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Thankful Thursdays week 19 #Womens March special

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on March 9, 2017 0

All this month we are celebrating women .Everything women that makes us thankful .One post at a time .That’s the best part of hosting #Thankful Thursdays.We get to do more than blog.Its a way of making something bigger.

Happiness shared is doubled and thankfulness shared is multiplied ,million times over.

Every week when we plan a prompt our focus is you.You should write. You should feel what you write and enjoy it.Your voice should create an echo .It shouldn’t be noise but music.

People have a way of tuning out clutter and chaos and listening to music ,even if it’s angry music.

That’s the plan with #Thankful Thursdays we make music out of the chaos that surrounds us .

Women all over the world have their voices stopped .We are blessed to have a voice .We need to use it.We need to support women,men and children whose stories need telling .

Within a woman lies great power.If Goddess Saraswati and Laxmi helps you with wisdom and wealth you also have Maa Durga and Maa Kali inside us.Know how to tap into your inner strengths through words and deeds.

Let’s celebrate women and their quirks

The prompt this week

5 Womanly Quirks that make you thankful

Thankful Thursdays prompt #Womens day special

Our #ThankfulThursdays team has #Womanpower

Meet Tina ,Me(Amrita).Deepa,and Mayuri

Read about the women bloggers who write with us for #ThankfulThursdays

Congratulations Akshat:You are our featured Thankful Thursdays winner — Congratulations Akshata:You are our featured Thankful Thursdays winner

Akshata Ram is a Chartered Accountant working with an investment bank. A mother to a 2 year old bubbly toddler who keeps her on her toes . A bibliophile and avid blogger, she writes about parenting, women at work, relationships, short stories and micro fiction of late. She is passionate about her career and aspire to reach heights.Read her winning post here.



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Hey it’s okay:Women stop the guilt trip

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on March 7, 2017 9

Women suffer from guilt.All sorts of guilt haunt us .That’s why this interesting prompt by Amber (originally from Glamour magazine) called to me.This is relaxation therapy .I couldn’t resist writing .

Women stop being hard on yourself .You deserve the best .Just don’t stress it .

Here goes my list for Hey it’s okay…

To not go to the beauty parlour for a year .Seriously there’s no option .I am mortally afraid of strange parlour women giving me surprise eyebrows.So I choose stylishly bushy eyebrows .

To not visit your relatives except when invited.More likely people will behave and not say awkward stuff.Invitation after all comes with expectation of normal behaviour.

To stress before night duty and demand a piece of chocolate.They are rationed by hubby .I am a recovering sugar addict .We all need life support in the form of chocolate right ?

To expect to be pampered on women’s day.I Am expecting gifts.

To try to exercise everyday .Yes trying has made me fitter and set realistic goals .This trying has helped me make this a daily habit .I get a headache from the reminder my brain sends, when I don’t get on the treadmill! For the days when I have loads to write and want to be on the treadmill, I walk and write with my makeshift treadmill table attachment.When I want to run,I get the wood slab off !Its definitely not mindful.But you do what the Lord guides you to do.

To get irritated when people lie .Expectations are the root of all evil . Apparently people have no problem being dishonest But thats there choice.Coming to terms with this one .

To feel strongly about things and avoid saying it ,if it helps no one.Yes I know suppression leads to outbursts .But believe me it’s not a good idea to say everything you feel.

To eat before anyone else, if it stops you from being crabby .Low blood sugar makes everyone cranky !Milind Soman says he eats his dinner by 7 pm.That’s the secret behind his fitness evem at 50.

To want to travel to a beach every weekend.Who wouldn’t right? But I don’t like packing and unpacking so frequently .So maybe once a month? I need to write more travel posts to get this going.

To enjoy time alone with hubby .It’s a must .Don’t go down the guilty lane. Happy parents mean happy family.

To admit you don’t know it all.Nobody does anyway.Just doing our best where we are with what we have.Bluffing is what people get good at with time.

To be worried about the earth’s future.What with terrorism and pollution ,man has limited choices.

To get ready to fight. You never know when it might be useful.

That’s it for this time .The crazy list comes to an end .
I am linking up with the fun prompt by Amber

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Envy :The problem of it

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on February 21, 2017 14

Are you happy?

Do you put daily effort to be happy?

What make you happy?I am starting to sound like a broken record.But the main reason people never reach their potential,are never fully happy,never achieve their wealth goals, is because they have this vice .Envy is one of devils favourite !

Envy is“unhappy admiration,”

Kierkegaard

The reason being it’s self sabotage and you do it willingly.
Every time you sigh and wish that you had it too !It actually goes farther away.
Crazy right ?Not really .The universe has a strange balance .It gives back exactly what you have sent out.
Remember Newton’s third law.Everything in life as we know on earth ,works following this .

I think I would envy me too, if I didn’t know me better
Rich Mullins

If you send out positivity ,optimism ,hope,happiness ,you will get it back .Not necessarily from the same people, but from the universe.
Planning to send the envy waves ?Wait don’t do it. You will only harm yourself .
Everything in this world is part of the mother energy .The only way to protect us from all that’s going wrong ,is to send only positive thoughts.

