Category: Self Improvement

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Why Some Messages Get Instant Action — And Others Just Sit There

Sandeep Choudhari

Early in my career, I was working with a senior manager on an organisational initiative that required budget approval from a leader at our head office. The amount wasn’t large, but we needed the approval quickly. I drafted the email and sent it to my manager for review. He looked at it, smiled, and instead of hitting Send, asked me to pull up a chair beside him. Then he rewrote the email. Here’s roughly what happened. My subject line read something like “Request Budget Approval” — accurate, but it could have been any of a dozen emails sitting in his … Continue reading Why Some Messages Get Instant Action — And Others Just Sit There

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The Flow State: Unlocking Peak Performance

Sandeep Choudhari

If you went through Engineering in India, the name Ferdinand L Singer likely triggers a specific kind of trauma. I remember sitting with his “Engineering Mechanics” for days. I read the chapters. I looked at the diagrams. Nothing stuck. The internal exams were looming, and I was staring at a wall of incomprehensible vectors. Then, one Saturday before my internals I did the only thing I could: I shut the door and stayed in the chair. Thankfully mobile phones existed in the sci-fi world then. For five hours, the world disappeared. No distractions. Just the friction of the problems meeting … Continue reading The Flow State: Unlocking Peak Performance

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How Not to Get in Your Own Way When Going on Your Own Way

Sandeep Choudhari

“We are all in our way, Chachu … Move.” That line from the Bollywood flick Aap Jaisa Koi is more than just a sweet moment between a niece and her uncle — it’s a mirror we could all hold up to ourselves. Because let’s be honest: often, the only real obstacle between us and where we want to go… is us. Not always in dramatic ways either. Sometimes it’s obvious — like talking yourself out of a job you’re actually qualified for. Other times it’s sneakier — like waiting for “the right time” (spoiler: it never comes). We tell ourselves … Continue reading How Not to Get in Your Own Way When Going on Your Own Way