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Happy New Year! … let’s move from Hopelessness to Hope
There are moments in life where the shadows seem to lengthen, stretching across our paths and obscuring the horizon. These are the times when hope feels like a flickering candle in a hurricane, threatened to be extinguished by the storm of circumstances. We’ve all been there, lost in the labyrinth of a seemingly hopeless situation,…
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Increase Your Research Productivity With These 8 Strategies
Being productive as a researcher can feel next to impossible some days. Between teaching duties, admin work, meetings and more – there never seem to be enough hours in the day to make real headway on your research agenda. But by implementing a few strategic changes to your workflow, priorities and mindset, you can significantly…
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Bouncing back
Here is a little inspiration for those who are going through difficult times right now . For one, this is a passing cloud and what seems extremely bleak and unreal is actually a real test of our endurance and strength. I personally, have felt the fire of hopelessness burn my lens and cloud my vision…
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Your weaknesses are no match to your strengths
My five-year-old and seven-year-old boys are so fascinated with superheroes. When they role-play and really get into their favorite characters, my boys transform themselves to match their superheroes as if they are no longer limited by their own weaknesses. We, adults on the other hand, often find ourselves conditioned by our weaknesses. Gallup defines a…
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Leadership is about winning the hearts and minds
Till today, the counter-insurgency operations during the Malayan Emergency in 1952 led by Sir Gerald Templer, is hailed as one of the few successful military campaigns ever in Western military history. Time magazine named Templer as “The Smiling Tiger” and British officials remembered him as a leader with ‘dynamic energy’ that inspired a change in…
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