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By Krishna Pendyala| 2018-02-28T10:44:20+00:00 February 26th, 2018|Ego, Parents, Your KIDS|

spass - Adobe Stock Are We Cultivating a Culture of Fear in Our Children? We seem to live in a culture of fear. Let me clarify what I mean by that. I’m not taking about phobias, or being afraid for what’s happening in the world like terrorism, the economy, North Korea, etc. Those [...]

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    Ego Awareness in Mindfulness?

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Ego Awareness in Mindfulness?

By Krishna Pendyala| 2016-02-15T10:46:17+00:00 February 1st, 2014|Awareness, Ego, LifeSpaces, Your SELF|

Hope 2014 has started off well for you.  Sorry for the long silence. I have been devoting most of my attention to help launch a live virtual workshop in Mindful Leadership for Janice Marturano.  Janice, a kindred spirit, left General Mills as its Deputy General Counsel to dedicate her life to helping people and founded [...]

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Career Choice: Focus on Achievement & Pleasure or Joy & Fulfillment?

By Krishna Pendyala| 2013-04-05T11:36:39+00:00 April 5th, 2013|Awareness, Ego|

Is there a real difference between Joy & Fulfillment vs. Achievement & Pleasure or is it purely semantics?  Let's see if this makes any sense to you.  Most of us have been raised to believe the following myth, whether explicitly or implicitly, "Focus on Achievement and Happiness will follow."  Unfortunately, in my work as a [...]

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Choosing a Life Partner: How does one do it right?

By Krishna Pendyala| 2013-02-13T23:17:17+00:00 February 13th, 2013|Awareness, Ego|

Happy Valentines Day! Enjoy your day no matter what.  You may be someone who has chosen a partner to share the day with or you may be someone who wants to spend the day differently. Either way, have a blast. It's an ideal day to pose the above question.  So many of us, both young [...]

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My Big Choice: Following my Calling or Making a Living?

By Krishna Pendyala| 2013-02-05T07:53:28+00:00 February 1st, 2013|Awareness, Ego|

Today is the first day following my biggest choice in life, or so my mind thinks.  I made the choice to give up a lucrative job as a Chief Operating Officer & Life Coach at a top Wealth Management firm in the country to pursue my calling to empower people make better choices in life. Was [...]

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Who are You in a world with no Cameras or Mirrors?

By Krishna Pendyala| 2013-01-24T16:47:06+00:00 January 24th, 2013|Awareness, Ego|

While we were traveling across the northern states of India last month in a van with my middle school son and daughter squabbling in the back, I suddenly heard my son say, "Did you know that fashion models have the highest suicide rate."  The statement definitely caught my attention for two reasons.  First, the word "suicide" and second "fashion [...]

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Happy New Year and best wishes to follow your Dharma in 2013

By Krishna Pendyala| 2013-01-07T08:57:15+00:00 January 7th, 2013|Awareness, Ego|

"It is better to do your own Dharma than to do someone else's well."                                                                  — Krishna from The Bhagavad Gita Even though I had the opportunity of hearing the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient Indian text, from my grandmother when I was young and later read it a couple of times, I had not registered [...]

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The Fiscal Cliff: To Synergize or Compromise?

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-12-10T08:05:49+00:00 December 10th, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

The media is inundating us everyday with news about the Fiscal Cliff.  In my humble opinion, what we have here is a classic standoff between two sides.  Please take a look at what I refer to as the third choice and let me know what you think? Peace and be well. Krishna

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Life blossoms in the Valley; Not usually at the Summit

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-12-03T08:09:05+00:00 December 3rd, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

Dear Friends, I had written a post titled 'Scaling Peaks (New Heights) and the Valley of Learning' back in June and had my daughter create an illustration for it.  Since I liked it a lot, I made it the wall paper on my iPad. Recently, I discovered an App on the iPad called 'The Now' [...]

