Hey guys! Happy Wednesday!!I just wanted to take a moment to reflect and talk about something that has been at the back of my mind for the past couple of weeks. A week ago, my family and I watched a Telugu movie, Shyam Singha Roy, starring Nani and Sai Pallavi (if you don’t know already,Continue reading “Let your inner beauty shine!!”
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Karthee Vidya: “Don’t make volunteering something occasional, make it a lifestyle”
So many people have an ambition to volunteer and make a difference in some aspect of the world, but only a few people actually step up to make that difference. Karthee Vidya, the founder of Team Everest NGO, is one of the few people who made it a point to do whatever it takes toContinue reading “Karthee Vidya: “Don’t make volunteering something occasional, make it a lifestyle””
Mohan Akella: “Success is just a byproduct”
Ikigai (pronounced ee-kee-guy) is a Japanese concept that describes one’s reason to live, in other words, your life purpose and bliss. In English terms, it means one’s path to life fulfillment. There are 4 components as part of Ikigai: passion, vocation, profession, and mission. When you are good at what you love, it’s your passion.Continue reading “Mohan Akella: “Success is just a byproduct””
2021 Reflection + 2022 Goals
2021 was overall a pretty good year for me, but looking back on it, I wouldn’t say I have accomplished a whole lot. I did take my SAT, and although I didn’t reach my goal, I did pretty decent. I also finished the last year of my Indian Carnatic undergraduate certification through a university inContinue reading “2021 Reflection + 2022 Goals”
Christine Sovereign: It’s about the values, not the goals
We all set some sort of goal for ourselves: “5 years from now I want to become this” or “10 years from now I see myself as that”. But Managing Director and Client Account Lead at Accenture, Christine Sovereign, had no goals for herself in her path to where she is today. She came outContinue reading “Christine Sovereign: It’s about the values, not the goals”
Stories Behind Success: Introduction
It has been 6 months since my last post and I wanted to give a quick follow-up and an introduction to a new project. Since my last post, I felt that my blog didn’t really have a purpose to it. I didn’t know what to really write about and I was running out of ideas.Continue reading “Stories Behind Success: Introduction”
My Journey to Blogging
It’s been a little over 1 month since I started my blog, so I thought it would be the perfect time to share my story of how I got here and decided to start this blog! For about the past year and a half, every night, I would pretend as though I am talking toContinue reading “My Journey to Blogging”
Feeling lonely and coping with it
If you guys have read a previous post of mine (also linked here), I talked about my struggle with self-confidence and how I am trying to overcome it. Today I’m going to talk about something along the same lines: feeling lonely. As mentioned in the other post, I used to change myself for every personContinue reading “Feeling lonely and coping with it”
Empathy
A couple posts ago, I talked about 5 different things that I learned over the pandemic. In this post, I want to dive deeper into one of those 5 things: learning to have empathy. We all have our own vision and perspective towards life. It’s the way we look at things due to our uniqueContinue reading “Empathy”
5 things I learned over the pandemic
The pandemic taught me so many different things about life… here are a few: 1. Have empathy – The first and foremost thing that I learned this pandemic season is to have empathy. Living with your family members all day every day is fun and an amazing bonding opportunity, but each of us has ourContinue reading “5 things I learned over the pandemic”
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