Today's episode is a lovely one. It actually ended up lending me thoughts on self soothing as I undergo a transition in my life, in sync with the larger changes in the world around us. Read it on the blog: thedailypulse.scrollstack.com To add to my self soothing kit to support the podcast: buymeacoffee.com/shivranjana

A 'difficult to sit with' post today on agency and hustle at work. Difficult because it's constantly evolving and something that at least initially, needs constant engagement. Read more on the blog (thedailypulse.scrollstack.com). To support the podcast, you can get me a coffee here (buymeacoffee.com/shivranjana).

Today, some thoughts on making choices with grounded hope.

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Today, some thoughts on easing the mind when working through / needing assistance with bits of emotional difficulty.

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I started this in Nov 2020 thinking I'll be able to contain my thoughts in under 500 words. It is rare that that happens. Today, some thoughts on evolution and labels.

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When illness is your norm, good health feels threatening and even like an illness. That's why, when dealing with situations of health in habit and behaviour, we do new things slowly, bit by bit, to get comfortable and not be repulsed by health. Sort of reminds me of Frankl's words on not removing the pressure instantly so as to protect the mind of the person from spiralling out of shock.

Today, some thoughts on learning to trust yourself with good health. To read on the blog:

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When we are young, and we begin dreaming about what all we could do in our life, we are met with a moment that can either assist that dreaming, or destroy that by forcing our dreams to fit clear cut definitions, which a young person ought not to bother with really. That's how original thinking is really discouraged - when we start asking young people "what they would like to become in life" instead of "what are their hopes from their life".

The current generation of people in their 20s and 30s are in some ways the largest group of people together witnessing and experiencing the limitedness of career thinking in this fixed way that comes on the back of questions like "what do you want to be when you grow up". Today, some thoughts on disconnecting from narrow thinking vis a vis your career.

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There is so much written about the various phases and forms of monogamous, heterosexual romantic relationships, that the very real and deeply intimate forms that friendships of all kind hold and changes that they go through are hardly articulated because friendships are deemed as 'back of the burner', garden variety background social structures, that are there when we need them, but do not somehow at the same time merit the due respect or centre stage, that they actually deserve for being the backbone so often.

Sometimes, friendships may become so comfortable and in the background existence then become so changeable that as soon as the comfort of sameness changes, one may do anything (even replace the other without knowing why) to retain that comfort, leaving with a sense of pain that then gets buried somewhere at the back.

One very real and now more spoken of example is in the changes that marriage brings to friendships of the people who get married, often leaving them barely able to grapple with, let alone find solace and sharing to evolve into the next stage of friendship. Little then is to be said of those friendships that die out with absence.

In my personal friendships as well, I have had to learn this with each new factor in my life or the others'. I have had to learn to understand the silences, as well as scrounge through a marriage obsessed world for language to articulate thought and feeling in friendships.

Today, some thoughts to validate grief that comes with evolution of the self and its impact on friendships, and perhaps finding solace in the foundation of some, while in the timing of others. (PS: this barely scratches the surface but hope it lends some ease and thought.)

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"In times of delays or rejections, this is a call to trust in the larger process of your life and thrust in the arena of your life that is more urgent and a more time sensitive priority for you. (Believe me, I am really proud of this line.)"

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What is a decision? What is a good decision? Is decision making a momentary and linear activity? How do you ensure you make the best decisions?

Even with the pandemic, I have maintained that this crisis is an opportunity to really honestly examine if you (or your leaders/bosses) have good leadership skills and if not, where/how can you (they) develop them. But to be able to accept that there is scope to develop them, requires a healthy ego or humility, and often in poor leadership, this is what is missing. Read here: https://lnkd.in/g8y2X9E To support the podcast, you can also buy me a coffee here: buymeacoffee.com/shivranjana