Tag: books

Five Questions to build your annual reading list.

We all plan for a year. We plan holidays, we plan taxes, we plan savings.  But, we rarely plan for learning, particularly self-directed learning or self-directed reading.   One…

Orbiting the Giant Hairball: Book Review

Do you remember your childhood?  Colored chalk and coloring books. You were an artist.  Where has this artist lost? Where has this creativity been lost?  When asked a…

Top Books on Habits: What to Read, Why, and Who They’re For

Habits are the cornerstone of behavior change. Everyone wants to build or break habits. Coaches need to know about it. Teachers and trainers want to create content or…

Read With Purpose: A Pilot for Personal and Professional Growth

Reading: A Competency Building Tool:  In the previous post “You Read, I Read, But Are We Competent Readers?”  I argued that reading is not a mere leisure activity. …

You Read, I Read, But Are We Competent Readers?

People read.  People read anything and everything. I like such people who read. It’s like one addict finding another addict. I hunt for readers. I hang out with…

BhagVad Geeta – 1st Chapter (2nd Lesson).

All memorable speeches start with a bang! And so are movies, stories, and dramas. The same principle is used in Bhagavad Gita. The first chapter opens the Geeta…

Why did I decide to read/Study Gita?

                                                 (Image Source: Google).  For long BhagVadGita proved to be elusive. 1.       When I was in…

A Year of Gita: Self-Study Group

  (Image: Sourced from Google Search). I was planning to study Gita from Gita Jayanti on 3rd Dec 2022 (Details in the previous blog post here: http://hr-universe.blogspot.com/2022/10/studying-gita-step-by-step.html).   We…