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Life’s Ultimate Skill: The Art of Making Wise Choices

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-11-26T08:42:40+00:00 November 26th, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

While we tend to think that we use our rational sense and logic to make our choices, most often we are mistaken.  Check out my short 3 minute video for the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey would say. Would love to hear your comments and how you are beginning to notice [...]

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Forget Donkeys and Elephants: 2012 Elections Will Be Dominated by PIGs and APEs

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-11-06T17:37:23+00:00 November 4th, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

When I share the title of this blog post, I usually get a chuckle from those who know my book, Beyond the PIG and the APE: Realizing Success and true Happiness. Obviously, elections in America are all about the Democrats or the Republicans each represented by their animal counterpart — the Donkey or the Elephant. [...]

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Does every day seem like Halloween to you? Trick-or-Treat?

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-10-29T08:02:51+00:00 October 29th, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

There are many ways we experience Halloween.  Obviously, the most common way involves a celebration with costume parties and trick-or-treating.  Other ways include playing pranks, telling scary stories, visiting haunted houses and watching horror movies.  As this blog is about Ego Awareness and the tricks our minds can play on us, I wanted to see how Halloween can [...]

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You Playback only what you Record

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-10-15T08:13:23+00:00 October 15th, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

If you ask my wife, she will confirm that I sound like a broken record when it comes to recording the details of any particular situation, especially if you perceive it negatively.  I strongly recommend that we take great care in recording events as objectively as possible, since they will come back to haunt you [...]

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Money and Happiness and the Fear of Poverty

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-10-08T03:53:10+00:00 October 8th, 2012|Ego|

This is a topic that has been discussed for ages. Questions such as how much money do you need to be happy?  I wrote about my perspective on the Million Dollar Myth last week. Even though I can separate the need for money and happiness, I discovered over this weekend that I do have anxiety [...]

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The Million $ Myth

By Krishna Pendyala| 2014-11-04T08:21:55+00:00 October 1st, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

For years I have heard so many people say to me, "Once I have a million dollars, everything will be okay" or some variation of that statement. In fact, I used to be one of those people as well.  About 10 years ago, I was fortunate to let go of that belief when I realized [...]

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Pay It Forward!

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-09-27T15:54:09+00:00 September 27th, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

One of the most powerful movies that moved me to tears while inspiring me into action was Pay It Forward.  It stars Haley Joel Osment as a boy who launches a good-will movement, Helen Hunt as his single mother, and Kevin Spacey as his social-studies teacher. Over the last two weeks, I have had to capture [...]

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Upgrading Treadmills! The Exercise of Life

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-09-11T08:03:51+00:00 September 11th, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

"The most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later." — Randy Komisar I was told that September is National Self Improvement month.  So I went looking for what a number of us are working to [...]

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The Myth about Pleasure – Does it lead to Lasting Happiness?

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-08-08T08:25:28+00:00 August 8th, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

Today is Happiness Happens Day!  Thought I'd make an attempt to demystify a common myth about pleasure and happiness. People have this belief that their lives could be improved purely by indulging in pleasure-filled activities that can be often be purchased for money.  Yes, many of these activities do provide immediate pleasure and alter your [...]

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To Live. To Love. To Learn. To Leave a Legacy – Celebrating Greatness vs. Chasing Celebrities

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-07-30T23:20:39+00:00 July 30th, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

It has been two weeks, just 14 days, since our world lost a great humanitarian and true leader, in Dr. Stephen R. Covey.  It seems like the news of this amazing human being's life has all but died down in the media merely one week after his passing. Stephen Covey, best known for his runaway bestseller, The 7 Habits [...]

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Mindless vs Mindful and Paying Attention vs Thinking

By Krishna Pendyala| 2012-07-23T02:33:05+00:00 July 23rd, 2012|Awareness, Ego|

We live busy lives with too much going on most of the time.  The very fact that I am up at 1:30 AM trying to write and share this post is a testament to how busy we are. Rushing around in this state seems like we are running in an auto-pilot mode, like a zombie [...]

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