by Manoj Chawla | Aug 4, 2016 | Blog, Happiness, Life Hacks, Mentors, Motivation, Stress, work life balance
Last week I was talking to my son and he was sharing the feeling among his peers about their goals in life now that they have finished college. Often when one finishes a goal one has strive for instead of feeling accomplishment we feel empty and incomplete. Now Life...
by Manoj Chawla | May 6, 2016 | Behaviour Economics, Cognitive bias, cognitive load, Flow, habits, Happiness, Life Hacks, Management, Mentors, Motivation, Organise, People, Psychology, reinvent, Self Management, Stress, thinking slow thinking fast, work life balance
Goal setting is not a trivial matter. We have to understanding ourselves, We have to make decisions about our priorities, we have to understand the way our minds work. Can we design a better life for ourselves ? Last month I gave a talk on the brain, organising...
by Manoj Chawla | Apr 24, 2016 | Behaviour Economics, Blog, Happiness, Life Hacks, Management, Motivation, New Business Models, People, Psychology, reinvent, Self Management, Self Management, work life balance
This morning, I had breakfast with a very good and old friend, Our conversation went on to the subject of friends, teams, and children and how we motivate them. (or don’t)… It reminded me of the story about an academic who was writing on a book and some...
by Manoj Chawla | Apr 3, 2016 | Blog, Happiness, Life Hacks
One of the challenges be it in life and especially work is about having fun. This week we were discussing the importance of work being fun and enjoyable, and so I thought I would share my thoughts about work and about how some places can be fun places to work…...
by Manoj Chawla | Feb 25, 2016 | Adversity, Behaviour Economics, Blog, Happiness, Psychology, thinking slow thinking fast
We often sabotage ourselves. We don’t do this consciously… after all that would not be rational. Too often we chase the wrong things.. and we don’t always know what we want, at least not initially. The business we start is not the business that we...
by Manoj Chawla | Jan 1, 2016 | Blog, Happiness, Life Hacks, Organise, work life balance
There is a constant tension and tradeoff between companies and their employees. Employers no matter how people friendly they are; will strive to gain the most output and make the most demands of your limiting resources (time and energy). When I worked at BT during the...
