Month: May 2019

Top 100 Marketing and Motivational Podcasts

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Are you the person who get inspired by other’s idea? Do you read non-fiction books once in a quarter? Do you listen to audio books for inspiration? What are your favorite speaks and motivators? Do you get sufficient time to listen inspiring talk from a business leader? What are the inputs you take home? Do you write down what you listen? How do you recollect the points that you have taken to your heart?

1. Naval ( https://nav.al/)

 Podcast on different aspects of improving life’s activities and making a positive impact.

2. Communication Guys
   Everyone and anyone who wish to be a better communicator can benefit from ideas and thoughts shared by these two guys.

https://www.communicationguys.com/podcast/

Goodbye Friend Isaac

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Old Carriage which used to Carry Dead Bodies

Old Graves

C.S.I. Christ Church Palayam Interior

 Epitaph – Words Touch Emotions

Old Graves

Fallen Lies, Fallen Leaves

Bouquet of love from Friends

Vinoy looking at the faded inscription

Grave Standing 

These days, almost all personal news are broken, shared on Whatsapp. On one such day, was the day when I one of the buddies of the Coffee House Group messaged the passing of an old time coffee house chap Mr Issac. His untimely death was shocker to many who knew him.

He death adds to the list of people from the Coffee House comradeship who have left early – Justin, Ramesh Nair, Manu, and many others.

Though he was not very familiar to me, I went to attend his funeral at C.S.I. Christ Church Palayam. The funeral mass was attended by many of his friends, and relatives.

One of the touching part of the burial ceremony was the parting speech by his daughter. She sketched his life in a nutshell, her memories and moments with him, his shenanigans, and how Rambo as he was fondly called, will be remembered forever.

After her teary and well rendered parting words, I wandered aimlessly talking to few known faces. Meanwhile, I went around the old graves which was mostly from the British era. As I searched online, I found a well researched and written article ( Vintage charm ) about C.S.I. Christ Church and it’s history.

From the epitaph on a grave

Everyday in some small way
Memories of you come our way
Though absent, you are ever near
Still missed, loved and always near.

Song for the Train Ride

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It’s today’s special for me, when this popped up on YouTube’s suggestion list. Thanks here to the algorithm, no sleazy ones come on the list, especially when someone else is near by.

And when we discover a new song, we normally wonder how we didn’t hear it all these years. Yes, that’s how we find new songs, new routes, new trails, new behavior, etc.


If you can’t give me love honey, that aint enough

Let me go look for somebody else

If you can’t give me feelings with old fashioned meanings

You’re just in love with yourself
( Click for complete lyrics) 

If you can’t give me feelings with old fashioned meanings ( the line which hooked me).

Old Fashioned Meaning! Really. Probably, these are right for old fashioned guys like me, who still cling to old ways of connection.

What do you say?

Confidence Control And Purpose in Life

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I cherry picked this headline from David DeAngelo’s newsletter. If don’t know him, he’s a entrepreneur and one of his venture is https://doubleyourdating.com/ 

In one of the article about creating SEXUAL TENSION with a women, he gives different way to create such a scenario, which will flare up the impending act. 
The article makes a point about what women seeks in a man – CONFIDENCE, CONTROL and PURPOSE IN LIFE.
Is it not true that anyone will be attracted to a person who has an air of confidence, who shows control over the situation and who has a vision and purpose in life. 
This topic and these words should be the guiding posts for anyone who aspires to STAND OUT in LIFE and ACHIEVE.

 Standing out of the competition also means that you need to up your antenna and beat 99% of guys who are out there luring her all day.

Interesting Idea! 

Visit the blog, for more reads on the topic of dating

Forget Swatch Bharth – Let’s Try this

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One thing I like about the genius or the smart act of Mr Modi Ji is the way in which he rolls campaigns. In his tenure as the PM,  he had showed how to bring a buzz in the entire country with different campaigns. One of which is Swatch Bharath.

I’m not sure if you can remember how his call was taken up by the citizens – down south to up North, men and women took the broom to clean the waste, plastics and more.

Well, that campaign did it’s round. But, I’m not sure, if it’s still getting the due attention.

Follow up on Swatch Bharath –

After the initial buzz on swatch Bharath, it seems the idea has lost steam. No more, we hardly hear this term in public discussion nor it’s spoken much in political rallies. One reason is that, we had new campaigns which has come after that and that has taken the pole position.

A Culture of Campaigns 

Modi’s tenure saw a barrage of campaigns which was followed in a initial zeal, 

Bloom Bloom Time

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Poem to Remember
I copied this image and text from Facebook. I know her through my wife. The lines unequivocally has a tone which resonates with the feelings I had witnessed. 
I’m sure, readers of this post will find the connect at different stages of life. Especially when we are going through a stage when changes happen. 

