Relive your Successes – A simple technique to Staying At Your Best when facing Pressure
Saturday, 15 July 2023
We all experience pressure in our everyday lives. Some of us go off like a pressure cooker at the smallest of things and some of us stay relaxed in even the most difficult situations. While most of us credit natural genes to capabilities of certain individuals to stay calm under extreme pressure, there is a
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Lift Your Game like Legends do with a Growth Mindset…
Saturday, 10 June 2023
One of my work colleagues with whom I had visited Roland Garros years back reminded me about yesterday’s men’s French Open semifinal between Djokovic and Alcaraz pitted by many as the match between the present and the future. While the match was so closely fought when I tuned in after a while Alcaraz developed cramps
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Yes and No. Are these two extremes as we make ourselves to believe?
Sunday, 04 June 2023
If we watch any of the movies there will multiple scenes where there is a key decision being taken where the hero or heroine must take the key decision very often between a Yes and a No, like in the case of the movie I watched this weekend, “Pachuvum Athbutha Vilakum” about when the heroine
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Choking under Pressure – Why does this happen at the most crucial moments of our life.
Saturday, 20 May 2023
Right throughout the turn of the century the South African cricket team was the most powerful and the team to beat in the cricketing world. But despite being the best team and despite doing the best among all teams during the preliminary stages of most of the World Cups they would end up losing in
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Stories – Why we love them and the people who tell them…
Saturday, 13 May 2023
We live in a world where we are flooded with fake messages and videos which are often created so well that a normal person cannot even differentiate between an original message and a fake one. I was also watching a few days back about how AI could be used to make such fake videos in
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Difficult Conversations – Is there an easier way to manage them?
Sunday, 07 May 2023
We all have these difficult conversations daily. At times they are part of our work and at times they are part of our personal lives but there are conversations which are very difficult and there are always some people with whom all conversations are difficult. Some conversations are so difficult that we find ways and
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Unraveling the Mystery of The Act of Persuasion…
Saturday, 29 April 2023
This article is a continuation of an earlier article link of the which is as below: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-fancy-gifts-prizes-lure-influence-our-purchase-rejo-francis/ In addition to gifts and fancy prizes that indulge us to take certain decisions there are several other strategies and techniques which are used to overcome the rational part of the brain and how the same requirement when
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Stress and Pressure… Two sides of the same coin?
Sunday, 23 April 2023
This year’s IPL has started and almost all the matches in the last 10 days have been very close ones. While normally I don’t watch matches in full during the first half of the tournament but only keep a tab on who’s winning and losing …these close finishes have pushed me to watch almost all
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Labelling – Another Technique to Successful Negotiations
Sunday, 16 April 2023
We would have very often seen in today’s social media world where some people who are in person very quiet being very aggressive and argumentative particularly in WhatsApp groups. We would also have noticed how with very close friends and relatives when we have difference of opinions, and we get into an argument we very
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Work Pressure: How does it really affect our performance?
Saturday, 08 April 2023
We are all familiar with instances of high performing individuals and teams behaving, performing, and reacting very differently under high pressure situations. To quote an example during the last football world cup quarter finals where Spain, a previous world cup champion and ranked around 7 in the world at that time got knocked out in
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