“That’s the best revenge of all: happiness
Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club and several other novels.

#HWB Envy Quotes

If you are your fabulous self, there will be many people who will be envious,and try to pull you down.Seeing people happy can drive certain people crazy.
But should you stop being happy?
No absolutely not.The journey of life is to have an adventure ,make this world a better place,love and be happy.Any one box unticked makes life a burden.People who are happy and successful rarely waste time on envy.

Life unfortunately is not fair.Success belongs to those who try hardest and smartest.It often happens you rise much above your family and friends. That’s when you start feeling the poison darts.One way of deflecting that is show a weakness, an imperfection.That is one way of deflecting a little bit of the green vibes.
What to do every time this green monster bites you?
Say to your soul I am happy for him /her.
Always compare yourself to where you were.Not where someone else is.
If you develop the mindset of plenty you will never ever feel envy.It’s only when you have the mindset of scarcity that problems arise.
So from today promise yourself one thing.You will never let envy cloud your vision ever!’Let others pay the Envy tax!

“Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.”

Thoreau

Thankful Thursdays: My vices

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on February 16, 2017 30

Do I have vices?

I am human right?Must be having some vices.I asked my hubby to mention 5 vices I had.

The man answered ,

all is great ,you don’t have vices!

This can only come with great foresight.Imagine what would happen,if he actually gave me a list.That’s something even I don’t believe.So I go searching in the depths of my soul, to find those vices which are disguised as virtues.

Tell me do you think these are vices?

I have a very low boredom threshold.I can go to any extreme to avoid boring conversation and boring people.As a teenager I aced my class tests(not bragging) by pretending to study so much ,that I actually ended up studying.All because I wanted to avoid visiting places and people who irritated me or bored me. I was that bad!I also pretended to be helpful and suggested taking my little sister along.Things came to such a pass ,my sister when she was 13 declared I had no right to volunteer her ,when I was sneaking away!

Sisters!They know how to put you right 🙂

That’s why I always challenge myself to learn new things ,to stop this vice creeping up.

Reading too much

I read anywhere ,everywhere all the time.Everything I am doing ,will do,have done is because I adore words,I was born on a Saraswati Puja day and I believe the Goddess, loves me more because of this.There have been times I have burned rice (in a microwave),charred the boiling milk,left the eggs cooking too long,all because I have read with too much attention.This one is a problem,but one I cant imagine not doing.Its like asking me to stop being me!

Believing in good energy and bad

This may ,make me sound a little off but I am really a believer in the energy emitted by people.If I don’t like the vibes I get from you,then we will not really be growing close.Optimism,sincerity,thankfulness,faith and love are qualities I believe in.Probably that’s why ‘the people who are in my life have those same qualities.My friends from medical college , are still a phone call away.We haven’t met physically in 5 years ,but our minds travel through space and time .Yes I need a checkup.Its a serious vice!

Red lipstick to change lives

Red is the color of love.Its the color of your blood and a passion .Its a bold color which says “look at me”.If I ever feel sad and lonely ,I just put on red lipstick,even at home while cooking lunch. That’s one way of battling the blues.Just put on the RED!That’s why I end up buying red lipstick all the time.

Deeply madly believing in love ,magic

This is impossible to explain.But the only way to get magic and love in your life is to believe in it.I read Mills and Boon as sincerely as I did my school books .Believing one day someone will make everything better.Love is magical .Its Gods way of telling us we are not alone.Two people,however different can feel each others sorrows and joys as deeply as their own.I am a shameless romantic .But the best things in my life has come from believing.If believing in magic is a vice ,its one of my favourite ! Do you believe?

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Truth about stress : 5 quick ways to get rid of it

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on February 3, 2017 6

What stresses you out ?

This week is turning out to be a little erratic .

I get stressed when things don’t follow the plan .But it’s worse when hubby is not around to calm me down .The best way to get rid of chronic stress is not to use the wrod stress or tension.That worked for me.I say things like “I need a plan Z or I am looking for a solution.I am a doctor and I started blogging in 2014 .Stress was one of the reasons I took to writing.

I wrote a post on 32 ways to beat stress.

Most people are helped with just a few But some people need more help.

That’s when you need to take charge of your mind.

The main problem is, most people don’t want to take responsibility for their actions .

They want someone to solve their problems.Someone to give them medicines or wave a magic wand .

I sometimes wonder why people don’t study?

Even if I do get, that children should enjoy their childhood ,I don’t understand not letting them get prepared.It’s about teaching them to study a little every day ,so that you don’t stress during exams.

Life unfortunately is not a bed of roses.Neither is it fair .

The only way to get what you want out of life is to be armed to a T.

Learning life skills is part of that very important dressing up .

If you want to be healthy ,eat healthy, exercise ,sleep.

If you want to earn well .Study hard .You never know which skills you may need.

Who knew my creative writing skills from school would come handy ?

