Understanding Success (Audio)

Bible Study 3: Peace – What does it cost?

A bible study on conflict resolution based on Genesis 13: 1- 12 Let’s read Gen 13: 1 -12 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, with his wife and everything he had, and Lot went with him. Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. From the Negev he [...]

The Second Chance

You don’t throw away a whole life just ’cause it’s banged up a little – Tom Smith in Sea Biscuit (2003) SEABISCUIT narrates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters’ fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. ( IMDb review [...]

Personal Audit

‘An unexamined life’ said Socrates,  “is not worth living”. True. Life is a gift from God and what we do with life is our gift to God. I have written down few questions to help me do an audit for the year 2008 and also set some goals for the year 2009. 1.    Three things [...]

Don’t quit…

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining [...]

Ooh! Ah! Ouch!

In life we go through many ooh-Ah-Ouch moments. You wonder “Why?” you have to go through them. In these “ooh! ah! ouch!” moments I have drawn courage and strength from Bible stories (believe me its a great book), particularly the story of Joseph.  Life is harsh and takes a wild turn.  With each turn there [...]

Reclaiming Passion for work

Why is it that we don’t love our jobs any longer? why is that we are constantly complaining about our jobs? Why is it that we want a “get-away” solution to work related stress?  Why is it that we get to work with a “Thank-God-its-a-Friday” attitude? This is an issue that needs to be dealt [...]

Dreaming about your dream job! eh?

Most of us do not land in our dream jobs. We don’t get to do things that we love to do. We first keep dreaming, then we move on day dreaming. As the reality-expectation gap increases we get frustrated. And so we sulk! We blame our luck. We point fingers at people. We complain endlessly. [...]

The clue to happiness at work

Do you love your work? Are you happy? How do we experience happiness at work? Well…here something about happiness I never knew, I never knew. Happiness is probably the easiest emotion to feel, the most elusive to create deliberately, and the most difficult to define. It is experienced differently by different people – Norman cousins, [...]

Reclaiming Passion For Work – Insights from Collateral (2004)

Watch Collateral Collateral ( 2004) is a interesting story involving three people: Max, the cab driver, Vincent, a contract killer and Anne, a lawyer. As fate would have it, the three people meet each other one day. In the casual conversations that unfold between them we get to see/understand their perspectives towards work. It also [...]