Ria Dua's Blog

Well, the past 3 months have been a roller coaster ride and have yet another lap to go in January. But the best part is that in every high and every low that i went through, I learnt something. Something about everything. The "10 -20 minute conversations" which I have had recently with some of the experienced people from varied industries, made me learn certain things about myself. The questions that they put forth made me delve into myself to find the answers. Not that I have all the answers now but I am sure sooner or later I will find them. Their questions dint just help me know myself better but also increased my knowledge about various indutries. Also had to refer to some HR related books to increase my HR knowldege and I also got to learn quite a few interesting tricks of my trade ;). Quite a lot of knowledge enrichment!!!!!  It's the flip side u see :). Starting from April, this year, my life took a complete new turn. A special thanks to all the "friends...

Last Saturday I attended a conferance organised by SHRM and MTHR Global where i got an opprtunity to walk on fire. Surprised???? i really did. The speaker was PRIYA KUMAR, one of the most impressive motivational speaker I have ever come across. Before we went 4 the firewalk, she laid some basic rules: 1) Everyone has to walk. No one could chicken out. 1) There is no coming back once you place your foot on the walk 2)Do not try to jump out of the path since both the sides would be set ablaze. ;) Interesting, Isn't it? This was enough to raise our pulse rate. There was fear as well anxiety.Finally it was my turn to walk. With a lot of courage I took a deep breath and put my 1st foot forward and quickly walked across. It got over too soon I guess as it dint hurt much. But still I failed to understand the motive behind it.Once we went back to the hall, Priya cleared all doubts. MORAL: - In life we do not try a number of things because we have this fear of failing. At tim...