White noise apps drown out distractions helping you focus on your work, or generate peaceful environments that encourage you to fall asleep. Sleep becomes critically important when you have a newborn and you want to try everything in the book to help the baby develop a routine, a sleep pattern. Using phone as white noise…
THIS POST MAY CONTAIN AFFILIATE LINKS. Six creativity book recommendations Do you wish you could produce ideas on demand? Innovation and brilliance aren’t the forte of artists and people in ‘creative’ professions. Some of the worlds most successful thinkers believe every person is creative to some degree. In this post I want to share 6…
A quick post today to share a brilliant resource I have come across recently. It’s called, Ask Play Book – have a career related question post it on the site. It’s much like Quora for career related questions. A place for your career-related questions A community for questions around career development, answered by experienced folks…
My word for the year 2017 is space. All of my goals for 2017 are focussed on one thing creating Space be it physical or be it mental. Today I want to talk about making space in my brain, by, clearing clutter. One form of mental clutter is emails. I don’t talk about it much…
I recently read this book by Jeff Goins. In the book he talks about harnessing your stubbornness. One should be stubborn on vision but flexible on details. It is easy to get caught up in details. Real artists think of legacy, they think big picture. They are fixated on destination but not on how to get…
In the spirit of last week’s post where I shared a free tool to generate headlines. This week I thought I will share few resources which are super handy for generating blog posts ideas. I also use these free sites to help me out. Generate Blog Post Ideas: Blog Title Generator Tweakyourbiz Title Generator Blog…
I am kicking myself for falling behind on blogging lately – mostly because I have a 5 month old, lots of things to do and not enough time to share. In between nap times I have been working so hard on sourcing new charms for bracelets. I LOVE macrame and finding unique and fun charms….
I am increasingly becoming interested in improving my writing skills. Learning to write engaging copy starts with writing powerful click-worthy headlines. This lead me to search for a headline generator tool. With some research, I came across a headline generator tool worth mentioning here. Hope you find this useful! CO-SCHEDULE HEADLINE ANALYSER This is an…
I don’t have to wait for right time to create something. Because, anytime is a good time. Anytime is a good time to write. Anytime is a good time to learn more. Anytime is a good time to move your body. Anytime is a good time to start something new. Anytime is a good time…
My job involves software development and in it we always consider the default values for a field where a user is expected to enter value and if the field is mandatory at all? There’s plenty of great research that shows that our actions are heavily biased by the default option. Given how important defaults are…
For the past few years, I’ve chosen a word for the year to guide me through the year. This year, I’ve chosen the word SPACE. I recently moved to a new city and while I was packing my belonging this word came to mind over and over toward the end of last year, so I…
Blue Monday is a name given to a day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) claimed to be the most depressing day of the year. It was 16th January this year. The weather was grim and mood was not that great because of the things going on in the life lately. As…
To mark a recent promotion at work and as a treat to myself, I decided to join Traveler’s notebook craze. The decision wasn’t easy, as a typical questioner I made a pro con list and after much deliberation decided to get ZLYC traveler’s notebook. I plan to use this from September. First impression, I love the craftsmanship…
Last week, I shared some of the images from my #The100DayProject challenge and instantly decided to record a flip through or recap video showing; what was shared, what wasn’t and why. Here is a flip through of my many sketchbooks. Hope you like it