Be Happy, Along with Me!

A few days back, I was driving along the Mahalingapuram road (Chennai) which I guess has the most number of watermelon sellers during summer time. I am extremely fond of watermelons. I can even eat a watermelon entirely by myself at one go. I am crazy about this particular fruit. How would I not stop to have a break and relish this fruit after spending a scorching summer day in Chennai? I stopped my vehicle. And through out my experience and observation, I noticed that these small time vendors have a lot to tell our product entrepreneurs or anyone who wants to start a business. Point 1: The Welcome 'Vaanga akka, vaanga" (Come, sister, Come!) She has been standing under a tree's shade right from the morning. She just has a make-shift stool made out of an old vegetable storage wooden box. But every time she spots a potential customer, her face brightens up and she welcomes them with a smile. What a contrast to some of those sales staff spending their day inside an air...

For almost all of us every morning dawns with a thought: Will I be happy today? What happens if we consciously tweak that thought a little bit? Change the question: What am I going to do today to make myself happy? One way which I have discovered that keeps me happy is 'to create'. Be it creating a nice dish to eat, creating a piece of art for my daughter or creating a piece of writing straight from my heart. I did one of this recently and I have been having exciting moments since then. I would like to register these moments on my blog through this post. I recently wrote an article for Women's Web online magazine about 5 reasons why employers should hire mothers. I published the same post on LinkedIn with a backlink to the original article. I have been receiving a great response for this article..Right from 1100+ views, 13 shares, 22 comments, this has been an extraordinary achievement to me personally. I won't compare myself to anybody else. This came straight ...

From the title, you just thought that I am going to give you an interesting recipe for making a fabulous dish. Not actually. Not really. With a toddler at home, often these 'quick ideas' are to make the toddler who is running around madly to gulp down some food and then continue jumping and somer-saulting. I discovered one such idea today morning instantly. Yes, you know, a mother's brain is really good at thinking up such ideas. Without bragging much about motherhood, let me put out the idea which I am sure will help a lot of mothers during meal-time. When my daughter wouldn't just stay in one place and I found it really difficult to feed her those little dosas today morning, I thought 'let me engage her in a hide n seek game of things'. Here are the game instructions to make it more readable for you: 1. You have to tell the toddler that you will be calling out names of things that are present in the house 2. He/She has to take one mouthful of food and ...

I have become a huge fan of motivational quotes in the recent past. I even opened up this page on Facebook called 'My Everyday Tonic' because a lot of people liked the quotes I shared on my personal profile.   For a while, the quotes were kind of my emotional outlet. Gradually from expressive quotes I moved on to endorse purely positive quotes and share them. As I kept reading a lot of such phrases and quotes, I could actually churn my own quotes to boost my spirits up. Writing them gave me a liberating feeling and reading them, I believe, helps a lot of my friends emotionally.  Here are 13 quotes I wrote myself, that moved my life from an empty space to a #BeAlive phase. These quotes literally help me stay alive. I need to keep reading them time and again to remind myself of the purpose of life. I hope it will help you too as you read through. Feel free to share them in your circles, and don't forget to use the hashtag #BeAlive Keep running especially ...