2, 2015.
I was standing at the busiest intersection of Mumbai, India, just arrived from US, couple of days ago. It was the end of June and rains were expected anytime, unannounced. I was there waiting for my friend to pick me up, to take me shopping for some rain shoes.
I was much immersed in the experience of being there, soaking in life moving at a fast pace around me. There was a sense of impatience in the atmosphere as there were too many vehicles on the road, to be able to move fast enough. Mixed in, was the sun, moist heat, dust, pollution and the blaring horns from drivers.
View original post 709 more words
I can’t tell you how many people I talk to who tell me that they have sleep problems. Either they can’t fall asleep or once they fall asleep they wake up and cannot go back to sleep. This can be such a vicious cycle which leads to exhaustion and stress. It also leads to poor work performance or any performance.As an adult we need between 7-8 hours of solid sleep in order to be at our best each day. A study done by Stanford Medicine states the following for getting 6 or less hours of sleep.“Two consecutive nights of less than six hours could leave you sluggish for the following six days. (Surprised? You aren’t alone: This stat sparked a gasp of dismay at my office staff meeting.) Researchers also found that staying up an extra hour, even if followed by a full night’s sleep, is correlated with slower performance the…
I can’t tell you how many people I talk to who tell me that they have sleep problems. Either they can’t fall asleep or once they fall asleep they wake up and cannot go back to sleep. This can be such a vicious cycle which leads to exhaustion and stress. It also leads to poor work performance or any performance.As an adult we need between 7-8 hours of solid sleep in order to be at our best each day. A study done by Stanford Medicine states the following for getting 6 or less hours of sleep.“Two consecutive nights of less than six hours could leave you sluggish for the following six days. (Surprised? You aren’t alone: This stat sparked a gasp of dismay at my office staff meeting.) Researchers also found that staying up an extra hour, even if followed by a full night’s sleep, is correlated with slower performance the…
Recently, I had a conversation with a supervisor of an organization of about 300 people. She was telling me that she has to work all of the time, even when she is at home in order to keep her work up. I asked her “How was that going for her?” and her reply was, “It’s what I need to do in order to keep my job and that is just the way it is.” I asked her “If she thought she would be more productive at work if she took more time for herself and family?” She really hadn’t given that any thought because it was not realistic with her job demands.As I left the building I was pretty sad for this woman. I know she is a mother of an elementary age child and her spouse also has a pretty demanding job. I kept asking myself, “Is it really…
Recent Comments