Learning to Lose Gracefully..!
Many of my close friends, are going to say, “Bob, we know times, when you’ve lost and were quite a bad loser!” Very true. I hate losing but something, I and many of us have to learn is how to lose gracefully! It’s a pretty competitive world today, but the…
Welcome the Unexpected..!
One morning I found my driver hadn’t come for work, because he was drunk, and I felt very angry about it. Angry, because I disliked my morning being ruined by the unexpected. We all hate anything unexpected, but quite often it’s during that unexpected time that strange things happen! A…
Mountain Top Experiences..!
What exactly do you think is a mountain top experience? Yes, it’s the exhilarating feeling of standing on the peak of a mountain, a feeling of victory, of adrenalin rushing in after a long, tedious climb, and finally the reaching of the pinnacle. What a great feeling! You are on…
Are You Being Battered?
Not just by someone, but by life itself? Being battered by life is part of living life! No ship is made to sit in the dry docks or weigh anchor in the harbour: The test of a ship is when it pits itself against the worst storms and wins. So…
Keep the Fizz Going..!
So often we are excited to begin a new task or project or assignment and we start off with a bang! But often it’s like opening a soda bottle; initially there’s a lot of fizz, and then it’s gone. I remember getting this same feeling a few months ago when…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.