Building a Successful Life Résumé: July 2019
As I sat here on my table writing the title of this article, I had to pause and stare at it. I had just typed ‘July 2019’. It just suddenly dawned on me that we are in the second week of July 2019. More than half of this year has passed. And it has been half a year since I launched this beautiful blog, Life Résumé. When I first started thinking of Life Résumé as something that should be a part of everyone’s journey, I was unsure of the shape and form that it was going to take. As most things in life, it has been a constant work in…
Ingredients of a Kickass Life Résumé: Part II
In this quest to find your passion, fulfil your destiny and achieve all that we want to achieve, we find many distractions. Some of them good, some of them not so good. To give you an example, one of my recent distractions is calligraphy. I have become obsessed about my lettering and I have even enrolled in an online course to better myself! This is what I call a good distraction. Because this is something that definitely adds to my Life Résumé. But what about all that time I have spent just scrolling aimlessly through my social media feed or binge watching a TV show ? It is a distraction…
Ingredients of a Kickass Life Résumé: Part I
How many of you love food? I mean, food is one of the most important parts of our lives. For a lot of people, food is life. And if you were to stop and ask one of these food-lovers about their favourite, favourite recipe, I am sure a lot of it would go like this: “Well, to make this favourite dish of mine, you would need a cup of this, a pinch of that, a handful of those and of course, salt to taste!” Or as the famous chef Jamie Oliver once said, “Real food does not have ingredients. Real food is ingredients.” With the last post we looked at…
What is Life Résumé?
This is the beginning of a new year and I’m sure a lot of you have been thinking about new year resolutions. I mean, isn’t that what most people talk about in the first few weeks of every year? So, like everyone else, even I have been wondering what resolutions I should take up for this year. I have also been wondering what experiences I should aim to have in this year, what new things I should learn and what old things I should go back and work on. As a species, human beings have always wanted to learn new skills and hone their old ones. Which brings me to…