Truth about Stress :Thus book is helping me with a lot of issues.Stay tuned for a review — Truth about Stress :This book is helping me with a lot of issues.Stay tuned for a review

Also those Moral science classes,which were all about play acting and life’s lessons.

Education never goes to waste ,until you waste it.

Just because you are good at something and love something, doesn’t mean you can’t be awesome at something else too!

That’s why you need to be well equipped to choose.

If you want to live well ,choose your partner wisely.

Is there any other way to this ?

I don’t know.

I really don’t.

Of all the people I see struggling ,I find one very important common link.They don’t take responsibility.

Most things in life is the result of a choice you have made at some point in your life

When I get stressed I do 5 things to snap me out of it :

1)Jump on the treadmill for a quick run.It helps a lot .The single best thing to try.

2)I prune my plants and give my balcony garden a lot of TLC.

3)Drink a lot of water .

4)Read a mystery novel, often in Bengali my mother tongue.

5)Cuddle Rai and tickle her .

What do you do to beat stress ?

Comment below to let me know.
Writing this for #ClickandBlogAStory with Dew and Zainab

On my Reading List :Thoughtful Thursdays

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on February 2, 2017 26

Do you like reading ?

I am a reader.
I plan to read my way to becoming a gazillionaire.

I read in an article ,that there are around 199 billionaire women in the world. Of these one third owe their status to their husband or father .Telling this to my hubby I had an interesting answer .

He said there was one more ,in the making !That was a joke(on his part ) .But it got me thinking.Why are women having so much problem making money ?

Is it because we lack a business brain ?I don’t think so .Women infact suffer from the problem of perfectionism. We want meaningful lives ,preferably with someone to share it with.That derails our career goals and money ones too.

So what’s the way out of this loop?

Use your creative brain ladies. Find hacks ,books ,blogs anything you can get your hands on .

With that journey I share a glimpse of my reading list today. I love reading inspirational books which give psychological hacks to a better life.Our life is too short to make all mistakes and learn .
Better to learn from the lessons people have already learnt from.

These two books

Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris
Awakening the Giant within by Anthony Robbins were lurking on my list for sometime.

February seems to be the best time to start reading them.
It’s not as stressful like the beginning of the new year and not yet halfway down .So a nice comfortable second month.
It’s also the month of Love .

#Bookslutthursdays with #Shalzmojosays was one way of getting the Reading list out in the open.These tomes are worrying me.I might just need to extend February to 60 days.

I believe you can truly improve yourself ,when you love yourself .Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris give us a bird’s-eye view of the tactics ;routines and habits of billionaires and icons

In Awaken the Giant Within Anthony Robbins teaches us to tap into our inner powers and improve our lives.

When I was a teenager I used to love reading Reader’s Digest.

Reader’s Digest used to have great stories to make you get off the couch and plan your life .
That’s why I am always on the hunt for life hacks .
Other people’s experiences which will make me do more.
Other people’s struggles which will help me stop the struggling.
Other people’s fears ,which will make me face mine.

I am lucky to be living in a small town .
Working full-time and still being able to take care of my baby .My hubby babysits when I work and duties are adjustable.
So life goes on .I do have certain restrictions.
I can’t travel for conferences.Nor can I go for workshops .I have no one here (except my hubby) ,who is a friend.I have little backup when I am ill.
There are hardly any place to shop and what the restaurants serve are little to write about.
But I still feel blessed .Except occasionally like today ,when my hubby is busy and I have no one except Rai to give me company.
Sometimes the small things in life, like a cup of coffee with a friend or a carefree date night is what I miss most .But there’s a reason why I am here.
I want to be one day ,be able to live location independently.

Maybe a trailer cum helicopter is the answer.If you want to read one of the books,go for Tools of Titans.Its a better organized and more helpful book.But I am a Tim Ferris fan since the time I read Four hour workweek.His books will help you connect the dots.

Have you ever learnt from a self help book ?Comment below to let me.

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Thankful Thursdays week 19 #Womens March special

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Hey it’s okay:Women stop the guilt trip

Envy :The problem of it

Thankful Thursdays: My vices

Reading too much

Believing in good energy and bad

Red lipstick to change lives

Deeply madly believing in love ,magic

RULES OF THE LINKY

Truth about stress : 5 quick ways to get rid of it

On my Reading List :Thoughtful Thursdays

These two books

In Awaken the Giant Within Anthony Robbins teaches us to tap into our inner powers and improve our lives.

Podcasts by Dr.Amrita Basu

Roshan Radhakrishnan

Vishakha Talreja

Thoughts on one life to live

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Sharing is good Karma!

Sharing is good Karma!

Sharing is good Karma!

Reading too much

Believing in good energy and bad

Red lipstick to change lives

Deeply madly believing in love ,magic

RULES OF THE LINKY

Sharing is good Karma!

Sharing is good Karma!

These two books

In Awaken the Giant Within Anthony Robbins teaches us to tap into our inner powers and improve our lives.

Sharing is good Karma!

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