What do you love about where you live? Nashik is an ancient city in Maharashtra, known for its religious significance, particularly as a Hindu pilgrimage center on the Godavari River. It’s also recognized for its wine production and vineyards, earning it the nickname “Wine Capital of India”. Historically, it’s linked to the epic Ramayana and isContinueContinue reading “Nashik – Where I made my future”
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Sunday Musings – Happy Birthday 🥳
I am starting this new series of Sunday Musings, to be published on every Sunday. In this series, you will find Happy Thoughts, Life Lessons and lots of funny stories. First blog in this series is dedicated to my younger daughter Gayatri on her 25th Birthday. You are Remarkable I am a bit emotional andContinueContinue reading “Sunday Musings – Happy Birthday 🥳”
Discovering Joy and Gratitude in Daily Life
Daily writing promptWhat positive emotion do you feel most often?View all responses According to Fredrickson BL, there are ten specific positive emotions that people tend to feel: Joy, Gratitude, Serenity, Interest, Hope, Pride, Amusement, Inspiration, Awe, and Love. These basic positive emotions lead to other types of positive affect such as self-confidence, liking, or determination.ContinueContinue reading “Discovering Joy and Gratitude in Daily Life”
Achieving Personal Aspirations: A Guide
How do you plan your goals? Goal planning is a well defined process in the corporate world. Its annual cycle and religiously followed. Based on the yearly goals the performance assessment is carried out. Let’s discuss here regarding personal goal planning. Personal goal setting is the process of defining, planning, and achieving individual aspirations. It involves identifyingContinueContinue reading “Achieving Personal Aspirations: A Guide”
Top Steps for Emergency Preparedness in India
Daily writing promptCreate an emergency preparedness plan.View all responses Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels.com This topic is ignored by most families. There is no awareness that emergency plan for the families has to be prepared. Thanks to WP, for this prompt. During my corporate job, we prepared two Emergency Plans namely Emergency Plan &ContinueContinue reading “Top Steps for Emergency Preparedness in India”
Thank You
Thank You I hear two words often Thank You and Sorry. Sorry word is casually used by people. They use it as a license to hurt others. But Thank You word is the best way to comvey the Gratitude. It is gentle way to show kindness or acknowledge the help or support extended by otherContinueContinue reading “Thank You”
Finding Peace through Acceptance
What brings you peace? Yes, acceptance is often considered a key factor in achieving inner peace. Embracing this concept allows individuals to let go of resistance and judgment, fostering a sense of calm and contentment amidst life’s challenges. When we accept things as they are, rather than fighting against reality, we can reduce stress and cultivate inner peace.ContinueContinue reading “Finding Peace through Acceptance”
Transforming Lives Through Travel and Writing
Daily writing promptWhat change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?View all responses Every blog has purpose statement and blogging goals. It is very important to answer this question before we publish the first blogpost. Purpose of my Blogs This text is copied from my website : https://mukundkk.wordpress.com/home-3/ ItContinueContinue reading “Transforming Lives Through Travel and Writing”
Life in an Alternate Universe: A Journey to Ramrajya
Daily writing promptDescribe your life in an alternate universe.View all responses It’s a fiction and imaginary story. In todays universe, I see huge sufferings. Many people have problems with respect to their families or relationships or caree or the wealth. Lot of voilence around, ill treating the women or sibling fights. Caste politics or powerContinueContinue reading “Life in an Alternate Universe: A Journey to Ramrajya”
The Most Expensive Meal: Love and Memories in Dining
What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it? This is almost 35 years old story. I still remember the date 10.10.1989. And it was lunch date with my fiancée. Both of us are brought up in a typical middle class families. There was no culture of eating out. MyContinueContinue reading “The Most Expensive Meal: Love and Memories in Dining”
ESG & CSR
Daily writing promptScour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.View all responses Times Of India article ESG & CSR are not so interesting topics for general public.But for me it has strong connection with my Professionalcareer & Personal interests. I have worked extensively on ESGContinueContinue reading “ESG & CSR”
Happiness in little things
List 30 things that make you happy. Happiness can be found in small, seemingly insignificant moments of everyday life. For me there are lots of such everyday moments which give me happiness. My loved ones When I call my wife from out station and the call starts with Good Morning how are you. My morningContinueContinue reading “Happiness in little things”
Om chanting and gardening brings me joy
