power – Nishtha Gehija

Work & Business

Meeting with my boss

Yesterday I had a usual meeting with my boss, and he told me to not worry about work.

He also offered to back me up for my work, and was glad I took some time to reflect.

I, in fact, offered to do some work today since I was offered in the evening, and he refused.

Bestest boss ever!!

Life

4 life lessons that will change your life

Take breaks while working, and stretch
Sleep well AND on time – and you will be the most beautiful person
You can help others only when you help yourself
Get out and get some green time

Process

5 signs you are superpowerful

You wait till reaching the luggage belt, to turn on your phone from airplane mode.
You have no interest in stalking your ex. (or y or zee).
You let go of people whom you thought were friends, when they proved you wrong.
You go out and do your own thing, not to put anyone down – because who you would be if you were not you?
You care. I mean really care.

Thoughts

Intense need of a blog

I’m going through a lot of emotions right now, so best to document them here:

If a friend takes a serious revenge on a friend’s prank, it is time to reconsider that friendship.
The best way to avoid gossip is to avoid gossip.
It takes just one conversation to drain your energy for the entire day. It takes spending time nurturing yourself to be away from that conversation.
If you do not deal with what’s troubling you, you will figure out a way to blurt it out. Deal with your mess.
Forgive, without being asked for. Because you need peace in your own life.

Fitness, Happiness

Resisting sugar craving

This morning I had an undeniable urge to eat sugar. Chocolate cake + cold coffee to be precise.

With only one problem: Had I baked the chocolate cake, I would have to eat it daily.

Not that eating it is a problem, rather I’d love it!

The only problem being, it is not good for the health, baby 🙂

So I made myself a chocolate shake, and sipped it with a laddoo.

Sweet for the day, and no sweets for tomorrow. Win-win!!

Knowing Yourself, Life

Marathon without training

I asked my therapist, “What if I tell myself that it is okay if someone responded in a bad manner? They might as well be suffering, right?”

She said:

Of course, it is a good thing to run a marathon.

But the best runners, train themselves before the event.

However, if you go haven’t trained yourself at all and you get up one day and go run, can you imagine what all pain will you endure?

And now imagine how long have you been running this marathon!

So the way to be actually able to run that marathon is to train our brain, to understand our emotions first, and why we feel in the pain.

Otherwise, it is only a continuous run of pain, not a marathon in reality.

Something really deep to reflect upon.

Knowing Yourself

Envy

Envy is not going to make you successful, baby! So don’t do that.

It is that simple 🙂

Wishing for the best.
And being the best.
And never any less
Is true success.

Think over it for a moment.

Writing

The three stages of writing

First stage: Penning down your thoughts

Second stage: Editing them

Third stage: Understanding the readers’ psychology

Rinse and repeat

Truth be told

It’s all about psychology

Writing good content is understanding psychology.

Winning at a game is understanding psychology.

Eating less is understanding your own psychology.

Life is psychology, but we don’t admit it because we don’t understand psychology. Pure psychology 🙂

Work & Business

Why you MUST take an off

Even though you love your work,
Even though you feel energised,
Even though your boss is super-supportive by not micromanaging you

You must take an off on the weekends and on the festivals.

Because things that are meant to be enjoyed and relished are the things that are meant to be enjoyed and relished.

There is no substitute to not spending time with yourself and reflecting, because only in emptiness you get to understand yourself.

Which makes you all the more productive when you return to work.

Uncategorized

3 things that define you

Being honest before anyone “catches” you
Being real when everyone is talking about Ferrero Rocher and you like having your own suji halwa
Helping because you can, even though you think others won’t care

Action

Before you…

Before you decide to keep someone happy, make sure your happiness is aligned…

Before you decide to get angry at someone, make sure you have let go of your anger on yourself…

Before you choose to judge someone, make sure you are understanding that you aren’t doing a right thing either, by putting yourself on a higher pedestal…

Before you decide to eat one more mithai, make sure you are living a healthy lifestyle already…

Before you decide to stay up late, make sure this is a rarity…

Manager

Making of a Manager

TIL:

1. Being right is better than being nice.

2. You can be kind still be right.

3. People would rather work for a competent boss who is difficult, than an incompetent nice person (this one is copy pasted from my boss).

Life

Life lessons that come the hard way

Do not express your emotions when too happy or too sad.
Work towards being on the middle path.
Make sure you don’t cry. Please.

Life

The biggest facts of life

Your parents do not give you time as a kid, and want you to return that vacuum with heart full of love.

Your tears lay the foundation of your highest successess.

The most important journey you will ever take, is to be in a good mood.

Writing

Why everyone should write

Because you let go of your internal issues
You tend to think clearly
You become a better speaker
You don’t need validation from others.
You find peace in your own company

Life

5 phrases that are said less often

1. Help

2. It’s okay!

3. I am sorry.

4. I’ll go meditate now.

5. You’re doing a great job.

Self Love, Truth be told

Why do we get sad?

The reason for getting sad is never the real reason.

The loss.
The no.
The rejection.
The lack.
The “never”.

These are not the real reasons. They are just drapes to cover up the original reasons.

The real reason is we are crying for something deeper.
We believe we don’t matter.
We think that our work doesn’t make an impact.
Or our presence doesn’t make anyone happy.
Or that everything will be happy even if we left.
Or perhaps that there will never be a tomorrow.

That is the real thing that makes us sad.

Think through it about what made you sad recently.
The reason was one of these.

However, the truth of life is this:

YOU matter.
YOU are important.
YOUR work makes a difference.

YOUR absence would make things difficult.

YOU are needed.

This holds true irrespective of what ANYONE tells you.

Pause for a moment to read this.

Time

What’s the price of that Netflix special?

Attention

Focus

Peace

Sleep

Rest

Books

Reflection

Could we be asking for any more?

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