Penpositive Podcast

Here is a message I got from a fortune cookie during my Lunch a while back… This Fortune Cookie message is a Japanese Proverb Nanakorobi yaoki which literally means, “Fall seven times and stand up eight” Let us try debugging that.. just for fun.... You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And do Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive...

A person leaving your team is something we all have faced in our work life. Many times we have been able to negotiate them back. Yet we all have worked in teams where people leave. It is a fact of work life. Every team loses some people over a period of time. The question is how we cope both as a team and as a team member You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And d...

Transparency can be a very useful tool.. especially when you work in teams. It helps us in building a connection between team members. Transparency will also bring the abilities and inabilities or the team to light. But if the team has been formed with a common goal in mind then team members help each other to succeed. You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And do C...

I think we all know that 'Finding Fault' is not a much appreciated trait but knowingly or unknowingly many do get quite good at it over time. To be honest we all might have sometime or other fallen into that trap of blaming someone else. Sometimes we genuinely believe that the other person is at fault, but the glory of a professional is in working towards not being trapped in that blame...

Can someone copy your resume..? Can that resume end up in your hand... less possible.... Can you end up interviewing that person.. No.. Way... But it happened... to yours truly a few years back.... You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And do Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/penpositive Twit...

There is a quote by the scientist and 11th President of India Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.. “Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.” True in all sense. But the thought I want to put before you today the need to make a hole in your dream. A hole in the dream? you might think... Yes a hole in your dream. You can now join our community of Acti...

Processes are put in place so things could run smoothly and by running smoothly it also means that someone has a way to control and predict the outcome or delays. All said and done processes also have bottlenecks that make it difficult for some things to function smoothly. One would say that the process is broken, or that it is inefficient. While another thought would be that some processes grow t...

Is it even possible to do only what we love to do.... We always hear people say this.. And I have my doubts because to make a machinery run... there are so many things that we have to get done... It is priorities and not just love of doing something.. You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And do Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penposit...

It is important that we stand up every time we fall because falls are inevitable in life and for life to move on we need to be in a standing position. To avoid a fall we should always be lying down and we do that only when we are dead You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And do Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: htt...

I can remember much of my failures... much more than my successes and if I take a tab the side of failures will far outweigh successes. Is that bad? I don’t think so. It is just that our failures are much more louder than our successes. You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And do Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: h...

One of the troubling tasks in life is to find ways to avoid stress and do something regularly that makes us happy. The catch is that some of these items in life that make us happy have an expiry date. You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And do Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/penpositive/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/penpositive T...

When I started my professional career, one of my customers once mentioned to me the definition for being a professional. He aid it was someone who does their work as their life depended on it. Though over my career I have done several things both as if life depended on it and otherwise there was a stark different on the achievements and results. Obviously when my life depended on it the results we...

When I graduated I don't remember thinking of a resume building process that is tightly coupled with one's career. You finish education, get on the first job that comes and then retire from that same job years later. It happens even now but quite less I guess... You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And do Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.c...

I am sure you might have heard Jim Carrey's commencement speech ob pursuing your dream... It had gone viral sometime back.... or back then it was all over my News feeds. His closing statement is what struck me "You can fail at what you don't want; so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love" You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And do Connect on Soci...

I think Work-Life balance would be different with a freedom to call quits. I don't think I have that freedom but I think those who have that might have better work life balance... if we take opportunities and our chances to get another job... I think the important aspect is checking if we can work with any person.. If we are flexible even that helps... You can now join our community of Active Lear...

For me Work-life balance is not a mathematical problem that you solve in equal percentages, or any percentage for that matter. It has to do with being contented. Knowing what you want out of work and what you want out of Life. If you do not know that or at least check your level of content there is no balance to work on. I have a few points. And I will just take some of them in here. You can...

One of the most commonly used phrases. I heard it first a few years into starting to work and I laughed at it because for me there was no much difference between the two. Work and Life were more or less the same. My friends were those with whom I worked and we worked on weekends and had drinks together and pretty much we were together the whole time be it travel, fun, leisure or work. This is...

Desires; who does not have any, it is what fuel people in their life. The desire to own something, the desire to have someone in your life, the desire to be famous, they come in all colors and flavors to direct our life. We reach a point when we are defined by our desires. You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And do Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www....

You meet a friend and tell him that a book is so boring and atrociously bad. I am sure next time he is in a library or bookstore and sees the book he will surely stop and pick it up. He will spend more time than ever browsing just to see how bad it is. You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com , And do Connect on Social Media: Instagram: https://www.i...

There might be more that three ways to react to a change; but I like focusing on Three because it is less and who has the time to count beyond Three. Change is inevitable, it does not matter who you are, if you like it or not, it is there and will come to you. We cannot prepare for every change because we do not know the nature of it, but we can be prepared for the eventuality called change....

I think I have spoken about success before... if not I will speak sometime... but most people do... But may be I have always spoken more about failures than about success I guess.. What else can you do if you have to reflect on your own experiences.. I had even written a poetry about success being misspelled... but what made me say this today is because I heard something from a successful actor’s...

On Friday I had to take someone to the emergency... This is not the first time I have gone to an emergency.... Though I don't think I have been taken to emergency before... I have accompanied people... friends.. family... neighbors... Most times I have been just the help driving them there... As I sit there I observe the people You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com ,...

Some time in early Nineties I had read that Money is the worst Motivator, yet businesses all over have been providing monetary incentives to their employees to get work done. Even today salary and perks are the main reason most people people go to work... What would you do if you had all the money in the world is a question some would know an answer to.. but some won't... You can also see that peo...

When we hear contracts we think about things that are binding.. written signed.. locked.... but there are many other places we need a contract... many of these contracts are never written.. they are just understood and agreed upon my people... they exist because we all need to be able to take care of our responsibilities...  You can now join our community of Active Learners at Penpositive.com...

I got my booster shot on Dec 1st... Previously I had received Moderna and so that is what I get as Booster as well.... When I got my Moderna shots people had said that many people felt shivers and were not feeling well... Luckily I did not feel anything much... just a soreness on my arm... And as I write this I still hear news of people who are not ready to get vaccinated.... Connect on Social Med...