Describe one habit that brings you joy. Happiness is like the sunshine on a bright day, while joy is like the warmth that lingers even after the sun has set. Happiness is often a response to positive external stimuli, whereas joy is a deeper, more enduring state of being that can be cultivated through inner workContinueContinue reading “Om chanting and gardening brings me joy”
Curious about Human behaviour
What are you curious about? I am extremely inquisitive. Curious about everything around till I find out What and Why about that particular thing. However I am more curious about human behaviour. Every human being is unique and his response to a particular stimuli is different from others. Nothing is right and wrong but theContinueContinue reading “Curious about Human behaviour”
Random Act of Kindness
Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone. Kindness is the basic value of humanity. Unfortunately it is slowly diminishing. I strongly believe in treating humans as humans and the way to treat them as humans is showing kindness. This the last month story, when I was in the hospital for myContinueContinue reading “Random Act of Kindness”
Using all other senses
How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you? Interesting prompt. Took a pause before writing the answer. Honestly can we recognise a person by looking at him/her. Most of the time we make some perception about the person based on our pre-occupied mind. Often it is not true. So a person whoContinueContinue reading “Using all other senses”
We missed the tradition of eating Hing Goli
What traditions have you not kept that your parents had? I come from traditional Maharashtrian Brahmin family. We have list of traditions spread over an year, linked to our religion. My mother was completely traditional and god fearing but my father was forward thinking and rational personality. However all the family traditions are followed evenContinueContinue reading “We missed the tradition of eating Hing Goli”
What an eventful day
Was today typical? Today was an eventful day for me and not a typical day. Typical day means the routine as usual nothing out of the way happens. I got up in the morning and as usual straight went to my terrace garden and said hello to all my plants. Looked at the weather andContinueContinue reading “What an eventful day”
Honest and Trustworthy
Daily writing promptHow would you describe yourself to someone?View all responses Nice thought provoking prompt. Actually I am simple, Happy Go Lucky person. Hates window dressing and can’t tolerate lies. I strongly believe in living in present. I enjoy every moment of life. Loves fitness and my workout routine. Extremely sensitive about environmental issue andContinueContinue reading “Honest and Trustworthy”
Ride with Avian Dinosaurs
If you could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be? The idea of bringing back the Dinosaurs is really funny. We are already ahving so much chaos in the cities. The forests are depleting and and the food chain is already established. It is not wise to disturb the current food chain andContinueContinue reading “Ride with Avian Dinosaurs”
Ticket to Antartica
If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go? One day Raju came home fully excited and started dancing holding Vasant’s hands. He was so happy and joyful. Vasant asked the reason for his happiness and he said guess what, I got two flight tickets free from my garage owner. Vasant did notContinueContinue reading “Ticket to Antartica”
Story behind my Nickname – KK
What’s the story behind your nickname? KK In India it is very common to have nicknames. Normally the nickname is derived from the original name but made simple for pronouncing it by shortening. For example common name Rajesh or Rajendra becomes Raju. Sanjay or Sanjeev becomes Sanju. There are few nicknames which are given toContinueContinue reading “Story behind my Nickname – KK”
Exercise, Eat healthy & Think Positive
What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? I have been adopting certain routine for good health and well being. I would love to share with you the details. For good health and well being, there are three things you should focus on. Regular exercise, then eating right and most importantly PositiveContinueContinue reading “Exercise, Eat healthy & Think Positive”
Travel to Seven Sister States
What are your future travel plans? I love to travel and explore new places, new people and different cultures. Being a wildlife photographer, I have been travelling a lot across India especially to the tiger reserves and other wildlife reserves. But still my bucket list is full with many places to visit. And the topContinueContinue reading “Travel to Seven Sister States”
Treat humans like humans
What would you change about modern society? In today’s modern society, we have forgotten to treat humans as humans. We have attached so many labels to each individual and then we slowly forget that they are human beings. We have classes in the society like lower class, middle class and high class based on theContinueContinue reading “Treat humans like humans”
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