Author: Ashish Dashottar

As we enter 2015, many of us will set personal goals that we want to achieve for the new year. Some of these goals may be losing weight, increasing corporate sales, finding a new job, visiting a new country, finding the love of our life, or simply getting ourselves out of a rut. I used… Read more Don’t Beat Yourself Up for Not Achieving Your Goals

Have you ever wondered where a thought comes from? Have you ever wondered why a thought comes into your mind? Have you ever been curious as to know how a thought gets developed? Is it possible to control our thoughts? Let’s get down to some basics here and talk about thought itself. What is it?… Read more Deep Thought Diving

I am lost for words of the recent Taliban shooting incident that killed over 140 children and adults in Pakistan. While the incident is so sad, shocking and depressing, I am again brought back to the harsh reality of the world we live in, and whether a world without violence is even possible. Advocates of… Read more The Path to Peace

With the presence of the Internet and social media, we are becoming more reliant on using cyber platforms to communicate our message rather than non-technical platforms based on direct human-to-human interaction. Before the presence of Internet-based technologies the idea of presence was more or less just showing up at the local get-together and hanging out.… Read more The Dilemma of Over-Communication

There is an interesting habit these days that I am noticing from folks around me: they are using project management principles to change their environment or “states” of being. To say simply, some people out there are trying to change their lives from one state (e.g., married without kids) to another (married with kids) by… Read more Stop Approaching Life Events as Projects

Look around you and you will see that everyone is occupied and doing something that labels them as being busy. I don’t know anyone out there once they are born who is not. From a 1-year-old constantly seeking attention to the 100-year-old building a routine around a series of hobbies and interests – anyone can… Read more The Risk of Constantly Marketing Your “Busy-ness”

Here is a common question arising in the heads of dating couples when it comes to figuring out whether the next step makes sense to “tie the knot” – what are the chances that marriage will survive because dating is so much fun and why should we spoil our current known state of happiness to… Read more What May Be Missing in Your Marriage

Breakups with significant others suck. I have been through this and I am sure you have too! If you haven’t experienced this – well – get ready for some real life lessons here. We breakup from girlfriends and boyfriends. Some friendships – both long and short – wane and die. We run away from the… Read more An Easy Way to Get Over a Breakup