Bloom Where You are Planted, significantly tells use to plant ourselves at the place, looking for ways to shine and bloom irrespective of the adversaries. 

Una paloma blanca

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The is one song that synced in me during the college years. Probably, it was the time or the age which I had a feeling or yearning for freedom or rebellion.

Over the mountains I fly.

No one can take my freedom away.

I remember how these lines echoed in me, calling me to do things beyond me.

Lonely Hearts in Bangalore

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Feeling lonely in a crowded city?
You are not alone. Studies  shows the alarming rate of loneliness among urban dwellers. It would be result of hectic job, nuclear family life, selfish lifestyle, singular existence, lack of social connection, no effort to build relationship with neighbors, etc.

Apart from these factors, people devote insane amount of time on mobile, Internet scouring social media sites for connection.

  How do you find ways to find activity, life to be human? Apart from the interaction you have during working hours in your office, what other ways and time do you feel connected.

Question to you

What activity makes you feel connected with strangers?
Are you doing anything to build your social network?

Last month when I stayed alone, I felt very lonely. I didn’t have anyone calling me to know about me – just me sitting with the laptop, just browsing, sometimes posting on the page, etc.

Why has this happened to me?
Why am I so left out from the teeming life outside?
How to bring connection in my life?

Lonely Souls in Bangalore

I’m not alone in this state of mind. A friend in Bangalore was saying that even young people are lonely. Are they really lonely? Is there a support group where people can meet like-minded people? How to just have a conversation with friends?

Start Old fashioned Conversation

Mentors Required in Kerala

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Why Kerala needs educators, mentors and leaders? 

Today when I landed in Bangalore, I was one among the hundreds who came along with me in Kochu Veli Express to Bangalore. The sight of people getting down with packed bags, carboard boxes with fruits, coconut, mangoes, etc made me thing of this post and topic.

Why did we pack our bags to this city?
Why are we just visitors to our respective homes in Kerala?
Why did we say goodbye to our beautiful houses, green outdoors to come this over crowded city?

Change is not easy but we have now adopted this city as a new place to learn, earn and live. Bangalore, is just one destination. We Keralites are in every part of this universe where there are opportunities, where life is better than our so called “Gods Own Country”.

  • What went wrong with Kerala? 
  • Is this something got to do with literacy?
  • Why is literacy making us more regressive?
  • Are we just learning to learn? Why are we not enterprising? 
  • Why can’t we think beyond PSC test to earn a life, to learn a better life?
  • Why are we still having the fetish for gold? To an extend, it causing lot of societal pressures?
Is Kerala turning to be shell of its former self – a place littered with empty mansions and old people?
Why are the young looking for places and opportunities outside Kerala?
Who can lead Kerala to explore and utilize its potential? Can you lead to the birth of a NEW KERALA?
One common thread which people or educated people believe is in having a Govt Job or go out of the state and earn something more great.

These days, bank jobs is becoming like a PSC job. These days when I go to banks, I see many technically qualified people sitting in cashier’s box, counting money, entering into the automated system. Did they learn all the skills to do this job – clerk which can be dispensed soon.

Why did you take up a bank job? MONEY! PROMISE OF SECURE JOB!

During my time, mostly commerce graduates wrote BSRB tests conducted by baking recruitment board. In two decades, all things at the ground level have changed.

 If you are looking money or pay check then I can understand, but security of job, then you need to think ahead. I don’t think that bank clerical jobs are going to last long. If you need proof, look at the way technology is changing the way banks work – mobile apps, instant money transfer, PayTm, Scan and pay, cash deposit machines, etc. Why do banks need people to run? 

Why Should Kerala or How should Kerala Become? My Perspective!

It’s time to break free from the old concepts and story that’s wired in most of us. One of common concepts people have about career and job is about having a government job and a negative perception towards private enterprise. Though I see that the current generation ( Millennium gen) is pushing the old school and thought, there’s still more work to be done. I see more budding business people when I visit fairs in Trivandrum, such as Locally Made, Olam, Summer of 29 by Eat to Eat, Where in Trivandrum.

New Vibe in Trivandrum

The present day kids are now more creative – there was a stall selling Kunafa ‘Kunafa Girl, then there was couple of green initatives, a girl selling probiotic drink, etc.

We need leaders who can convince us us of our potential – to do more with our abundant resources, beautiful country side, peaceful life, etc.

We need to tell people to seek some thing new – start something new, learn more, practice an art, lead ideas, foster a climate for start-up to nurture and grow, etc.

Where are such leaders? Someone who can lead people to a higher goal!

Mentor-ship to start business initiatives in Kerala ( Does education really has a role to play in enterprenuership?)