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Legacy Journal as Means to Bequeath Values to Next Generation
Background: Legacy is often understood as leaving behind a property or tangible assets to be inherited by successors. And Financial Will is the instrument of such legal succession. This, no doubt, ensures easy and smooth transition of one’s tangible property, both movable as well as immovable. This also translates transition of property of the deceased…
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Developing Balanced Mix of Four Quotients is Necessary for a Happy Life
Backdrop: Word Quotient here means characteristics or degree of prominence in a specific aspect of personality. Human personality is made up of various traits / qualities of varying degrees. Importance of these quotients has often been discussed for youth and professionals for their success in life. However, theses quotients are equally important for elderly people…
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Elders Play Important Role in Maintaining Family Relationships
Backdrop: The extended family concept is on gradual decline even in a country like India where it used to be a symbol of family unity and values. While urbanization, higher cost of living in cities, smaller places of stay all add to this trend, weakening family relationship is possibly the most important contributing factor to…
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Elders Need to Play Role of Family Mentor
Backdrop: In every walk of life, mentors play an important role in shaping lives and destiny of the counterpart known as mentees. The term “mentor” is sometimes interchangeably used by various synonyms like advisor / counsellor / guide / coach, etc. Notwithstanding the semantics, mentoring plays a crucial in shaping not only individuals but through…
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Active Time Management is Crucial for a Good Life
Backdrop: We often hear elderly people complaining about passing time. Having come out of busy schedule of the working life where they were comfortable with time management, they often start feeling helpless. Absence of office hours of around 8 to 10 hours a day 5 days a week makes them feel empty and lost. Family…
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It is Necessary to Migrate from Being Manager to Leader
Backdrop: In academic circles, distinction between role of manager and leader has often been discussed at great depth. Managers in this context are first line bosses while the leaders are people at top and providing overall directions to the business. The noteworthy differences between the two in corporate context have been documented in literary research.…
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Willpower Plus Positivity is Crucial to a Fruitful Life
Backdrop: All of us as human being have our own ups and downs in life. What keeps us going and fighting the battle of life is determination to survive and run. Endgame begins the moment we give up and helplessness sets in. Here comes importance of two of the crucial attitudes that are vital in…
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Positive Belief System is Imperative to Lead a Happy Life
Overview: Belief is often described as an internal acceptance of existence or otherwise of something without any tangible rational. The belief simply rests on trust or inner call of an individual. For example, someone believes in God. This simply means that the inner soul of an individual propels him / her to believe in existence…