Ranjana TN

Category: Personal Growth

  • The permission to obsess

    Every time I’ve had a major breakthrough in my life or met with massive success was when I obsessed over something. Whenever I allow myself to go deep into something … Read more

  • Review: The 7-day ‘Follow the joy’ exploration

    It was…an interesting week. 7 days of going with the flow. It was…fun? Yes and no. It was a difficult exploration for me to do. I genuinely thought that the … Read more

  • Just f*cking let go

    Sometimes the solution is to just f*cking let go. Don’t analyze. Don’t reminisce. Don’t chew and chew until there’s nothing left to chew but you’re still chewing. Because you’ve gotten … Read more

  • The one week ‘Follow the joy’ exploration

    There has been an interesting turn of events. It led me to start a 7-day exploration that I want to share with you. But first, let me give you some … Read more

  • May review + June focus

    May was an interesting month and I came away from it with a deeper understanding of myself. I was quite amazed to see how one could take a conscious approach … Read more

  • Self-acceptance when you have a ‘special brain’

    Have patience with all things but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You’re a perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you

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  • Please don’t help me

    There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don’t be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not

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  • Being more ‘you’

    It’s my quest this year and decade to start being more ‘me’. To understand what it means to be me, I’ve been taking a raw look at my thoughts, beliefs, … Read more

  • Friendships

    “Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

    – Anais
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  • April review and May challenge

    May is upon us! I’m excited. April was great despite the coronavirus lockdown. I thought I’d reflect on how April went and share what I have in mind for May.… Read more

  • Creative Inspiration

    I used to think that I had to wait for the creative inspiration to write something. I wanted to be one of those who had a brilliant flash of insight … Read more

  • Return to your core

    I’ve shared this before – I’m one of those people who gets quite anxious about seemingly everything. I’m also quite emotional by nature and I get wound up pretty readily. … Read more

  • How to use journaling

    Recently, the creative writing club that I’m a part of worked through the exercises given in the first chapter of Susan Tiberghien’s One Year to a Writing Life. It … Read more

  • Building self-love by helping others

    One of the best ways to get into a good-feeling place is to help others. This really is the magic bullet and I’ve seen it work time and again both … Read more

  • Make Time – by Jack Knapp and John Zeratsky

    My Notes

    I’m part of a book club that meets every month to discuss a book. The … Read more

  • Lessons from Beth March

    I just had a good cry this afternoon. I am reading Little Women for the second time (the first time was more than a decade ago) and today I read … Read more

  • Self-forgiveness

    “If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.” 

    – Charlotte Brontë
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  • Becoming a woman of duality

    “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

    – Nora Ephron

    Recommended by a dear friend, I started watching Anne with an E on Netflix yesterday. It’s … Read more

  • Self-care and using devices consciously

    I believe that one of the most important aspects of self-care is the conscious use of devices. I hadn’t realised the impact of being constantly connected with seemingly everything via … Read more

  • Tiny habit tweaks for major results

    The difference a tiny improvement can make over time is astounding. Here’s how the math works out: if you can get 1 percent better each day for one year, you’ll

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  • Staying in a good place

    How often do you feel that you’re in a good place? Do you think that you naturally have a sunny disposition or do you find yourself mostly having a bleak … Read more

  • Inspire yourself every day

    I think it’s important to inspire yourself every day. You need to find a way to access that inner, higher, more expansive self. When you’re inspired, you’ll be the best … Read more

  • Why I meditate and you should too

    “Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equanimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.” – S.N. … Read more

  • Do you uplift others or bring them down?

    “Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. … Read more

  • 5 ways to energize yourself

    I have days when I feel meh or low-energy for no good reason. I find it super hard to be productive in that state. I bet you’ve had such days … Read more

  • Leveraging memories as a planning tool

    I remember reading Randy Pausch’s heartwarming autobiographical book The Last Lecture years ago. One thing that stuck with me was his ‘list of childhood dreams’ which became a bucket list … Read more

  • Creating an interesting story for yourself

    I love viewing life from the lens of a story because it enables me to see it at an overall level rather than just the day-to-day happenings. I often am … Read more

  • Let your sorrow be your guide

    I was doing some journaling this afternoon. Writing helps me think more clearly so I like giving voice to the thoughts in my head on paper. It was an interesting … Read more

  • The 365-day self-expression and self-love challenges

    What does this mean for my 2030 self?

    Since December, I’ve been obsessively thinking about how I want 2020 (and by extension, the next decade) to pan out. I turned … Read more

  • Intentions

    It was new moon on the 24th. Someone I know said that the new moon is a time to set intentions. A time to contemplate what you want to bring … Read more

  • #theyearofme project – the starting point

    I was on a vacation in Thailand in December. Sitting under the shade of a palm tree and taking in the picturesque blue-green ocean, my heart felt at peace. I … Read more

  • The silver lining to the Coronavirus cloud

    Like nearly everyone else on the planet, I am staying at home with my family as the entire country is under lockdown for the next 21 days. To say it … Read more

  • Welcome to the woo-woo side of me:)

    I don’t know about you, but I’m really into woo-woo stuff. I’m not talking about voodoo and the dark stuff – they give me chills of terror. I can’t even … Read more

  • What if you get comfortable with discomfort?

    I have anxiety issues. Some situations trigger mild anxiety in me while others trigger deep, ‘I-want-to-throw-up-right-now’ sort of anxiety. I also find that my anxiety levels especially spike if there … Read more

  • Do you make other people’s problems your own?

    I had an interesting experience this morning which got me thinking quite deeply about how I end up making other people’s problems my own. A friend told me how an … Read more